Heidi's Hideaway (now with added class!)
Posted in Out and About on Oct 13th, 2009
I have mixed feelings about zoos. I’ll go into those sometime when I’m not attempting to be taciturn. This was our work summer picnic, to which we could have brought children, apparently, although I didn’t (didn’t know).
This peacock was wandering around the picnic area and was entirely unafraid of the camera.
Rescued bald eagles, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 12th, 2009
It’s weird spambot registration day, it appears, so I’ve briefly turned off user registrations. You can still leave a comment, just not register for the site. Yikes!
Posted in Size acceptance on Oct 12th, 2009
Last week (or was it the week before? I’m blurring on time with how busy I’ve been), I followed some of the Shapely Prose and resulting Fatosphere discussion on what apparently was an extremely controversial comic on xkcd (note: it is work-safe). Apparently SP has been aflame with posts and comments on the [...]
Posted in Everyday, grad school on Oct 10th, 2009
The project I was panicking about got turned in last night. Part of the problem, of course, was that I just couldn’t pick an “easy” topic (i.e., taking a library introduction that is written up elsewhere, say for 6th graders, and modifying it to make it relevant to me). I had to do [...]
Posted in grad school on Oct 8th, 2009
I have a big project due on Saturday morning at 8 AM (this means Friday night). It’s a lesson plan for teaching a 30 – 120 minute library lesson (the length depends on the age group and type of library). I have never, ever written a lesson plan. I have never given [...]
Posted in Everyday on Oct 6th, 2009
This was originally created for Daisybones Heidi, as one of her Treasure Nest Tuesdays posts. Since it’s photo-focused and also reasonably brief, I’m editing and rebranding it for my Taciturn Tuesday habit (hey, a few more of you need to pick this up!!
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Heidi’s Glass Menagerie
Apologies to Tennessee Williams, whose play I have never read. [...]
Okay, so, I met a friend here in Seattle after my last whiny post on the topic. As is the case with all my friends in Seattle (well, okay, the other couple that I was really close to when I last lived here), she is going to be moving to Minneapolis. Hurray for [...]
Posted in Burkina Faso, Food on Oct 4th, 2009
A few of Beth and Piffle’s comments on my recent posts triggered some Africa memories. I don’t remember Burkina Faso in big chunks but in bite-sized morsels…here are a few.
My mother made it her goal to try every weird Burkinabe food (well, okay, so it was Haute Volta when we first moved there…but the [...]
Posted in Size acceptance on Oct 3rd, 2009
You know you’re a TCK when you smell something on the barbecue, think, “huh, what does that remind me of?” and the answer is…grilled lizard. In our little corner of Burkina Faso, there were giant lizards (giant probably means a foot long – they seemed larger when I was four). Giant lizards plus [...]
Posted in Everyday on Oct 1st, 2009
It’s been quiet around here lately. Clearly I’m not radical enough for the Fatosphere folks and not interesting enough for the others
That’s what I think when I’m feeling insecure, anyhow. At the moment I’m reasonably buoyant, enjoying a piece of leftover cake from our favorite intern’s leaving do yesterday, and feeling [...]
Notes from the Fatosphere