I’ve been stuck in a rut for a while. I have goals, dreams, things I want to do! But I don’t make the progress I would like on them. Pregnancy and early childhood were valid excuses for me. With my health issues (and with my adorable-yet-very-cranky babies), just surviving was a valid and all-consuming agenda [...]
Usually, the school districts seem the last entities to jump on the “snow” band wagon – the first being Jim Forman, school kids, and network weather. But for the first time in (my) recorded history, we had a snow day today with NO SNOW. Sure, school has been closed for reasons other than snow before: [...]
I got my Dream Job teaching Junior High Language Arts and Social Studies part time! I was recruited out of the blue and could not be more thrilled. I thought I was going to spend the next year (or two) subbing part time, but instead I get my very own classroom at a Junior High [...]
reflecting-icons From my Illustrator class So, I got the sparkly-shiny-fast new computer up and running, and with just a few blips along the way, I got my powerful-yet-daunting new Adobe CS3 installed and whirring along. I’m knee deep in Adobe tutorials, a fibro flare, and sick children, but I thought I’d post my latest project [...]
I just got to buy books of essays that I WILL BE REQUIRED TO READ! I am positively giddy with excitement! I will be REQUIRED to read good writing and to be prepared to discuss, critique, and write some myself. Yes, I’m ditching Chinese (zài jiàn!) and taking a different class next quarter. It’s called [...]
The Asia Society report says it takes “an educated English speaker 1,300 hours to achieve the native-proficiency of an educated native speaker of Chinese, while it would only take about 480 hours to achieve the same level in French or Spanish.” In Sunday’s edition of The Washington Post Magazine, my Post colleague Elizabeth Chang quotes another source saying that it actually takes 2,200 class hours to achieve full proficiency…
I have not posted in so long – especially nothing of substance. But, I have SO much I want to say. Unfortunately, desire to write does not manufacture time to write. Why? Because I have been doing some exciting self-discovery, soul-searching and navel-gazing and the immediate net result is the realization that I need to [...]