Okay I have 25 minutes until my battery goes dead. That's is sort of how I have felt all day. Dead. Dead tired. I have come down with some sort of bug. I called Terminix and they told me that they couldn't help me with that! Probably better that way anyhow. I hope the bug moves on soon so I can feel sort of normal. I know, it's not entirely possible. Karen Justl has this awesome technology blog called One Byte At A Time. It is a techie blog that I think is very addictive because she has so much for us to try out. I will be visiting there a lot. I just commented on one of her nicely written posts. Her blog is so down to earth and inviting. Check it out!
Here is the link: One Byte At A Time
If it wasn't for Karen's influence in my life, you probably wouldn't have had a chance to read this blog. It's all her stinking fault! Gotta post!
Here is the link: One Byte At A Time
If it wasn't for Karen's influence in my life, you probably wouldn't have had a chance to read this blog. It's all her stinking fault! Gotta post!
Celebrating Christmas already???
You know what really annoys me? When people put up Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving! To hang up lights and decorations around town before the turkey has been carved is ludicrous!
The other day, for example, I was driving down Shepherd and there, on the corner of Shepherd and West Gray, for all to see…Christmas decorations. Because you could never figure out the season based on the weather, I had to check the date on my phone just to ensure that an entire month hadn’t magically passed me by. Nope, still October! People are still looking for fake cobwebs to put on their houses and trying to find the ever evasive Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costume for their kid but they can barely check items off their Halloween to do list without tripping over a display of Santa and his reindeer.
Please, let’s take care of one holiday at a time! Get the kids dressed up, carve your pumpkins, hand out the candy – or eat it up yourself – enjoy October, then EMBRACE NOVEMBER! Plan your Thanksgiving – you remember Thanksgiving, right? It’s the day before you spend hours battling the general public for a discounted android tablet that will be outdated by April. Don’t be fooled by the Christmas music blaring from the radio speakers and the red Christmas cups being handed out on November first when you order your daily joe. People are still celebrating Thanksgiving although you basically have to sequester yourself in order to make it through November with thoughts of thankfulness and givingon your mind.
After Thanksgiving – GO FOR IT! Blast the Bing! Max out your credit card; attempt to make every cookie recipe on your holiday Pinterest board. Put on your ugly Christmas sweater and decorate your tree – but please, do not start this spiral until the turkey has been cleared from the table and grandpa is snoring in the recliner while the guys ware watching the football game lest we max out Christmas before December gets here and are forced to start looking ahead…to Valentine’s Day!
Thursday, October 31, 2013
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My Commentary: Being Placed on Hold
On Hold!
Hold The Phone!
Being placed on hold is tantamount to being taizzered by 5 officers of the law, at the same time. Being put on hold is very close to receiving six root canals, without any laughing gas or any numbing needles. Being placed in utility phone jail can be closely compared to receiving seven flu shots at Krogers and having blood taken by an inexperienced phlebotomist. Hey, I have extremely small veins! I hate being placed on hold! I would rather be on Fear Factor, in a pit of vipers, with hornets the size of birds, stinging the heck out me, than be placed on hold! Can't stand it, can't deal with it, just can't. Give me liberty or give me death? I wouldn't go that far but...
I abhor the sound of the digital computer voice. These ladies, who invade my hopes of speaking to a live person, sound like Siri on steroids. They are too loud! If that wasn't bad enough, they go through this litany of options, that happen to lull me into a coma. I sometimes try to press zero to take a quick a shortcut only to be brought back to Dante's Inferno! Oh the horror! Have they even considered hiring human beings? Hire real people please!
Hey, being on hold does help me use up all of my roll over minutes, as I wait on their sorry selves. I would rather roll over in my grave than wait! But you know I can't hang up because... I will have loose my precious place in line! "You estimated wait time is 30 million years!" Can you say arrested development? Sure! Not a problem. I don't have anything important to do but sit here and listen to the worst elevator music ever! Is there an 80's station I can switch to? The Carptenter's are so last century! Engleburt Humperdink is so so wrong!
Battery life? Sure the S4 is supposed to have plenty of battery. Yes, plenty of battery... if you don't have to wait endlessly, on the stinking phone. They add new meaning to the phrase, Hold the Phone cause that is what you'll be doing! Phone purgatory or is it limbo? Possibly.
I believe that we must unite against this human rights injustice. It is an egregious abuse of human dignity. I can't hang up and I can't stand it all! Calgon is on hold too, so it can't help me. We can stop the insanity for once and live without cable, phone service, electricity or even credit cards! Just sayin'. Unfortunately hold the phone abuse goes on and on without anyone willing to lift a finger. Maybe their arms are tired from holding what? The phone!
The enormous iPhone 5, S4, Note or whatever LG that you may own is weighing you down. We can't, however, live without our microcomputers right? Highly implausible. So I guess I just have to accept this cruel excuse for customer service. That old adage the customer is always right went out in the 70s along with Burger King's Have it your way! For me there is no way...no way out! Just sayin'! Hold on! I will get back with you shortly!
Legion of Boom!
I had a blast, blast, blast working with great writers today! I have had a wonderful week because of the people I work with and the bonds that form amazingly through writing. Writing is an outlet of creativity for me. It serves me in many different ways including but not limited to getting the words that roll into my brain and avenue to express them, taking something and making it into something worth sharing, figuring out things, thoughts, fears and celebrations through the conduit of writing. Writing in generative, truly generative. This way of framing my brain truly is an outlet to what's going within and without. Feel a poem coming on!
