Monthly Archives: October 2008

You Know You Live in Texas When…

Texas Education Code, Chapter 21. While researching regulations on planning time, I was reading the Texas education code and found this section between the “Mentors” section and the “Mathematics, Science, and Technology Teacher Preparation Academies” section: —————- § 21.459. BIBLE … Continue reading

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Wow, that’s just… that’s just special

This is the from the transcript of the VP debate recorded by CQ Transcriptions and used by the New York Times. To put this in context, Palin gave her spiel  about bringing Wasilla to Washington, and Biden responded with something … Continue reading

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Think before you speak

Today’s debacle I brought on myself. Sometimes I’m just not thinking well. All my students wrote their own conceits in my English class after we read John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” – that’s the one where he compares his … Continue reading

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Ebelskiver

Didn’t know what an ebelskiver was, but with my eternal pumpkin fetish, when I saw a recipe for Pecan Pumpkin Filled Pancakes on Williams and Sonoma (I never knew how much expensive crap I desperately needed until I found W&S) … Continue reading

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Awesome

In my area of the world, the deadline is Monday Oct. 6. Are you registered?

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