April 2010
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Baseball’s back!
Of course this was only Game 1 and we all know the evil turn last season took after an awesome start, but warm, beautiful nights like this are made for gloating.
Yankees suckkkkkkk!!!!!
omgfactsofficial:
Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don’t seem to have this problem.
As a teacher, I have noticed this as well.
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Nothing made me happier today than finding out about Curt Schilling’s new job at ESPN. I cannot wait for him to let loose with some religion and politics during the game because he cannot keep his big fucking mouth shut. This is going to be epic.
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Say my name, say my name
I’d never really listened to the lyrics, just assumed the song took place while the singer was in the throes of passion. The other day it came up on shuffle and now I understand what’s going on, finally, after all these years. I now have to change the made-up video that plays in my brain.
Punch and pie
I love my family but there is a point during every holiday gathering that I absolutely have to take a break.
This is that break.
Yay for silence.
February 2010
23 posts
Ten Rules for Writing Fiction →
52books:
Today The Guardian has listed several major authors and their personal rules for writing. They all vary in how one should use adverbs, take vacations, edit, etc. My favorite list comes from Margaret Atwood:
1 Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can’t sharpen it on the plane, because you can’t take knives with you. Therefore: take...
The biggest tragedy is not
notforpublicconsumption:
the amount of lonely people sinking in quicksand,
but
the amount of lonely people sinking in quicksand who
refuse
to grab hold of the stick when it is offered.
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5 thoughts for the morning
1. Those so-called “student ratings” on the Rate My Teacher site? I actually think most of them are posted by teachers. In fact, some teachers openly admit to rating themselves or their colleagues.
2. Amy Bishop, the professor who killed her colleagues in Alabama? Were there just not enough red flags about this woman?
3. I’m reading the new Jim Burke book about guiding students...
that's ann.
morninggloria:
“She’s really funny.”
“Well, let’s hope so.”
Yam.
The Killers’ version of Dire Straits’...
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"A Bomb in Her Bosom: Emily Dickinson's Secret... →
from The Guardian: another theory about Emily
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psychobabble: poetry as tonic, #19 →
monlapin:
Mindful - Mary Oliver
Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It was what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over in…
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Overboard →
Grieving mom decides to take sperm from her dead son, add a donor egg, and create the grandchild she would’ve had, if he’d lived.
So some baby is going to be born with NO parents, just to satisfy this grieving woman’s desire to bring her own kid back from the dead, sort of.
spacecadetglow:
angelfayse:
worth1000words:
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2010 Newbery Award Winner
Even though I don’t teach middle-schoolers, I was interested in Rebecca Stead’s Newbery winner, When You Reach Me, because of its connection to Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, which was one of those books I read obsessively in elementary school when I was supposed to be learning long division. The main character in Stead’s novel is also obsessed with A Wrinkle...
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5 things that are much more awesome in theory than...
1. Snowstorms
2. Differentiated instruction
3. Television
4. Cruise control
5. Polenta
“Do something you really like and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m...”
– Tom Petty (via quote-book) (via notforpublicconsumption)