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1. Spending the afternoon catching up on e-mail and correspondence. I have gotten behind. One more try, by the way, e-mail me if you want a copy of my "Teaching In The SCA" lesson plan. I made French Toast this morning, cleaned a bit, then took a nap. Made Alethea a late lunch, then came into the computer room. It's 51 chilly, wet and miserable degrees here in the North Country.
2. I got to cover an Americal Hockey League game last night (one step below the NHL, like Class AAA baseball). I covered the out-of-town team, Binghamton, against the Adirondack Phantoms. Binghamton won, 5-0. I had the story done in plenty of time and sent the summary almost exactly on my deadline (maybe one minute late) even though I had to come home, because I could not get a wireless signal at the civic center.
3. After the end of the football season resulted in a couple of free weekends, I am now looking at three straight busy weeks -- the Polar Plunge next weekend, travel to New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the holidays and Alethea's company Christmas party the first weekend of December. Then I get a weekend to myself. Yay!
4. I love headlines like "Outgoing autistic student EHS homecoming king."
From the Killeen Daily Herald.
5. To me, "challenging political correctness" can simply mean "going back to profiling."
PC doesn't kill people. people with guns kill people.
Just my opinion.
6. Oh, and to rant at a random LJ poster in a teaching community, "No, finding a kid having covered his notebook in swastikas is *not* the time to take it as a "teachable moment" and explain how it was once a sacred symbol.
His response, by the way: "Perhaps. My transactional style is heavily filtered through critical pedagogy. As a result, I'm unwilling to grant such power to German Socialists. It does too much violence to others who still use the swastica with great reverence."
7. Sometimes I am in awe of clothiers in the SCA:
Note: This is King Lars and Queen Mary from Northshield at Pennsic 37.
Trivia question for everyone but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evilnicola: What Eastern award does Mary hold that few others on my friends list have?
2. I got to cover an Americal Hockey League game last night (one step below the NHL, like Class AAA baseball). I covered the out-of-town team, Binghamton, against the Adirondack Phantoms. Binghamton won, 5-0. I had the story done in plenty of time and sent the summary almost exactly on my deadline (maybe one minute late) even though I had to come home, because I could not get a wireless signal at the civic center.
3. After the end of the football season resulted in a couple of free weekends, I am now looking at three straight busy weeks -- the Polar Plunge next weekend, travel to New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the holidays and Alethea's company Christmas party the first weekend of December. Then I get a weekend to myself. Yay!
4. I love headlines like "Outgoing autistic student EHS homecoming king."
From the Killeen Daily Herald.
5. To me, "challenging political correctness" can simply mean "going back to profiling."
PC doesn't kill people. people with guns kill people.
Just my opinion.
6. Oh, and to rant at a random LJ poster in a teaching community, "No, finding a kid having covered his notebook in swastikas is *not* the time to take it as a "teachable moment" and explain how it was once a sacred symbol.
His response, by the way: "Perhaps. My transactional style is heavily filtered through critical pedagogy. As a result, I'm unwilling to grant such power to German Socialists. It does too much violence to others who still use the swastica with great reverence."
7. Sometimes I am in awe of clothiers in the SCA:
Note: This is King Lars and Queen Mary from Northshield at Pennsic 37.
Trivia question for everyone but
evilnicola: What Eastern award does Mary hold that few others on my friends list have?
