(Almost) Me, PhD tagged me in the Seven Random Things About You meme…

1. I used to hate tomatoes until I was 19 or 20. Now I love them.
2. I’m afraid of living in CA as evidenced by living there and leaving within six months at age 5 and age 23.
3. I have only ironed one piece of clothing when I was 23 right before I was going to speak at a conference at Smith College. And my mom helped me. Yes, I’m lame.
4. I’ve been to three elementary schools (CA, DC and MI) and the same middle school/high school (private nyc school) thus evening out the number of schools I have went to.  I liked living in NYC but DC gives me my fondest childhood memories.
5. I don’t mind staying up all night to do work ahead of time but I mind staying up until the last minute to do work.
6. Surprising things I miss about NYC: the balmier weather, subway reading time.
7. Likes reading my academic friends papers for fun. I learn a lot from them! And I like to give advice.

If anyone else is interested in playing, here are the rules:

If you want to join in months after this circulated like me, here are the rules:

1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog - some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blog.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Um I don’t know seven people so I’ll just tage Hanvnah and Phroofie and I’ll email them…hahaha

My work is turned in.  I still have some grading to do. Or a lot of grading.  I need to coherently bring my thoughts on this semester together and write about it.  However, knowing me and my attention span that won’t happen for awhile.

I have some thoughts on teaching too that I feel isn’t appropriate to share in such a public place. However, I will say this: it many ways it was a real joy toward the end to be teaching something I knew so well.  Whether or not my students felt the same way is a different case altogether.

I also am hesitant to write about my overall experience in great detail as well.  I will wrote more effectively about it soon enough.  But I do know this I was challenged in brand news ways and that was great.  I’m very excited to be pursuing this line of work

I’d love to sleep for more than five hours though sometimes this week!

I love facebook. A bit too much. I have been hiatus for about a week now. I do miss seeing what my friends are up to it via facebook.  Pictures they have downloaded, incessant status updates, seeing who is interacting with whom.  But I still can use g-chat to talk to friends, email and flickr to see pictures (of those who update of course).

Walking away from facebook for a few days and weeks is refreshing.  It makes it easier for me to focus. However, there is one problem: people who soley rely upon facebook to contact you, invite you to events, and on.  To me, email is the BEST form of internet communication. Sure, there are several ways that emails can be read the wrong way. Certain interpretations can be taken that aren’t necessarily there.  I am a HUGE fan of g-chat (only a select few people on there that I like to talk to plus it doesn’t take up the WHOLE screen) BUT c’mon its IM. People sign off, get signed off etc. It is NOT a dependable form of communicating important details. Its awesome for me to bitch at  my friends about the amount of work I have and vice verse.

Facebook: A few of my friends will invite me to events via their event planner and then get upset when I don’t attend or respond. I get upset when I miss an event that I could have, otherwise, attendend if I had known. Email is awesome for that. There is also a group of people who only depend on facebook to get info about their gigs out there.

I know you can turn on your preferences to have certain notifications sent to you. But I have them turned off because I don’t want facebook clogging up my inbox.

OK, this post may seem whiny but it is how I feel.

Next a tirade on cell phones?

He kept the larger deer and told a friend he’d give him the other one. Okumus said he wrapped the doe in plastic, took it to the pizza shop and left it in the back area of the kitchen, hoping the friend would pick it up on his way home from his job in Allentown.

Okumus, who had the day off yesterday, said he went home and was called back by employees who said the health department was there, and not for the pizza.

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As Argentine factories go bankrupt and shut their doors, workers are breaking in, starting the machines up again, electing their own leaders, and running the businesses themselves, putting up fierce resistance when the police try to evict them.

I always thought at a transnational look at Argentina and the USA would be fascinating, so reading this is certainly interesting compared to the article from yesterday. Also, it makes me rethink all about for the different histories of the forms of resistance I have been reading this semester. Thanks Hanvnah for the link

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About 200 employees of Republic Windows and Doors began their sit-in Friday, the last scheduled day of the plant’s operation.

Leah Fried, an organizer with the United Electrical Workers, said the Chicago-based vinyl window manufacturer failed to give 60 days’ notice required by law before shutting down.

Workers also were angered when company officials didn’t show up for a meeting Friday that had been arranged by U.S. Rep Luis Gutierrez, a Chicago Democrat, she said.

During the peaceful takeover, workers have been shoveling snow and cleaning the building, Fried said.

“We’re doing something we haven’t since the 1930s, so we’re trying to make it work,” Fried said.

We’ll see…

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On Nov. 18, Bernstein was discussing the conditions under which African captives were taken to America in slave ships. She bound the two students’ hands and feet with tape and had them crawl under a desk to simulate the experience, Monahan and Shand said. Monahan said the girls were not the only blacks in the class.

Gabrielle Shand burst into tears at home, her mother said.

“There are other ways to demonstrate slavery,” Christine Shand said Friday. “It doesn’t matter the color of the kids, it’s just not right to tie them up. My daughter is still upset, still embarrassed. She didn’t go to school today.”

Wow. I can understand why these children’s parents would be upset!  There is nothing wrong with the usual just lecturing about slavery…clearly.