I entered the Blog$hares raffle, but wasn’t one of the three people drawn at random. I had been running text ads urging people not to enter so that I would have a better chance at winning. That strategy didn’t work.…
Category: Journal
Taxing Broken Links
This entire day has been devoted to repairing broken links on ReadWriteThink. It’s usually not a horrible task, but this time there were dozens. It seems that that National Archives decided to do a site redesign. Now generally, I have…
Characters in Because of Winn-Dixie: Making Lists of Ten
Finished editing and posted a new 3—5 lesson, Characters in Because of Winn-Dixie: Making Lists of Ten. Believe it or not, it’s not my lesson. I know you see “Lists of Ten” and think it’s mine, but somehow that lesson…
Giving up for the weekend. I’m not sure where any of it’s going. I’m beginning to think that when I get the eleven characteristics done, I’ll resturcture the entire section, removing the characteristics altogether. There are overlaps in the ways…
I am writing a screenplay for a children’s version of the bible, with all the characters portrayed by insects. The most prominent, of course, is the Ant Christ.
I wish I knew how to just quit, to give up on this garbage that I’m supposedly writing. But there’s really no way out. I just have to keep rambling in burbling prose. Prose that blows. I apparently can’t even…
Current status —sadly unchanged
Finished editing a new 6–8 lesson, On a Musical Note: Exploring Reading Strategies by Creating a Soundtrack. Next on the to-do list is creating a back-to-school entry for the August calendar, but it will wait till Monday. I am to…
I should be in bed
but for some reason, I am not. As you may have guessed, interversity is back online; thus, tengrrl.com is back. Problem is that the server-side includes aren’t working, so handy things like the sidebar of links are missing. I really…
Gender and Nike Shox Cog
I know I should be used to blatantly stupid gender nonsense by now, but the two commercials that I just saw for Nike Shox Cogs just really pissed me off. MALE RUNNER: side shot of guy running on treadmill with…