Ahh. Day one, and how do I spend it? Fiddling about for a while in my room. I didn’t go to a morning workshop, so there seemed no reason to rush. I did go downstairs to make myself a nametag…
Category: Personal Journal
CCCC 2006: Day Minus One and Counting
So I managed to get to the Palmer House after a minor driving error that took me through downtown Chicago at 5 PM. Note to self: do not arrive in Chicago at 5 PM again. Second note to self: Pay…
Travel: Burdens of the Modern Beast
I saved Burdens of the Modern Beast on March 4; but I didn’t get around to writing the entry. I never seem to get around to the things I’m supposed to these days. Yesterday, while I was at Saturn waiting…
Daily Work: Prepping for the Trip
So here I sit at the Saturn dealer with the huginormous laptop on my lap. Fortunately Saturn now has wifi. Unfortunately, my mac’s battery died last night. Or at least I discovered it last night. I noticed that it was…
Daily Work: A Million Things to Do
Okay, maybe not really a million, but it feels like a million. I went by the post office to stop my mail before going to work—one to do done. Did a ton of little things for work: edited a professional…
Daily Work: Crying and Hair Color
Fortunately in unrelated events. Holli and Kelli packed up and left around 12:30. They even helped get some garbage out of the basement before they left, even though I told them to forget about it. I hate the leaving part,…
Daily Work: TV and Chinese
Holli, Kelli, and I spent the day just hanging out at the house. Watched the rest of the Wallace and Grommit movie then watched Elizabethtown. Went out and fetched Sesame Chicken, eggrolls, and crab rangoon for dinner. I also did…
Daily Work: St. Patrick’s Day Fun
Celebrated St. Pat’s Day by chunking up a big ol’ slab of corned beef and plopping it in the crock pot for the day. Took Holli and Kelli for a partial tour of the office, since we needed to go…
In the News: BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Poet seeks English lesson renewal
BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Poet seeks English lesson renewal—the UK poet laureate Andrew Motion calls for more reading of a wider range of texts in UK schools: “We need to ask how we can reflect the diversity…
Daily Work: Blogging and Conference Call
Even though I’m at home with Kelli and Holli while they’re here, I had to participate in a conference call for ReadWriteThink, on an evaluation of the various partner sites for attention to issues of multicultural, mulitlingual representation. Most of…