Training Log Archive: barb

To Lexington where I met up with Mike and Cindy to go to J-J's dad's memorial service. And back.

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Albatross: started training. :-) Processed 100 emails. Looked into going to DC in December; waiting to buy tix until I hear back from the FASEB public affairs people.

Today's amazing science news: Genentech has managed to grow an entire, working, secreting prostate from a single adult stem cell. In a mouse.

Arlington and back.

Wednesday night David, along with the rest of the junior high, presented some oral history of Graham and Parks. Each pair of students had interviewed someone associated with the school (in his case, his brother, Caz). The interviews were recorded, and each student selected one part of the interview to work with. The students read the words that had been spoken by the interviewee, complete with the "ums" and the mannerisms and the character of the speaker. It really brought the school's history to life. I got a much clearer picture of how the school had been founded - how it was special: the work that the whole community, parents included, did to make it into a unique place where teachers designed their own project-based curriculum. Some teachers (through the kids) spoke of the stark difference with other, "authoritarian" schools where the kids had to sit in desks in rows and study from a textbook. Many people spoke of the wonderful trips they used to get to go on, before insurance issues and standardized testing had crept in like a wet blanket. Caz told David and his partner about his 5th grade teacher, who took the kids up in his plane, 3 at a time, at the end of the year - and let the kids fly the plane and do a little zero-gravity.

Today's battle: processed about half the backlog of manuscripts waiting my editorial decisions.

Relatively warm, in the rain.

Decided to kick off a 100-day war yesterday. A war against albatrosses. Figurative ones, burdens of guilt that I have been carrying and want to lift.

Started by mailing the cooking magazine yesterday, which was not as simple as it might have been due to losing the sticky with the note and mailing address along the way. Other things I want to tackle soon: backlog of articles to edit; send the OCAD 8 version of Boojum map to NEOC; garden work; rogaine committee (arg); tackle clutter; hang pictures back on walls; clean and sell camper...

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Sent off the Boojum maps... Day 2...
Also received LIDAR base map data from Louis E Bergeron. I think Brendan is working on new maps for the Fells. It will be interesting to see what improvement we'll have over the contours on the old map... Took a quick first look, and wow, the apparent precision is amazing!

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Results are in - Obama won 93-1 over McCain in the 5th grade at my kids' Cambridge school. There were 3 write-in votes for Korbuk.

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To DD in the morning for the family in an effort to help entice them into the car and onto the road to NH for some canvassing. Then after the kids went to bed, to H Sq for data entry for the campaign. Canvassing was interesting. It is not something I am comfortable doing.

Scary story of the day; I think the 2nd paragraph describes my current situation.

Yesterday was lost to caffeine withdrawal; I indulged a little today on the way north to stave off the headache, and expect to partake the next few days as I get through the election and a big work thing and maybe some of the other outstanding albatrosses.

Purchased tix to IAD and home from CHO for the rogaine. Arriving 2:17 pm on that Friday.

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