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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Tag Archives: teaching
The life of a professional X (for many values of X)
Once upon a time, I was a professional X, where X is a number of different things, depending upon which part of my life we’re talking about and where the jobs were. And now that Mr. T is almost nine … Continue reading
Ahhhh… the CELTA is over!
(“Knowledge” picture from Scott Meyer’s Basic Instructions comic strip) So the mind-blowing month of CELTA is officially over, and it was totally worth it. It was stressful and intense, and I learned so much I think my head may yet … Continue reading
CELTA winding down, but…
So after many sleepless nights of lesson plans and papers and reading, I’m almost done with my CELTA course. I finally got a reasonable night of sleep last night thanks to the efforts of a snuggly Torsten (who slept in … Continue reading
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Tagged CELTA, Life, sleep deprivation, sleep-impaired drivel, students, teaching
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Friday Fun (with the plague!)
Today, thank God, is Friday – a short class day after a long week. We’re all pretty sick. I’m the most obviously ill, but Christian’s been coughing horribly for weeks, and the baby got to visit the urgent care last … Continue reading
Quick update from the depths of the CELTA…
So this CELTA course rocks. Seriously. It’s really stressful, it’s a lot of work, and it rocks. I’m not sure how other CELTA courses are, but I do like the approach to teaching, and our trainers here are pretty amazing. … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, CELTA, evil husband, family, good things, Life, love, stress, teaching, TEFL, Torsten
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Happy Mother’s Day
(to me…) It’s my first Mother’s Day as a mama, and what am I doing? Yup, writing lesson plans in a café, several blocks away from my baby. We don’t celebrate many holidays/occasions as a family, but I have to … Continue reading
What is this “real life” of which you speak?
One of the things about having a baby is that all of this literature for new parents begins to arrive at your house, and you have no idea which of it you solicited and which of it you didn’t. Furthermore, … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, being a grownup, education, education junkie, good things, language, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, parenthood, research, sleep-impaired drivel, teaching, Torsten, travel
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The long reach of advertising…
When I was teaching at Purdue, I was always annoyed by advertisers who’d write stuff on my chalkboard with a big “Do Not Erase!” (DNE) next to it. Sometimes half of one of the two chalkboards was covered with book … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, corporate bullshit, humor, media, Purdue, students, teaching
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This is not the post you’re looking for. (Sorry, George Lucas…)
Life, as you know, rarely works out as planned. The day of my last post, a lot of big stuff was in the works for me. Most of it still is, but on the day of my last post, at … Continue reading
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Tagged Denver, Life, Los Angeles, Purdue, research, teaching
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