I love it.
In the first few meetings, I have learned to create images with code.
Here is my drawing - created by typing in the codes on the left of the image.
Behold: Beaver-cat & Girl
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13 March 2013
Semi-wordless Wednesday: Beaver-cat & Girl
I'm helping sponsor a new club at school. It is all about teaching girls how to code on computers so that more women end up in computer science jobs.
I love it.
In the first few meetings, I have learned to create images with code.
Here is my drawing - created by typing in the codes on the left of the image.
Behold: Beaver-cat & Girl
I love it.
In the first few meetings, I have learned to create images with code.
Here is my drawing - created by typing in the codes on the left of the image.
Behold: Beaver-cat & Girl
06 March 2013
13 February 2013
In which I burn down a room
I have super powers.
I can make things happen, or foresee them happening. Or something.
Basically, I think things, and then they take place not too long later.
In the past few years, I have seen a miscarriage, some break ups, more than four pregnancies, and more occur after I think about them or have visions about them, or something.
Just this school year, I think I made the L train stop working.
The day prior, I was talking to some colleagues about how I missed our Post-Sandy cab rides together since I don't really see them during the day.
The next morning the trains did not work and we all had to take a cab to school.
Today may have been the biggest, most dangerous, most shocking vision, make-it-happen event of them all.
Right before lunch, I had two students come into my room to ask if they could leave their belongings in the room since they had my class right after lunch.
I was rolling my eyes hella hard at them.
So hard that they asked why I was rolling my eyes. "I'm not rolling my eyes, I'm just looking at the wires and pipes up on the ceiling. I'm thinking of the Shirtwaist fire lesson we had a week ago and how all of these wires and fire gadgets are kind of a result of that fire. I'm wondering how they would really work in a fire in our school."
Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle.
I let them leave their stuff in the room, and go off to lunch.
Less than twenty minutes into lunch the intercom goes on and the fire alarm goes off. At first the teachers in the teacher lunch room think it is a drill. Then we realize that no one in their right mind would call a fire drill during lunch time.
It was a real fire.
I didn't make a train stop or a friend have a baby. I made a fire start in the school building!
We all rush outside. I only had my lunch bag (chicken soup) and my $12 mug I had bought this morning and refilled thrice with peppermint tea (before 10 am) to ease my laryngitis.
We are outside.
Five fire trucks are outside. Firepeople are pulling hoses into the front of the school. They are taking in tools that look like chisels. Returning outside to put on what look like oxygen tanks.
Another fire truck pulls up.
They are all inside and not really coming out for long.
We stay outside the school for about an hour.
I am freezing my sick ass off in my thin sweater and tights, though trying not to look too cold in front of the kids who are also jacketless so that they won't complain too much about being cold. At this point I am realizing that we may not get back into the school. I don't have anything I need on me - subway card, wallet, cell phone, keys to my place, laptop, coat.
I just want to be able to go in and get those things and for the kids to be able to get coats and their belongings.
Instead of that happening, we are finally sent to the nearest school. There are three schools in my school's building and we are all shipped to another school's auditorium.
Let the madness begin.
We are by far the most well behaved school of the three, and this afternoon proved that. I honestly could not even tell the teachers from the students at the other schools. Not because they were young, but also because they all dress so casually. There were no teachers from the other schools trying to make sure their students were behaving, sitting down, or just in the areas they were designated. When I did see teachers address misbehaving students from those schools, it was the teacher quietly telling the kid what s/he should be doing three times and then walking away with the students still not having followed any of the directions.
Madness.
The school we were in was still in session. They only had two bathrooms our three schools were allowed to use. My school has at least 300 students. Half of them just finished lunch and needed to wee. I had just finished my fourth tea and needed to wee. On a side note, when I finally did, I set a personal record for my longest pee - 24 seconds.
We started having the high school students call their parents to let them leave from our safe site. Many of them made successful calls and were leaving. Then we got word from the network that we were not to let any students leave. Thanks for that late message. Now we had a ton of kids angry that some of their friends got to leave and they can't. We had parents pick their student up and get angry at the staff that their kid was leaving without a coat. Yes, your kid is safe and made it out of a fire. You are welcome.
I say we had them do this, but all the while, I cannot talk louder than a whisper. I am normally a person with a pretty booming voice when I put my mind to it. I have been able to communicate with people across packed arenas and they can recognize my voice out of the masses, I can get attention.
But today, I couldn't even talk to the parents when the kids put them on the phone to see if they could leave. I couldn't tell kids to relax, to sit down, that, no they could not go to the bathroom. I couldn't even tell all the great jokes that were coming to my head as I tried to keep my sanity.
