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sunny 'kumquat' malone

please stop meowing, nigel

About Me

I'm a teacher and a learner.
Your Brain is 40% Female, 60% Male
You have a total boy brain
Logical and detailed, you tend to look at the facts
And while your emotions do sway you sometimes...
You never like to get feelings too involved What Gender Is Your Brain?

My Interests

Traveling, reading, knitting, tattoos, movies, red wine, my kitties, teaching, talking politics, driving around, trying new things, listening to music i've never heard before, playing piano, popping bubble wrap.

I'd like to meet:

Smart, bookish types. People who can laugh at themselves. People who like to try new things. Travelers. People who see problems and try to fix them. People who are honest. People with passion and compassion.

Music:

KCRW, KPFK, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, old southern delta blues, Beck, Beastie Boys, Shuggie Otis, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Prince, David Bowie, Le Tigre, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Suba, Patsy Cline, Death Cab for Cutie, KT Tunstall, Marlene Dietrich, older Ani Difranco, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Lucinda Williams, Erik Satie, music from Mali, most yodeling music, and many many more.

Movies:

A State of Mind, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone With the Wind, The Sound of Music, To Kill a Mockingbird, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, Secretary, The Princess Bride, My Own Private Idaho, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Brokeback Mountain, Lost in Translation, Royal Tenenbaums, Hitchcock, Woody Allen, you know, good ones.

Television:

The Simpsons, Futurama,American Idol, American Experience, Antique Roadshow, South Park, Freaks and Geaks, Cowboy BeBop, L Word, House, Grey's Anatomy.

Books:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Color Purple, Feed, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, A People's History of the United States, Reading Lolita in Tehran, so many to read, so little time.

Heroes:

My sister, my mom and dad, my niece, and my two Amandas.

My Blog

what the f.ck?

so, readers...i've been a bit disgruntled lately. i don't really feel like posting any blogs, because someone on this cybersphere violated my trust a couple weeks ago. i won't go into details, but the...
Posted by kumquat on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:36:00 PST

i'm rather impressed

okay. so the new school year began last week. i know that i'm going to kill myself this year. (not literally, don't worry) i'm teaching six classes and have four preps and i have two coordinatorships ...
Posted by kumquat on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:19:00 PST

quiet on the western front

howdy all, i know i've been a bit quiet with my posts lately. i was going to post another paper for my class, it was pretty good, but again it's all this ranting about how dysfunctional our education ...
Posted by kumquat on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:58:00 PST

suppressing student voice

I just finished writing this response paper. It's a bit on the "half-assed" side because I'm really busy packing and moving right now. So school is, sadly, second on my priority list at the moment. &...
Posted by kumquat on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:45:00 PST

do you know what's happening?

Has anyone heard about the massive oil spill in the eastern Mediterranean as a result of the bombing of a power plant? It happened three weeks ago, but of course, other aspects of the war in Lebanon a...
Posted by kumquat on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:52:00 PST

why we aren't changing our shitty education system

Here's my next response paper. You may notice a certain redundancy in ideas throughout these, especially those I hold about my personal educational philosophy. I hope this doesn't bother you too ...
Posted by kumquat on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:33:00 PST

on a roll

I thought since I just wrote it, I'd share this next response paper with you as well.         The reading assignment for today's class raises some interesting questions....
Posted by kumquat on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:56:00 PST

after thought

In case you're interested in further reading about girls in the Islamic Republic of Iran, I suggest the graphic novel and its sequal, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon, 2004) and Persepol...
Posted by kumquat on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:46:00 PST

sex and repression

I finally finished reading Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Random House, 2004). I just love this book. It is a memoir of the author's experience teaching in Iran during the Islamic Republic, ...
Posted by kumquat on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:14:00 PST

my response paper for class today

I'm sure I'll get this right on the third try. I was going to email this response paper to a friend, but thought I'd show it to all of you. I hope you don't find it too boring. The reading assignment...
Posted by kumquat on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:40:00 PST