Something bad is happening to my skin. It’s getting thinner. Things that didn’t used to bother me have started to bring me down. A couple weeks ago things were rolling off me. Now it’s part of my daily rhythm to feel picked on or ignored or misunderstood. Like what happened yesterday. I’d spent a week working on a presentation that was due at 8:30 on Monday morning. I stayed up till 1:00 a.m. Saturday night […]
Read moreMonth: October 2009
[Un]Dead MAT Society
The MAT (master of arts in teaching) workload is intense and without respite. So for levity if not education, two professors planned a surprise activity. They had us reenact a pedagogical version of the Dead Poet’s Society. [flashvideo filename=wp-content/video/deadpoets.flv image=wp-content/video/deadpoets.jpg /] By the way, see the little garage thing in the background? It was the original (and only) classroom for this program when it began 41 years ago. Needless to say, they point to that […]
Read moreLittle Orangey Dots
It’s 6:30 am. It’s 27 degrees and totally dark. A bard barred [I stand corrected] owl is hollering insistently from the woods above me, trying to convey some kind of message before his dawn bedtime. Looking at the weather forecast on my desktop I see an inscrutable icon: clouds with little white dots underneath. When I drove to school yesterday I had to pilot using just my fingernails, the steering wheel was so cold. Here’s […]
Read moreDeployed
Just in: As of a few hours ago I know where I’ll be living from January to March. The bad news is that it’s not South Africa. The good news is that I like who I’m going with. The bad news is that it’s not South Africa. The good news is… well, pretty much everything else about it is good. I get to improve my Spanish, which is a lifelong goal. Its location even allows […]
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