My Own Thoughts

This blogger appears to be an adjunct, but maybe not. She has an MA. Anyway, she has 100 posts on academia, which are entertaining. Critical Mass writes on educational things as well. Read several stories from Sept. 11. I appreciate the opportunity to share with others their thoughts and pain. Open wounds heal slowly. These [...]

The BBC had an article in which “evil” was in quotations. I went back to reread it and now it says “evil killers” in the title. Conservative grad student has an October 2, 2004 post on a conversation where he said “That is evil” and a fellow grad student disagreed with him. No, the other [...]

I went to a political blog and have used its links to explore the blog world. I do that occasionally. I’m a lurker. But this is crazy. Do these people live in the same world I live in? Kerry’s lies are less important than Bush’s lies so what Halperin wrote in his memo is okay. [...]

According to the Evangelical Outpost, there are democracies all over the world. Those that aren’t already in the Iraq war, seem to have a lot of reasons not to be in it or any war. Some don’t have armies. Some don’t have a big enough defense budget to send a force to Iraq. It’s an [...]

It looks like the Coalition party, aka the Liberal party, won in Australia. They were ahead by 46:30 with 74% of the vote in. I was pleased to learn that Kerry’s sister wasn’t just randomly addressing Australians with Kerry’s rhetoric. She lives there. The rhetoric is not true, but at least it’s more reasonable.

It is Saturday. I can eat any and everything I want. If I want to turn into a big fat pig. Do I want to do that? Not really, I hear Circe did it to Ulysses’ crew and I doubt it was fun. But I hear orange biscuits and milk calling my name. Wait. We [...]

For 2004 I would like: to paint the dining room, maybe a deep orange a new coffee table a cruise a trip to the mountains anywhere a new dining room set

I’ve always been afraid of this, my whole life. It hasn’t happened yet. I hope it doesn’t. But research into old tree rings are showing long periods of horrific drought in the Western US. Much longer than the 5 years we’ve had so far. This article covers it. Ignore all the global warming stuff. Okay, [...]

“bloggers, who are often bleeding edge geeky freaky academically-minded folks.” Arophenia says this in a discussion about why Macs are important. Wow! I’m a blogger. (Okay, no one but my husband reads me since I moved, but still, I blog.) I’m academically minded. I’m definitely folk. But bleeding edge geeky freaky. I must be. Because [...]

6 As 5 Bs 3 Cs 5 Ds 0 Fs That includes all the students who did not turn in an entire paper (10%) or who only did half the work on the second paper. Those averages were 0 Fs 5 Ds 2 Cs 1 B That’s right. One of the students who didn’t do [...]

My eldest has been asking for info on polls. How do we get them? How do we know the margin of error is +/-4%? I found a great site on this. Mystery Pollster answers the questions, but not in a simple way. I wonder if it would be clear enough for E to understand. Or [...]

I weighed 155.8 this morning. I went to bed at 8:30 last night. I got up at 8 this morning. It took me 25 minutes to do a bike ride that normally takes me 12. I think I may actually be sick. I am thrilled with the weight drop, though. I wish it would go [...]

I’ve been feeling not well for days now, but it’s not just the normal things. Back in 94 my feet hurt so badly I wasn’t able to walk more than a few steps at a time for several weeks. My feet are hurting again. I’m exhausted. That normally means I don’t have enough protein in [...]

Heroes and Villains has been a great class for me because I have learned a lot about the history of the Middle East, way more than I have ever learned coherently before. I’ve also done some in-depth Bible reading, the story of Joseph, of Moses, of Daniel, and of Jonah. I have two classes, 9-11 [...]