I love lesson planning. I especially love lesson planning when I don’t have to teach the lesson, grade the resulting homework or persuade students that they should love the lessons I’ve planned.
So, to be honest, what I love is creating reading projects for myself. This uses all the cleverness of putting a difficult puzzle [...]
Archive for May, 2008
I’m the daughter of a planner, can you tell?
Posted in Literary on 30 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
Caitlin the Cowgirl
Posted in Fashion, Personal, tagged miniature jersey bull, western costume on 30 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
So, for our Santa Maria BBQ at work, I dressed up.
This is me and my miniature Jersey bull, Carney Beauvine — the star of my short film promotional campaign.
And this is me as my other persona: Sexy Prairie Gal (See Becky’s previous post)
This morning, Joyous Gard
Posted in Overheard on 30 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
“You look sexy … in a prairie sort of way.”
Becky, on Caitlin’s costume for EECU’s staff lunch
Goodbye lesson plans; hello Summer
Posted in Personal, Teaching, tagged biola graduation, chalkboards, spring cleaning, summer on 27 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve had this post sitting open on my desktop for two whole days, but it is hard to write about something that is happening. The weekend, now more than over, has seen an abundance of happening. As of Friday I finished my first year of teaching (at the end of a stretched day [...]
Me, Today.
Posted in Personal, tagged Master Multi-Tasker on 27 May 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…it’s a heckovalotta fun, if I can keep it up!
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Now, my art of midwifery is just like theirs in most respects.
The difference is … I watch over the labor of their souls, not of their bodies.
Socrates (from Plato’s Theaetetus)
Nine months, or forty weeks, are, for me,
fall, winter, and spring.
Nausea, awaking to the dizzy knowledge
that I am for more than myself.
My food feeds you;
in me [...]
Good Candy Fortune
Posted in Overheard, tagged sweet witicisms on 20 May 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, Dove makes these little dark chocolates called “Promises”. Today, my note read:
“You’re allowed to do nothing.”
Trish’s read:
“When two hearts race, both win.”
It’s mind-numbingly sagacious. Really.
“It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in-between.”
Posted in Literary, Philosophy and Theology, tagged Athanasius, C.S. Lewis on 19 May 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lewis’ introduction to Athanasius’ On the Incarnation of the Word.
“A new book is still on trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it. It has to be tested against the great body of Christian thought down the ages, and all its hidden implications have to be brought to light … If [...]
the platypi have swum in the aqueduct
Posted in Literary, Teaching, tagged dictionary.com, irregular verbs, platypi, plurals on 18 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
Over recess on Friday, I was drawn into a discussion with some students regarding plurals ending in “i.” We mostly wondered why they are so fun to say, and commiserated over the fact that there aren’t more words like “fungi” in the English language. I expressed my desire for “platypi” to be the [...]
Daily Faith
Posted in Philosophy and Theology, tagged orthopraxy on 16 May 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I was thinking about the sacraments, which are intended to build faith, and I thought, “Well, I can’t do them everyday… Except for the Eucharist, but even that seems a little excessive…” So I played around with “What They Could Mean in Daily Life”. Here’s what I came up with:
SACRAMENTS OF INITIATION
Baptism – Cleansing, [...]
