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Anderson Cooper Races Michael Phelps
(Both in Speedos)

My students just finished writing -or I just finished grading, whatever- short stories. This is the second year that we’ve used pictures from The Mysteries of Harris Burdick as story starters. In a nutshell, the book contains black-and-white drawings, each accompanied by a title and a caption, enticing readers to make up his or her [...]

Okay, so though I am thankful for the typical slew of good stuff in my life (fam, friends: that one goes out to you!), I am going to dedicate this entire post to being thankful that TBWSRN is back home. Due to the hectic campaign schedule, until very recently the last time I had seen [...]

5 Things I Was Doing 10 Years Ago
1) A junior in high school (yeesh, I don’t like how young and naive this makes me sound)
2) Dressing up as Baby Spice for Halloween (along with my other Sisters in Spice Girl World: Sporty Spice Amanda, Posh Spice Jenny, and Scary Spice Rachel)
3) Dance team 24/7
4) Getting [...]

MPR’s recount coverage includes a Challenged Ballots: You Be The Judge feature in which you get to play Election Judge (Just like when you were a kid! Or not…) and tell how you would rule on several challenged ballots.

Personal fave:

When it comes to this race, the Lizard People might not be a bad alternative.

A colleague of mine came back from her Department Leader meeting with a stack of books that the district had purchased, but that had since been deemed “inappropriate” for classroom use. Yeah, our district usually operates that way.
Anyhow, they were up for grabs for use in our personal classroom libraries, which operate by a different [...]

Call Kirsten - she’s the best.

Fab.you.lous Events

My hippie soul reveres music and its makers as being close to godliness. Since that cleanliness thing didn’t work out for me, it’s simply next on the list.

A DVD set I’ve recently borrowed (a result of my “What? Netflix is so much better than cable” money-saving scheme) is Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season. [...]

I had to read the article to figure out that the first three words of this headline actually make up the name of a person. I thought maybe it was a new expression or something. As in “BronxMowgliWentz! There’s a sale at the Gap!”
Due to the the Mowgli, this is the best celebrity baby name [...]

By me and my iPod
1. J’ai peur parfois - (the french) Adele (when I was looking for the British one)
2. We Didn’t Start the Fire - Billy Joel
3. Bebot - Black Eyed Peas
4. Song 2 - Blur
5. I Tried - Bone Thugs -N- Harmony
6. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
7. Crush - David Archuleta
8. Get [...]