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{ Monthly Archives } July 2007

This teacher should be fired…

…because activism, citizenship and democracy ARE NOT ON THE TEST.

2007 07 31 General Comments (1)

Back in Missoula

A. called me last night to let me know that she has reached Missoula and taken possession of our new residence.

2007 07 28 General Comments Off

Bird Camp Update: Next Stop, Missoula

Bird Camp is over. Everything is packed up and stowed, some of it in the new shed that A. built. Everyone is gone. The tents are down. Nothing left but trees and wind. And birds. A. didn’t get away until late Wednesday, and then only to Flagstaff. On Thursday, she and one coworker who is [...]

2007 07 27 Bird Camp Comments Off

Family First

Sal mops the floors where I work.
He vacuums the carpets and wipes the baseboards down. He empties the trash.
He cleaned up all the blood next door, in the hallway of the apartment building my boss owns. No one knows how it got there one night, three months ago, although this neighborhood becomes pretty [...]

2007 07 26 Essays Comments Off

Noted with interest

Some advice a lot of us would do well to remember.
Peter Post, great-grandson of Emily and author of several etiquette books, argued that laptops should be banned from the main meal, but are fine during coffee hour, when guests linger at the table conversing. “If you’re using the laptop to look something up in the [...]

2007 07 26 General Comments Off

Bird Camp Update

Sorry my bird-camp posts grew so sparse. I’ll do better next year, when I’m not preparing a rental property/to move.
But just a brief update, for those of who you interest yourselves in A.’s whereabouts. The season has finished out satisfactorily — “not perfect, but okay,” she says, which probably means that any normal human being [...]

2007 07 24 Bird Camp Comments Off

Remember…

…when the Republicans wanted to use the “nuclear option” of ending the practice of filibustering in Congress? Now they’re on track to become the world-record holding, all-time champions of the filibuster.
“Nearly 1 in 6 roll-call votes in the Senate this year have been cloture votes. If this pace of blocking legislation continues, this 110th [...]

2007 07 24 General Comments Off

Proud…

…to be an American, after reading this quote from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowlands on her treatment at the hands of this country’s Christianist extremists.
“I had one letter from a vicar in England — this is the difference — saying would I please not put Christmas trees at Hogwarts as it was clearly a pagan [...]

2007 07 24 General Comments Off

The Missoula Residence


2007 07 24 General Comments Off

Report on the last week or so

The various routines I used to document here are in smoking ruins, but at least the house looks great. To reorient you, there were essentially two classes of things I needed to do/have done to the house before the move. One was “stuff that a full price rental needs to have taken care of” and [...]

2007 07 24 Diary Comments Off