Tag: postaweek2011
Only you beneath the moon or under the sun~Cole Porter
I’m not sure I can post anything even vaguely coherent tonight because…because… Max Raabe und das Palast Orchester spielen in Austin Texas im Februar !!! And dammit we are going. We ARE going!!James is going to buy a suit or maybe he should rent a tux?! and I’m going …
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shakespeare
I clean and organized lots in the kitchen today. I did massive amounts of paperwork. Also I made the MOST AMAZING coconut milk, chocolate, cinnamon ice cream, Used a little bit of honey, quite a bit of erythritol and some Watson’s double vanilla. Voila—tastes much like Mitchell’s Mexican Chocolate ice …
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It was a typical net.exercise – a screaming mob pounding on a greasy spot on the pavement, where used to lie the carcass of a dead horse. ~Unknown
I’m not actually sure how the Non November Nablopomo works. Do I have to follow the theme of “Swimâ€, respond to the prompts as in Reverb 10 or can I still write whatever on those days I need to write whatever? Have you ever had one of those days where …
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It’s late, we blew things up and I made a movie
That’s all for tonight folks. We didn’t swim today because we think the pool was closed. Didn’t look too closely though. Tomorrow will be swimming and sunburning likely.
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It’s a good idea to begin at the bottom in everything except in learning to swim. ~Author Unknown
I’m in a place where I’m very tired. I’m hoping to come out of that place soon. I feel like I’ve got more to do than time and that I just want to stop doing everything for about a week, or a month. It feels like I’m swimming through soup, …
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The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. John Ruskin
I’m not going to look at the gaps over the last month or so. I keep saying it but it has been a rough year. What are the most important things to you about your job? Is it your pay? Respect? Perks? That what you do matters? I’m having …
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It is a cart if it goes well, otherwise it is but timber ~Hindi Proverb
I’ve had my first really ‘feels like I’m finally on break’ day. Got J and the Bean up but both of them were still so sunburned from their accident on the lake (boat broke down, sunscreen didn’t work) they were tired and couldn’t go to work and GT camp …
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You did then what you knew how to do, And when you knew better, You did better. Maya Angelou
I have eleventy blog posts in the back of my mind but I haven’t had time or energy to get to them. the last 30 days of the school year (not say the month of may—school is going into June this year). We’re all burnt, we’re all tired. I have …
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Short Attention Span Theatre
And here comes the buckshot entry. By that I mean all over the place and watch out what it hits. Work has been rough. I hope it is getting better. It really has to get better. I’m lucky I have a great boss, great teachers, great principals. And I …
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Protected: Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. ~Bill Gates
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The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. ~Madeleine L’Engle
One of the ways I prepare my thoughts for what I’m going to write is once the topic is lodged in my brain I look for a quote that fits the feeling I’m feeling. Usually I stay with the quote, sometimes—like the last entry I don’t. I started off …
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You know everything must change /As time goes by /Though it feels like yesterday/ When we first met ~Voltaire: Anniversary
I wish I wasn’t going to blither, but that may be what you are going to get. I have pneumonia or a really horrible case of bronchitis from the SECOND flu I’ve had this year. I had a horrible cold, 2 flus, a stomach virus and dislocated my ankle. Since August. I …
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Protected: I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down. Maria Callas
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. William Cowper
The Biggest Risk You’ve Ever Taken–Postaday2011, Postaweek2011 Ok, back on the bloggy horse, for reals this time. I don’t think I can post every day, but I’d like to post a couple of times a week, or a least once a week. I’ll shoot for once a week and …
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Protected: What, must I hold a candle to my shames? They in themselves, good sooth, are too too light. Why, ’tis an office of discovery, love. And I should be obscured. Act II scene vi The Merchant of Venice
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it’s his voice, sing to me Max
Ich bin der Bogeyman. Ich bin die Furcht. Ich liebe dich. I don’t know it’s his voice it’s what he’s saying it’s the music it’s how he appears. I find myself driving. I find myself sitting alone. I am moved in a way I haven’t been since.. Vivaldi’s winter when …
