Ladies' Night

Chris is off in Boston presenting a paper at the American Association of Geographers conference, so this weekend it's just me, myself, and an APARTMENT FULL OF LADYBUGS.


Massage circle

Ladybug exoskeleton shards on my sheets

My apartment is infested with ladybugs.

It is not the cutest infestation ever.

Apparently this is:

Where's Chris Rock when you need him ...

I was just perusing the unsolicited emails I've gotten recently at theschoolofblog AT gmail DOT com, and one in particular stood out: an advertisement for a character ed program marketed toward homeschoolers. The spokesperson for this program is a little being named Cracker the Crab.

Something tells me that there weren't too many kids in the homeschool focus group who knew the other meaning of the crab's name.

Geography

This video has been going around Chris's geography department. I think I'll show it to my students tomorrow.

Wow

Sorry, that last post was a bit irritable. I do want to do the whole New Years' Resolution thing; I'm just not feeling quite as refreshed and ready to go back to school as I thought I would be after winter break! Okay, I'm resolving to come up with some resolutions. Or revolutions. And to tide us over, here's a picture from winter break: three of my sisters engaging in one particular form of revolution: