I just saw the first Back-to-School Sale commercial this morning. Thanks, Wal-Mart, for taking us out of the summer vacation mindset as early as possible...

After yet another Independence Day evening at home, watching whatever fireworks I could catch from the front yard, I've figured out what I want to do for the 4th one year in the future. No, not the Capitol Fourth; been there, done that, got smooshed like a sardine trying to catch a glimpse of Ray Charles. I'd actually really like to go to Boston ( Read more... )

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Independence Day weekend!

Happy 233rd, USA!!

Happy Independence Day weekend! This is my vacation-within-a-vacation, so I now have time to give a bit of an update ( Read more... )

For some reason, I automatically woke up at 5:15 this morning. I cannot express how good it felt to immediately turn around and go straight back to sleep :-)

This is shaping up to be a week of alternating awesomeness and less-than-awesomeness at work. Now that we're nearing the end of the year, so much is going on ( Read more... )

This weekend, I finished reading a book called What Would Martin Say?. It's written by Clarence B. Jones, who was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s lawyer and one of his most intimate inner circle of advisers. In this book, Jones sets forth his beliefs as to what Dr. King might have to say about the current state of our nation, especially in terms of the ( Read more... )

That's it. I turned in my last final this afternoon. The Spring 2009 semester has officially come to an end for me!

So, let's see...I've completed all required assignments for the semester, taken the PRAXIS II, and auditioned for Jeopardy!, all in the past two weeks. Bumming around might be acceptable for a bit, maybe?

This past week, I finished this semester's field experience, wrote and submitted two final papers and field experience logs, and sat for the PRAXIS II exam. That last one was a doozy; sitting hunched over a desk writing for four hours gives you considerable neck pain afterward, even with a break between the two sections of the exam. I am thankful ( Read more... )

As of today, I have completed my field experience for the Spring 2009 semester!! No more field experience!! (Except for student teaching next semester, which is pretty much all field experience all the time ( Read more... )