What's Your Favourite ...?

Think I emailed you that I dunno what to do.  Take the risk & move to Berkeley?  Or stay where I have a job, even if it's a job I hate and way beneath my talents...it's a fucking job.

But, oh, I do like Berkeley.  And, y'know, you can grow rosemary out there.  And I know a few people in the city, not just the friend who invited me.

OTOH, I think CA's economy is even worse than PA's.  And Jack hasn't offered me a job yet.

What to do?

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  

Apologies.

In a nutshell: Old friend, still with (fourth?) hubby, whom I have known longer than I've known her, wants me to relocate to Berkeley & has offered to pay for some moving expenses & let me stay with them.  He owns a bookstore.  If he offers me a job even a part-time job, I am SO there.

But I don't want to leave a job I actually have to go to a place that is shedding jobs like cats shed fur in the spring.

Any advice?

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  

she started a mentoring program w/our class...
twice a week a third grade class would come in & we'd help them with spelling & math.
it was great. they learned & we did too.
(after that all the 6th grades mentored all the third grades & 5th mentored 2nd)

but.
the thing i remember best is she had an "open classroom"
we signed a contract at the beginning of the year promising to do our work & try her new system. no homework. lessons only for three hours in the mornings. afternoons we could go to her for her or work on our studies, or paint or go to the library or read a book. anything you wanted as long as you didn't cause a ruckus.
she taught on a time-line of European History
we started (i think) with romans. math was done in roman numerals, science was learning about what the scientists o that time knew, spelling was words of the period (Colosseum, gladiator, etc), history was not only the romans but touched on Asia- later in the year we learned a bit about russia, americas.
we learned about the Art of the time period... and architecture.
& we made, every two or three weeks, a big banner of the time period by tracing filmstrip pictures onto wide paper (this covered the entire back room of the class while we worked on it) then painting them in & captioning. when each was finished it hung in the cafeteria/auditorium.

i thought it was fabulous. everyone loved her class & the other sixth graders were upset that she was so cool & they had regular teachers. our class was always excited to learn... & happy to be there.

gha! i haven't thought of her in awhile.
thanks!

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."- Terry Pratchett

I'm looking forward to using a new set of cleaned up links, though. After a decade of accumulation, my bookmark file is like a hoarder's house - "Oh, yes, the ticket stubs from the 1997 ferry trip in Maine are on the bottom of THAT stack over by the wall in the corner, the one with the orange plastic bags on top - no, no, not the blue plastic bags, the orange ones" - LOL!

Anyway, it looks like you guys are in the clear from hurricanes for at least another short period of time right now. The waves rolling off Africa right now seem to start out looking impressive and then dissipate as they cross the ATL. We do have one or two that bear watching at the moment, though. My guess is that it will be another week to ten days before a big one can start up and survive to make landfall somewhere, but, as always, that forecast could change in the next six hours!

"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation