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Tag, I’m it.

Being out of sorts for a while now, I’ve fallen far behind on the weblog­ging.  I’ve seen a few movies and read a few books that the details are get­ting fuzzy on already!  The summer’s been busier at work than I’d antic­i­pated it being.  I made a big mis­take not tak­ing 1–2 weeks off over the sum­mer.  Now, I’ve got a few days off in Sep­tem­ber for the Austin trip, but can clearly see that I’ll need to take a stretch in Novem­ber to keep my sanity/health in good shape.

I gen­er­ally don’t par­tic­i­pate in any of the blog­ger memes or “tag” games.  In spite of this, I’ll make a sin­gu­lar excep­tion for Jen­nie at Only­Blue who tagged me two weeks ago!   I’m not going to prop­a­gate it for­ward though.

8 ran­dom “facts” about myself:

• Born on Easter Sun­day 1975 in NYC.  (Coin­ci­den­tally, I some­times believe I can save you from yourself)
• My K-12 edu­ca­tion was split between parochial, pub­lic, and pri­vate.  Tech­ni­cally I was even home-schooled for the bulk of a year.
• My mom’s fam­ily can trace their geneal­ogy back to the Mughal Kings of India.  (Coin­ci­den­tally, I have an inter­est in the his­to­ries of the Mughals, Tamer­lane, and Genghis Khan)
• I’m a Chicagoan.  (These days I’m express­ing this through my efforts at Gapers­block)
• I was Peace Corps Vol­un­teer.  (Served in South Africa.  One of the best things I’ve ever done)
• My CD col­lec­tion was stolen a few years back (2003 or 04, the details are hazy now)… since then I have obses­sively built an unwieldy music col­lec­tion that threat­ens to over­whelm me.
• I work on issues related to social jus­tice.  (For the past 6+ years it’s been urban edu­ca­tion reform by try­ing to use tech­nol­ogy as a lever to improve class­room practice/content)
• I used to want “to be” a writer.  Now, I sim­ply want to write one per­fect thing.

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