Wednesday, September 29, 2010

He's Here

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For a little more than three days, but I'll gladly take what I get. Remember, the rule is that I see him every two years from two days t...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Testing, Assessing, Evaluating

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My students, that is... I have already given the first quiz for each class and the first test to one of my classes. Right now, I'm wor...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

A Bit of a Defensive Pessimist

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I love to listen to NPR (although I do it only while driving, hardly ever at home, for some weird reason) and Fresh Air is one of my favori...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Hmmm... // 75% Success Rate

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The decision is still very much up in the air. The phone conversation today was disappointing. The salary is fairly low. Pretty standard, bu...
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Monday, September 20, 2010

Unanimously

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The department unanimously decided to offer K the job. They're working on the details (he has a phone conversation scheduled for tomorro...
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LOVE Cats + Like IKEA = Perfect Ad!

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My friend Zee linked to this lovely new ad for IKEA in the U.K. and I just had to blog it. Here's the ad: And here's the making off...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

(Semi Academic) Blogging, Facebook, and Thinking About Changes

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In a couple of months I'll be blogging for six long years. I never intended to get famous or to make money (though I have made a little ...
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The First Pay Check

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It feels great to have received my first paycheck today. I was going to put the laptop away when I remembered to check our bank account and ...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Torn

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The trip went well, particularly at the end of the day yesterday (Tuesday) when we talked with an awesome and helpful professor whose resear...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Leaving for a Couple of Days

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For the second interview (for K -- he's got to meet the people he didn't see back in July). My dad's here to be with the boys. I...
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Thursday, September 09, 2010

And Then... He Prayed

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When I wrote that post earlier today, I had no idea that I would be thinking much more about the subject as the day went on. (and thankfull...
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They Are American Too...

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This morning when driving the boys to school I was listening to the news on NPR and I was just thinking -- why, oh why, do they have to publ...
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

First Day of 1st and 3rd Grade (two weeks ago)

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So, today everyone was writing on facebook about how their kid(s)' first day of school went, etc... I'm taking this as my cue to bel...
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

I'm Lovin' It!

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I'm still doing some hard thinking about the whole adjuncting thing, but meanwhile, after teaching three classes, I can say that I'm...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

No Longer Girl-Less

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My husband's family is no longer girl-less. This afternoon in Brazil, my sister-in-law broke the spell and gave birth to my niece, Baby...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

Immigration is Good for You, U.S.A. ...

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... too bad a large chunk of your population cannot see that. :-( I don't talk as much as I could, or perhaps should, about immigration....
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First Day & Starting with a Bang!

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The first day of teaching was nice and I still cannot believe that almost two weeks have passed and I haven't yet blogged my sons' f...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Working and Mothering, Take 2 (or Children & Universities)

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Tomorrow I go back to work for real. Wow. And it so turns out that on our first day of teaching, the boys have the day off from school. Same...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

on facebook (annoying!) & twitter / links

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I think facebook is very, very annoying. I try to spend as little time as possible in there. I just do it so I can know what's going on ...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Remembering the "Good Engine Noise"...

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Our two " crumbling Hondas " (no comments on that long post, I thought it was fun, but probably too wordy, as most of what I write...
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