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beeswing
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response 248 of 673:
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Jul 18 05:55 UTC 2003 |
Met with the school president today. Was offered a higher salary than
I'd anticipated. They will mail my contract to me. I saw my classroom.
Small, but lots of windows. I can't wait to put in plants and posters
and such. There's a big crucifix above the (dry erase!!) board, but I
can handle that.
I'll be meeting with the other jr high teachers on Monday, which will be
cool.
Now if I could stop being somewhat terrified....
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rcurl
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response 249 of 673:
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Jul 18 13:50 UTC 2003 |
Keeps you on your toes....
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janc
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response 250 of 673:
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Jul 18 13:57 UTC 2003 |
(Oh, yea, dry erase! When I used chalkboards I used to get covered in dust.
I'd cut through the carpeted office on the way to my mail box after classes,
and leave a trail of white chalk footprints behind me. With dry erase not
only is it easier to teach in technicolor, but you get to get high on the
fumes, which I think generally improved my teaching (there was generally
plentiful room for improvement).)
As a student I was always terrified to get in front of a class to talk, but
even from my first day of teaching, I just loved it.
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mynxcat
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response 251 of 673:
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Jul 18 14:01 UTC 2003 |
Chalk board is a lot more fun. You can't make those screeching noises
with a dry-erase pen
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michaela
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response 252 of 673:
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Jul 18 15:33 UTC 2003 |
Bees - it sounds wonderful. Dry erase boards rock for those of us with
allergies and dark clothing. :)
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keesan
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response 253 of 673:
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Jul 18 17:49 UTC 2003 |
There are some really smelly markers designed for these boards (the smell made
me sick) and some others that don't smell at all (water-based?).
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jiffer
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response 254 of 673:
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Jul 18 22:37 UTC 2003 |
IHB I get to see Radiohead in October! Woohoo! RADIOHEAD! yeah!
IAHB two of the three people who are acting as my references let me see them
before they mailed them off, and I didn't ask. Sweet!
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jor
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response 255 of 673:
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Jul 19 00:16 UTC 2003 |
But breathing chalk dust is terrible.
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jaklumen
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response 256 of 673:
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Jul 19 02:49 UTC 2003 |
resp:247 not ordering it yet-- on a budget. But did you see if they
had XXL or 3XL? I'm also wary of white T-shirts...
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jep
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response 257 of 673:
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Jul 19 15:02 UTC 2003 |
I took the day off yesterday, intending to go to the Art Fair.
However, when we talked about it, my son and I decided to go to
Michigan's Adventure, an amusement park in Muskegon with roller
coasters and a water park. We got there at 11 (opening) and stayed
until closing (9). Oh, man! We had a *great* time.
Michigan's Adventure is owned by the people who own Cedar Point. It
doesn't have as many or as large of roller coasters as Cedar Point,
but that was fine with me. I don't like them that much anyway. It
does have several, including one called the Corkscrew which we didn't
go on. It has a mile-long wooden coaster called Shivering Timbers; we
didn't go on that one either. We went on the rest of them.
We spent most of the day in the water park, playing in the several
wave pools, riding on the many types of water slides, and generally
having a great time.
One ride I have to mention... it's called Ripcord. It's an extra cost
item; $30 for one person, $20 each for two, $15 for three. It's a
bungee drop from an enormous metal tower. It wasn't something I
wanted to do, but each time someone else did it, I and everyone else
stopped what they were doing to watch. For $16 extra you can buy a
video of your plunge.
Once we were inside Michigan's Adventure, I found my son is going to
Cedar Point and Soak City with his mother for the weekend. So he's
going to have a pretty exciting weekend all together.
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scott
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response 258 of 673:
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Jul 19 16:55 UTC 2003 |
Got myself a nice little shortwave, and right now I'm listening to some cool
salsa-type music with Spanish announcements. From a quick Google it looks
like I'm picking of Voice of America.
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mooncat
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response 259 of 673:
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Jul 19 17:21 UTC 2003 |
Congrats Trisha!
