Sigh, is it me or has Blackboard has lost its mind? I'm starting to dread the damned thing and fear it going down before I can post my final articles. I should state for the record that the cheap eats one is done and the final article is now in the "Ewww!! Stop pickin at it, you're making it worse!" stage of editing. Maybe it was the earthquake, perhaps it rattled their server or something. I was out riding my bike when the big one hit and didn't feel a thing. I'm demanding a do-over, this time I promise to be shelving precious china or building a model ship or something.
So I feel like this is just about the end of our run here so I should tie up a few loose ends or at least update some stories.
Let's see - oh yeah my tooth is doing fine according to the three week check up. The bull bone is being absorbed into my jaw, how badass is that? It cost me a lot of money unfortunately, and I have insurance, but what is a good upper front tooth worth? Back to eating corn ON the cob!
My exchange student, the man-from-Japan, has checked out. For the record he found America and Boston to be awesome but thought UMass was really boring and hard to get to. We really liked him and had a lot of good times just hanging out and sharing our cultures. The agency called up today and asked if we'd like to take a Chinese student taking a similar program at BU, we took a pass because of the school start insanity but we'll be back.
That awful double murder down the street turned out to be related another shooting in the nearby housing project. The gang suspected the kid in the apartment was cooperating with the DA about the first shooting so they shot him, his mom, and her boyfriend. That news brought me no comfort at all- these kids can't win.
I got the detailed results for my English MTEL back today, well, they're not really detailed, but they're as much as you can get. They only give you your score if you failed, how weird is that? Those two essays I wrote? Never to be seen again. I must have done better than I thought because I managed to earn the highest ranking in every section of test! As far as the state and UMB are concerned I couldn't have done any better. Reading those study guides and taking the practice test really worked.
My mom came up to for a week long visit from Florida and ended up having her gall bladder surgically removed! So she's spending three plus weeks with us recuperating. It's been a very unusual role reversal to be caring for my mother, and in a strange fate way, I think it has helped us to be a better family.
Life never pauses around here! Best of luck to everyone, thanks for all of your comments and great writing. See you around the three-dimensional Wheatley very soon.
So I feel like this is just about the end of our run here so I should tie up a few loose ends or at least update some stories.
Let's see - oh yeah my tooth is doing fine according to the three week check up. The bull bone is being absorbed into my jaw, how badass is that? It cost me a lot of money unfortunately, and I have insurance, but what is a good upper front tooth worth? Back to eating corn ON the cob!
My exchange student, the man-from-Japan, has checked out. For the record he found America and Boston to be awesome but thought UMass was really boring and hard to get to. We really liked him and had a lot of good times just hanging out and sharing our cultures. The agency called up today and asked if we'd like to take a Chinese student taking a similar program at BU, we took a pass because of the school start insanity but we'll be back.
That awful double murder down the street turned out to be related another shooting in the nearby housing project. The gang suspected the kid in the apartment was cooperating with the DA about the first shooting so they shot him, his mom, and her boyfriend. That news brought me no comfort at all- these kids can't win.
I got the detailed results for my English MTEL back today, well, they're not really detailed, but they're as much as you can get. They only give you your score if you failed, how weird is that? Those two essays I wrote? Never to be seen again. I must have done better than I thought because I managed to earn the highest ranking in every section of test! As far as the state and UMB are concerned I couldn't have done any better. Reading those study guides and taking the practice test really worked.
My mom came up to for a week long visit from Florida and ended up having her gall bladder surgically removed! So she's spending three plus weeks with us recuperating. It's been a very unusual role reversal to be caring for my mother, and in a strange fate way, I think it has helped us to be a better family.
Life never pauses around here! Best of luck to everyone, thanks for all of your comments and great writing. See you around the three-dimensional Wheatley very soon.
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