Keds, Vans, DCs, etc.

Keds Zipped Up Skimmer

Keds Classic Canvas Champion Seasonal Colors

Vans Authentic

Vans Prison Issue

Puma Lo Rainbow

Adidas Honey Hi

DC Venice
I have this first pair and I love it!

Stephen shares his dream home

My friend Stephen sent me a link to his dream home. Clearly, it's not my idea of a dream home.

What's your style?

My nose is leaking...

I'm still sick and now my nose is leaking. :/

This morning, I was on a panel for Road2Teach. The students asked us some questions and they were generally nice and smart. It surprised me how amazing the students are now in comparison to when I was in high school. One girl thought we were crazy for wanting to teach high school. I said, "I didn't like high school much either, but it's a different story when you're teaching." I suppose I want to make it better seeing that so many of us disliked high school.

I took a long nap after I got home and am going to watch some "Dexter" as I write a draft of my paper. I wrote an outline earlier. Random 1 and 2 hour empty blocks of time leave me little else to do.

Despite being sick, I'm still eating quite a bit. I made some noodles with tuna and alfredo mushroom sauce. :) I also bought a container of Greek yogurt with honey.

Oh yeah, I watched "From G's to Gents" and rearranged my list of favorites.

Lank, Teddy, Mito

Blue, Baron, All-In

I can't believe I took such a long nap cause I'm waking up at 9am to go to my observation school and then at 2pm, I have a meeting. Maybe after my first meeting I can go to bed or get some work done. I always get more work done in the morning but my mornings are always so full!

Celebrities as American icons

I got the 70th anniversary issue of Glamour magazine. I really enjoyed the celebrities into icons piece.

Alexis Bledel as Rosie the Riveter is my favorite.

Celeb homes & Swedish apts

Her room's fun except for those circular dots on the wall - keep it plain. (via InStyle: Stars at Home)

I clipped this image out of InStyle - Lisa Edelstein's bedroom (I have no idea who she is).


Lastly, somewhere down deep I want a place like this - with the old heaters and high ceilings. (via AT)

I'd rather be making a rain barrel.

I judged 8-9 hours worth of senior projects. Though I didn't completely understand some of them, I at least saw the projects. One girl hoping to attend NC State constructed a rain barrel that wasn't hideous. She used a fire extinguisher because there was already a spout. Upturned, she placed three steel legs on it. Not only was it cute but it was a good use of a recycled material to well... recycle water.

I thought I'd talked about this because I saw the rain barrel making of This Young House. Good idea right?

Since I can't fit it anywhere, I'm writing it here: I'm teaching 3-1/2 days next week, microteaching, writing a paper, and finally, presenting my thesis research.

Outline of my next 2-weeks:

• Today - paper outline, review Eddie's lit review/biblio, read CC. ch 3-6
• Thursday - panel from 9:20-10am, English paper
• Friday - lit review, annotated biblio
• Saturday - paper, prep for spring symposium
• Sunday - prep for teaching
• Monday - prep for teaching
  
• Tuesday - teaching, microteaching
• Wednesday - teaching, sophs visit (lunch with them), paper
• Thursday - teaching, paper
• Friday - spring symposium

I need 7-8 hours of sleep tonight and every night considering I'm sick! :( So bed needs to be in... well, by 1am but I'm watching "Dexter." I think I can do with a little less sleep since it's Thursday tomorrow... and Thursdays are good.

American Idol favorites

Every morning I hear on the radio the opinions on last night's "American Idol." After my night class, I come home and usually am too tired to do anything else so I watch "American Idol."

Despite not getting really good reviews for "Man in the Mirror," I liked Kris's performance or well, the song.

Here's the audio:


My favorites in order (left to right, top to bottom):