12.26.2009
12.21.2009
New Year, New Decade
Because I have been finishing up all my little tasks for the year (submitting grades, finishing grant applications, dotting Ts and crossing Is), I feel like the year is already over. And it is. And when I look at my calendar for next year, it seems as if 2010 is already over too. Ugh.
But like last year, I like to do a few roundups of things I accomplished this year and things I hope to accomplish next year. Like in 2008 I read 88 books. In 2009, after realizing that I forgot almost everything about almost every book, I vowed to read less. I succeeded! I read 57 books. Congratulations me.
More importantly are the life skills: In 2009 I vowed to bake all my own bread. Yes, done! In 2010, I will refuse to buy canned beans or yogurt. I'll make my yogurt from my own cultures and make dried beans. What a little homemaker.
And finally, travel. In 2009 I went to two new states: Wyoming and Minnesota (hi minneapolis readers!). In 2010, I hope to round out the rest, because I said I'd do it by 2010, we'll just present I said 48 contiguous by the end of 2010. So that leaves me with Montana, Idaho (how great, since I just learned that Idaho doesn't exist), Kansas, North and South Dakota, and Washington and Oregon. I can do that, maaaaybe.
What about you?
But like last year, I like to do a few roundups of things I accomplished this year and things I hope to accomplish next year. Like in 2008 I read 88 books. In 2009, after realizing that I forgot almost everything about almost every book, I vowed to read less. I succeeded! I read 57 books. Congratulations me.
More importantly are the life skills: In 2009 I vowed to bake all my own bread. Yes, done! In 2010, I will refuse to buy canned beans or yogurt. I'll make my yogurt from my own cultures and make dried beans. What a little homemaker.
And finally, travel. In 2009 I went to two new states: Wyoming and Minnesota (hi minneapolis readers!). In 2010, I hope to round out the rest, because I said I'd do it by 2010, we'll just present I said 48 contiguous by the end of 2010. So that leaves me with Montana, Idaho (how great, since I just learned that Idaho doesn't exist), Kansas, North and South Dakota, and Washington and Oregon. I can do that, maaaaybe.
What about you?
12.14.2009
Love and Death of Joaquin Murieta
If you have some time to spare, this three part radio play is worth it... even if it is in real player. ugh.
It is about the legendary California bandit Joaquin Murieta. Murieta may be the precursor to Zorro...the original novel off of which this is based was written in 1854 by John Rolin Ridge AKA Yellow Bird, a Cherokee author whose own life is a bit Zorro-like.
More on all of this soon.
It is about the legendary California bandit Joaquin Murieta. Murieta may be the precursor to Zorro...the original novel off of which this is based was written in 1854 by John Rolin Ridge AKA Yellow Bird, a Cherokee author whose own life is a bit Zorro-like.
More on all of this soon.
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