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Post Gustav update – What is that beautiful house

By ~LS~ On September 12, 2008 · 1 Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Family, Louisiana

Gustav was a harrowing and stressful experience, but we are really blessed and lucky that nothing major happened to us. We had some minor roof damage, we lost our electricity, we were inconvenienced. We have no right to complain.

We have (had) a tree about three feet from the front corner of our house. We’ve been arguing for ages about taking it down. I didn’t want to take it down, first because I love it, and second because its roots are holding up the house in that corner (at least according to an engineering report that we had done when we thought we were having foundation problems). But the tree keeps dropping limbs on our house. It damaged our roof enough that we needed a new one after Katrina/Rita. And we need repairs done now after Gustav. Hopefully we don’t need a new roof; I think patching will do the [...]

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Willow’s Graduation

By ~LS~ On May 26, 2008 · Add Comment · In This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Family

Saturday was Willow’s graduation. The weekend was very frustrating and emotional for me. Frustrating because there was a lot of waiting around without anything to do, and because we had to pack up Willow’s dorm room. Emotional because…well…she’s graduating. It made me reflect nostalgically on my own high school graduation. It made me feel very old. As did listening to the 80s music at the PALS’ (Parents’ Association of the Louisiana School) graduation party. And also emotional because it means that Willow is leaving the nest. I wasn’t very sympathetic to my family when I left the nest and Willow isn’t very sympathetic to us. I guess what comes around goes around. Willow is so full of potential and possibility. It’s an exciting time. So it was a roller coaster of emotions for me. I expect every parent experiences this or something like it.

The senior recognition ceremony and the [...]

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After the money’s gone – Christmas blahs

By ~LS~ On November 28, 2007 · 2 Comments · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Family, Gratitudes, Holidays, Money, Threes

It’s the Christmas season and I have the “Holiday Blahs.” As much as I love Christmas, I am ambivalent about it this year. Perhaps it’s because I’m feeling rather broke, saving money for Ireland. The idea of shopping fills me with dread, however. I don’t look forward to buying things. I can’t stand shopping for my husband. He buys everything for himself, so there’s nothing left for me to buy. And everything I buy for the niece, she never uses or she loses, so I’m unmotivated to spend much money on her. Not to mention that she ran our cellphone bill up to $250.00. No, I’m not inclined to spend a lot of money on her this Christmas.

I am wearing a holiday sweatshirt today to try to get into the mood. I am also going to start going through my Christmas sock collection. Maybe that will help.

My three [...]

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Nothing important

By ~LS~ On October 30, 2007 · 3 Comments · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Family

The niece was home this weekend and stressed about college apps. She took the ACT, which she’s hoping to score well on so that she can get money for college. A few weeks ago she was talking about applying to half a dozen or more colleges, all of which were ivy league or private schools. Now she’s actually only applying to four, with Tulane as her backup, mostly because Tulane’s application is free. It would be nice if she went to Tulane, but she wants out of LA so bad, I don’t see it happening. Lately she’s been talking Ohio State. (THE Ohio State University, sorry.) I think that would be an excellent choice, because it’s a cheap school and Steve and I can afford to send her there.

I’m still losing weight, though not as fast. The doctor said I should eat more protein and less calories, but the [...]

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Letting the days go by

By ~LS~ On May 11, 2006 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Family

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Today in my Life

By ~LS~ On May 3, 2006 · 1 Comment · In I have to work?, Pedagogy and tagged Tagged With: Family, Public Speaking, Teaching, Work Sucks

Today was a busy day in the Sells-Jaros household.
Willow took her first driving lesson. Yikes.
And I facilitated my first dialogue on race.
These are exciting times.

* The semester is almost over. I have to grade speeches and then I have to grade finals. I will not miss this time of year when I am teaching in public schools. I was a little sad today about my career change, but I’m excited about the TBR program this summer.

* Teaching argumentation has been difficult for me this past week. One of the debate topics is affirmative action. It has been very hard hearing white students struggling with their own racism, trying so hard not to offend people and to be politically correct, while they are supporting institutional racism. It has been hard to hear students of color unable to adequately address the refutations of affirmative [...]

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