Summer

So adventures of summer? Ack - too much to do and not enough motivation. Um, I taught - it was fun. Went to St. Louis, played in the city museum and ate yummy indian food with Tim and Jenny and went to a mexican/jewish wedding. The city museum is AWESOME and I really wish I lived closer to it - I would so go play there instead of not-going to the gym. We went to Rose City, Mi for the 4th and read 5 books (Harry Dresden books 2 - 4 and some fluffy paranormal's in the Marcy Thompson series) and hung out with friends. Gavin had a great time and jumped into the lake - although he was surpised and climbed back out very quickly. Now, we're back and cleaning house again. Our house has been on the market since mid-April and I'm getting tired of maintaining a spotless house. We've decided to move and want to move but can't until this place moves. sigh. I'm also trying but not well to get some writing done this summer since I apply for tenure in Fall 2010 and need more papers to my name. Any advice from my readers in getting writing done (it's editing really not much new) but I'm stuck. Oh, and I'm also writing quizzes for a publisher. But, I'm back to getting more off my to-do list and intend to post a real post soon that isn't a litany of what I'm doing.

ROFL

For amusement - check out the latest pictures on www.dooce.com.

They've made my day and made me laugh. I've spent today doing paperwork from last semester (emailing back students with questions) and setting up my gradebook for the much too bast 4.5 week summer term where I teach twice a week in 4.5 hour stretches.

There will be knitting pictures coming up soon.

Too busy

I'd like to apologize to my readers (the few of you out there) for my lack of posting. Life has been a busy mess of grading and web design work. I've been working on my faculty organization site and the ever so fun election madness, the alumni group for the camp I used to go to and work at needs a site update (more on that soon), and assisting with some tedious but necessarily store updates on zazzle (see previous post). Oh, and we've had three faculty searches going on too. Ack. But spring break starts next week and I promise to post more since I have been knitting a sweater.

more later

New Items at Cinekin

I've been working on helping to update the gallery of cinekin products. So here's a flash panel of some of the items. The rest of the site which does custom tailored movie and critic recommendations is up at www.cinekin.com.


make custom gifts at Zazzle

Free issue on Darwin!!!

http://www.springerlink.com/content/v6167602g164/?p=071f38dabe04459e8f12387817174cd3&pi=0

Evolution: Outreach and Education has a free issue on Darwin, woot!!

Muppets!!

Surprising stories behind 20 Muppet characters - CNN.com

Source: www.cnn.com

Like a lot of people, I grew up on Sesame Street and the Muppets. But did you ever stop to wonder where they came from?

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I love the Muppets and this is a fun article about where they came from. I now need to find the episodes where Beaker talks...

Giant African Snail book online

Woot.

I just found out that Albert Mead's The Giant African Snail book is now available online.

This is an excellent book about the history of Achatina fulica and its spread throughout the world. It's one of my favorite books on the subject. Yes, I'm a snail nerd.

http://www.hear.org/books/tgas1961/

Website launch

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to let everyone know that the website that my hubby's been working on for a while has launched. So please check out www.cinekin.com for your movie recommendations and critic recommendations. It's really cool and will tell you which movies in theaters that you should go see and also ones that are on dvd or unbox. Send comments too - since the site is still undergoing revisons.

And now, back to grading...

Last week of the semester

too much to do, too little time, too little motivation

sigh

I want vacation now!

Joshoween and Election Insanity

So, I've been busy with the semester but wanted to post a quick hello.

Joshoween was on Friday and it was a great sucess with lots of fun and candy. We had the annual donut eating contest, the pumpkin carving contest, and apple bobbing. Pictures will be posted soon.

As for the election insanity - my class on Tuesday night has been canceled in anticipation of the rally on Tuesday night. Woot! I guess... I'm still not sure how I'm going to deal with the lost week but I'll figure it out.

Time to finish the annual report corrections that are due tomorrow.