So I’ve been a bit MIA the past couple days due to it being the end of the trimester and all. (Seriously, I was at my school until almost 10 o’clock on Thursday night finishing up all my grading. It was awful.) But I couldn’t resist posting about the books I’ve been reading because they …
50 Weeks to Organized: Week Nine
Okay, I’ll confess: I’m a bit embarrassed to let you see the before shots on what was in my purse. I knew it had gotten bad (really bad), but I guess I was still in a slight state of denial because I had somehow let it get to this: And, if you really want to …
Tuesday Tell-All
*Well, friends–it has happened: I have finally ended my dry spell. And by dry spell, I mean that I pretty much haven’t exercised (and by exercise, I mean real, cardio, aerobic, heart-pumping kind of exercise) for months. And yesterday, on the busiest of days, I somehow managed to fit it in between grading book projects …
Arroz Con Leche (Rice With Milk)
Ever since getting back from my mission to El Salvador two and a half years ago, I have a harder time being alone than I ever used to. It takes me several hours to finally embrace the loneliness, and wth Matt being gone for most of this weekend, I had plenty of time to myself. Maybe it …
Two-Sided
I’m bummed that Matt will be gone on a campout for most of this weekend.I’m happy that I’ll get some extra reading time in (although not with my cute niece, who’s reading with me in the above picture). I’m frustrated that several of my students still haven’t finished their research papers, even though they’ve had …
Are You Too Attached to Your Virtual Reality?
While grading through some packets my students did while reading A Christmas Carol, I have been especially interested to read their responses to this question: “In Stave 2, Scrooge is given the opportunity to see all the events from his past that have affected his current feelings about the future. In thinking over your own …
50 Weeks to Organized: Week 8
I was just remarking to Matt that I don’t seem to realize how much I need organization in my life until I see the Before/After pictures side by side. Take this last challenge, for example–in my head, I was thinking that our kitchen drawers really weren’t too bad. (Well, I knew our main utensil drawer …
Tuesday Tell-All
*Thanks to my mother-in-law, we have found our latest meatless obsession: two corn tortillas (doubled up) smothered in cheddar cheese, avocados, and hot sauce. As she said, “When you have food like this, who needs meat?” *So last night, I did something quite un-Torrie-like: I randomly decided to take off 3 days during Matt’s spring …