“NOT THE RED WIRE! It’s the blue wire….cut the blue wire!!!”
Apparently, the electricians working to install new lighting fixtures are not up to date on current Hollywood bomb squad techniques, as this morning in addition to successfully installing the needed light fixtures, they successfully caused a complete power outage at school, which lasted for the [...]
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One of my quirks as a teacher is to present my kids with a “good news-bad news” scenario. I have yet to figure out why they inevitably want to hear the bad news first. Regardless, I’ve been finding out very recently of some good news – bad news scenarios of my own!!!
1. Good News: [...]
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Upon opening my email inbox this morning, this is what I find, which begs the question of which of the following I find the most disturbing:
That the time, energy, and money that LAUSD evidently has is being funneled into graphics design, rather than, oh say, hiring teachers or building schools.
That the intern who deigned the [...]
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Journal entry #14: Today is day #18 without fast computer…losing motivation…speech is slurred…tyipng is inaccruate…and wosrt of all, when my roommate sees me agonizing with my current replacement machine, he curtly exclaims, “Nice computer!”
Separate from that, living, teaching, in Los Angeles is great! So in lieu of more frequent, shorter posts, you are gonna be [...]
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I used to hate the news. So it doesn’t really surprise me when my kids have at best a meager knowledge of local, national, and international events. But I was pleasantly surprised when quite a few of my students indicated that they had heard of the US Navy’s shooting down of a spy satellite hurling [...]
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Any suggestions for what I should do, now that executing simple commands on my beater temporary laptop is comparable to asking a 7-year old to clean his room?
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So my laptop doesn’t exactly look like this one, but it sure seems like it. For the past week (and probably the next two) I’ve been dealing with the absence of my wonderfully fast and efficient Gateway laptop. Now a word of disclaimer to all my mac-loving, pc-hating “friends” who are simply savoring every word [...]
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What a great night! Finally, after 16 long years of frustration, my favorite football team, the New York Giants have prevailed as SuperBowl Champions!
Not only did my team win, but the night was amazing due to the fact that I got to witness what I consider the second greatest football game ever!!!
It’s been a long [...]
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