One of my first grade students was in her science class.  She was supposed to be drawing pictures of living things in one column and non-living things in another column.   I happened to walk by the class and she drew this picture of me in the living column.

What the World Needs Now Is Love - Burt Bacharach
We Didn’t Start the Fire - Billy Joel
We Are Family - Sister Sledge
This Land Is My Land - Woody Guthrie
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Sknyrd
Strong Enough - Cher
Solidarity Forever - Utah Phillips
rockin’ the suburbs - Ben Folds
Rocked By Rape - The Evolution Control Committe
Relax [Take It Easy] - Mika
Radio America - The Libertines
Presidents’ Day - Loudon Wainwright III
Piano Man - Billy Joel
None of Us Are Free - Solomon Burke
New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
Mrs. Robinson - Guster
Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
Living On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
Let’s Get It Started - Black Eyed Peas
Jump On It - Sir Mix-A-Lot
Independence day - Melanie C
I Love You Baby - Frankie Valli
How sweet it is - James Taylor
Holla Back Girl - Gwen Stefani
Have You Forgotten (Opry) - Darryl Worley
Harrisburg - Josh Ritter
A Fine Romance - Ella Fitzgerald
Everything Will Be Alright - The Killers
Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow - Fleetwood Mac
Don’t Give Up The Fight - The Magic Numbers
Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
California - Rufus Wainwright
Build Me Up Buttercup - Foundations
Because We Can - Fatboy Slim
American Woman - The Guess Who
American Idiot - Green Day

I started this blog after our defeat in 2004. It was a breathtaking defeat and one of those moments that will stick with me forever. I underestimated the power of the right and stood shocked when they swept though to victory four years ago.

Though the left has yet to sweep into victory, we should all be proud of the great achievement we made this week. We all voted down here and Ecuador, and if you are on facebook, you can check out our Obama victory party.

I got my second absentee ballot from the county of Philadelphia today.  I will do the right thing and not send it in, but can you believe I got two!?!?!

Today a kid peed his pants in my class.  He is a kindergartner, but come on!  I cannot take much more of this stuff.  A few weeks ago I learned the word panzita which is a local word they use for belly.  The kid told me his belly hurt and then puked.

PUKED

I had one pisser last year, and now I am on my second.  Oh and I was stressed out today, because a mother sent a note saying one of the kids had extreme diarrhea and if he started to wiggle around to send him to the bathroom.

Luckily he didn’t shit himself on my watch.

Yesterday I took the GRE for the last time in my life. Never again will I take that putrid test. I got to the Fulbright Center at 8:15 am and didn’t leave until after 12:30 pm. It made for a very long morning.

How did I do? I have no idea, but I do not feel good about it. I ran across 2 major issues on the math that I had not reviewed: standard deviation and graphing the equation of a line. Neither of those two things were in the my practice tests and or review information. It was a little stressful.

Verbal I felt ok with, not great, but ok, which is better than nothing I guess.

Writing I believe I did fine, but I should not get my hopes up. I’ll report my scores in six weeks. Thanks for all of the encouraging words and thoughts leading up to this atrocity.

Today I took my last GRE practice test.

I scored a 540 on verbal (71%) and a 620 on Math (53%). I am happy with the math, but I would like the verbal to go up 50 more points before Saturday.

I just finished my absentee ballot and Barack Obama just got one more vote for President of the United States. Now to get it back to Philly.

My macbook constantly ejects cds and dvds. Whether they are brand new or really old. I know it is not the disks because I can use them in Michele’s macbook without a problem.

I bought a music cd and it will not play. I put a blank CD to burn some music and it is instantly ejected.

Does anyone have any thoughts on why this may be?