Monthly Archives: October, 2009
Fear Factor
Here’s my week: first quarter grades and comments for all my students were due this morning at 8:00 AM pumpkin carving contest with my advisory this morning– each grade had a different theme, ours was historical figures, the girls made a post-guillotine pumpkinhead-Marie-Antoinette just getting over strep throat birthday dinner for my sister Thursday evening …
Laptopping It
Well, turns out that no one in my house had the flu, swine or otherwise, but we did all have strep throat! I was the last to come down with it– got diagnosed this morning at a CVS Minute Clinic and so I’m home from school today, which is also my girls’ first day back. …
Teaching “The Killers”
I’ve been in bed since yesterday afternoon– swine flu? who knows?– and it’s been raining since then too, so I’ve been snuggled up with my comforter and we’re watching Enchanted. So why not a weekend blog post? Yesterday, in the class I taught right before going home and taking a four-hour nap, I finally got …
Autumnal
There is a crispness in the air, and a chill in the wind, and an edge to the bright blue sky. Golds and bronzes are starting to emerge from underneath the green, and soon, soon, they will drop. I am craving pot roast, and mashed potatoes, roasted chicken and fresh-picked apples, and a far-off scent …
Pearl Jam– 18 Years and More
I remember the first time I saw the video for Alive, in 1991, by a young band out of Seattle named Pearl Jam. I was thirteen, and had spent most of my middle school years immersed in hip-hop and R&B, stuff like Digital Underground and Boyz II Men, and this was the first rock song …
Reading: Donald Hall
I usually never resort to this, but today I wrote a long post, with revisions, on the poetry reading I went to Sunday afternoon (which was amazing, really, and just what I needed), and then it got eaten. And it was one of those days: meetings, issues, an amazing speech from a student at our …
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