This is a very interesting morning. To be green I have been carpooling and lost my car today. So I'm trying to come up with a public transportation plan to get to work without driving. I have found that I do not even know where to look. How would you know the bus schedule if you didn't have the internet. This reminds me of being 15 or so taking the Cottonwood Hills Bus (is that the right name?)to the crossroads mall, we would have a pamphlet with the bus schedule. Anyway the bus plan is a little intimidating. I could get to the city on the bus or light rail pretty easily. There is a light rail but the stations are close but not close enough to my home or school. Other green options include...don't laugh, a bike!
Probably will rely on the kindness of my peeps for a ride back to my car sometime today. Until then, I am going to make some breakfast type items followed by lunch type ones and maybe even dinner type later. Chicken Osso Busco and perhaps an artichoke. If I am spending $60 for each tank of gas, I can afford an artichoke $2.50 a piece (but I have to walk to the store to get it) I have already misplaced the recipe for chicken osso busco sp?. I'm off to the store on foot
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Almost done)
A and A's baby is due on Friday. Seniors are done with finals on Friday. My grad school is over on Thursday night at 10 (practically Friday) I have 2 work happy hours to go to on Friday. And the last opera of the season, Madame Butterfly, is on Friday at 8:00. I fear writing my list of things I have to do again, last springs was quite a bit longer. But the main thing I should put on my list is that I have been procrastinating. I did make bread and popovers. I"m planning a blueberry coffeecake for tomorrow, and perhaps blueberry muffins to take to work friends on Monday. Have to finish two major grad school finals. Decided today was not the day for that and have spent today watching movies (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Bottle Rockets) and reading a bird book to identify the owl that wakes me up each morning. Well, it is not an owl, it is a Mourning Dove. Oops. And I always thought it was a morning dove, not mourning dove, but they both fit for my mourning mornings of late.
Spent the afternoon with A getting pre baby pedicures and shopping for last minute stuff. She left school on maternity leave yesterday. I got a little sad about babies and husbands perhaps a synonym in my world. Baby husbands. Invisible baby husbands.
Spent the afternoon with A getting pre baby pedicures and shopping for last minute stuff. She left school on maternity leave yesterday. I got a little sad about babies and husbands perhaps a synonym in my world. Baby husbands. Invisible baby husbands.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Make the Carbs May
Next month, I am going to bake my own bread. http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/whole-wheat-bread.html
I;ll let you know how it goes. Stating May 1st all carbohydrates have to be made from scratch hopefully from local products. Pizza dough, rolls, cinnamon buns, sandwich bread, pasta are on the list of soon to be tested recipes.
I;ll let you know how it goes. Stating May 1st all carbohydrates have to be made from scratch hopefully from local products. Pizza dough, rolls, cinnamon buns, sandwich bread, pasta are on the list of soon to be tested recipes.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
letter
the last time I was sitting near this river was two days after you came home to get your things. Six months ago. When my sadness became a large suitcase I lug around like you carried boxes of socks and DVDs from our home. Sitting by this river in the dawn of spring I see choices mistakes,missteps, misspokens. I am slipping this sadness gently into this river like launching a canoe. I watch it disappear floating onto the horizon where the great blue heron will come nest in the summer, she will pick up this bag and fly it away. Ten months have passed since the Niagara river leapt over the falls. You fooled us all here and maybe even those on your side of the big river -the Mighty. It must have been easier for you to set your sadness afloat down the river. Pieces in my luggage folded like shirts and skirts; the spot on your chest where my head would rest, long emails, your whispers, our bed. Reasons you left me crumpled and tucked shamefully in the bottom corner of the bag; cheese knives and your daily lies. Chess games and bleeding mistimed. Your big mighty river probably swept your sadness away a long time ago. I have set the sadness to sail along the gunpowder river. I am sure it just whispered to me that it didn't know if I would make it through the winter like a misplanted bulb in the fall unable to take root or bloom when the earth spins toward spring. It has sailed away and I will not wilt.
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Developments
I'm pretty sure I'm ahead of the game for about 1 more hour when I drop my paper off at grad school (33 pages with Works Cited). Of course my usual blog with a list of things to do is starting; but I finished a couple hours early on my paper and could be revising it, instead I'm taking a little nap before class.
I am excited for the fellowship. yes teaching summer school would be the best thing to do but it will be boring and annoying. That is why it will be so much more money. The money thing does matter so much, but I have a room mate now and have never worked in the summer before so some money is better than no money.
