Procrastadabbler

Ruminations about life, teaching, literacy, research, and anything else I can think of when I am procrastinating

Entries from September 2009

eat simply – eat well – lessons for teaching

September 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Eating simply doesn’t mean one has to eat poor quality food. A long long time ago a friend invited us to dinner. She was totally into mega complicated cooking. She asked what we liked and I said, simple foods. I don’t remember what she serve us but it was unremarkable.
30 years later I now have [...]

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So very tired

September 8th, 2009 · No Comments

The semester is just beginning and already I’m so very tired and discouraged. I don’t know if I have it in me any more to fight to publish, to go to conferences, to stay on top of the teaching game. I’ve always been self-motivated but it’s slipping away. I just don’t see myself getting anywhere. [...]

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Furor over Obama’s speech to the kiddies

September 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Can I secede? My fellow American’s are a bunch of dumba**es. I disagree with much of O’s education plans and wish he would do more for our youth than talk at them and tell them to stay in school, but geeze…
I love much of what the United States is about, but I’m really not liking [...]

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