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A couple weeks ago, I followed a URL on a friend’s gchat status. That friend is George Zaidan, who I lived with at MIT. The link was to Seasoned with Weather, with Foodologist George Zaidan, a new segment on the Weather Channel about how food is related to the weather.
Naturally, I was eager to show off my acquaintance with a TV personality, and since my students are a captive audience to my every whim, I showed them a couple of the episodes. I thought we would watch five minutes of video and that would be it, but a student asked how much George…
Saturday – Snow, Bread. Sunday – Meditation, Superbowl. Monday – Snow Day, House Cleaning. Tuesday – School, No after-school activities. Wednesday – Snow Day, sledding down the Art Museum steps? Thursday – Snow Day? Friday – School, I hope. Saturday – At home! Sunday – At MIT, Valentine’s Day, Pasta. Monday – President’s Day. Tuesday…
read more »Today was a snow day. Unfortunately, today was also a Saturday. Oh well. Looking out at the park from my bedroom window: Looking out the front door this morning. Notice the classic South Philly awnings on the neighbor’s house: Walking to the supermarket with the roomies. The streets were clear, and the sidewalks hadn’t been…
read more »Yesterday, we were finally able to dissect calf eyes in Science of Communications. All in all, the day went fabulously. Many students stepped up their behavior, acting appropriately throughout the activity. Several students who had insisted that they would, under no circumstances, touch and eyeball got gloved up and participated. Others who had been excited…
read more »You’ve got a future in orange juice… ’cause I’m gonna beat you to a PULP!
read more »In Physical Science today I had planned to do a set of Newton’s Second Law practice problems. However this never came to pass. A student asked why I had “XLIII” written on the white board next to the date. I explained that that was the number of false fire alarms we have had in school…
read more »At 6:30 this morning, I was roused from my slumber by a car horn beeping outside my window. My first thought, of course, was, Oh shoot! I slept all the way through Sunday and it’s now Monday morning and Ms. M is here to pick me up and I’m still in bed. Ach! I’ve never…
read more »Tomorrow or Thursday, I’m expecting a call from a pork butcher in the Italian Market informing me that my eyes are ready. The butcher gets 10 pigs delivered each Wednesday, and the eyes usually go to a local hospital or ophthalmology school where doctors practice operating on them. But this week, I called dibs first,…
read more »Last night, I heard the UPenn Choral Society sing Mozart’s Requiem. I know the piece so well that it’s difficult to simply enjoy it without critiquing too much, but all in all it was an enjoyable performance. I’ve titled this post Requiem, by Mozart, et. al. to remind us that Mozart is just one of…
read more »I took a sick day today. This was my first missed day of school. It felt fantastic. I’m only marginally unwell, but the main purpose of the day was to catch up on overdue grad school papers, get ahead on next week’s grad school work, catch up on paperwork that’s been piling up at home…
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