But I will be on the beach, in the sun, on a boat, collecting bugs and chemicals and setting up fish tanks etc.. As Econtrario puts it; growing brine shrimp. It is sort of all coming full circle. Here I am with no life plans bumming around with my new room mate, first in years, and receive word that I'm going to Cambridge for 7 weeks. Sound familiar 1993? But it should be worth it for another opportunity to live in a dorm, do science, and plan lessons... right up my alley. Hopefully other things from the Cambridge, England trip, do not occur on the Cambridge, Maryland journey like... getting a D in romantic poetry, roommate moves in with sister and husband 1 (weird), MSG ridden Chinese Food at a B&B in scotland, watching Chariots of Fire, reading William Blake, or discussing Empericist Philosophy over a cup of coffee with some stranger in a restaurant. I would keep from England: country gardens, dining halls, and riding bikes.
Been reading and researching a lot about science as inquiry in the classroom and methods of learning and teaching. Sometimes it just makes so much sense and then in practice seems so impossible. I'm considering getting a SuperNanny Naughty Rug for my classroom. They are literally regressing to 2nd grade hitting and throwing paper.
I am excited for the fellowship. yes teaching summer school would be the best thing to do but it will be boring and annoying. That is why it will be so much more money. The money thing does matter so much, but I have a room mate now and have never worked in the summer before so some money is better than no money.
But I will be on the beach, in the sun, on a boat, collecting bugs and chemicals and setting up fish tanks etc.. As Econtrario puts it; growing brine shrimp. It is sort of all coming full circle. Here I am with no life plans bumming around with my new room mate, first in years, and receive word that I'm going to Cambridge for 7 weeks. Sound familiar 1993? But it should be worth it for another opportunity to live in a dorm, do science, and plan lessons... right up my alley. Hopefully other things from the Cambridge, England trip, do not occur on the Cambridge, Maryland journey like... getting a D in romantic poetry, roommate moves in with sister and husband 1 (weird), MSG ridden Chinese Food at a B&B in scotland, watching Chariots of Fire, reading William Blake, or discussing Empericist Philosophy over a cup of coffee with some stranger in a restaurant. I would keep from England: country gardens, dining halls, and riding bikes.
Been reading and researching a lot about science as inquiry in the classroom and methods of learning and teaching. Sometimes it just makes so much sense and then in practice seems so impossible. I'm considering getting a SuperNanny Naughty Rug for my classroom. They are literally regressing to 2nd grade hitting and throwing paper.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Spring without a Revolution
I used up all of my fun before the week of spring break. Now I face a few days with nothing to do but grade and clean. This weekend will be fun with A's baby shower. Ug and grad scbool. ugh and charley has created this feeling of conspiracy in my paranoid brain
yes I have a great support group. But it feels like the first time I've been alone in while. Maybe I just miss "the Wire": one is never alone with cable I suppose, my true love, HBO. That's ok, maybe I'll marry it and I'll change my name to Mrs. K.J. HBO.
I love the John Adams series. I know I'm supposed to be in love with In Treatment, and I am, but John Adams is so interestin.g Econtrario talked about Thomas Jeffe rson for an entire summer and I am actually kind of shocked about how much I know about it. The cast so interestingly portrays this part of America. Also, they were comparing Obama to Jefferson on Bill Maher the other night. Politicians who rise above their times and see the ultimate government ever created for what it really is. or what it really should be. I thought Bill Maher was a little defensive, thinking he could joke about the race issue and then realizing his panel was so serious about it. I actually couldn't keep watching the entire thing because the woman professor was so intense.
I complain about how I couldn't afford to travel this break, and then watch people 200 years ago having to take a boat across the Atlantic to gain support for their revolution! Leaving their wives, children, and fellow countrymen to die while they go dine with the silly French. I complain about my silly chores, when I don't have many rows to hoe as they say. Have to clean my house, but not scrub it in fear of small pox.
What strange lives we lead in the Information Age.
I will just enjoy spending the time working on my work that I have put off for so long, and clean this house that has caused a bit of a headache this week. I will chat with sisters and email mom.
yes I have a great support group. But it feels like the first time I've been alone in while. Maybe I just miss "the Wire": one is never alone with cable I suppose, my true love, HBO. That's ok, maybe I'll marry it and I'll change my name to Mrs. K.J. HBO.
