Category: Personal Journal
Shutting down the computer. Time to hit the road soon. Updates as possible.
You Are a Bright Christmas Tree For you, the holidays are all about fun and seasonal favorites. You are into all things Christmas, even if they’re a little tacky. What Christmas Tree Are You?
The housesitter is set. Most of my stuff is loaded in the car. Everything else is gathered around and waiting to be carried out. I got my Christmas cards taken care of. Washed some more clothes. Dishwasher is ready to…
So much for leaving town today. I’m such a moron. I wasn’t done packing around 2 AM, but I decided that I was really tired. So I laid down, completely dressed, thinking that I would rest just for a few…
I’ve spent the day doing laundry, baking one more kind of cookies, running errands, trying to assemble all my junk for the trip (and catching up on the blog). I still feel like a train wreck. I don’t know why…
My travel plans are such a mixed-up mess. I thought I had to wait till Monday to get everything done and because of other things that are going on. Now I’ve learned that the caravan to Pennsylvania has been called…
Finished editing a lesson play by one of the authors of NCTE’s new book Amy Tan in the Classroom. The lesson focuses on the connections between language and identity. It’s Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” and Beyond.…
Had our division gift exchange at work today. ReadWriteThink falls under Professional Development, which is within the Division of Publications and Professional Development (or something like that). Basically, the group is ReadWriteThink, the journals folks, and the books folks. My…
Lifehacker told me all about iTunes Signature Maker today. After a little fiddling with my machine (turns out I had two libraries), I created my own iTunes signature. It’s probably way too big, but it was fun. Now I have…