Now that we’ve moved closer to my work, I don’t get much time to listen to audio in the car. But I still like to strap on the pod whenever I have a long wait in a line or something. I’m bookmarking this site here for the next time I need something to listen to.
Archive for October, 2007
Dim like me
The Boston Globe today:
Researchers with access to closely guarded college admissions data have found that, on the whole, about 15 percent of freshmen enrolled at Americas highly selective colleges are white teens who failed to meet their institutions’ minimum admissions standards.
When I was a white teen, by golly, you had to get into your not-so-selective [...]
Straight outta the Sunset
We’d been thinking about moving across town to the Mission for a long time. Closer to both our jobs, Lilly’s school (and Laura’s too, as of this year), better weather, more diversity, decent coffee. This summer we finally went ahead and got an agent (Steve Davis, who is married to Cassandra Mettling-Davis, the architect who [...]
School: The Two Towers
Laura’s report on her new middle school. Bottom line: doesn’t seem to mind it too much. She is playing the saxophone in the band and practicing to try out for the basketball team. Her “elective” class is a peer-support program where she helps other kids with homework and school issues. I’m still not a fan [...]