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31.12.08
28.11.08
blast
I gave in.
I signed up for Facebook.
Friend me, friend me! I'm under my gmail account.
PS: Thanksgiving was tasty!
I signed up for Facebook.
Friend me, friend me! I'm under my gmail account.
PS: Thanksgiving was tasty!
24.9.08
Really, Never!
These file folders are right up my alley. Except I'd also want one that said "Maybe/Not."
I had too many minor adventures today. The morning got off to a rollicking start with the appliance company delivering the wrong range. The right one, ah, they can't get it out until tomorrow. No problem, we'll just eat out for dinner. This evening: ring ring, it's the Substitute Teacher Machine! I declined the job because the range's scheduled delivery time was during school hours. I mourned the loss of $125 and, after a moment's thought berated myself: why not reschedule the delivery, dummy? Then the Substitute Teacher Machine called again and I was all set to take it! and! then! my stupid PIN number didn't work. SARAH FAIL.
Added to Thursday's To-Do List: Call school district and find out what's up with my PIN.
I applied for a job at the Air Force base today, many thanks to my sister for helping me tweak my resume's Objective and Misc. She also gave me an assignment to think of jobs/careers that interest me and list the pros & cons. I came up with a list but am open to suggestions. I CRAVE suggestions! Anything you think I might enjoy or be good at? Part-time, full-time, rarely working at all; throw 'em at me.
A reminder of some things I am NOT good at/around and could not acquire gainful employment doing:
- working with dumb adults
- singing (I can carry a tune, and I got rhythm, but voice is blah)
- heavy lifting (nothing above say, 75 lbs.)
- babies
- smiling
- hospitals
- bodily fluids
- seeing things without corrective lenses (no pilot or astronaut positions)
- moderate semicolon use
- texting on my phone (I am v e r y slow)
- anything involving comic sans
And if you need ideas, here are a few things I AM good at/around that you might not have known:
- hedge trimmers
- untangling things
- driving tractors
- pulling pints
- throwing a spiral
- making lists (har har!)
pointing out what's wrong with things/people/ideassuggesting improvements
Here's to a quiet Thursday.
25.8.08
grateful for:
- the stack of Y: The Last Man graphic novels on hold for me at the library.
- the awesome meat market & specialty food shop near the library that has actual friendly neighborhood butchers in.
- the single remaining lab in Omaha that will process my film.
- The Dresden Dolls
- cookbooks!
- the pesto I made in a rush the night before we left on vacation (had some today, was good; thank you Cook's Illustrated!)
- that the basil plants I hacked down to make the aforesaid pesto put out new leaves in my absence!
- the monstrous, working cast-iron 1920s fan Bruce found at an antique shop (very photogenic! Will show!).
- not turning on the a/c today but leaving the house open.
- Worcestershire sauce. Every time I use it, I stand there for a minute just inhaling from the bottle. Sometimes I just pull it out of the fridge to waft under my nose.
I'm so food-oriented.
28.4.08
5.3.08
6th Grade's Favorite Sites
Sixth graders love being online. I teach Language Arts and Social Studies and created a del.icio.us page just for them, to direct them to sites according to what we study. Here are the (teacher-approved) sites they like best right now:
- CNN.com's Election Center 2008
- The Election Fun section of Weekly Reader's Election Center, especially the crossword puzzle (how do you spell CAUCUS?)
- FreeRice.com
- Text Twist
- Panama Canal LiveCams
They also have been all over the candidates' websites (today a student asked if he could join McCainSpace; the answer was NO). After each primary or caucus they hound me to update the delegate map in the classroom. Sadly, the sixth graders know more about the elections than the seventh or eighth; their Social Studies teacher isn't covering elections at all!
None of the other middle school teachers voted or are very interested in the whole ordeal; it's ridiculous that a bunch of 12-year olds are more hyped; they can't vote.
10.1.08
what do you recommend?
I have a pile of seven high school recommendation forms on my desk--these are for my 8th graders going on to private or Catholic schools. The forms were handed to me today with explicit instructions to complete them by tomorrow; they have to be faxed to the schools ASAP.
I hate filling out recommendation forms. Scratch that--the forms aren't bad; it is the recommendation LETTERS I have to write that go with them. It is worse when it is a rush job, such as this. It's also bad since six of them are for the same school, so I have to make the six letters quite different. It is difficult to come up with praise for mediocre students ... especially since some of them have parents who work in the school office here and probably will get an eyeful of what I write before they send it.
I'm stalling.
If you need a short distraction, this video is pretty cool. (via Craft's blog.)
I hate filling out recommendation forms. Scratch that--the forms aren't bad; it is the recommendation LETTERS I have to write that go with them. It is worse when it is a rush job, such as this. It's also bad since six of them are for the same school, so I have to make the six letters quite different. It is difficult to come up with praise for mediocre students ... especially since some of them have parents who work in the school office here and probably will get an eyeful of what I write before they send it.
I'm stalling.
If you need a short distraction, this video is pretty cool. (via Craft's blog.)
28.3.07
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