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• An interesting, googleicious website I found: Google Logos

Ugh praxis

I do joy enjoy taking praxis tests. Especially when I neglect to color in the bubbles for my candidate number. Ew.

I'm a terrible blogger.

I hate to say it, but I'm a pretty terrible blogger. You would think it would be pretty easy to remember that I have one of these. Oh well.

I really like paper. Every now and then I have the urge to start making my own recycled paper and notebooks. There is no time! I guess I should just keep the "recipes" needed for all of the little projects I want to do lying around so that when I do have time, I can just jump right in, instead of having to run around. I'll have to find a paper making recipe.

There are a lot of thoughts and ideas floating around in my head that only surface when they feel like it. So its rather frustrating to remember these things when I want to . Can you tell how frustrating that is?

Temple decided to pour on more work at the last minute. They're good at screwing things up over there. I am starting to get the idea that they don't like me. I think I owe them money. Maybe that's why. I should probably pay them. The problem is, I remember when I don't have money with which to pay them.

Sometimes, I diagnose myself with adult ADHD. And then I think that I'm not mature enough for that, and decide that it must be infantile ADHD. Hey, its possible.

I should make movie, and start drawing again. Those would prospectively be two different activities.

I will need to find my SD card. I have my suspicions that Todd has stolen it.

There is no more time for my ramblings.

netbooks v. regular computers

After becoming accustomed to my netbook, regular laptops, and indeed even regular computers seem excessively large...
Especially those computers at the education lab at temple, which are large by normal standards.

I have even become accustomed to the smaller keyboard, so I keep messing up using this large one, too.

Chrissy quote

Youngins who are in the youth of their prime.

ESEA

La ESEA requiere que los estudiantes que están aprendiendo inglés tomen las pruebas estandarizadas en inglés después de tres años de haber entrado al sistema de escuelas de los Estados Unidos --no es suficiente tiempo para obtener una proficiencia de inglés académico. Esta constricción de tiempo ha forzado a muchas escuelas bilingües a reestructurar sus programas y enfatizar el inglés por encima de la instrucción en el idioma nativo. Esta manera dañina en la que muchos estados han decidido implementar este régimen de evaluaciones los hace partícipes del ataque a la educación bilingüe que el gobierno federal está haciendo. (Vea más artículos de trasfondo en www.rethinkingschools.org.)

Rethinking Schools Online

Ummm. It definitely takes more than 3 years to learn a language with proficiency. K?

79?

Why is there a forecast high of 79 on the second full day of fall in the northeast? Whaaat?

Typos vs. mistakes

When you type the wrong word or mess up your grammar, this is not a "typo", as you say. This would be considered a "mistake", "error", or "boo-boo".

Also, a verb is never the same as a subject. The subject may be implied, but they are not the same.

The aesthetics of computers

I have found that I am really interested in (that is, I find great pleasure in, or not great pleasure in) the way something (text, colors) looks on screen. For example, when writing a paper, I will sometimes switch the font several times, depending on my mood.

I keep losing my train of thought these days. Too many distractions.

But the point is. I really care about how something looks. Things that I am presenting (powerpoints, handouts, discussion board posts), or just things for myself (notes from class, blog postings, et c.). Not only do I not want things to be sloppy, I want them to be aesthetically pleasing. At least to me. But, I think, I am a little more meticulous than others. Not that I am claiming some sort of superiority. I just feel that I care way to much.

So, because I care way too much, sometimes I feel that others' efforts disappoint me a little sometimes. Ah well. C'est la vie.

Nerdy thoughts...

If language is just a way to communicate then it makes sense that if you can think in one lang you can think in another. Thus literacy would transfer and all other academic skills would as well. I'll keep reading my book. As the kid from the intern meaning said "learning a foreign language makes you good at other stuff. " Really learning a language increases the ways one has to express oneself. It allows the learner also I think to have a broader sense of mind in order to think. I'll have to formulate my theory better. :)

munificent

munificent // word of the day from merriam - webster dictionary online.

now, here's the thing. munus in the plural can mean "bribes" according to whittaker's words. So, is that where municipal comes into play? because all of the politicians are bribed?

Why was the hallmark aisle swarming with people today? It was difficult to get my work done.

Ps. Why am I such a loooissssserrr?

Metaphor and language. Thought of something else in the shower, but I can't remember now.

Language is like a wonderful puzzle or code. One must decipher the code to find the way to the beauty that is meaning.

I've grown accustomed to listening to nerdy podcasts.

A fresh start... again.

I used to have a blog. Actually, I used to have several blogs. They all seem to have died over time. However, as I was driving tonight, several thoughts came to my head. I thought that I should perhaps write them down somewhere, and facebook did not seem apprpriate for the superfluous thoughts I was thinking. As I was told to make a blog for a computer class I am taking, I already had the account set up. So I decided I would make a new blog... again. So here we are.

As is normal for me, I can no longer remember all of the thoughts I had wanted to share. Let me begin my new blog with a few bullet points.

• I really do not like other drivers in Philadelphia. They are pretty much horrible. They can't park, they can't pull out, they can't drive around others. They don't recognize that when they're side of the street is blocked, it doesn't give them the right of way to come over to the other side of the street. Most of them drive recklessly, and can't really seem to stay in their own lanes. If they can stay in their own lane, they go 15 mph down a pretty main street. Why? I couldn't tell you. Once, I followed a car 20 blocks at 15 mph. He was looking for a place to park on South Street. And then, when he found a place to park, he couldn't get in, because he didn't actually know how to parallel park. Parking lot, anyone?
• I wish people would care about spelling. It isn't that hard to spell check, or proofread.
• It might be time for a new budget for Pennsylvania.
  
• I wish parents would learn their kids how not to take other kid's stuff.
  

There were other things about which I wanted to write, but I can't remember them now. I am off to do some home work now.