Four Brothers - This was actually a lot better of a movie than I expected. More brain than I was anticipating, but not failing to leave me in the dark with action sequences. They don't take much time to get to the plot, something I like, in fact, the old lady is dead within the first two minutes. Also, there were a couple of pleasant twists in ( Read more... )

This week we were at the Daewon Foreign Language School. It was pretty good. We had a mandatory Tuesday start since we had to drive so far from our last town to this one, so we were already a day behind. Second, the kids are all South Korean, so English is the second tounge. That didn't cause any major language problems, but we did have some ( Read more... )

Yesterday one of our grade fives had an "accident" while on stage. He got up to leave, and I said, "where you going?". He looked at me sheepishly and just sat back down. A few minutes later, one of the Merry Band members told me there was a puddle on stage. Oops. We finished the scene and then we got them all on the gym floor to play a game. ( Read more... )

It has been nice to be home for the couple of days that I have been. After a month and a half of snow-covered land, not worrying about if you are going to slip or not when you drive is a nice relief ( Read more... )

I was completing some of my graduate school applications today and made a few calls to the different schools. Just looking at the applications and my information there lying on the page made me really nervous, almost faint, even. This is an odd sensation for me. Rarely do I get nervous about anything. The future can just seem so daunting. I ( Read more... )

Dry, by Augusten Burroughs, is a memoir. It is the sequel to his first memoir, Running with Scissors, soon to be a major motion picture. Dry is edgier than Running with Scissors and deals with some large issues including his journey to sobriety, the death of his best friend, and a boy friend addicted to crack rock. Burroughs shamelessly exposes ( Read more... )

Over the last few days, I have gotten the oppurtunity to do a lot of cool stuff, some of which I have never done before tour ( Read more... )

Ok, so the title doesn't quite work as well as if it were actually water, but still. I tried ( Read more... )

The Virgin Suicides is about a family of five girls that all commit suicide. Many blame the conservative, unrealistic parents, but the girls weren't necessarily Mary Tyler Moores themselves. Sophia Coppola's directing debut is fascinating to watch, but lacks a real tangible plot ( Read more... )

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