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My last real Sunday until December! I'm going...
August 30, 2009 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 My last real Sunday until December! I'm going to stay in bed until Greg cuts off my coffee supply.
Despite being very nervous for the first half an hour, leading my first class went pretty well. I'm not sure how I'm going to impart new insights for the students, most of whom already get the basic concepts of inequality, but it'll be fun to talk about wealth and poverty issues with interested people every week. As for the senior economics students, I don't think I can convert market fundamentalists, so it should be fun sparring practice.
Greg and I are going to Jamestown this afternoon to visit his grandmother, and then its back to reading stupid management books. For my leadership and organizational behavior class, we're required to read the greatest hits of airport bookstores everywhere (you know, all the ones on how to be effective corporate executives and how to put your heart into laying off your staff). I can't believe policy wonks have to put up with this.
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I start school this week, so we're trying to ...
August 24, 2009 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 I start school this week, so we're trying to do as much vacation stuff as we can. Greg is making an elaborate Greek feast tonight, including pastitisio and steamed cauliflower with Greek cheesy sauce. Once he starts school in a few weeks, its mac and cheese every night.
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This is my last full week of vacation before ...
August 21, 2009 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 This is my last full week of vacation before school begins. I'm trying to squeeze the most folksy home making into these last days. Greg and I picked raspberries and blueberries, made blueberry jam, lemonade, and oatmeal molasses bread, and I have a big sewing project with some grad school friends this weekend.
This semester I am taking:
Policy Implementation
Organizational Behavior
Theories of Social Justice and Social Policy
National Data Sets for Public Policy
I'm a little nervous to take an extra class because I will be TAing an undergraduate course called The Paradox of Wealth and Poverty, and will be leading two 30-student sections a week. I'm also working on a survey project for a neighborhood in Waltham. The Waltham city planner is fantastic and all the Heller researchers are very helpful, but I may have to interview 80 households myself if I can't recruit volunteers.
None of this is keeping me down, though. The heat and humidity is doing just fine on its own.
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August 14, 2009 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 Happy birthday, Jordan!
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Grafton updates: I am now back from Maine and...
August 13, 2009 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
Grafton updates: I am now back from Maine and finished with the flu. I will be sworn into the planning board soon and in the meantime am remembering how to email and register for classes. The CSA is drowning us in greens and I look forward to a weekend escape to Williamstown.
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