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1. Are you going to school this year?
yes - from both sides of the plate: teacher and student

2. If yes, where are you going (high school, college, etc.)? If no, when did you graduate?
teaching at a community college
student in grad school - masters of educational technology

3. What are/were your favorite school subjects?
past: math, science, computers (go figure!)
now: education. yes, finally, school is fun!

4. What are/were your least favorite school subjects?
english - mostly, i think, because in high school i had 2 sub par english teachers
phys ed - foir the reason you might expect

5. Have you ever had a favorite teacher? Why was he/she a favorite?
yes - a bunch...what they had in common. knowledge and love of their subject, a genuine dedication to teaching and a teaching style that was personal

i was in world market looking for some tasty treats for tomorrow's party, when i saw a couple of buddhist sculptures from thailand which i thought might be great for my office - decoratvve and assisting my mental outlook and focus - one of just his hand in the vitarka mudra (hand position)

and the other of the buddha in meditation. well, when i looked at the vitarka mudra, i saw ith was the mudra of teaching, so i thought that was a sign, so i picked it up! it looks great and will remind me of what my job is...

next office decoration might be this poster...

i should make it my wallpaper

from kelly: bloginterview

1. What (non-blog) website(s) do you visit daily? Would you be embarrassed to show anyone all of your bookmarked sites?
google:to search
yahoo: for email
bbc6: to listen (not literally daily, but when i'm at school)
i would only be slightly embarassed to show anyone my bookmarks, not for the reason you might think, but because they include, gasp, a couple of pro wrestling web sites

2. When is the last time you cried, and why?
my mom died in january - sometime since then

3. Where do you see yourself in five years?
i will have tenure at my college. i would have completed my masters and have been out of school long enough to consider a phd - perhaps in education
i will be in the same house, with the same wife, but will perhaps be greyer and drinking more as i'll have one teen and one near teen in the house
i will be playing ssx 5 on the xbox 2

4. What's sexier - a woman in jeans and a t-shirt, or lacy underthings?
jeans and t-shirt

5. If you could change the outcome of one event in your life, what would it be?
hmmm - i would have completed grad school when i was younger. not really an "outcome of an event" per se - but that is one thing i really wish i'd have done differently

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although my birthday has passed this year, if anyone who didn't send me a gift wants to make it up to me, this would do...

p.s. don't spend the extra for the leather...that's made from dead animals, you know...

i am facing a 4 1/2 day weekend and a saturday evening party. i am giddy.

you know how they say "it's one of those days"?
well, it's one of those days.

while nothing tragic happened today - a million little things have gone wrong leaving me in dire need of cheering up - so take your best shot!

good thing the war was over so quickly, eh

oh yeah, where's the wmd?

mike's manly adventures, part III

well, i stuck my head in a celing fan. it was running. on high. no, i am not auditioning for jackass. yes, it hurt. holy crap, it hurt. i was trying to paint a section of the ceiling and wasn't paying attention. i now have a much deeper understanding of the sports phrase "getting your bell rung". i was like wile e. coyote, walking around vibrating like a tuning fork for several minutes. i still have a headache today.

the good news is, i see the light in the tunnel. i hope that, unlike wile e. coyote, it isn't a train...