Archive for August, 2005

Updated iTunes Top 25

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Not a lot of change, but ever since posting your iTunes top 25 became all the rage, I have been paying more attention. Important climber – Dancing DJs’ update on the Roxette classic “Fading like a Flower.” 1. Space Age Love Song – A Flock of Seagulls– Only You – Yaz (tie)3. My My My […]

Teaching: Day 1

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

You might think it difficult, but I discovered today that 6th graders (or at least one of them) have the power to come to day 1 of the introduction to journalism and relate absolutely any topic to bigfoot or “lake creatures.” I asked the kids to come up with 5 possible news story ideas for […]

You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Monday I start my new gig of teaching after-school program classes at a Lincoln middle school. Monday is a newspaper / magazine class, Tues & Thurs are Film Production, and Wed & Fri are comic book making. We’ve been training for the past two weeks, learning about how to deal with middle schoolers (I learned […]

Haven’t posted in a while…

Monday, August 8th, 2005

I just got back from a family trip to Wisconsin. I wish I would have taken more pictures, but I didn’t, so I’ll keep the mainly-text recap brief. It was nice to go on a full-family vacation; we haven’t taken one with the complete family in many years. In addition to the core five members, […]