Category: Journal

Snow…the ground is all white today. NCTE even closed an hour early. Of course, I just came home and continued working. I’m writing up a lesson that I used to do in FYC. Students explore Richard Wright’s poem “The Writer”…

Spent the day working ahead, so that I have a little bit of a cushion regarding Inbox. I did the pieces for 12/14, 1/4, and 1/10. There’s no Inbox on the 20th because of scheduled maintenance on the NCTE machine…

Suddenly we’re having errors that blank out entire calendar entries when the editor/writer tries to work on them. I’m at a loss for the solution. I can’t even figure out what the problem is. He’s working in the online form,…

I’ve begun the process of baking cookies for Christmas. I created a bunch of red and green pinwheels. More than I could actually finish baking, but I got a start. Can’t really take much credit for these. I bought red…

Wow. Tonight was the NCTE Holiday Party, an excellent opportunity for people watching. Naturally, I won one of the bottles of wine in the raffle. Why can’t I ever win things that I can actually use? The whole event is…

Finished editing and published the January Calendar for ReadWriteThink. Unfortunately, I found that the javascript for the titles isn’t really working. It’s great on the pages, but not for the spiders. They’re grabbing the javascript code for the title, rather…

Okay, I did turn in a content report today, but that wasn’t the highlight. Today was PANDA DAY! My niece and my two sisters had tickets to see baby butterstick, and there has been much happiness all around.

why do i do these things? The Movie Of Your Life Is Film Noir So what if you’re a little nihilistic at times? Life with meaning is highly over-rated. Your best movie matches: Sin City, L. A. Confidential, Blade Runner…

Lunch: Chicken Fried Rice Fortune: “Life to you is a dashing and bold adventure.” Lucky Numbers: 14, 15, 18, 24, 36, 45 Meaning: You have 14 things to do at work, 15 errands to run, 18 things to do at…