We stayed in the auditorium for a really long, frustrating, almost made me not want to deal with children 3 hours and then were able to release for the day.
Teachers got to go back to the school, go into our advisory kids' lockers and get their belongings to bring outside for them. I wanted to do it in one trip and ended up almost dropping everything.
On a bright side, I now know to use my powers for good and not for evil.
I also got home earlier than normal since I could not stay after school to do anything.
I can make things happen, or foresee them happening. Or something.
Basically, I think things, and then they take place not too long later.
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| I'm like Ms Cleo or something!!! |
In the past few years, I have seen a miscarriage, some break ups, more than four pregnancies, and more occur after I think about them or have visions about them, or something.
Just this school year, I think I made the L train stop working.
The day prior, I was talking to some colleagues about how I missed our Post-Sandy cab rides together since I don't really see them during the day.
The next morning the trains did not work and we all had to take a cab to school.
Today may have been the biggest, most dangerous, most shocking vision, make-it-happen event of them all.
Right before lunch, I had two students come into my room to ask if they could leave their belongings in the room since they had my class right after lunch.
I was rolling my eyes hella hard at them.
So hard that they asked why I was rolling my eyes. "I'm not rolling my eyes, I'm just looking at the wires and pipes up on the ceiling. I'm thinking of the Shirtwaist fire lesson we had a week ago and how all of these wires and fire gadgets are kind of a result of that fire. I'm wondering how they would really work in a fire in our school."
Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle.
I let them leave their stuff in the room, and go off to lunch.
Less than twenty minutes into lunch the intercom goes on and the fire alarm goes off. At first the teachers in the teacher lunch room think it is a drill. Then we realize that no one in their right mind would call a fire drill during lunch time.
It was a real fire.
I didn't make a train stop or a friend have a baby. I made a fire start in the school building!
We all rush outside. I only had my lunch bag (chicken soup) and my $12 mug I had bought this morning and refilled thrice with peppermint tea (before 10 am) to ease my laryngitis.
We are outside.
Five fire trucks are outside. Firepeople are pulling hoses into the front of the school. They are taking in tools that look like chisels. Returning outside to put on what look like oxygen tanks.
Another fire truck pulls up.
They are all inside and not really coming out for long.
We stay outside the school for about an hour.
I am freezing my sick ass off in my thin sweater and tights, though trying not to look too cold in front of the kids who are also jacketless so that they won't complain too much about being cold. At this point I am realizing that we may not get back into the school. I don't have anything I need on me - subway card, wallet, cell phone, keys to my place, laptop, coat.
I just want to be able to go in and get those things and for the kids to be able to get coats and their belongings.
Instead of that happening, we are finally sent to the nearest school. There are three schools in my school's building and we are all shipped to another school's auditorium.
Let the madness begin.
We are by far the most well behaved school of the three, and this afternoon proved that. I honestly could not even tell the teachers from the students at the other schools. Not because they were young, but also because they all dress so casually. There were no teachers from the other schools trying to make sure their students were behaving, sitting down, or just in the areas they were designated. When I did see teachers address misbehaving students from those schools, it was the teacher quietly telling the kid what s/he should be doing three times and then walking away with the students still not having followed any of the directions.
Madness.
The school we were in was still in session. They only had two bathrooms our three schools were allowed to use. My school has at least 300 students. Half of them just finished lunch and needed to wee. I had just finished my fourth tea and needed to wee. On a side note, when I finally did, I set a personal record for my longest pee - 24 seconds.
We started having the high school students call their parents to let them leave from our safe site. Many of them made successful calls and were leaving. Then we got word from the network that we were not to let any students leave. Thanks for that late message. Now we had a ton of kids angry that some of their friends got to leave and they can't. We had parents pick their student up and get angry at the staff that their kid was leaving without a coat. Yes, your kid is safe and made it out of a fire. You are welcome.
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| Trying to make it one trip |
But today, I couldn't even talk to the parents when the kids put them on the phone to see if they could leave. I couldn't tell kids to relax, to sit down, that, no they could not go to the bathroom. I couldn't even tell all the great jokes that were coming to my head as I tried to keep my sanity.
We stayed in the auditorium for a really long, frustrating, almost made me not want to deal with children 3 hours and then were able to release for the day.
Teachers got to go back to the school, go into our advisory kids' lockers and get their belongings to bring outside for them. I wanted to do it in one trip and ended up almost dropping everything.
