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Thursday, March 9, 2006

These bloggers go on my block list.........................................

You know I hesitate to write too much about my kids because I would feel so stupid if something were to happen to cause them setbacks. But yesterday, the culmination of a semester and a half saw uppercase C driving over to the math tutors, on the campus of Drake University, with a huge line of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Blogger Sneaks BlackBerry into School Building.............................

The grueling testing goes on at school. However, we are almost finished. I had the greatest fun yesterday standing in the middle of twenty-five hard-working test-takers, pretending to be minding my own business, but in reality blogging along with you fortunate day-time bloggers. Oh, how good you... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, March 6, 2006

"Constant" Means Reliable, Unruffled and maybe Indifferent Gardener

I read the Constant Gardener in about 2001 or -02. I remember feeling that the scenery, culture, language and plot were so John LeClarre. I soaked them up in a kind of comfort-food frenzy of feelings, outrages and images. The major theme, I suppose is man's inhumanity to man. Major motif:... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 5, 2006

My Weekend started when I finished a gig at the new Coffee House...........

It was not as sponteneous as it appears. I had not had so much as a cell phone upgrade in five years. I am not by any means the technology guy to go to, either in my neighborhood, family, or school. However, we were out shopping for a new cell for my Little One. We went three times to VERIZON where... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 2, 2006

These Thoughtless Bloggers Ought to be Ashamed.........................

Thursday night, end of the second week of ESL testing. We have 80-plus students to test on a three and a half hour test. Do the math. It's less than three hundred hours of testing time, but we have three weeks to do it in! End of the second week of testing and we have 30 students finished (my... Sign in to see full entry.

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Blogger Has Another Secret.Not telling, not telling, not telling: TELLING!

Well, I have a Blackberry now. That's the secret. These little babies are way underpriced! I was saying to my daughters, or my brother, several months ago, "what I want is a wireless laptop, completely able to go online from anywhere!" That's a Blackberry. I truly think that if our enemies had this... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 1, 2006

One Blogger has a secret...not telling...not telling...not telling: telling

OK, so I have a secret. My secret is that as committed to Blogit! as I am, I have decided to emerge as a new person. I am going to register again under an assumed name, write posts from the point of view of a Democrat, change lots of people's hearts: putting courage where none is, love where there... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

I know a blogger who has struck it rich!

OK, it is serious. She likes her job! As a junior in high school she is making an adult salary (but for only 25 hours per week). She is working as a Certified Nurse's Assistant at a health facility for children and adults. Her patients are all brain-damaged in some way. She seems to be taking a much... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 26, 2006

This Blogger is Very Depressed...Contemplating.............................

Seinfeld! Another fine mess! Youngest daughter has been very down. School is OK, her Students In Government is OK, but she didn't get the job she wanted right away, and she just feels down. About three weeks ago, her MP3 player went on the blink. She is a very artistic girl, her music is important... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Bloggers Narrowly Escape Disaster in the Ghetto............................

As you know, I live in the ghetto. I like it here. The people are real, the police are our friends and we see them every day, the sirens go all night and day, rarely are they ever for me -- never actually if I remember correctly -- and I always say a quick silent prayer for whomever is being... Sign in to see full entry.

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Traditonal life in American mainstream education. Area of concentration -- English as a Second Language. My take on the issues and "what really works" (when my kids let me log on).

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