http://almostkindasorta.com Almost Kinda Sorta An Adult Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:39:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, the time has come to part ways with my hosting company.  Because they suck and wont respond to any emails.  In fact, now, the emails come back saying no such email exists--yet I can find no other way to contact this company and can no longer log in to ... http://almostkindasorta.com/?p=308 Everyone is writing what they are thankful for and it's a pretty standard and boring, I know.  But, it's a useful process.  A process that, no matter how mundane, reminds us how lucky we are. I could myself truly blessed knowing that I have a wonderful family, that both my husband ... http://almostkindasorta.com/?p=307 I put up my Christmas tree today.  Tomorrow is supposed to hit the 50s and I'll be putting up my lights outside.  The first in my neighborhood--though not the first I've seen.  I know it's early, but I need it man... I need Christmas break to be here ASAP and ... http://almostkindasorta.com/?p=306 Remember that talk about NaNoWriMo?  Yeah, forget that.  Haven't written another NaNo word since then. We had an early release today, somewhat unplanned.  I went out to lunch with a group of other new teachers. I went to Target to buy my husband some new video game.  I saw some of ... http://almostkindasorta.com/?p=305 http://almostkindasorta.com/?p=304 So, if you haven't already guessed, no NaBloPoMo for me this year.  I had a great time doing it last year, but the job and life I have this year is too demanding to try for a repeat.  I'm hoping to come back next year. On the other hand, I haven't ... http://almostkindasorta.com/?p=303 Let me preface this by saying: I still have nothing to say. I am stuck in survival mode.  It's not that anything particularly stressful is happening, it's just this job is sucking the life out of me.  In fact, if I didn't have a stack of papers knee-high staring at me, ... http://almostkindasorta.com/?p=302 I don't give a fuck about Joe the Plumber. Just because I am not pro-life, does not mean I am pro-abortion, asshole. Charter schools do not encourage competition. Teach for America, in essence, is throwing money at the problem, and the worst schools in America (East St. Louis, for example) are WOEFULLY underfunded.  ... http://almostkindasorta.com/?p=301 I was just on the phone with my mother, in which she and my father were discussing the location of his frozen bag of peas that he puts on his hernia.  My father claims its on his groin.  My mother says, on the other hand, if it's on your groin ... http://almostkindasorta.com/?p=300 R. and N. are apple picking, a family in a van drives up and piles out of their van. They are loud, but excited. Each child has an apple picker as pictured below. R. and N. try to move to a quieter place, but their noise is a ... http://almostkindasorta.com/?p=299