On a bright side, I now know to use my powers for good and not for evil.
I also got home earlier than normal since I could not stay after school to do anything.
30 January 2013
23 January 2013
Semi-Wordless Wednesday: Greetings
I'm so in love with this right now. At first I thought it was going to be a sappy engagement thing, but it is so much better than that.
Imagine this type of greeting when you return from a tiring trip somewhere!
It actually made my no-longer-tough-ass almost shed a tear.
Imagine this type of greeting when you return from a tiring trip somewhere!
It actually made my no-longer-tough-ass almost shed a tear.
19 December 2012
Semi-wordless Wednesday: Beyond hip-hop
It is amazing all the resources in NYC.
Yesterday, some students, another teacher, and I took a field trip to the Tribeca Film Institute and got to see Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. It is about the masculinization and increasing violence in hip hop culture and the effects that has on women (and men). It was a thought-provoking film and opened up to a good panel discussion with the director (middle) and one of his interview subjects (right).
31 October 2012
Wordless Wednesday: I needed a laugh
I'm on my third no-school day. I'm basically stuck in the house due to Hurricane Sandy. I feel for all the people injured, with family members killed, without power, or whatnot. It is horrible to think that not too far from me in this same borough and the borough where I work, there are people severely impacted by this storm's passage.
I got rid of my cable, so the tv I have is now useless since I can't watch any channels - oh, how HGTV marathons of House Hunters would soothe my ails (the cold/sickness Sandy brought me) right now.
What happened to the days when you could watch local tv without cable???
I needed some humor in my life.
I got rid of my cable, so the tv I have is now useless since I can't watch any channels - oh, how HGTV marathons of House Hunters would soothe my ails (the cold/sickness Sandy brought me) right now.
What happened to the days when you could watch local tv without cable???
I needed some humor in my life.
05 September 2012
Semi-Wordless Wednesday: School Critter
This morning as I rang the buzzer to get into school (I got there so early the doors were not yet unlocked and the principal was the only one there) this is what I saw:
The principal was not worried about it since these things eat other bugs. I was freaked because it was almost as big as the palm of my hand.
This afternoon as I left the school, it was still there.
Tomorrow is the first day of class for the students. I have had to do so much to get my room and my curriculum ready, that I have not really done much to get ready for the actual teaching... Hope all goes well!
The principal was not worried about it since these things eat other bugs. I was freaked because it was almost as big as the palm of my hand.
This afternoon as I left the school, it was still there.
Tomorrow is the first day of class for the students. I have had to do so much to get my room and my curriculum ready, that I have not really done much to get ready for the actual teaching... Hope all goes well!
29 August 2012
Wordless Wednesday: Big things
I've heard that everything is bigger in TX, but some things are bigger in NYC.
22 August 2012
15 August 2012
Wordless Wednesday: Cute car
Semi-wordless...
I saw this Fiat in the Central West End of St. Louis while trying to sell (for store credit) some books as I minimize even more for the move from StL to NYC.
I saw this Fiat in the Central West End of St. Louis while trying to sell (for store credit) some books as I minimize even more for the move from StL to NYC.
So freaking cute.
And the weather was cooler than it has been, so it would actually be tolerable to ride in it.
28 March 2012
Wordless Wednesday: I'm killing them!
Before my green thumb:
After my killer green thumb:
We'll see how it continues to work on the weeds.
After my killer green thumb:
We'll see how it continues to work on the weeds.
21 March 2012
Wordless Wednesday: Doll baby heads
Semi-wordless.
Best. Line. Ever:
Best. Line. Ever:
"Grown women do not smell doll baby heads!" At the 1:18 mark.
And this is the sanest of strange addictions I have seen. Much tamer than the girl who drinks a ton of urine or the woman who drinks gasoline or the woman who drinks nail polish or the woman who eats drywall or the man who loves to be treated like a baby or the woman who has bottles of pine cleaner everywhere so she can inhale it at all times.
14 March 2012
07 March 2012
Semi-wordless Wednesday: Nail care and scratches
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| Practice yesterday - chipped a nail; yesterday evening - neglected to file nail smooth; last night in bed - scratched a chunk out of my nose; this morning - stopped by drug store to buy nail kit I can carry around and fix chips |
08 February 2012
25 January 2012
18 January 2012
Worldless Wednesday: Opposing SOPA
SOPA: See more information from techdirt.com here, too.
Click to Contact Congress
Click to sign Google Petition
Thanks to Four Hens and a Rooster for this Wordless Wednesday idea to join in the protests.
11 January 2012
09 March 2011
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