I was profiled in an article in my hometown newspaper this past weekend, which was written by my dear friend Vicki!
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Poking my head out for a moment
1. School is going well. Busy, of course…but not in a bad way. I have taken on some new responsibilities this year that eat up a little more of my time (junior class moderator, trying to get a creative writing club off the ground), but am generally enjoying it all.
2. I am already hopelessly behind on grading. I think I just have to accept the fact that I will never be at zero.
3. Schedule makes it hard to find social time, me time, even internet time beyond scanning mail/twitter/facebook updates. Brain gets swiss-cheesy at times, so I apologize if I’ve neglected to answer a message!
4. Yet somehow managing to play Words with Friends on my new iPod. (join me! I’m eringoblog)
5. Have assigned my AP Lit classes an outside reading project. They have to read at least one AP-worthy book per quarter and complete a project. I am pledging to knock some books off of my to-read list by making time to read at least one of the listed books per quarter as well. The Namesake is first on my list.
6. Saw this excellent post on LJ which is what prompted me to log in and actually post. I’m going to do a linky, ala Kelly:
7. I STILL haven’t gotten around to writing proper reviews, but I’ve read two amazing books by my dear, dear friend (and Campbell Award Winner!) Seanan McGuire:
FEED (as Mira Grant), and An Artificial Night. Both were amazing, and I can’t recommend them highly enough. 🙂
8. I don’t remember what number 8 was. Maybe another time.
Looking for your face
I know I have blogged about this poem before, but it seemed like a good time to post it again. It’s one of my favorites, and it was read at my wedding.
Looking for Your Face
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it.Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty, the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking forToday I have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I didI am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you
with a hundred eyesMy heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now beholdI am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of G-d
to call it divineYour fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadowMy soul is screaming in ecstacy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with youYour effulgence
has lit a fire in my heart
and you have made radiant for me
the earth and skyMy arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayerby Rumi
Rumi was a Sufi poet who lived from 1207-1273. His “love” poems are really about God, but I see them as celebrating human love as an expression of the divine.
Randomments
Every once in a while, I realize it’s been like two weeks since I posted anything, and decide to info-dump a bunch of random stuff. This is one of those times.
Stuff about Books:
I’ve actually gotten a lot of fluffy, just because I want to, reading done in the past couple of weeks, and it’s been very enjoyable. You can find me on Goodreads (feel free to friend me, but if I’m unlikely to recognize your name, just drop me a line or two telling me who you are!)
If you’re my facebook friend (and if you aren’t, why not?), you’ve already seen my plug for PaperBack Swap…but for those of you who haven’t, here’s where you can find me. I’ve found PaperBack Swap an incredibly useful source for trading used books. I have a bunch of books posted right now, and I’d love to find them homes!
Stuff about TV
Rand and I just finished watching the entire run of Sports Night on dvd (again), and I’m reminded of how ridiculous it was that it got canceled after two seasons. Sigh.
I’m trying desperately to catch up on episodes of So You Think You Can Dance, which I got behind on when we went on vacation. Since writing that sentence, I am caught up UP TO this week, which means I have not watched the performance or results shows that aired this week.
We just got the first disc of Castle in the mail from Netflix, so that’s on our to-watch list. Finally. 😉
I swear that when I started this post, I had more than two categories of things to write about…but *whoosh* whatever it was is gone now. I guess I’ll post again later if I remember!
“The Wet”
Anyone who has known me for any length of time has probably at one time or another heard me talk about my fear of The Wet. I understand that just exactly what constitutes The Wet can be confusing, so I decided to put together this handy guide.
First, things that are wet, but not The Wet:
- Shower/bath
- Hand washing
- Dish washing
- Swimming pools
- Hot tubs
- Waterslides
Things that are The Wet:
- Water from the sink/bath/shower/pool spraying or splashing you while fully clothed
- Stepping in a puddle of water (especially with socks on)
- Snow or slush that creeps into your socks
- Getting caught in the rain without an umbrella
- Being tossed or pushed into any body of water with clothes on
- The dish towel hanging on the edge of the sink that accidentally gets soaked
- Any water trapped in an item that comes out of the dishwasher that unexpectedly comes out, soaking me or dripping all over the floor
- DISHES PUT AWAY WET. ACK.
