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Tmw you procrastinate rehearsing the horn parts for Easter Sunday and realize the anthem is sustained exposed stuff at the top of your range. Gonna be a (w)holly moly week of finding time to practice.

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TFW the city sends a tree crew while your super avid birder kid is at school and they trim the branch that is reliably where hawks perch and woodpeckers feast. I think they can feel the glare from my attic office.

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If you have a federal grant, I highly recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

submitted 66 days ago • 6 comments

So this week in Hist of Childhood, we talked about how much infant mortality dropped 1880-1930 with milk pasteurization, diphtheria innoculation. This, in a week with a raw milk, antivax nominee for health sec.

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How fun is it to watch my kids run? So fun that today their gym teacher--seeing that their mile times made the school leaderboard, called the younger kid out of class so that the Howard bros could race head-to-head. Bets were taken. Older kid, also a foot taller, prevailed.

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GA has lots of counties, doesn't it.

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Brought a few classic toys to my hist of childhood class today. Like jacks, which, shockingly, none of my students knew how to play. TMW you casually throw up a bouncy ball, gather all 10 jacks, and catch the ball with one hand with a room of students watching.🔥🔥🔥

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Tmw your kid's birding obsession spills over into your teaching and you find yourself posting images of every bird mentioned the in the Hamlin Garland excerpt you assigned.

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Teacher people: if you once used the recently departed flipgrid for students to post videos and comment on classmates' work, what are you turning to now?

submitted 270 days ago • 1 comment

How confident is my 84-year old dad in UPS and the superiority of his homegrown Midwestern tomatoes? Confident enough to send >2 dozen across the nation. (1 of 2).

submitted 275 days ago • 2 comments

A character in the novel I'm reading is about to take a tragic turn, based on foreshadowing. I am now afraid to to flip another page as it somehow brings the bad thing into being... I'm so close to meeting the @albanypubliclibrary summer reading challenge, but not sure if I can bear to go on.

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elementary kid used his mp3 player to bootleg bird calls from Merlin this morning so he could quiz his friend at lunch. All kinds of winning.🐦🤓

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anybody able to lead me to good histories about the origins of life-cycle assessment? Thanks!

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new paragraph describes superabsorbent polymer manufacture pollution with the same words often used to discuss diapering: loaded, blowout, soak, spray, saturate. Too gross? IDK.

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Turkey, roasted. Cranberries, pickled. Birthday cake, baked. Rec letter, submitted. Still have a cake to frost, pie to make, and paragraph to write, but progress.

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Not enough fanfare on this: DOE grants to stoke heat pump manufacturing dropped this week. Albany friends, did you know Energy Catalyst got $10M this week to retrofit a building in Watervliet, train youth, and hire 50 people? Lower emissions, more affordable energy, local jobs? Yes please!

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this chapter is becoming a monster. I know it will be sliced and diced, but I can't dismember until I decide which pieces are vital, which means assembling it all first. Sigh.

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In a rehearsal with >90 musicians at the moment. Quite certain it's been about 20 years since I played in such a big gig: choir, strings, winds.

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tmw you load up a folder in a database with about 100+ different references and send it to your e-mail thinking the list will come in a single, aggregated note, but instead, you get one e-mail per reference. 😬

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is there a database to track RCRA violations for the period 1986-1990? EPA's ECHO seems to pick up only after the early 1990s (or enforcement was lax -totally possible).

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Dad is determined that his garden bounty reaches me, no matter how many miles separate us and how delicate the goods.

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anyone have an electric heat pump dryer? How's it working for you? Dryer just went kaput, and would like a lower-carbon replacement. Clothesline & drying racks are great, but given family laundry loads from sweaty athletes, not ready to forgo a dryer altogether.

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Rainy day. Good weather for Rising Waters.

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this week has had its ups and downs. But I am claiming victory in having finally found the source of the rotting orange peel scent that has been bedeviling me all week: side pocket of hiking backpack, smooshed against the Sibley bird guide. Book may be a casualty.

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tmw you're volunteering at the neighborhood street fair, and figure out the person you're volunteering with wrote a BA thesis with your PhD advisor, albeit separated by about 20 years and at two different institutions. Wacky!

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It's that time of year again when my super creative, naturalist kid selects an obscure species he wants to be for Halloween, and my head explodes as I try to figure out how to execute.

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it's been 10 years this week since I trekked across the country to deliver a eulogy at my undergraduate advisor's memorial service (with a newborn in tow). I still really miss him. With gentle playfulness and conviction, Jim Farrell asked students to imagine a better world and to dare to make it.

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The one day I plan to run and shower before the plumber comes and shuts off the water is of course is the one day the kid misses the bus (so I needed to take him), and the one day a plumber arrives early.

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Fave things to do with a dozen not-great peaches? (Not spoiled yet, just bad texture). Sauce? Crisp? Chutney? Hit me up.

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Not just WV. The news from northern NYS. www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/4...

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the upside of still bearing visible scars from my July wild parsnip encounter? 10-year-old wrote a killer paragraph about a "plant that can hurt you" when prompted to write about a living species.

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