Monday, January 30, 2012

Tele-Teaching (?!)

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Well, well, well... I was communicated this morning that next semester I will be "tele-teaching" a class for students at another...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

The "Hair" Post, or how I've been agonizing about hair since 1977 ;)

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Here's the plan, folks. I'll write the post, then I'll take my time and make a photo album & link to it. And then, maybe I...
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blogger's block

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So much that I want to write and yet... I'm so tired, I don't feel like doing anything, much less writing in the blog. We've b...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Oh no! Not again!

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Do you remember this ? In a subsequent post , I gave more details and the latest update is that he is going to undergo radiation therapy sta...

"Blogs vs. Term Papers" -- I tried to do it and was told I shouldn't

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Matt Richtell wrote about this a few days ago in the NYT and I just wanted to let you know that that's precisely one of the things I ha...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Awarded!!

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Remeber the suspenseful waiting from last December? Well... I've got great news: I got the grant!! Isn't that awesome? The be...
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

One Year Ago Today

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So, one year ago we made an offer on this house, which was accepted a few days later. We closed and moved in in April. I have a post ab...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Vera, or How I Don't Care About "Looking Professional"

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This is my new (laptop) backpack (from here ) and it makes me soooooo happy! It's the most expensive (even on sale) backpack I've...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Downton Abbey Overdose

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OK, it's all your fault -- my friends in the computer!! You kept tweeting  (it's not twittering, right? that would be the actually...
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Efficient Monday (just for the record)

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I'm a couple days late posting this, but you'll soon know why... I just wanted to record in the blog (for my own benefit, no one e...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Total & Complete Schedule Disconnect*

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We knew that our Spring Break would probably never coincide with the boys', but we never expected that the disconnect* between their sch...

That's why we spoke only English in Florida :)

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As you know, we try to speak only Portuguese at home and not let the boys forget their first language (they didn't know any English unti...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Talk About Feeling Sore!

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Last week I was really surprised that I wasn't sore after the two hour-long "body-sculpt" fitness classes that I took, but th...

Blackboard Sucks

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and that's all I'm going to say about that right now. BLAH!!! The most counter-intuitive piece of software I've ever had to us...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The Joy of Books - AWESOME!

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Have you seen this? It came about because of this: (a bookcase organization project gone crazy ;) My son Kelvin and I LOVED them just...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Fraud!

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Phew... I'm just coming off the phone after talking to my credit card company regarding two fraudulent charges that I just noticed on o...
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The Second Day was Better

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The classes I teach Th-Th are different from Mo-Wed so the second day was actually my second "first" day and it went well. I sti...
Monday, January 09, 2012

First day wasn't bad

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I didn't post yesterday because my post was going to be too negative, with snippets such as this one: (post title: Back to teaching) ...
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Friday, January 06, 2012

"Body Sculpt" is fun!

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This week I went to two "body sculpt" classes and I really enjoyed them. Of course I selected the lightest weights and the least r...

Songs from when I was born (July 1971) - facebook meme

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I can't stand facebook, so I decided to post this fun fb meme on the blog instead. The challenge is to find which song was the #1 on t...