... this is the last Sunday I will have where I am not required to do anything for school, probably until xmas break, if not until next summer.
and what am i doing with my time?
slept 'till noon, made a late pancake breakfast, waiting for food to settle before hitting the gym. i straightened up my room a bit, hung up some school clothes, and in general have just been lazing about. tomorrow is labor day, so i have one more day to prepare for class on tuesday, but at this point, i am feeling a bit like i know so little about what this week will look like that there isn't much i can do at this point but try to relax and take a few deep breaths.
i plan on prepping materials for next week this week, so i am ahead of the game.
i do have to create a curriculum for my new elective that i was assigned to teach, a three-day-a-week school skills class for 10th graders. we're not giving homework in this class, so i believe that i'm going to focus on literacy and real-world topics in science. i am going to start them off with an excerpt from "the world without us" and go from there. i'd like for us to read "fast food nation" as a class and discuss the reading group topics suggested by the publisher. these kids have a very intimate relationship with fast food and i would like for our class to examine that a little deeper.
would also like to read "stiff" by mary roach, because kids like that gross stuff and its easy to read, and science-y. we'll see how that goes.
on another note:
sarah palin? really?
insulting.
its as if mccain thinks that any woman will do. this woman is the harriet miers of the 2008 election-- totally unqualified and wet behind the ears. mccain just took the reasoning out of any "obama isn't experienced enough" argument because your VP pick is supposed to be someone you believe to be ready to lead as president should you keel over and die, which is more likely to happen to mccain in the next four years than anyone else.
what an f-ing joke.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
wait, this might be random
i tested it again, just to see what happened, and got this
this might all be a fluke.
in other news, while at a bar on the lower east side tonight, i ran into heather matarazzo, the actress who became famous for her role in the dollhouse, and who was a reoccurring character in season 4 of the l word. in case you don't remember, she played stacy merkin, the journalist who jenny lovingly referred to as "the vagina wig". if you're unfamiliar with the reference, just google the word "merkin" and you'll see why.
she is much skinnier in person than i thought she would be.
this might all be a fluke.
in other news, while at a bar on the lower east side tonight, i ran into heather matarazzo, the actress who became famous for her role in the dollhouse, and who was a reoccurring character in season 4 of the l word. in case you don't remember, she played stacy merkin, the journalist who jenny lovingly referred to as "the vagina wig". if you're unfamiliar with the reference, just google the word "merkin" and you'll see why.
she is much skinnier in person than i thought she would be.
this blog's reading level
came across this website, via the slog (www.thestranger.com/blog), where it will test the reading level of your blog. as it turns out
i am a little disappointed. i am a high school teacher after all, and should be working to increase the literacy of our youth. how am i supposed to do that when the reading level of my own blog is at junior high? i suppose i should start using more five-dollar words.
i am a little disappointed. i am a high school teacher after all, and should be working to increase the literacy of our youth. how am i supposed to do that when the reading level of my own blog is at junior high? i suppose i should start using more five-dollar words.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
creativity strikes
jaclyn is out of town until saturday, so i have some more free time on my hands than usual. plus, i am not taking any more classes until the beginning of september, so right now my agenda is full of teaching, still, and working out. in the interim, i picked up these plain white slip-ons at payless for $9.99, and then gave them my own brooklyn flavored design. for some reason i can't figure out how to get the photo reversed, so for now you get the mirrored image, but you get the point. they're pretty sweet. i have a few ideas for another pair, in a very small size 7, for jac when she gets back. i don't have enough space to do a map like the one on the left, but perhaps something reminiscent of that design will do...
hope you are well.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
for the love of cheap masala sauce and frozen naan..
