Posted in Friends, Home and Family, cooking, fun, love notes, ten things Tuesday on February 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »
So I was getting ready for my day this morning, standing at the sink and thinking about what the heck I’m going to write for a Ten Things Tuesday list. I’ve been a little short on inspiration lately - I’m not sure why that is, but there you have it - so I’ve been [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Dark and Stormy Book Club, Friends, Little Bits of Nothingness, admiration, celebration, fun, funniness, meme, reading, strange but true on February 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve seen this around for a while, and even though no one’s tagged me (yet), I’m having such fun with the book I’m reading (thanks, Bo!!) that I wanted to participate.
Here are the rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post [...]
Posted in frustrations, my oh-so-exciting life, teaching, technical difficulties, the jobs on February 17, 2008 | 16 Comments »
I mentioned it over at A Teacher’s Education, but I don’t know if you all read over there, so I’m telling you here, too: TCC announced on Friday that it’s teaching out and will close sometime in 2009. Mrs. Chili and all her coworkers are soon to be out of work.
I just finished the [...]
Posted in Little Bits of Nothingness, meme on February 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I stole this meme, ages ago, from Chatty - thanks, Ma’am!!
1. If you were to attend a costume party tonight, as what or whom would you go?
For as creative as I like to think I am, I suck at coming up with clever costume ideas. I have a few medieval maiden gowns in my [...]
Posted in GLBTQ/Ally issues on February 15, 2008 | 18 Comments »
A fifteen-year-old GLBTQ student was gunned down at point blank range by his fourteen-year-old classmate on Tuesday morning in their English class. Lawrence King was a self-identified gay student who was murdered for apparently no other reason than his feminine gender expression was, according to a classmate, “freaking the guys out.”
I really can’t even [...]
Posted in Friends, Home and Family, celebration, ideas and opinions, love notes, ruminating, social issues on February 14, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I know that this holiday has a pretty bad rap. Mr. Chili disdains it as a “Hallmark holiday” - an occasion invented solely for the commercial profits of card and candy makers, not to mention florists. Tense hates St. Valentine’s day, calling it “Satan’s own holiday” because she works in her fam-damily’s floral shop for [...]
Posted in General Bitching, health, teaching, technical difficulties, weather on February 13, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Sick: I’ve got a really good cold going on. My head is pretty well pressurized, I’ve got one of those coughs that does nothing but makes my chest hurt and my back itch in just the spot I can’t reach, and my having no use of my nose means that my lips are going to [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Dark and Stormy Book Club, Friends, admiration, fun, funniness, learning, reading, ten things Tuesday on February 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
TWICE!
Here are ten reasons why you should join us on our latest Dark and Stormy Book Club adventure:
1. Bo chose the book. We’re reading Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog). From the sounds of it, Bo’s ’bout fed up with the fact that it seems none of his peeps [...]
Posted in Blogroll, GLBTQ/Ally issues, Home and Family, Parenting, Questions, ideas and opinions, learning, meme, politics, ruminating, social issues, teaching, ten things Tuesday on February 12, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Ten Things of Which I Approve.
I stole this from Saintseester, who stole it from someone else. It’s supposed to be a “seven things” meme, but I thought it would make a nifty Ten Things topic, so here we go:
1. I approve of the First Amendment and everything that it implies.
2. I approve [...]
Posted in Home and Family, duh!, dumbassery, strange but true on February 11, 2008 | 11 Comments »
We went to dinner last night to celebrate my father-in-law’s birthday and, as a gift, the Chili family presented him with a lovely grey wool sweater vest, not unlike this one here. He seemed pleased with it, and we all went home happy.
When I came home from work this afternoon, this message was waiting for [...]
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