I am always impressed by the skill this lad has! Who knew you could paint with ketchup and french fries?

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If you have some time on your hands - you should check out his other videos with 'speed drawing'

Happy stuff: Jane is coming to Baltimore later this week for a work conferance! And....my cousin Shamera may be coming to visit in Febuary or March! Yay! My cousin really wants to come to school with me and meet my students (since she hears so much about them) She thinks it's going to trip them out to find out that I have a *black* cousin....ha, ha ( Read more... )

I had to watch this for homework in my grad class. Very, very disturbing. Most of it I already had an idea about, but to the EXTENT that teenagers are entirely marketed is ridiculous. The whole thing is almost an hour. I found chapter 3 and 4 really disturbing - about marketing boys to be 'Mooks' (sex obsessed pranksters) and girls to be 'Midrifs ( Read more... )

Wow, week in a recap ( Read more... )

I don't usually do posts asking for medical advice...maybe I'm paraniod ( Read more... )

Interesting week ( Read more... )

Yesterday one of the teachers in the PAL program (a program for Autistic kids) told me that the brother of one of her students was shot and killed the night before. She said she couldn't remember his name, but that he had just transferred to our school and was in 11th grade. This morning I checked the baltimore crime blotter and saw the name Davon ( Read more... )

Without Prejudice?

It's a show on the Game Show Network where 4 random people decide which of 4 other random people get $25,000. It's based on first impressions and assumptions and judgments about other people and their lives. It's psychology and sociology in action! Yay!

So I feel like I should do a little venting about the first week of school, although all in all it went amazingly well. I think it was the best first week I've had as far as the students being so wonderful! I think part of that has to do with me being at the school for so long. Half of our teachers are new this year - and I think the kids are happy ( Read more... )

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