Highs

Since I don't really want to go to sleep until the tornado warning expires here is an attempt to capture some of the moments of goodness in my life (to offset my last post).

• 14 years old and the awards assembly at the end of my 8th grade year -- I was named Salutatorian


• 16 everything about my first making love experience


• 33 standing, arms linked, with my two partners as we prepared to make the stand that would lead to arrest during the Orlando Soulforce Demonstration


• 24 the Jaycee state board meeting where I conquered my fear of public speaking


• 35 one amazing day at the Building Bridges where I received much wonderful attention first as scholar and then as attractive and desirable woman by the same group of people


• 38 helping with Katrina disaster relief operations


• 34 learning that my dissertation had been named 1999 Outstanding Dissertation for the College of Arts & Sciences


• 25 the Southwestern Social Science conference where I was being courted by both Texas A&M and Louisiana State


• 32 when I touched an ocean for the first time by playing in the Atlantic surf at 2 in the morning as Hurricane Irene was approaching (in a party dress no less)


• 28 during one evening that was a magical date in the French Quarter

Disaster work

alchmst given the change in your position there probably isn't any chance you will be activated and deployed to Central Ohio, is there? Just wondering because I might be headed that way for a DRO; I am waiting to hear what kinds of specialties they need and what length of committment is being requested.

To those interested in teaching things

I just made the following proposal for a Teaching and Learning Section session at next year's annual American Sociological Association meeting. Now I am I wondering if what I proposed was incredibly stupid. Would any of you have an interest in such a session if you saw it on the program for an academic conference?

( proposal behind the cut )

Am I doing my civic duty or not?

I haven't heard back from the Red Cross so I assume that they don't want me for the Ohio Flood DRO. I have to admit that while I would shuffle somthings around and drive to Ohio tonight if they needed me to, I am actually glad they didn't want me (probably not specifically me but someone with my type of classification). I am still not feeling 100 percent and I am looking forward to a weekend of working on teaching things with a few breaks for house work. I also want to go to the market on Saturday as the Farm Direct Meat folks are going to be there. I would like to pick up a few things for the September Eating Local Challenge. I will be stretching the "rules" a bit for Rosh Hashanah and a few other things like coffee but I want to eat local as much as possible that month.

I am going to give myself brownie points for being willing to go and only feel a tiny bit guilty that I am actually glad I am not deploying.

Now I am off to talk about gender stereotypes between couging fits. I am glad that upper level students tend to be pretty forgiving.

Not the class I planned

I gave a quick update. They worked on a group activity for a few minutes while I dealt with a coughing fit. Then we had to go stand in the basement because of a tornado warning. Oh well, Tuesday's lecture is written now.