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The alphabet is not getting shorter...

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An animal alphabet seemed like a great idea, with built in structure, lots of varied critters... But then I realized, after five letters or so, that there are twenty-six. Yes, I don't always think things through. Hmm. The first question everyone has: What animal are you using for X ? So, here's the African ground squirrel, Xerus! The show is up at AS220 Project Space, at 93 Mathewson Street, for the month of December. Kid oriented, as you might have noticed - tots are welcome!

Masters' in Priorities

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I am more than half way finished with my third class, Theories and Principles of Language Teaching with Dr. Lily Compton, in the Umass Boston online version of their Applied Linguistics Program .  The student caliber is high, the median age I would guess to be mid thirties (with plenty above and below that age) and from all over the world – Greece, France, Japan, Philippines, and the U.S. The weekly work requirements involve about 12 hours of reading and writing, with possibly a bit more for a perfect record of responding thoughtfully and with academic weight to the comments of fellow students. The reading is interesting, particularly Vivian Cook's  SecondLanguage Learning and Language Teaching: Fourth Edition .  (Dry title, dry humor.) In spite of all that, I am taking next semester off. Cancer snapped me into a new set of priorities, and I'm not sure getting a(nother) masters' is how I want to spend whatever time I have here in this crazy and lush world of

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