Is this snowy rainy making you mellow? it’s sure is making me just too mellow to think about the many compositions I want/need to write/finish composing. I think I hit my mellowest point, today on my way to school when I was on the bus listening to my ipod on shuffle and Beck came on. […]
Month: March 2013
Daytripper
Rented a Zipcar last weekend for a trip to Dia:Beacon, a beautiful museum/exhibition space less than two hours north of the city with huge installation pieces on display. This institution is also appended to a small town that one might call the very definition of quaint. The drive back was quite scenic, winding through Bear […]
Sick in Near-Spring
Recipe of the Week: Cheesy Baked Mashed Potatoes Maybe it’s the sudden change of weather. Maybe it’s because I’m being exposed to a lot of children. Or it might even be just because of all the stress. Lo and behold I’ve caught yet another cold. When I was younger, being sick meant being able to […]
FOOD. That Is All.
I wish I could say I kid, but I still remember the day when I was on campus from morning to evening, functioning on nothing but seaweed and water because I couldn’t bring myself to spend what few dollars I had in my wallet. ‘Course, I was a young student then, still navigating my way […]
Problems with Words in Word Problems
Something about adding that pesky English language into math class makes everything that more confusing. It’s day four of solving systems of equations, and suddenly students who were previously fine with solving a system, cannot see that the addition of words doesn’t change the math – in fact it gives nice application to it! 2 […]
Growing Up
Recipe of the Week: Ground Turkey With Potatoes Growing up, everyone always stressed how important it was to have kids at the right time. My grandmother would insist that it was blasphemous to have kids before the age of 25 and after the age of 30. Growing up, I didn’t see anything particularly wrong with […]
The Trials of Teaching
I’m not sure if I’ve said this before but whoever has said “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach,” is either incredibly ignorant or … well not something nice. Honestly, I can’t imagine a profession that requires more time. I remember a plaque my mother used to have in the house that said, “A teacher’s work […]
The Battle Of The Exam
It’s starting. The first exams of the semester are here. I’m sure by now, most of us have already taken our first, or second, or even -*pats shoulder sympathetically*- our third exam. Sigh, remember that first week when we kind of breezed into class and nodded absentmindedly while the professor gestured emphatically to the PowerPoint […]
Some Cancer Media…
There has been quite a lot of breaking cancer news over the course of this winter break. Lance Armstrong has cozied up next to Oprah to discuss his lies, The Huffington Post has created the Generation Why page on their site, Notre Dame’s Manti Te’o is “catfished” by an imaginary leukemic girlfriend, and The Fault […]
Friday – It Started Out Okay
Today started out as a pretty okay Friday. I woke up when everyone else was already out of the house, which means I got to wander around in a blanket and stick my head in the refrigerator and not be judged. There was a little setback when I scanned the oddly spacious refrigerator and deduced […]
