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Yesterday was the last official day of work at our high school… and it was my last day as a teacher there as my future plans are taking a new turn. It was a significant ending. And endings open the flood of other endings like a storm surge. Last week, I was grading a batchContinue reading “when it ends, it pours”

I love my students and appreciate how hard it is to be introduced to something completely new. What we know seems so obvious and we forget how hard it was to learn and remember it in the first place. Nonetheless, some of them have done a good job (inadvertently) of amusing me on their finalContinue reading “iambic pentameter”

#18: The number of dimensions we can perceive is the number of dimensions from 1st to 3rd. 1st being defined with length but no width… by which we can infer that the “zero-th” dimension is just a point in space with neither width nor length. Based on the first dimension, we can create a secondContinue reading “dimensions part ii”

We live in 3-dimensions… with the added dimension of time making it four… or so it seems. Apparently, this answer is not as simple as it appears. We all can easily comprehend three dimensions. In geometry and art classes, we learned to draw cubes that replicated our experience of space on the flat plane ofContinue reading “perspectives on dimension”

My boyfriend used to be in the energy business and a while back, he mentioned the word weatherization. The what? I responded. Weatherization is the process of protecting a building from sun, wind, and rain, of retrofitting it to decrease energy consumption and boost efficiency. Typical services in a weatherization procedure include: sealing of doors,Continue reading “under the weather-ization”

What do I know? And what does it bring me? Knowledge is power, we tell ourselves. Our personal power? Or a general shared power? Perhaps just as knowledge itself is shared… or is it? What we know is filtered. What I know comes through me by my unique perception, my particular outlook, my previous experiencesContinue reading “knowledge is power?”

Whatever you have planned for tomorrow, you may not have considered laboring over the ‘Great Work’ that so consumed alchemists from Geber (8th c.) all the way to Isaac Newton (17th c.). For centuries, these chemist-philosophers sought to discover the correct formula for what was known primarily as ‘the philosopher’s stone’ (though there were numerousContinue reading “materia prima, the elixir of life”

Tomorrow’s theme is… tomorrow! This means we are skipping ahead of ourselves twofold. This theme will test our endurance, our anticipatory set, our willingness to lean far far far over the chasm’s edge. And so we begin with a contradiction in terms…. Rio’s forthcoming Museum of Tomorrow — an archive of the expected, predicted, afterwardContinue reading “tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow”

While hysteria was the neurosis of the 19th century, insomnia is the affliction of our times. However, the same stresses of modern day life that were once believed to transform women into bizarrely theatrical creatures now affect us with anxiety and incurable restlessness, causing us to wake at 2am and not be able to returnContinue reading “65 things to do while not sleeping”

It is only fitting that I feel like a zombie as I write this entry. Part of our fascination with zombies emanates from the fact that we so closely identify with their stumbling, infected automatonism. Thus, the metaphorical side spawns the reanimation and reproduction of tales mirroring our uncomfortable realities — these undead thoughts lurk,Continue reading “zombie part ii: our monstrous zietgeist”