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Posted July 16, 2006 @ 12:50 AM
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Stuff is happening. But at the same time, life is in a state of non-flux.

Susan got sick. Nasty bacterial sick. Came close to being hospitalized sick. But she's better. Thanks, Dr. Fleming. And her book is finished, finally. Her agent is shopping it to the publishing houses. Hopefully, they'll bite soon.

Annabel is starting to talk more. She really hasn't started on verbs, though. She can string multiple words together to create phrases and has a vocabulary of 100-150 words. But verbs... she still doesn't quite get what those are for. And the terrible twos are in full force. She has three different tantrum settings -- peeved, angry, and superangry. Lately, it's been superangry about once a day.

Work is still stuck. But now I have to write a proposal to get it unstuck -- I need to outline a five year plan for dragging the school into the 21st century (kicking and screaming). But where do you start? I'm looking at how we can leverage social networking in education, especially with the distance learning we are going to be forced to do in the future. Of course, the people I'm writing this for have no idea what social networking is. Or instant messaging, blogs, Section 508, or reporting services. It's so hard when you can see what the future is supposed to look like and how you can get there before anyone else, only your superiors don't understand the present at all. I feel like a teenager again, only with more adult-like gawkiness.

Movable Type 3.3 just came out. I'm debating whether to upgrade or dump MT for Wordpress. It may have to wait until I decide on whether I'm going to seek out a different hosting service.

"Fortress Around Your Heart" came up on iTunes (among my 13,500 items in the library). Blue Turtles came out 21 years ago this month. For some reason, this song reminds me of the late fall of 1985, going to see a movie with the fam (and someone else?), and seeing all the Blue Turtles posters up in a record store. A record store that no longer exists next to a movie theater that no longer in a shopping mall that... well, apparently, it does exist. I'm not ranting about how old I feel, but man, 21 years old now.

And oh, I wish I could turn phrases like Samantha, who is a decade younger than me.

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  1. Flatterer. Thank you, though. I wish I could turn phrases as well as people seem to think I can.

    Posted by: samantha | July 16, 2006 03:23 PM

  2. Just wanted to say:
    1. great to hear your wife is feeling better
    2. congrats on the book (this is probably a much bigger deal, as long as (1) was not particularly life-threatening
    3. thank you for pointing me at Samantha's site, which does indeed contain some absolutely delicious prose

    Posted by: Dave | July 16, 2006 04:26 PM

  3. Samantha dear, you can turn phrases like Ozzie Smith could turn double plays. Stop rejecting the flattery.

    Posted by: dw [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 16, 2006 11:36 PM

  4. OH Samantha rocks! How's that for a turn of a phrase? I too wish I could be so poetic.

    Posted by: ellie | July 17, 2006 10:30 AM

  5. I would suggest that you read Michael Stephens' blog. I wish we could do half of what he suggests, but what with my college's network websensing IMs and MySpace, that's a no-go.

    Posted by: James | July 18, 2006 07:29 PM