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Anna and I broke up today, unexpectedly for b...
October 28, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
Anna and I broke up today, unexpectedly for both of us. I understand if you want to choose her even though you're my family- she's a great lady. I think we're doing fine, considering, but still not really sure what it means in the long run.
Other than that, the weather is beautiful, my programs are going well, and work is good.
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Outside my window is a bed of bright yellow l...
October 26, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
Outside my window is a bed of bright yellow leaves and endless rumpled students crushing them on their shortcut to class. I love the mornings here. I just finished my third interview this week, one for the North Adams Transcript, one for the college's publicity stuff, and then for the student newspaper. The student journalist was appropriately muckraking, the college journalist appropriately positive and easy-going, and the North Adams journalist was so lonely in his first week away from Philly that I quickly sucked him into my group of twentysomething friends here. So it's been an interesting week.
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Today is the beginning of the Service Week th...
October 22, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
Today is the beginning of the Service Week that the student service council and my office have worked so hard on. I know that one-day events are important in context of the greater office of community service and the students' awareness of the work that we do, but it seems so silly to spend all my energy on a week of projects that don't actually expand our relationships with community based organizations. Nevertehless, I imagine that we'll do well with the winter clothes drive and the benefit concert. My back and hands are tender from shoveling hay from a barn at the Rural Lands Foundation a few days ago. It will be good to go there on Halloween and see the product of all our efforts to make a haunted barn.
I'm finding my feet in cultural theory this week, but haven't slept or eaten for five days because of it... I forgot that learning could be this intense. This too shall pass. I hope to get out both alive and with what I'm looking for.
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I heart service course requirements
October 20, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
I heart service course requirements.
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Isn’t it interesting that Williams demands co...
October 18, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
Isn’t it interesting that Williams demands community service as part of your CV to get into the school, but only pays for a part time staff member (Rev. Spalding) and a one fourth time staff member (Matt Boyd) to administer community service on campus? As an Americoprs volunteer, the college doesn't have to pay for me.
Strangely, the college can pay for eighteen assistant coaches.
Harumph.
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Oh, Seraph, I love your post so much! I'll be...
October 13, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
Oh, Seraph, I love your post so much! I'll be voting for your birthday present and agitating all I can (unfortunately, as a federal employee, it's not much). I got to talk to two of our non-traditional babies on the phone last night- Emma said hi and Sam counted from 1 to 29 for me.
This morning I helped coordinate student volunteers to assist 20 6th and 9th graders taking an assessment exam. All of them had special accomodations, and despite the short notice scramble to get Williams kids, it worked out beautifully. I also got to talk to a cool kid from (in his words) "the North Adams projects". He lives a block away from his aunt, though- sniff.
I'm starting up a winter clothing drive, a task daunting because I am doing it solo (for now). Campus dorms, a dozen churches, and a few schools to coordinate with... but it's a beautiful, beautiful week, and I'm feeling good about the work.
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How many members of the Bush Administration ...
October 11, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a light bulb? The Answer is TEN:
1. One to deny that the light bulb needs to be changed.
2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed.
3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb.
4. One to tell the nations of the world that they are either: "For changing the light bulb or for darkness"
5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the new light bulb.
6. One to arrange for a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a stepladder under the banner "Light Bulb Change Accomplished".
7. One administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally (in this case) "in the dark".
8. One to viciously smear #7.
9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light bulb-changing policy all along.
10. And finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.
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I absolutely love the layers of performance a...
October 07, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
I absolutely love the layers of performance and reality in Adam's reporting of your Sims life. Keep up the bazzarro lives.
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I got this email from Isa (dutifully written ...
October 05, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
I got this email from Isa (dutifully written by Hunni) months ago, but just came across it again.
I thought you would all like it.
Dear Aunt Sadie:
"Tell her I love her," "Snake and Wolf."
Isa wants me to tell you about the time our house burned because of a fire.
"Flowers."
Isa wants me to tell you that she has been playing, and in Portland she likes to play with her dress up clothes and play in the park fountian. She has also been reading a lot of books.
She wants to make sure your contacts are ok and that you've been fixing your hair.
Love Isabell
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In response to Raven's thoughts about leaving...
October 04, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
In response to Raven's thoughts about leaving the states to escape American politics, I think depriving the US of its best citizens would be terrible for the democratic struggle. Additionally, nobody can escape American politics. Mwa ha ha.
Work is intense. It's like, sooo intense.
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