Anyhow, I wanted to get some of my writing down tonight so I might do something with it mas tarde. So I will share first my first rendition, not even close to a first draft of Tuesday's session. I had an extreme explosion of ideas and my audience of two loved it so I guess I must share it, right? Writing is nothing if not shared!
Anyhow, I wanted to get some of my writing down tonight so I might do something with it mas tarde. So I will share first my first rendition, not even close to a first draft of Tuesday's session. I had an extreme explosion of ideas and my audience of two loved it so I guess I must share it, right? Writing is nothing if not shared!
On Hold!
Being placed on hold is tantamount to being taizzered by 5 officers of the law at the same time. Being put on hold is very close to having 6 root canals without any laughing gas or any numbing needles. Being placed in utility phone jail can be closely compared to receiving 7 flu shots at Krogers and having my blood taken by an experienced flebontomist with my sorry small veins! I hate being placed on hold! I would be on Fear Factor in a pit of vipers with hornets the size of birds stinging the heck out me than be placed on hold! Can't stand it, can't deal with it, just can't. Give me liberty or give me death? I wouldn't go that far but...
I abhor the sound of a digital computer voice. These ladies, who invade my hopes of speaking to a live person, sound like Seri on steriods. They are too loud! If that wasn't bad enough, they go through this litany of options that lull me into a coma. I sometimes try to press zero to take a quick a shortcut only to be brought back to Dante's Inferno! Oh the horror! Have they even considered hiring human beings? More people, people!
Hey being on hold does help me use up all of my roll over minutes waiting on their sorry selves. I would like to roll over on the couch and turn my phone off! I can't because I will have lost my precious place in line! "You estimated wait time is 30 million minutes!" Sure! Not a problem. I don't have anything important to do but sit here and listen to the worst elevator music ever! Is there an 80's station I can switch too? The Carptenter's are so last century!
Battery life? Sure the S4 is supposed to have plenty of battery. Yes, plenty of battery if you don't have to wait endlessly on the stinking phone. They put on a new meaning to the phrase, Hold the Phone cause that is what you'll be doing! Phone purgatory or is it limbo? Possibly.
I believe that we must unite against this human rights injustice. It is an egregious abuse of human dignity. I can't hang up and I can stand it all! Calgon is on hold too so it can't help me. Stop the insanity for once and live without cable, phone service, electricity or even credit cards! Just sayin'. Unfortunately hold the phone abuse goes on and on without anyone willing to lift a finger. Maybe their arms are tired from holding what?
The enormous iPhone 5, S4, Note or whatever LG that you may own is weighing you down. We can't, however, live without our microcomputers right? Highly implausible. So I guess I just have to accept this cruel excuse for customer service. That old addage the customer is always right went out in the 70s along with Burger King'sHave it your way! For me there is no way...no way out! Just sayin'!
Having Fun with Expository Text!
Having a blast in SBISD! I really enjoyed my day working with great writers who happen to be educators too! I learn so much from everyone! Here are some photos that I snapped. It is always a great day for writing. Can I use renaming? Here and now, it is a great day for creative collaboration.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Sleepy! You Are Getting Sleepy!
Yes, that is true. I am very sleepy. I have been revamping my staff development for tomorrow. I didn't want the ideas and poetry that was dancing in my brain leave forever. So I am going to write some ideas down for now and then go for_broke___ tomorrow.
My computer semi crashed today and so I felt pretty Ucles without it. Useless is how I felt until the tech guy came in and left my new hard drived computer on my desk. I was visiting a school, so I drove back after 5 to pick it up. What a sight for sore eyes, right? That's probably why I have been using it since I got home or maybe I am just a little touched, but maybe showers remind me of Psycho too much! That's why---I always feel like...somebody's watchin' me and I have no privacy...old eighties songs popping up in my sleep hollow head.
Ideas
Why?
Why why why
Must you treat me
so bad
Pass me back
Make me oblivious
to the conversations in
your head
Why why why
must you push me aside
Make me take the last seat
Like Rosa Parks
Not ready to take defeat
Don't wanna hide
from your chides
cruel rebuffs
Isn't that enough?
I have had it
Think I lost it! Why?
TBC-To be continued
It was something of what
was going through my mind
as Jiffy Pop with light butter
popped in my old Sharp Microwave today
I'll visit tomorrow. I am just afraid I may have lost the flow and it was so good! Sleep awaits!
My computer semi crashed today and so I felt pretty Ucles without it. Useless is how I felt until the tech guy came in and left my new hard drived computer on my desk. I was visiting a school, so I drove back after 5 to pick it up. What a sight for sore eyes, right? That's probably why I have been using it since I got home or maybe I am just a little touched, but maybe showers remind me of Psycho too much! That's why---I always feel like...somebody's watchin' me and I have no privacy...old eighties songs popping up in my sleep hollow head.
Ideas
Why?
Why why why
Must you treat me
so bad
Pass me back
Make me oblivious
to the conversations in
your head
Why why why
must you push me aside
Make me take the last seat
Like Rosa Parks
Not ready to take defeat
Don't wanna hide
from your chides
cruel rebuffs
Isn't that enough?
I have had it
Think I lost it! Why?
TBC-To be continued
It was something of what
was going through my mind
as Jiffy Pop with light butter
popped in my old Sharp Microwave today
I'll visit tomorrow. I am just afraid I may have lost the flow and it was so good! Sleep awaits!
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Trying Out Text Structures-Kernel Essay
Many of the teachers studied different text structures and tried out a few. Here is a video of these great teacher writers who shared their text structures with the group. Such originality! I learned so much from each one! They are my mentors now. We have mentor text!
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