- The bottoms of pants getting soaked with rain/snow
- Dishes at the salad bar that just came out of the dishwasher-WET. (dude, I’m not putting my bread on a wet plate.)
- Overhanging eaves/ledges that drip water on you (especially on your head)
- Amusement park log rides
Disclaimers/exceptions
On hand washing…I can’t stand to wash my hands with my rings on. I must set them down or put them in my pocket, and put them back on only after my hands are totally dry, otherwise, water gets trapped underneath them. OMG, the WET. Also, I hate those stupid blowy air dryer things. I keep hand sanitizer in my purse for such occasions.
I am nearly certain I’m forgetting something, so I will add on if anything else comes to mind…
I write like…
I tried multiple posts of varying lengths, and I got the same result every time. 😀
Books read in 2010
It’s been a while since I posted a book update. I’ve been pretty good about keeping up on Goodreads, but not so much with the post. I’m too lazy to go into detail right now, so if you have any specific questions, please ask!
1. The Enchantment Emporium–Tanya Huff
2. Stitches–David Small
3. When You Reach Me–Rebecca Stead
4. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians book 1)–Rick Riordan
5. To Kill a Mockingbird–Harper Lee**
6. Macbeth–William Shakespeare**
7. Memoir of an Occasional Superheroine–Valerie D’Orazio
8. A Local Habitation–Seanan McGuire
9. A Few Good Men–Aaron Sorkin
10. Planetary–Warren Ellis (vol. 1-3)
11. Romeo & Juliet–William Shakespeare
12. Pygmalion–George Bernard Shaw
13. Rats Saw God–Rob Thomas
14. The Losers–Andy Diggle
15. I Read It, But I Dont’ Get It–Cris Tovani
16. Understanding and Engaging Adolescents–Jeffrey A. Miller
17. Feed–Mira Grant
18. Airhead–Meg Cabot
19. Being Nikki–Meg Cabot
20. Odd Thomas–Dean Koontz
21. The Walking Dead
22. Ex Machina (v. 9)–Brian K. Vaughan
23. The Hunger Games–Suzanne Collins
24. Club Dead–Charlaine Harris
25. Scott Pilgrim (1)
26. Scott Pilgrm (2)
27. Scott Pilgrim (3)–Bryan Lee O’Malley
28. Juliet, Naked–Nick Hornby
29. Only the Good Spy Young–Ally Carter
30. Thirteen Reasons Why–Jay Asher
30 Day Challenge – Day 28
A Drawing
My Julius Caesar stick people theater, drawn on the board in my classroom last year. Mostly by me, with some embellishments from students here and there…
30 Day Challenge – Days 19 and 20
Something that made you smile today
- Some of my favorite students winning awards at our underclassmen awards ceremony this morning.
- A colleague telling me how happy she is that I was hired.
- My wonderful, sweet, amazing husband telling me how happy he is to be with me. 🙂
A 10+ year old picture
Me and Jen with country singer Collin Raye at a concert in Myrtle Beach. I’m having trouble remembering what year this was, but the last time we went to Myrtle Beach was 2000, and I don’t think this was that year.
But here’s another one for good measure:
Me and Lisa, Alpha Delta Pi Spring Party, 1994 (I think).
What’s that? You want to see a pic of me in high school?
That’s me going to the prom in 1990. (Yes, I cropped ex bf out of the photo…)
30 Day Challenge – Day 18
Favorite Board Game
My favorite “classic” board game is Scrabble.
I’m also a big fan of Scattergories and Cranium.
I recently played Apple to Apples for the first time, and that’s now on my list of things I need!