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| Annual reading list: I didn't read as much this year as I had planned since I got distracted over the holidays and didn't read as much as I would have wanted. But I have about 8 books checked out of the library so maybe I will get them read soon (if I didn't have a few papers to write hanging over my head).
It appears that most of the books I did not read for school and which are not "Christian" books are geared to a 2nd-6th grade reading level. Oh well. They are faster to read. There's something to be said for books that take less than 2 hours to be read.
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo, Zlata Filopovic
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal, Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Jeff Kinney
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis (reread)
All's Well That Ends Well, Gillian Roberts
Nellie Olsen Meets Laura Ingalls, Heather Wilson
Mary Ingalls on Her Own, Elizabeth Cody Kimmel Willard
How to Read the Bible For All Its Worth, Gordon Fee & Douglas Stuart
I Loved a Girl: A private correspondence between two young Africans and their Pastor, Walter Trobisch
Honesty, Morality, and Conscience, Jerry White
Critical Issues for Student Affairs: Challenges and Opportunities, Arthur Sandeen & Margaret J. Barr
Curriculum and Aims, Decker F. Walker and Jonas F. Soltis
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, Elizabeth Kolbert
Foundations of Student Affairs Practice: How Philosophy, Theory, and Research Strengthen Educational Outcomes, Florence A Hamrick, Nancy J. Evans, & John H. Schuh
Introduction to Management Science 9th Edition, Bernard W. Taylor
Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children, Betty Hart & Todd R. Risley
Supporting Graduate and Professional Students: The Role of Student Affairs, Melanie J. Guentzel & Becki Elkins Nesheim, eds.
Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade, Linda Perlstein
The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, A Death and America's Dilemma, Alex Kotlowitz
The Plague, Albert Camus
The Race, Richard North Patterson
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for Twenty-First Century America, Donald F. Kettl
Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform, David Tyack and Larry Cuban (reread)
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| Inspired by the lists that Susan puts out every year (this year her's is on Facebook) I decided to list the books I finished last year. I don't come anywhere close to what Susan reads and I wonder how much I would read if I didn't have to read for school. But my vacation in December was wonderful--I got to read 3 novels!
Jeffrey Archer, False Impression
Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking
George Cornell, They Knew Jesus
John Grisham, The Testament
Bill Hybels, Just Walk Across the Room
Chaim Potok, The Book of Lights
Gillian Roberts, Claire and Present Danger
Gillian Roberts, Till the End of Tom
JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Michele Saponaro, The Fishers of Men
Dorothy Sayers, Lord Peter (reread)
Dorothy Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (reread)
Andy Stanley, Next Generation Leaders
Abernathy, School Choice and the Future of American Democracy
Borman, Ilgen, and Klimoski, Handbook of Psychology: Vol 12. Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Bryk, Lee, and Holland, Catholic Schools and the Common Good
Burtless, Does Money Matter? The Effect of School Resources on Student Achievement and Adult Success
Gormley and Balla, Bureaucracy and Democracy
Mikesell, Fiscal Administration: Analysis and Applications for the Public Sector
Okun, Equality and Effiency: The Big Tradeoff
Perrow, Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay
Rainey, Understanding and Managing Public Organizations
Rhoads, The Economist's View of the World: Government, Market, and Public Policy
Rubin, The Politics of Public Budgeting
Schneider, Teske, and Marschall, Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools
Scott and Davis, Organizations and Organizing
Tyack and Cuban, Tinkering Toward Utopia, A Century of Public School Reform
Weimer and Vining, Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice
Weiss, Evaluation
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| So, I had two goals for this summer:
1) Spend more time with my parents (or at least be better at calling them back) and
2) Fill up my gas before the light goes on (I have a tendency to drive on fumes)
Tonight I was driving home from my parents (check off goal one) when I decided to get gas because it's usually cheaper by my parents' house (the gauge was only at 1/4 so check off goal two). Gas is $2.67 at the station near my house but only $2.51 by my parents. But much to my surprise and delight, the pump only said $2.44. Score!
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This is a picture of my house. (Yes, it is pink.)
Actually, this is a picture of the tree in front of my house.
Well, actually, this is a picture of the newspaper in the tree in front of my house.
You know how on sitcoms and comics, they always talk about the newspaper boy who has bad aim? Well, our newspaper carrier apparently has bad aim and the newspaper ended up in our tree.
I guess I don't do yard work very often because when I took the paper down I found out the paper was over a month old. But since I was procrastinating last week, I tidied up the house and weeded the flower bed and raked the leaves and took down the newspaper from the tree.
The next morning there was another paper up in the tree.
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| Have you ever found the perfect present for a friend? 
And then you find out that your friend bought the exact same item the week before. 
I wouldn't bring this up except this has happened to me TWICE in the last few months with one of my friends. On the one hand, it means that I know my friend really well since apparently I can anticipate his needs and his wants. On the other hand, it means I have terrible timing.
The first time wasn't too bad since he was having trouble finding this item and then when he found them bought eight of them so getting one more didn't make too much difference. But this second time, if the order doesn't get canceled (providentially I entered the wrong expiration date so I'm having credit card problems so the order may not have gone through), does anybody want to buy a digital camera?
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