I've been planning to make dinner on a weeknight for two weeks now. Hubby either takes me out for dinner (as neither of us has enery to eat or clean up after) or I am falling asleep at 8 pm after getting home around 7. The gym? Forget it! But I made a potato cream soup today. Sauteed onion, garlic and mushrooms and then added microwaved potatoes and carrots to speed up cooking time. Added water and boiled it for a bit. Stopped the pot to go for a 10 minute jog with hubby (this was sh...
I have finally finished a pair of mittens that I was knitting for my brother. I started them three years ago. If you count all the times that I have ripped them out and started over then I have actually made about five mittens. Not five pairs, just five. So if one was a pentapod... The knitting itself is ok... the shaping (I used 4 double ended needles)... well. Let's just say I have learned the value of making notes when doing certain knitting projects... Still and all, I am reall...
I've been teaching for about 10 years now. I have enjoyed it quite a bit. I have taught across the spectrum. I have taught at a university, I taught at a nursery school. I taught at businesses, I have taught housewives and seniors. I have taught in an elementary and at high school. I taught EFL (English as a foreign language), English lit, history, health class, and now math at high school. In elementary it was the whole she-bang. I am thankful probably for the EFL teaching the mo...
Ack.......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yep, that is how I feel right now. I don't know what it is about me but I have a tendency to get myself in over my head. Must be some sense of overwhelming self confidence that I probably shouldn't have. Feels like the energy rut I've been in is cycling out and I've got a lot of better focus. I'm teaching a math course and the whole teaching math thing is new for me. I'm working hard at it and I guess it's going ok, but this is probably NOT the job I sh...
Remember the movie Aliens when Ripley want to blow up the planet and the company guy says "no way" because it is too expensive? Ripley had the best comeback-- "They can bill me!" This is probably a vague parallel but... it seems like a lot of stuff that hasn't happened has not happened because no one authorized it. Whether it's using the city buses to evacuate people or the bringing in of troops, it seems to have slipped through the cracks of someone else's job or no one told me. Yet,...
Maybe I unknowingly clicked some buttons. Dunno, but my recent articles are anything but. Puzzling Any ideas?
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Foreverserenity has a good discussion going about computer literacy. Link This blog is somewhat related to that, but mostly to a comment that someone made about a teacher saying (note the attempt at neutral terms here) why watching the movie of Romeo and Juliet was as good as treading he book. I really don't want to discss that issue here as arguements can be made for both sides. I also don't have the background to that comment as it wasn't included in the blog so I don't want to dis...
I was doing pretty well on this for about four days. Day 5 was a non post day so that I could go do stuff instead of sit around. Then tragedy struck. My hard-drive crashed completely. It happened gradually in dribs and drabs so I was able to back up all my documents except for my precious links in my favorites folder. It could have been worse. It could have been the big bang, and the repair shop upgraded the hard drive to 60G! Good for my little laptop. And since my computer ha...
I meant to blog about this a while ago. For some reason, our hot water is only a trickle from the kitchen faucet. For another reason, namely laziness, we haven't called the rental management company to have it fixed. We don't have a dishwasher and and it irritates the nuts out of me to rinse dishes in a trickle when it is my turn to wash. I really get pissed off. It's kind of funny if someone ranting amuses you. I could never figure out how my husband gets it done so quickly. Final...
The is a product or brand of beauty products in Japan called Asian Beauty. The spokesperson is Chen Tsui, the actress from "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon." Obviously, the woman is gorgeous and a good choice by the marketers for a front person. What I hate about the commercial is that it usually shows caucasian women being jealous of her, giving her snide looks or getting the flap of Chen Tsui's coat in their faces. There's a series of commercials along this line. My question is this,...
A picture I took of ayame when I went to Kamakura in May
On another thread I was talking about praying mantiss and then got onto suzume bachi. A giant hornet 2.7-4 cm long, and very poisonous. Now if you're feeling adventurous or would like a little bit of that suzume bachi power yourself you can try out this drink at this site Link 34 % alcohol and 3% suzume bachi extract. Kanpai!
During a night session photography class, a praying mantiss landed on me. It was, I think, a BIG sucker! About as long as my forefinger! While shooting, I had the sensation of something crawling on my ankle and used my left foot to scratch it off. Then some flurry of grey, blurred movement in the dark and something is on my pants. I try to brush it off, but it wont go, fearing the worst (and I really don't have any specific in mind for worst, just, you know "the worst") I screamed a...