February 2012
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BREAKING: Virginia Personhood Bill Officially Dead →
stfuconservatives:
fuckyeahfeminists:
fuck yeah Old Dominion!
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my letter to bob mcdonnell
First—
The current bill that’s gone through both the house and senate (SB 489) to change graduation requirements is going to drastically mangle the state’s independent special education facilities. They simply do not and cannot have the resources to offer these additional required courses. Furthermore, the increased requirements as a result of the dismantling of the modified...
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erections have consequences
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New organ donor system coming in Israel; if you're... →
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The best articles evar
I was going through facebook from the last year to find my official start date at my current workplace (2/21/11) and saw a shit-ton of really interesting articles I posted in the last year. I decided to make this a running list of the absolute best goddamn articles I’ve read. Feel free to message me suggestions.
HULK WATCH EAT PRAY LOVE FOR YOU ASSHOLES
All the Single Ladies
My...
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okay
good night everyone. I need sleep to function tomorrow.
keep the conversation going for me so I have something to read in the morning?
life after graduation: Reflections on Teaching,... →
caseystudy:
onebilliontastesandtunes:
caseystudy:
You never really have to know the person for a suicide to hit home hard. This is by no means my first time as a member of the Tribe reeling at such a devastating loss to the community, but I sincerely hope that it will be the last.
Tonight I had to write some BS teacher’s…
survival is a key point. (I am proud of myself for surviving...
life after graduation: Reflections on Teaching,... →
caseystudy:
You never really have to know the person for a suicide to hit home hard. This is by no means my first time as a member of the Tribe reeling at such a devastating loss to the community, but I sincerely hope that it will be the last.
Tonight I had to write some BS teacher’s…
survival is a key point. (I am proud of myself for surviving W&M.) and I think you make a good...
Reflections on Teaching, etc.
caseystudy:
You never really have to know the person for a suicide to hit home hard. This is by no means my first time as a member of the Tribe reeling at such a devastating loss to the community, but I sincerely hope that it will be the last.
Tonight I had to write some BS teacher’s reflection for grad school, and I threw aside the suggested topic of “writing about my favorite moment as a...
life after graduation: for my tribe friends on... →
mcattt:
onebilliontastesandtunes:
mcattt:
Another suicide at W&M.
http://www.wm.edu/news/announcements/2012/notice-to-the-wm-community.php
But what bothers me about this announcement is that the only description of the student, Troy, is a list of academic achievements:
A freshman from Vinton, Virginia, Troy was a 2011 graduate…
As I noted previously, there’s a lot going on when it...
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life after graduation: for my tribe friends on... →
mcattt:
Another suicide at W&M.
http://www.wm.edu/news/announcements/2012/notice-to-the-wm-community.php
But what bothers me about this announcement is that the only description of the student, Troy, is a list of academic achievements:
A freshman from Vinton, Virginia, Troy was a 2011 graduate…
As I noted previously, there’s a lot going on when it comes to W&M...
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I'm pretty sure
I can’t be successful as both a student and a teacher at the same time. Something’s gotta give, and soon. Maybe I’ll scrap the master’s plan for a few years until my contract expires and then go for something other than education?
e.g. & miscellanae: Giving a talk to... →
noellejt:
I’m not entirely sure how it happened, but, it seems that I’m giving another somewhat-inspirational-stay-in-school-and-study-biology-IT’S-COOL type talk. This Friday. (It’s an after-school biology club, so full of the keenest and most eager students.)
Last time I just did a “What is…
CHIMPS
Hark!
fair-isle:
That moment when you have one of your followers...
ieithoedd:
You don’t even share mutual friends.
Maybe it’s just the fact that your number is in my phone and my phone is connected to my facebook and I’m assuming yours is as well, so it picks up that we have each other in our phones???
Either way—creepy.
I too am creeped out by how that widget functions. It’s been recommending for over a year now that I might now an old professor from...
January 2012
20 posts
camerasgoclick asked: I dont do well on opinion pieces. I can crank out a research paper like no other, but I can't write MY opinions and views. I hide behind vocabulary and set structures and I want to be able to write creative and opinion papers as well as research. Plus, being a journalism major is going to be very difficult if I'm shaking in my writing as a senior with four years of AP and...
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John Tyler's Grandsons Are Still Alive!
mentalflossr:
Born in 1790, John Tyler was our 10th President. He took office in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died. And he has two living grandchildren!
Not great-great-great-grandchildren. Their dad was Tyler’s son.
How is this possible? The Tyler men have a habit of having kids very late in life. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, one President Tyler’s 15 kids, was born in 1853. He fathered Lyon...
Joy is in the ears that hear: I get very angry... →
ieithoedd:
If I want a word to be a word, IT SHOULD BE A WORD!
Dictionaries are linguists’ tools—to record and share the usage of words; they are not prescriptivist tools—to impose a limited set of words to an infinite number of ideas and confine those spellings. These words should be in…
Nutted is definitely a word, as in “I nutted all over her chest last night.” …...
Problem
thepictureofsound:
I was reading up on ASL v.s. PSE and I realized….i sometimes sign PSE……
How do I know if my teachers are using PSE or ASL. I realize it is a different grammar structure, but I sometimes use it when I am not sure how to communicate my idea correctly in ASL or when I am talking with people in ASL1…..
I want to learn ASL grammar. not PSE. HELP? Any tips to make sure I am...
Rice, if you don’t finish cooking I’m just going to eat all these Hershey’s kisses instead….
THIS IS MY BAND, THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS... →
The Hub: Trigger Warning: Mutantism →
waltorr:
This is hilarious.
There’s a distinction between two categories of products imported into the U.S. “Dolls” are toys representing humans, whereas “toys” represent non-humans. While dolls are taxed at 12.8 percent, toys are taxed at just 6.8 percent. Two shrewd trade attorneys noticed the…