April 26, 2009
Here is the letter I sent to NPR. I actually had to break it into two for the emails, because of the 6,000 character limit, but I think that may have actually helped each topic to recieve proper focus. I don’t really expect anything to come of this, but there is this tiny hope that they’ll read a couple of lines of mine on air. Mine, instead of the thousands of other comments they get each week. I can dream, right?
Anyway, if you are wondering what I’m talking about, read the previous post and the links in it, and hopefully you’ll see why I thought I should say something. So after all the stalling, here it is… Read more...
April 23, 2009
Just in case anyone was unsure.
Sometimes NPR makes me sad. These two stories ran back to back on Monday, and I’m trying to decide which part to focus my angry/disappointed/how can people really think this way?! letter on. (The text on the page is not the same as the story that you’ll hear if you click the “Listen Now” button at the top – they cut whole paragraphs, but actually come out as two significantly different stories.)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103211630
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103270766 Read more...
April 20, 2009
There are goats living down the street from us. Not on the end by the freeway, fortunately for them, but on the other end by the convenience store. There are two of them, and they wear collars. I’m not sure who the belong to, but I saw them a few days ago on one side of the street grazing in an empty lot, and this morning on the way to school I had to wait for them to cross the road. It was a little surreal. I was wanting to move to a farm, and it seems that the farm has come to me! (We also have a chicken next door, whose purpose is termite removal.) More details on goat sightings as they become available.
April 15, 2009
…but here they are. You might wonder what I’ve been doing with myself lately, since I clearly have not been posting here. (Besides telling my Latin students that the preceding sentence is an example of an indirect question, and would require and accusative-infinitive construction in Latin. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, don’t worry, it doesn’t mean anything to my students either.) Here are a few pictures to help you imagine what we have all been up to. I’m a little embarrassed by the blurriness, but I’m still figuring out these digital thingys. Read more...
April 14, 2009
Maybe I should retitle this blog something about poo. It seems to be a theme lately. Until I get a chance to start writing some of what’s dancing around in my head (and digital camera!), this is worth reading. (How’s that for a teaser?)
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00e54ee22f1c883401157
