Apparently, Mississippi state law requires that all beachfront casinos in, say, Biloxi, are required to be located not ON the beach, but rather to be built on the Gulf of Mexico itself, and to than be tethered to the shore.

Oops.

Posted Below: A solution to boredom.

Step 1: Go to Google's interactive map of the lunar surface, designed to celebrate the 36th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 at the Sea of Tranquility (Party!)

Step 2: Zoom in as closely as possible

Step 3: Find out what the moon is really made of.

On the last day of classes at Summerbridge last week, one of my Math students gave me a mechanical pencil as a gift. Kind of weird, I thought, but it's the thought that counts. I put it in my backpack and found it as I was packing up to head back to Portland, and it turns out there was a poem attached to it. Behold, the wonder ( Read more... )

Home on Saturday for exactly nine days.

If anybody wants to play before I go back to school, shout.

I have neither the energy to write anything else, nor something that can be adequately expressed in a livejournal entry.

Moodiness ending.....now!

We had parent conferences for our advisees today; twenty minute conversations with the parents for which we've been preparing pretty intensely. I called both sets of parents last night in order to confirm the time. Brittney (an fairly nasty child, and the first one in four years I've actually found myself disliking)'s mom, when I called, realized ( Read more... )

A quick notice to everyone.

I'm happy that you're all enjoying the Harry Potter book. Really, I am. However, should you want badly to post what happens at the end (or frankly, in the beginning or the middle), kindly screen me out of the post. I'm not letting what happened with OotP happen this time.

Rant ending.....now.

( It's Funny Cause It's True! )

( Time to dust off the old mission statement )

An excerpt from an email my mom sent me.

It's July and that means Walla Walla Onion Rings.

And I'm in New Hampshire. Figures.

I'm not sure that I've ever put one of these up here because, well, they're dumb. Nevertheless:

( Julia's Dumb Favorite Couples Ever: The Musical Theatre Edition )