February 2011
36 posts
Fun morning. Should mean an interesting story for next week. (@ Judson University) http://4sq.com/fZltay
is packing up half my stuff to move to The New Apartment tomorrow. The rest moves with me… after the wedding… in (gulp) 86 days. #fb
thinks I put back all the pounds I lost from the flu. ;) RT @iamk_lee I’m ready for miracles w/ @mcemilywrites! http://twitpic.com/43fs81
Last stop of the workaday! (@ Judson University) http://4sq.com/h8CfeV
A New Rear & Pop-notch Giveaway (By Grace Kim,... →
Want to win delicious, healthy snacks? What about a massage? Motivation to get healthy? Subscribe to win on the Lean Girls Club!
For the rest of the story, visit the Lean Girls Club.
Bartlett High’s Skinkis leaving at year’s end... →
BARTLETT — Kevin Skinkis will leave his post as principal of Bartlett High School at the end of the school year to become superintendent of Riverside-Brookfield Township High School District 208.
For the rest of the story, visit The Courier-News.
U46 chief appointed to federal panel (Sun-Times... →
ELGIN — School District U46 Superintendent José Torres has been appointed to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity and Excellence Commission, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced.
For the rest of the story, visit The Courier-News.
U46 Elementary Schools Boosting Dual Language... →
ELGIN — In one second-grade classroom at Harriet Gifford Elementary School here, a group of girls spelled words for Principal Joe Corcoran — words like “thunder.”
“Thunnn-derrr,” Corcoran sounded out the word for the girls.
Another group of boys took turns reading a story with teacher Gregorio Posada about a snowman melting in the sun.
“Kids will come with different levels of proficiency,” Posada...
Bachelorette Blowouts: How Not to Blowout Your... →
Lean Girls Club creator Grace Kim has a write-up of my New York City bachelorette weekend on her blog today. So you know it didn’t get too crazy… except maybe for the embarrassing bachelorette attire she and Kara had me wear.
For Grace’s story, visit the Lean Girls Club.
survived one last turbulent, delayed flight. (@ Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) ✈ w/ 89 others) http://4sq.com/giIgHF
The Sinless Scoop: Why Yoga is Great for your Sex... →
Sample this week’s sinless scoop — the latest news in health, fitness and food.
Why Yoga is Great for your Sex Life (Shine from Yahoo!)
So this week I headed back to that XSport®…
misses my old church and LOVES the new message series. Check out Bod 4 God at www.journeyipod.com. http://4sq.com/gojpppwww.journeyipod.com. http://4sq.com/gojppp
SOUP DUMPLINGS!!! (@ Joe’s Shanghai) http://4sq.com/fwsjXC
And the Killers are on the radio. It’s like we never left. (@ Thirsty Scholar) http://4sq.com/gtrXKr
just landed, and I’m so happy to be back I feel like I’m in a Sex and the City movies! (@ LaGuardia Airport (LGA) ✈) http://4sq.com/dZEkMu
Need help finding a soulmate? Some tips in my latest on #LeanGirlsClub: http://ht.ly/3ZoOW P.S. I’m talking workouts. You were thinking…?
Finding Your Soulmate (Workout) (Lean Girls Club) →
I’ve heard a lot of talk this past week about finding your soulmate… and not just because it was Valentine’s Day. This wasn’t talk about romance. It was talk about workouts.
Specifically, finding your “soulmate workout.”
For the rest of the story, visit the Lean Girls Club.
ECC faculty talks to continue today (Sun-Times... →
ELGIN — Elgin Community College representatives plan to meet with the Elgin Community College Faculty Association negotiating team again this afternoon in an effort to reach a new contract.
For the rest of the story, butchered lede and all, visit The Courier-News.
D300 plans administrative changes (Sun-Times... →
CARPENTERSVILLE — Community Unit School District 300 announced the elimination and creation of several administrative positions Thursday, all part of Superintendent-elect Michael Bregy’s plan to shift the district’s top priority to core “teaching and learning.”
At a meeting with administrators and staff Thursday, Bregy outlined Phase I of his plan for that priority shift, according to the...
Yesss! RT @teganzimmerman Why else would we live here! RT @TheTonyHam Esquire names Chicago the best beer city in US http://bit.ly/gLAlEJ
More D300 talk on budget cuts (Sun-Times Media) →
ALGONQUIN — “Middle school was a train wreck to begin with,” said Monica Clark, a member of the Community Unit School District 300 Board of Education.
Clark was expressing her reluctance to support cutting 0.5 counseling positions from two middle schools in the Carpentersville-area school district. But she may as well have been describing school board members’ feelings toward the...
Sick of the flu (Sun-Times Media) →
It’s not the H1N1 of 2010, nor the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918. You can’t catch it from swine or birds.
It’s just the plain old seasonal flu.
But it’s nothing to sneeze at this year (pun fully intended), according to area health departments. Kane, McHenry and DuPage counties all have reported a modest but steady increase in the past few weeks of those showing flu symptoms, including...
Class Review: XSport® Vinyasa Flow/Hatha Yoga... →
Class description: An innovative class which focuses on the instruction and the attention of poses (asanas) and breathing (pryanayama) techniques. Both Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga will explore the disciplines of traditional Yoga. @ XSport Fitness
I’ve done yoga before. And by “done yoga,” I mean at different points in my life I’ve rolled around in the floor in acting classes, strung together a...
is working from the city because there’s so much #education news, I’m gonna need that two-hour commute time to write it all!
The meeting ended at about 9:30 p.m., and I just filed my story. Check tomorrow’s @couriernews for full coverage! #CUSD300mtg
Follow along at tonight's D300 school board... →
Attending a school board meeting is kind of like taking a class at the gym.
Hear me out: Before you go, you wonder what kind of people will be there. What if you’re over-dressed? What if nobody else shows up? Or you wonder if you’ll be able to keep up. What if you have NO CLUE what’s going on, and everybody else is going at it like they do this all the time? Or maybe they...
RT @Proverbs31org #madetocrave Rom. 5:8 {God’s ♥ doesn’t depend on our performance} Journey out of the truth we are loved, not to be loved.
RT @couriernews Today’s top story: More students entering @elgincommcoll college-ready—but numbers still low, gaps exist http://ht.ly/3WiRO
Yeahhh, it was a good one. I hope yours was, too, and you feel loved! #happyvalentinesday (@ Valentine’s Day) http://4sq.com/eWlCkg
Manicure…pedicure…maybe I’ll come back later for a workout… (@ XSport Fitness w/ 4 others) http://4sq.com/ibMqYL
Last week, students in @CUSD300 thought I was @JillJayne. This week, Jill was here, dressed as a news reporter. These kids are so confused.
So Facebook tells me it is now 100 days until my #wedding. #cuethefreakout #mcmillion www.emilyandjoel.com
Frequent Flier miles, redeemed. See you next weekend, @gracekelle, @karajclark, #NYC!
came to cover a middle school science contest, was asked if I was a contestant. (@ The Hemmens) http://4sq.com/hIxBAt
The Numbers on the Scale →
My roommates were not happy.
“You brought a SCALE into our HOME?”
That was the horrified reaction I got this weekend as I struggled to pry off my snow boots in the doorway to our…
Hey! Who moved my dibs chairs in my nice,shoveled-out parking spot? NOT COOL. #fb
