Saturday, September 27, 2014

Kimbap (Sushi) for Breakfast!

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This morning I had a lovely, if unusual, breakfast of leftover yummy food from last night! Kimbap (the Korean word for sushi -- my friend Je...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Some Reasons Why I Hate Cold Weather/Winter

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I even dislike Fall and early Spring (though Spring is a hopeful time -- warmth is coming! -- as opposed to depressing Fall), and some of th...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

What Wise Man Noam Chomsky Said about Adjunct Labor & Higher Education

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I'm late* to this since it was published online in February at AlterNet, but "better late than never" is my motto!! *(but not ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Boyhood: Delightfully Brilliant, yet Riddled with Stereotypes...

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... or should I say brilliantly delightful? And... are some of the stereotypes slightly mysoginistic? I don't know, but I wonder... ...
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Friday, September 12, 2014

Missing my boys

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I haven't seen my 10 year old since Wednesday morning! And my 12 yo since yesterday morning. L had outdoor education at a camp 1h30 away...
Friday, September 05, 2014

Sometimes, I just want to sit down and have a good cry...

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... But I have a hard time doing it. There are too many good things in my life, and I know I should count my blessings instead.  Sometim...
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Gluten Free for a Week

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I'm doing an experiment. I'm going gluten free for a week, just to see if I'll feel any different. Some adult ADHD specialists, ...
Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Reveling in the Warmth, Dreading the Freezing Cold

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ETA: written on my cell phone, walking from the car to the building where I teach :-) I'm not just "enjoying" the hot weather...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Saudade (& Gorgeous Maragogi!)

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When distress and almost despair overtook me last week K & I felt like we always do in such situations -- a rare feeling, to be frank! -...
Monday, September 01, 2014

New (to me) Wedding Music

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This summer I went to two weddings which couldn't have been more different and I want to share some of the music since I don't know ...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

August, be gone already! / Agosto já vai tarde!

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Seriously, I'm so over August. The end of this month was traumatizing, to put it mildly... sigh. Last week after I gave one of my offi...
Friday, August 29, 2014

In Print

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Just got the scanned offer letter in an email. Relief. Now to sign it, take a picture and email it back, and, more calmly now, carry on.
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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Whole

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Maybe it's weird, but I feel "whole" again now. It seemed, after all my indignation about the unfairness of how I was being tr...
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"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you" Matthew 7:7 KJV

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(and 7 is my favorite number [teary-eyed], I was born on 7/7) "For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to th...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Perspective

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I still have two "half jobs." I enjoy teaching and (most of ) my students are great. I will only be missing 6K from last year...
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The Angry Email.2 & PANIC!! I'll Need Rec. Letters!

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First, let me explain that the original  angry email  was read, edited and vetted by my very cool-headed (but not less indignant) husband. S...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Those EXPLOITATIVE MONSTERS!!

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(because I don't swear, I cannot bring myself to, even under such absurdly & patently unfair circumstances) What would you do? A...
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First Day Blues

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I'm not looking forward to going back to teaching this afternoon. The facts that I don't yet have a contract at U#2 and that at U#1 ...
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Sleeping In.2

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I know it's ridiculous to have two posts in a row with the same title, but I couldn't help it, it's kinda fun! We drove to PA ...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Sleeping In

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I hadn't slept in in ages. In addition to that, I'd been going to bed 1-2 am every single night...  This morning I could have gone t...