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…
Category: Journal
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…
I’m so used to going straight home after work. Tonight, I ran around doing errands, searching for presents for the gift exchanges at work. Didn’t get home till after 9. After that, the entire evening was mixed up. In my…
Finally finished and published Writing about Writing: An Extended Metaphor Assignment, while baking even more cookies. The highlight was the triple chocolate decadence cookies. Mmm. Tags: English language arts | K12 instruction | lesson plans | ReadWriteThink
I managed to actually get dressed and leave the house. Really. On a Saturday. I got dressed. Two Saturday in a row really, since I went to the holiday party last weekend, and I guarantee that I was dressed for…
More snow, though there’s really only a few inches on the ground. It’s just persistent. I spent most of the day working on the writing metaphor lesson plan and most of this evening working on holiday stuff (checking on presents,…