... i would trek across the world and back, or so it seems. okay, so maybe not across the world, but definitely a long f-ing way to go to get food from heaven, otherwise known as trader joe's.
normally i set aside time in my schedule to make the trip to tj's. not just because its not close, but because the lines can be insane and the shopping trip can take an hour just from the time you're in line to pay to when you get on the train.
unlike seattle, where there are at least three different tj's that i've been to, there is only ONE in new york. that's right, the biggest city in the united states has ONE trader joe's. this particular tj's is located at union square, which on a good day is about a 3o-40 minute train trip, with only one transfer, from my house. if i'm going on a major stocking-up excursion, the distance is worth the price and the good food i have here at home.
so yes, in the one tj's in all of new york, they have all of the wonderful foods i came to love in seattle, but also have their own wine store (a separate entrance and everything, for many many kinds of two buck chuck, among others) and people inside flagging you down into lines for the check out. today was a slow day-- i only waited 15 minutes, but i have seen the lines snaking around the entire inside of the store. and i thought that the queen anne tj's on a sunday was insane.
today was "get two of everything" day for me, since i don't make it into manhattan all that often. turns out that two peanut butters, two soy milks, two bags of frozen veggies, two pizza crusts, etc, gets very heavy very quickly. not only that, but my basket kind of had a noah's ark theme going on, two by two.
the man who rang me up managed to fit everything into just three bags, but my goodness, they were the three heaviest grocery bags i have ever carried. i looked like a total fool trying to walk through union square back to the train, trying to get on/off the train, and trying to walk home. but now i have cupboards full, and hopefully won't have to go back to tj's until september, when they open the one that is coming to brooklyn...
normally i set aside time in my schedule to make the trip to tj's. not just because its not close, but because the lines can be insane and the shopping trip can take an hour just from the time you're in line to pay to when you get on the train.
unlike seattle, where there are at least three different tj's that i've been to, there is only ONE in new york. that's right, the biggest city in the united states has ONE trader joe's. this particular tj's is located at union square, which on a good day is about a 3o-40 minute train trip, with only one transfer, from my house. if i'm going on a major stocking-up excursion, the distance is worth the price and the good food i have here at home.
so yes, in the one tj's in all of new york, they have all of the wonderful foods i came to love in seattle, but also have their own wine store (a separate entrance and everything, for many many kinds of two buck chuck, among others) and people inside flagging you down into lines for the check out. today was a slow day-- i only waited 15 minutes, but i have seen the lines snaking around the entire inside of the store. and i thought that the queen anne tj's on a sunday was insane.
today was "get two of everything" day for me, since i don't make it into manhattan all that often. turns out that two peanut butters, two soy milks, two bags of frozen veggies, two pizza crusts, etc, gets very heavy very quickly. not only that, but my basket kind of had a noah's ark theme going on, two by two.
the man who rang me up managed to fit everything into just three bags, but my goodness, they were the three heaviest grocery bags i have ever carried. i looked like a total fool trying to walk through union square back to the train, trying to get on/off the train, and trying to walk home. but now i have cupboards full, and hopefully won't have to go back to tj's until september, when they open the one that is coming to brooklyn...
Friday, August 1, 2008
a year later
almost exactly one year ago (one year and just a few days),
we lost one of the best, brightest, sweetest, most sensitive stars in our universe,
samuel mccrow.
i remember so vividly where i was one year ago, and i remember so vividly where i was when sam left us.
i know that sam would have wanted us to live as freely and as vividly as he did-- he would have told us all to seize the day. i also remember the way that he hugged his sisters when he said goodbye and the twinkle he got in his eyes when he said that he loved them.
i miss you-- the world, the universe misses you, sam.
has it been one year already?
love, always.
10/3-8/4
we lost one of the best, brightest, sweetest, most sensitive stars in our universe,
samuel mccrow.
i remember so vividly where i was one year ago, and i remember so vividly where i was when sam left us.
i know that sam would have wanted us to live as freely and as vividly as he did-- he would have told us all to seize the day. i also remember the way that he hugged his sisters when he said goodbye and the twinkle he got in his eyes when he said that he loved them.
i miss you-- the world, the universe misses you, sam.
has it been one year already?
love, always.
10/3-8/4
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