It’s official. I have been injured in 2009 (Already? & E ao que sofre dores), and while it is a stupid injury, I did it good. After three weeks of my thumb hurting, and in some senses it almost seemed to be getting worse, I finally called a doctor and went in today.
It was teaching [...]

I have never been to a political rally before. It was quite interesting. There were roughly 2,000 people there. Most were wearing black. Most were students at the three state universities. As I walked from my car to the rally area (ironically, I ended up parking at the state education building), the people I passed [...]

I am of the opinion that education is priceless.
Unfortunately, I seem to be living in a state that thinks you can put a price on education, and that you can then sell it at the dollar store because it’s that cheap.
Can I please, just once, live in a state that values education??
Today there are more [...]

It seems like my list of ways to annoy a single person is always growing. I want to talk about one thing people often say. Some might say they are well-meaning people. But I think well-meaning people would think about what they are saying before they say it and would know who they are talking [...]

An interesting question was raised in one of my classes this week. The professor asked who in the room had ever had a calculus class. A handful of us raised our hands. I had it in both high school and college. He then assumed we all passed the class. I did, C in high school [...]

I read recently an article about nicknames (What’s in a nickname – BBC). It is interesting to think about how they come to be and who uses them. So I’m going to think about it here for a minute.
I never had a nickname growing up. My brother called me something when he was little before [...]

I watched the inauguration stuff today because I needed to analyze the speech in terms of motivation for a class.
I have to admit, I didn’t feel the overwhelming sense of history about this day. Part of that is that I really don’t remember any other inauguration in the past. We’ve had other presidents before this [...]

Some of you yesterday, and even this morning, saw a post that isn’t here any more. It looked like this:
We (the mouse in my pocket and I) are moving all the files for my website from one machine to another. That means that any comments you make from this point on until the move is [...]

Today I was escorted by a very handsome man to the Tucson Quilters Guild’s annual quilt show, a Quilt Fiesta if you will. It was a lot of fun, for both of us (if I can be so bold to say). We agree we probably had rather different experiences even though we were both looking [...]

It’s been three years since I first started blogging. According to the blog statistics there are 542 posts and 438 comments on here (people weren’t very comment-y that first year, and I’m pretty sure less than half of those comments are me, so that’s a good thing). Akismet has caught (as of the last time [...]