I love the John Adams series. I know I'm supposed to be in love with In Treatment, and I am, but John Adams is so interestin.g Econtrario talked about Thomas Jeffe rson for an entire summer and I am actually kind of shocked about how much I know about it. The cast so interestingly portrays this part of America. Also, they were comparing Obama to Jefferson on Bill Maher the other night. Politicians who rise above their times and see the ultimate government ever created for what it really is. or what it really should be. I thought Bill Maher was a little defensive, thinking he could joke about the race issue and then realizing his panel was so serious about it. I actually couldn't keep watching the entire thing because the woman professor was so intense.
I complain about how I couldn't afford to travel this break, and then watch people 200 years ago having to take a boat across the Atlantic to gain support for their revolution! Leaving their wives, children, and fellow countrymen to die while they go dine with the silly French. I complain about my silly chores, when I don't have many rows to hoe as they say. Have to clean my house, but not scrub it in fear of small pox.
What strange lives we lead in the Information Age.
I will just enjoy spending the time working on my work that I have put off for so long, and clean this house that has caused a bit of a headache this week. I will chat with sisters and email mom.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Slug or Sloth
The beginning of March has been quite unproductive. I have made significantly large piles of assignments, lab equipment, dishes, mortgage forms, bills, bottles, ashes, clothes, and a sticky mess of chocolate mint syrup spilled by unknown cat in smelly basement. However, today, I have cleaned up said syrup mess and thought about the above mentioned piles and prioritized them.
My students may have changed their minds about me, I may actually have a little more energy and a lot more jokes in the classroom this quarter. We are always laughing. Field trip next week and it always the part of the year that the kids start to make connections with all the lame assignments I give all year and how they apply to the actual environment. We also have a good time. It is supposed to rain, but we won't melt. They also just had sports night, where the classes (Srs, Jrs, Soph, Freshies) compete for silly games. They sit in areas in the gym and chant taunts at one another. They played crab soccer, bat relay, rope climbing, blind volleyball, etc. The dance team are the referees. It appears the most important thing was how much of your belly you were willing to expose to write your class on the belly 2008! Some of my students started out with one letter on each of their shirts to spell out SENIORS. By the end of the evening they spelled IRS ONE! I thought this hilarious.
Also, team ironhorse has the 9th highest score this year from our trivia league. But we did lose quite dramatically last night being tied for 2nd at halftime and then bombing all the remaining questions. Science teachers lost on Xyphoid process ? and Einsteins birthplace ?, English teachers misspelled aneurysm (aneurism is wrong).
Heading to a colleagues 40th bday party tonight with a "Casino Night" theme. Ice luge for shots, a tornado of cash, roulette, poker, craps, deep fried turkeys, etc. Should be fun, but it is in PA.
End of long post, it appears the mid of march has turned things around a bit, and no matter how often I wash them, my hands still smell like chocolate mint.
My students may have changed their minds about me, I may actually have a little more energy and a lot more jokes in the classroom this quarter. We are always laughing. Field trip next week and it always the part of the year that the kids start to make connections with all the lame assignments I give all year and how they apply to the actual environment. We also have a good time. It is supposed to rain, but we won't melt. They also just had sports night, where the classes (Srs, Jrs, Soph, Freshies) compete for silly games. They sit in areas in the gym and chant taunts at one another. They played crab soccer, bat relay, rope climbing, blind volleyball, etc. The dance team are the referees. It appears the most important thing was how much of your belly you were willing to expose to write your class on the belly 2008! Some of my students started out with one letter on each of their shirts to spell out SENIORS. By the end of the evening they spelled IRS ONE! I thought this hilarious.
Also, team ironhorse has the 9th highest score this year from our trivia league. But we did lose quite dramatically last night being tied for 2nd at halftime and then bombing all the remaining questions. Science teachers lost on Xyphoid process ? and Einsteins birthplace ?, English teachers misspelled aneurysm (aneurism is wrong).
Heading to a colleagues 40th bday party tonight with a "Casino Night" theme. Ice luge for shots, a tornado of cash, roulette, poker, craps, deep fried turkeys, etc. Should be fun, but it is in PA.
End of long post, it appears the mid of march has turned things around a bit, and no matter how often I wash them, my hands still smell like chocolate mint.
