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:: Saturday, October 01, 2005 ::
:: Calvin 8:41 AM [+] ::
statesman.com | Making magic with Neil Gaiman
Neil uses the word "lugubriously" to talk about New Orleans! -- He is my hero!
This week was a busy week -- my juniors had FCAT Reading retake on Monday, and I wrote down the names of those I think passed (we will find out at the end of November). By my calculations, 64% passed. We'll see.
I got a student assistant on Thursday, and at first I was reticent -- they can't really grade papers, so it is a little hard for them to be useful, and I have found myself in the past just creating work for them.
Then I had the bright idea that i would use him as a resource for the PowerPoint stuff I do -- the Cultural Literacy and the Logic Puzzles. By the end of the year, I should have a website up with teh Cult Lit ppts and have the answer keys available by email request. That will be cool.
It was Spirit Week, but the days were boring -- College Day, Twin Day, and Cowboy Day. I did get to wear jeans for three days in a row, though, so that was good. For twin day, I talked my friend Michail (yes, that is how he spells it) into wearing khakis and a striped shirt, then found that my striped shirt was dirty, so I couldn't follow through. Not to be one to let my buds down, I brought ten Hawaiian shirts with me to school to let him pick one to wear -- he balked, but I did get Sanchez to wear one.
On Friday, we had our inaugural "Cheesy 80's Movie Night!" I invited folks from work and 10 people showed up (though two of them were humans under the age of four and one was a Lhasa-Bichon puppy named Toulouse). We watched Sixteen Candles and had some DELICIOUS meatballs brought by Mary and some guacamole that I enjoyed more than my wife did. Obi was quite taken with the puppy and had fun playing.
Today and tomorrow, I need to work on my reading classes (I am taking two online classes), watch an episode of LOST so I can start getting caught up, grade and key in grades, and try to take a look at an ACT unit. Luckily, the grass is freshly mowed and the house is mostly clean, so I don't have too many distractions, and I am done on the computer now.
Oh-- yeah-- the other thing that happened this week was that iTunes lost my iPod and then got corrupted -- I spent about 8 hours online trolling bulletin boards for a fix -- never really did find one, but I reasoned that it was a registry issue because repeated installs and system restores had no impact or failed. So, I bought a cheap registry cleaner and it found over 1000 errors. As soon as I tried again to install itTunes and the iPod updater, everything worked like a charm. Sweet.
Oh-- and the OTHER other thing that happened was I went to Circuit City to buy a $300 receiver and ended up spending a little bit more on a surround sound system. SAT has been berry good to me, and I apologize to my lovely wife for not making her more involved in the buying process.
Oh, and we are going to NIN on October 22 and Depeche Mode on November 3
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:: Calvin 8:41 AM [+] ::
Modern-day folk tale - PittsburghLIVE.com
Great review of the new Neil book Anansi Boys
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