IHB- I'm spending the weekend with the Beau, and shortly we're heading
north to attend a wedding- and I'll get to hang out some more with his
way cool daughter.
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michaela
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response 260 of 673:
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Jul 21 00:30 UTC 2003 |
Jaklumen - go here - http://shop.store.yahoo.com/homestarrunner/trttrexla.h
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gelinas
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response 261 of 673:
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Jul 21 01:12 UTC 2003 |
IAHB a traffic light is being installed at Liberty and Wagner, replacing a
four-way stop. I walked around that intersection this evening; the new roads
look good. I hope they are finished soon.
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jaklumen
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response 262 of 673:
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Jul 21 03:04 UTC 2003 |
Thanks, Sarah. I could really use a black tee, so I'll look into it.
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edina
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response 263 of 673:
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Jul 21 15:56 UTC 2003 |
IHB I had a fun trip home - and speaking of Cedar Point, the pilot on Thursday
said, "We're passing over Sandusky, OH, to the left side of the plane". I
was sitting on the left and started looking and was able to see Cedar Point
from the air. Way cool!
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tod
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response 264 of 673:
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Jul 21 16:06 UTC 2003 |
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anderyn
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response 265 of 673:
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Jul 21 16:55 UTC 2003 |
IHB I had lunch with my favorite boyfriend -- Griffin. He is such a joy to
see during the week. (I have him on one weekend day, so seeing him during the
week is a lovely extra.) He blew me a kiss while they were leaving. Such a
sweetie.
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michaela
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response 266 of 673:
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Jul 21 21:55 UTC 2003 |
IVHB they're re-designing one of the most dangerous intersections in
Kalamazoo. Too bad it took 130 accidents and a car-train death to get around
to it. :-P
IAHB I think I did fairly well on my American Lit midterm.
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glenda
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response 267 of 673:
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Jul 21 23:36 UTC 2003 |
IHB so far this semester I have an A in Earth Science and an A- in Calculus
I. I will really have to blow it to lose A's in Composition and Interpersonal
Communications. Now if I can just continue the roll when I get to EMU in
September...
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scott
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response 268 of 673:
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Jul 22 15:28 UTC 2003 |
Finally settled down to calling some contacts I'd been given before vacation,
and ended up spending about 20 minutes on the phone with one guy (another
sound company in Cleveland). Got some pretty useful info on the state of the
business, etc, also sounds like somebody I'd want to work with.
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scott
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response 269 of 673:
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Jul 22 19:29 UTC 2003 |
Got the DVD burner! Mandrake 9.1 installed very nicely, although I'm still
trying to get the Nvidea network controller to work (weird driver situation).
Going to try RedHat 9.0 first and see what that does.
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lynne
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response 270 of 673:
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Jul 22 20:37 UTC 2003 |
Hmmm. Nothing like writing up a resume to give you a sense of
accomplishment.
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senna
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response 271 of 673:
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Jul 22 21:24 UTC 2003 |
#261: I'm happy they're putting a light in that intersection as well. it
needs it, badly. However, the traffic hangups it creates are a major pain
for me, since it directly affects my travel to and from my (current) house.
I'll get about a month or so with the new light until I leave town. Figures,
everything improves as I leave. :)
I had a great weekend in Toronto. My dad's family threw a party for Tracy
and I, and we received all sorts of "slightly used" gifts we can use around
the house, including a surprisingly large number of items from my deceased
grandmother and great-grandmother. I'm the first person in the family to get
married from my generation, and they're quite excited about it. It was nice
for Tracy to get to know them a bit outside of the funeral setting, where she
met most of them for the first time.
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russ
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response 272 of 673:
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Jul 22 21:24 UTC 2003 |
Saturday morning, rescued a rataan sofa (Hudson's/Marshall Field label)
in pretty good shape that someone stuck by the dumpster, dropped it at
Salvation Army. One less thing to wind up in the landfill.
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