Monday, March 10, 2008
new roo mates post
so we're living here in towson town
where they're tearing all the college buildings down
out in bethelehem their tearing up forms standing in line
so our forefathers fought the world warz
and all your mothers are world class whores
why would we care and who wants INDY (thats kendeall-jackson's dog by the way)
She likes him very much?
where they're tearing all the college buildings down
out in bethelehem their tearing up forms standing in line
so our forefathers fought the world warz
and all your mothers are world class whores
why would we care and who wants INDY (thats kendeall-jackson's dog by the way)
She likes him very much?
new
They tore down all the old houses in Towson.
You can see from Burke to the Circle.
The library sign glows red in the distance.
They tore down all the old houses in Towson.
They used to be boarded up.
But you could see the keg parties on the porches on the duplexes front porches
and the kids playing in the backyards of the mansions
and wonder about their large lion gated front steps.
The old houses in Towson that they tore down used to block the view.
Now it shows the drive thru starbucks all the way to the starbucks by the mall.
They tore down all the old houses in Towson.
Now we wait for the new condos/townhomes/single family homes that will block our view again.
You can see from Burke to the Circle.
The library sign glows red in the distance.
They tore down all the old houses in Towson.
They used to be boarded up.
But you could see the keg parties on the porches on the duplexes front porches
and the kids playing in the backyards of the mansions
and wonder about their large lion gated front steps.
The old houses in Towson that they tore down used to block the view.
Now it shows the drive thru starbucks all the way to the starbucks by the mall.
They tore down all the old houses in Towson.
Now we wait for the new condos/townhomes/single family homes that will block our view again.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
snow days
The shallots I sauteed in butter still resonate in the kitchen. There may be an infestation of small flying things in the potato bin in cupboard. The fridge full of food all inedible. The pants stay unfolded in the laundry bin, iron is on, but will not press. Newly painted fingers and toes wait to dry. Snow in Maryland seems to freeze time, inside and out.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Switzerland
So Divorce club is going well, who knew that my little disease is contagious! I've been helping four friends deal with their divorces. TNT said I should teach remedial divorce 101, especially for those that failed the marriage HSA. Hilarious! I must be careful to not take sides, or to make anyone feel that I'm not there for them. I also should be careful how many drunk texts I send to ex#1.
I've been working on how I teach a lesson. The presentation, expecting questions, socratic questions, increasing participation. I know that the students have noticed. It may have come about from my education classes at grad school. It has been awhile since I have focused on the art of teaching instead of the content. This is much more fun than molecular biology or animal physiology. To analyze how I teach instead of what I teach is making my job more fun and actually easier . Except the grading, which I just keep in a pile.
Thank goodness for these few days off in February (today is an ice storm day off! yesterday off for the obama day!). I'm going to go to NYC for the weekend.
I've been working on how I teach a lesson. The presentation, expecting questions, socratic questions, increasing participation. I know that the students have noticed. It may have come about from my education classes at grad school. It has been awhile since I have focused on the art of teaching instead of the content. This is much more fun than molecular biology or animal physiology. To analyze how I teach instead of what I teach is making my job more fun and actually easier . Except the grading, which I just keep in a pile.
Thank goodness for these few days off in February (today is an ice storm day off! yesterday off for the obama day!). I'm going to go to NYC for the weekend.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Obama
Obama Video
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/semr?source=SEM-register-yahoo-obama-search
Yes, we can. I'm in all the way - hope this isn't another of my life altering heart breaking Bavetta moments when I get crushed. I am completely an Obama supporter. Putting myself all the way behind something... dangerous. Like "When John Stockton passed the ball to Karl Malone, Michael Jordan stole the ball away and dribbled to the front. Guarding him was Bryon Russell, one of the Jazz's best perimeter defenders. Jordan drove inside the 3-point line, crossed over (while apparently pushing off[1]), took a jumpshot from 20 feet and made it to give the Bulls an 87-86 lead with 5.2 seconds left. After a time-out, Stockton's three-pointer hit the rim and bounced away, giving the Bulls their sixth NBA title in 8 years." I was crushed. 2000 election heartbreak, electoral put not popular vote...crushed.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/semr?source=SEM-register-yahoo-obama-search
Yes, we can. I'm in all the way - hope this isn't another of my life altering heart breaking Bavetta moments when I get crushed. I am completely an Obama supporter. Putting myself all the way behind something... dangerous. Like "When John Stockton passed the ball to Karl Malone, Michael Jordan stole the ball away and dribbled to the front. Guarding him was Bryon Russell, one of the Jazz's best perimeter defenders. Jordan drove inside the 3-point line, crossed over (while apparently pushing off[1]), took a jumpshot from 20 feet and made it to give the Bulls an 87-86 lead with 5.2 seconds left. After a time-out, Stockton's three-pointer hit the rim and bounced away, giving the Bulls their sixth NBA title in 8 years." I was crushed. 2000 election heartbreak, electoral put not popular vote...crushed.
