School board meeting, 6:30 – 9, 2.5 hrs, not bad. Slightly worse when you add in the 1.5 hr school board retreat yesterday, and the 1.5 hr school-board related meeting on Tuesday. Never mind reading the e-mails and the board meeting notes AND this week, a many-page legal brief because I had to decide how […]
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Almost forgot to note, school board meeting tonight, 6:30 – 11 p.m. 4.5 hrs, a little long, but we don’t meet quite as often over the summer, so things pile up a bit, and we have new board members, which slows down efficiency a little. Also, I talk a lot. Onwards.
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Pleased to note that we have appointed Audrey Williams-Lee to the vacant board seat at D200. We were very lucky to have an exceptional set of applicants to choose from; and I hope the other applicants seriously consider running for office in 2024. More on Ms. Williams-Lee: https://www.conference-board.org/bio/audrey-williams-lee
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Special board meeting to interview candidates for open seat, 5-8 (CA time), 3 hrs. Regular board meeting tomorrow night. Now a glass of wine and some dinner, after a very long day.
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It is honestly fascinating seeing how some folks are reacting to my commencement speech. Imagine an American nightmare
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Tonight’s school board meeting: 6 p.m. – 11:30. If you factor in commuting time, we’ll call it 6 hours. Which makes it even more surprising that we have 13 people who have applied for the vacant school board seat. All hail the applicants, all glory unto them for their willingness to serve! I may be
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Heh. West Cook News is the local rightwing ‘paper,’ I think? They did a piece on my commencement speech, and you could do a fascinating analysis on what they chose to highlight from my bio (I wrote erotica, oh noes!), and what they chose to highlight from the speech (ending, without comment, on the bit
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I hadn’t quite realized until I got to campus that this was going to be a speech to the largest group of people I’d ever speechified to — about six thousand, I think, given the size of the graduating class and all the family in attendance. My previous largest audience speech was probably the Wiscon
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A packed church at my father-in-law’s memorial service today — there were hundreds of people in attendance. Ron was tremendously appreciated by his community. Appreciated and very much loved. More soon, I imagine. For now, we’re getting ready to head up to San Francisco for our midnight flight (with thanks to Jed for driving, as
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Hanging quietly at Jed’s so far today, recovering from middle-of-the-night travel. Have drafted my commencement speech that I’m giving at OPRF on Sunday (after a red-eye flight back, oof, hope I can manage a nap Sunday morning once we get home), and sent it off to the superintendent to see what he thinks. I might
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