my certification provider is;

American TESOL Advanced Online Certification

Text The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Carter, Ronald, and David Nunan, editors. London: Cambridge U Press, 2001

goal to finish thesis: before 30 Sept. hopefully by 20 Sept. SO I can focus on new music projects and PASSESL09.

Frenemies 3

Divine. Own. Kids disliked....don't understand fully?

True Diary of PT Indian 2

Sherman Alexie. own. used successfully in 2008.
see notes.
Youtube of author.

Code of the Woosters 1A

Code of the Woosters--PG Wodehouse
was referred by E Lockhart (Jenkins) last read (Frankie Landeau-Banks)
took a lot of work and research to reconstruct 1030s London.
Suprises: of PGW--mocking of the German dictator via Swope.
Spin offs of mocking war during the interwar: see Veterans of Future Wars (Princeton) college pranks.

grammar ESL: the shortening of words--dropping -tion and leaving tsh....
(reverse mirrored in E Lockhart grammar dropping prefixes)

pp 286 slow going due to number of characters, complexity of plot/motivation/and antique idioms. Just a weaving and unweaving. Some dashing spirits. some truth of PREP: the possibility that hidden knowledge, secrets, may be revealed. That someone's stiffness will be tricked into opening up. But always a trick...here much dealmaking. negotiating with threats though. Secrets held and threat of secrets revealed. Eulalie!!!

also: What is the code of the woosters?
what is the attraction of the book? (obscure british allusions, including Manor as character, and CLUE like plots?)
what is the context? Total institution of Aunts and buffoons? (no senior intact marriages, actually) Marriage as a motive. "Psychology of the individual"....

possible uses: Clue-themed course? (too light?, or okay for summer diversion)

Direputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks 1

Finished The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks.
ESL grammar: de-prefixing.
ESL collegiate subculture1: pranking and Vassar
ESL US sociology1: glass ceiling: see BooknotesTV Sept 7 08: Judith Neis and autobio of 1960s and woman's libbers during the '60s--link in to Vassar 1969 co-ed.
ESL subculture2:RETURN: sociology1 at PA.

somewhat contrived: taking pranks from prank sites and reversing grammar omissions from PG Wodehouse. I like Prep so much better!

A words

(from The Dialogic Imagination of MM Bakhtin)
Alterity-
Acmeists-

Damn Finding Fifth Chakra Voice is Wierd and also RISKY business

No wonder you don't get to develop your voice until the first four chakras are there, the foundation, to support the risk of speaking out!

I have to defend my request to have a one-on-one with a client? What? the one who didn't want to take lessons. The one for whom I made a scholarship available because the owner/coordinator wanted to provide a charity case. Yes, this is charity and it is PAINFUL and it is requiring me to be CONFRONTATIONAL and BOUNDARY Managing and at the same time presenting and business like.

IT IS FULL CATASTROPHE And I am loving it because I have sucessful business relationships (my lower 3 chakras, somehow) and the passion to the art (music AND dot mac released) a 4th chakra, behind it.

Thank you Candace Pert and your worm segments. I'm all aligned, in my worminess, except getting 5th on there-voice--that is SOOOOO HARD.

So, last night in my exhaustion to be artist and business woman and emanager, and teacher of the very young (which means prone to all the flu and colds of winter every year) I fall asleep/faint/lose consciousness between exit 4 (in which I was surrounded by motorists) and the Porsche dealer at exit 5, at which I wake up to the rumble strip , facing the NJ barrier and just saying--" oh boy, here we go" and I tightened the grip and steered straight--no breaks or anything--thank god the Land Rover knows what to do "off road" cause it just sided up to the barrier and we continued on as if nothing happened--though I did have one escort car (bless the heart of that brave soul!). In my rear view mirror--all my fellow motorists had backed WAY OFF--they must have been going 40mph to my 80-90mph course of destruction.

Oh the humility--it was on MY highway in MY easily identifiable car.
I'm shocked that I didn't get stopped by the police.
Right in front of their shop, too.
It was a humiliating.

I need sleep and whatever it is artists need who dare speak the truth.
What is that, Erika Badu?
what is it that they need?

Music for the day: "Cataloop-fi>> Fantasia. " cool hiphop.