No one told me life would be this crazy at times. Maybe I could have predicted it based on my senior year in college (which was crazy), but life settled down after that. Until now. No one told me that I’d be asked to pack lunches, attend award ceremonies, send in fruit and 2-liter bottles…

Apparently, if a congressman undergoes an unwarranted search, congress gets its panties in a wad. If we are wire tapped, however, it’s in the name of the war on terrorism and we should just deal. Don’t get me wrong, Congress should have its panties in a wad, but it takes an attack on one of…

I’d say long day’s journey into night, but I don’t want to imply there’s alcohol involved. Today begins the summer multimedia program that I organize and lead. This week is boot camp for the students. We give them a foundation of information and then, by working on real projects, they continue learning the specifics of…

Last night, Mr. Geeky and Geeky Girl went to a movie, and Geeky Boy was spending the night at a friend’s house, leaving me with free reign over the tv. (By the way, we think our Tivo is dead; we’re all adjusting okay, thanks.) I flipped through the channels and settled on “Flip this House.”…

Well, we did it. We got new phones. It ended up being cheaper than the deals I was finding online and it’s going to be cheaper per month. We called Sprint before we left and they didn’t want to offer us anything. Sad. So we switched to Cingular and so far so good. We got…

Yesterday morning, when I went upstairs to check on the kids, I found the following note: Dear Mom and Dad, Due to extremely high weather conditions in my room, we have moved our base downstairs. Thank you. Geeky Boy and Friend I found them asleep on the couch. As we were driving around on our…

I spent the morning working on the diss, both writing and crunching some numbers. It’s not that I’m bad at math, but I’m bad at dealing with data, so Mr. Geeky has been helping with that. Everyone should have to use math in relation to something they care about. That’s what I think. After that,…

Unfortunately, I’ve continued my pattern of watching movies that piss me off. Last night I watched Wal-Mart: The high cost of Low Price. I knew a lot about the facts they presented, having lived in Wal-Mart land for 6 years, but they really put a human face on the loss of small businesses and the…

Just last week, I watched Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and it made me kind of sick. When you watch the news and you see the people in your own neighborhood driving around in Jaguars and living in mansions, you think that you’re probably being screwed in some way. But watching it in…

If you haven’t read Ira Socol’s Inside Higher Ed piece today, you should. The topic of the article itself is, of course, near and dear to my heart, being about the appropriate use of technology in education. It’s really about focusing on teaching and learning rather than being afraid of Google (or MySpace or blogs…