Yesterday was a rough day — I slept terribly, waking up over and over. I think it’s mostly stress — the semester is coming, like an onrushing train, and the long, long list of things I wanted to accomplish over the summer is still long. I will need to pause and recalibrate to settle down, […]
I’m taking some time this morning to read a new book by Nimmi Gowrinathan, _Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence_. It’s beautifully written, which isn’t something I expect in an academic book, to be honest — she uses a lot of the techniques of creative nonfiction to make for engrossing engagement with the material. She’s
The U of I system just sent out a note that they’re requiring everyone on campus be vaccinated and boosted; decisions about masking will be made by each campus individually, and we don’t have word on that yet. We’ll be discussing appropriate mitigations for OPRF at the next D200 high school board meeting in a
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This is a very random question, but for my friends in other countries, especially democratic socialist countries with relatively high tax rates, is the phrase ‘tax burden’ a common usage? I see it all the time here, and it always irritates me a bit; I’m curious whether this is a primarily American rhetoric, or something
Home from board meeting, 3 hrs, not bad. Summer board meetings seem to be a bit quieter; I guess that’s not surprising for school board. Funny putting on professional drag again. Don’t think I need to again for another month, so back to gardening shorts and t-shirts for me…
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I’ve been following the feeds from my friends on the ground in Sri Lanka, along with the news at the Times, CNN, etc. It certainly looks like almost entirely peaceful mass protests have finally driven a war criminal and his cronies out of power. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he will resign on July
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Thrilled to hear that one of my grad school classmates is running for their local school board in Arizona. I feel like I should get posters made. “Have *you* considered running for local office? America needs *you*!”
Illinois folks, it’s election day for us — please vote. And on that note, while I’ve been traveling, I haven’t yet had time to do thorough election research, so any pointers to good progressive voting guides would be very helpful. VERY.
IL library board question — anyone know where I’d find info on childcare reimbursement for board members as an allowable expense? My understanding is that we aren’t allowed to pay our library board members by state statute, but that costs related to board service are reimbursable. Not sure where to look for the specifics on
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