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Grand Empress

Remember where you come from, where you're going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into

About Me

I'm an elementary teacher here in Honolulu in charge of warping young minds. I'm cynical, optomistic, opinionated and usually tactful. I'm married to a wonderful woman who stole my heart the first time I laid eyes on her.Ku'ulei, aloha wau i'a o'e, Ku'uipo.

My Interests

music, politics, GLBT equality, gender Studies, environmental activism, religion, children, driving friends and family crazy, my wife

I'd like to meet:

Hollins alums and students, other elementary teachers, musicians, Hawaiian activists, political rabble-rousers, Terry Pratchett fans and honest, outspoken, intelligent people. In no particular order.

Music:

If you can sing to it, I probably like it.

Books:

Terry Pratchett, J.K. Rowling, Richard Bach and Mercedes Lackey are some of my favorite popular authors. I also love Dr. Seuss, A.A. Milne and reading non-fiction political stuff.

Heroes:

my mother

My Blog

The W (& an H) questions

Jex already posted this on his blog, but I love it, so I'm stealing it. Thanks, Andy! :)Tell me your answers, and I'll tell you mine. You can leave them as a comment or email me or send me a message. ...
Posted by Leia on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:20:00 PST

Let's begin with Level Flight. . .

It seems that I go through phases and cycles in terms of my personal philosophy and my thinking about religion.  I'm once again in a Richard Bach phase.  For those of you who have no idea wh...
Posted by Leia on Mon, 07 May 2007 12:09:00 PST

Forget regret or life is yours to miss

I'm not sure why, but this song has been running nonstop through my head.  It's "Another Day" ("No Day But Today") from Rent.  I just figured that I'd post the lyrics and you can take from i...
Posted by Leia on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:53:00 PST

I've been tagged

Each players starts with seven random fact/habits about themselves. People who get tagged need to write their own blog about their seven things as well as post these rules. At the end of your blog, yo...
Posted by Leia on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:59:00 PST

Stolen from one who stole it from another

Well what do you know?  I've actually found one of these things I like enough to use as a blog.  How terrifying is that? FIRST THINGS FIRST::Full Name::The Grand Empress Ceilidh Alessa Franc...
Posted by Leia on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:56:00 PST

And this would be why there are paid professionals

Okay, I know that this is Hawai'i.  I understand that many of the homes are built by unlicensed contractors and are unpermitted.  I understand that it's less expensive to do the work yoursel...
Posted by Leia on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:11:00 PST

I love these things

You scored as Democrat. Democrat 100% Green 92% Socialist 83% Anarchism 75% Communism 67% Fascism 25% Nazi 8% Republican 0%What Political...
Posted by Leia on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:22:00 PST

Oh Christmas tree

Okay, before I start, let me just remind everyone that I'm really not one of those weird, Bible-thumping, yahoo conservative, back to basics dingbats.  Really, I'm not. But... I can't help but th...
Posted by Leia on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:20:00 PST

Make The Pie Higher

Thank you for sharing this, Mel!   This is a short poem made up entirely of actual quotations from George W. Bush. These have been arranged, only for aesthetic purposes, by Washington Post writer...
Posted by Leia on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:31:00 PST

Hawai'i Politics

So today is the last day of early voting for the Hawai'i state primary elections, and tomorrow is the real thing.  Now, in most cases, the primary election (unless it's a Presidential Primary) is...
Posted by Leia on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:01:00 PST