Now’s the Time to Be Alive
Loving this track today. Happy Monday! So rise, and shine Now’s the time to be alive To stay awake with me a while, and smilecontinue reading
Burning Man 2011: Oh The Places You’ll Go!
Dr. Seuss is overused, over-quoted, and underestimated at the end of the academic year. Oodles of congratulatory cards and going away presents are plastered with Seussisms, characters, and rhymes. It’s easy for me to get sick of Dr. Seuss. Perhaps a new interpretation is needed. I am in LOVE with this video – the contrasts...continue reading
Accomplishment ≠ Satisfaction
There are thirty days left until my thesis defense date. This morning, I was not sure I could make it. This evening I felt like I could take on the world. Today I learned that my satisfaction should rest in my accomplishments, not my expectations. I regard myself as queen of balance (QUEEN, I tell...continue reading
Music Monday: Regina Spektor – One More Time With Feeling
Hold on
One more time with feeling
Try it again
Breathing's just a rhythm
Say it in your mind
Until you know that the words are right
This is, why we, fightcontinue reading
Music Monday: Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
I started Music Mondays because of a hashtag on Twitter, but imagine my delight when I saw that Rachel at Black*Eiffel does the same thing! Thanks to her post, I’ve also grown to love “Home Again” by Michael Kiwanuka. Make sure you check out his music and other press on his page, NPR, and Twitter....continue reading
Thesis Thursday: Fears of Graduate Students
One of the best exercises I took part in was in a qualitative methodologies class. It was a class of two M.Ed. students and twenty Ed.D. students who were within a year of starting or completing the thesis or dissertation process, which made for some anxiety-ridden classes. In an exercise on the second day of...continue reading
Music Monday: Steel Train – Bullet
Found on the summer 2010 playlist on I am Fuel, You are Friends blog. Also check out the gritty cover remix with Scarlett Johansson (my favorite version):continue reading