Let's go Obama team, win this one for the dogs...As goes the superbowl.
P.S. I watched this game again 9 years later in a cabin in Vermont.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Older
Best bday present was my iPod fixing itself. I dropped it and it turned from sad pod to playing music!!! I have saved all the songs on computer #3 and it is very calming to have all the music back. A missing section of myself is back. Quite nice. Many friends, food, and flowers at the Friday night get together.
So I will spend this weekend planning lessons, cleaning house, and I have a couple of lunch dates and even a movie date (??).
We'll see. Now I just want to listen to music all day and so I shall.
Song of the Day "You've Got Her In Your Pocket": The White Stripes
So I will spend this weekend planning lessons, cleaning house, and I have a couple of lunch dates and even a movie date (??).
We'll see. Now I just want to listen to music all day and so I shall.
Song of the Day "You've Got Her In Your Pocket": The White Stripes
Monday, December 31, 2007
New year
Resolutions, tend to turn out as successfully as my vows I guess.
Things I did in 2007 I will not do in 2008... anti-resolutions (anti-vows)
Things I did in 2007 I will not do in 2008... anti-resolutions (anti-vows)
- Exchange vows or fall down at any weddings.
- Go on vacation 8 times to 12 places
- Move to different house (unless forced by bankrupt bipolar bears)
- Procrastinate housework
- Watch movies in lieu of reading
- Murder a computer
- Sing Karaoke
Things I did in 2007 that I will keep doing
- Instant Messaging & Blogging with my Family (more than weekly :))
- iPhone iPhanatic
- Refrigerator magnetic poetry
- Is my hair really brown?
Friday, November 23, 2007
Nine things I learned from my unhoneymoon...
1. Waves really do sound like someone breathing. This is relaxing.
2. Walking on the beach with your toes in the sand is better than a pedicure.
3. If you stay in your room past check out, they don't send security until 7.
4. Canadians... Say a few things too often, Niagara Falls -eh?
5. The iPhone is iPhantastic and one can change a flight, email a lesson plan, and call the dog sitter without leaving the beach.
6. I have spent way too many vacations being nervous about roles and judgements from strangers. This is something I will try to never do again. I have always turned into a freak when traveling with a man. ?
7. No matter what you're going through, someone else in a hot tub somewhere is going through it too.
8. News heard near the ocean is often less shocking.
9. Relationships come and go, but friendships come and go and come back (like waves).
2. Walking on the beach with your toes in the sand is better than a pedicure.
3. If you stay in your room past check out, they don't send security until 7.
4. Canadians... Say a few things too often, Niagara Falls -eh?
5. The iPhone is iPhantastic and one can change a flight, email a lesson plan, and call the dog sitter without leaving the beach.
6. I have spent way too many vacations being nervous about roles and judgements from strangers. This is something I will try to never do again. I have always turned into a freak when traveling with a man. ?
7. No matter what you're going through, someone else in a hot tub somewhere is going through it too.
8. News heard near the ocean is often less shocking.
9. Relationships come and go, but friendships come and go and come back (like waves).
Monday, November 05, 2007
seven things
1. I got a D in Romantic poetry at Cambridge University. 2. i tell people my favorite band is Led Zeppelin but its really Aerosmith. 3. I ran away when I was 13becausse I heard Springsteens Born to Run. 4. I am a computer serial killer. 5. I once went skinny dipping in high school and accidentally came home in someone elses underwear. 6. I copied Scott Robinsons homework everday in sixth grade 7. I am the 2011 class sponsor at my school which means iI will help organize proms and read their names at graduation.
Saturday, November 03, 2007
good grief
iI m making funeral potatoes jello salad and meatloaf for the wake tonight. Am trying to fit meatloaf into container and its too big so i have to eat some. Delicious. I want to serve completely from Tupperware. n iam also grieving the other less discussed loss. quite the ritua l want to buy a spray if flowers but probably conserved funds. going to dress like Jackie o for the wake.also lost grammer rules and the use of a mouse with iphonehandicap.
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