So...it's been almost two whole months since an update. What have I been up to, you ask? Not a whole hell of a lot, actually.

Mom's Wedding: Went pretty well, better than I was expecting. Only awkward when people made horrible newlywed jokes about my mother. I will always be a little scarred. On the funny side, I got to see Ben's dad do a ( Read more... )

Item #1: 4th grade children are incredibly amused by really asinine things. Apparently, hearing their teacher utter the phrase "underwear" ranks right up there with classmates passing gas or the classic "I CUP." Against my will, I told them the standard Latin joke: "Semper ubi sub ubi." This joke is not funny. To anyone. Except very small ( Read more... )

Life according to the Simpsons

Anyone see the Simpsons episode from season 16 when Frank Gehry designed a concert hall/eventual prison for Springfield? "You wrote that I was the bestest architect in the world?" So, anyway, in said episode he crumples Marge's letter and uses that as his design for the building. His designs are, to my ( Read more... )

1) Do not become a teacher. Seriously. All kids are really disease-carriers packaged to look all cute and innocent. DO NOT BE FOOLED! They all have the plague, and they all cannot wait to infect you, sometimes multiple times in a single month ( Read more... )

Want a way to waste time at work or school or whatever?

I knew you did. Slacker.

Go here: 50 Dark Movies Hidden in a Painting

In about 25 minutes I figured out 37 of them, but now I am stuck. If you are more savvy than I when it comes to pop culture, you should be able to beat me easily.

edit: victory is mine!! all 50!!

Wisdom from Mr. Ben Michael Loer:

"Thermodynamics is completely useless! It's just algebraic masturbation!"

(as you can see, he's adjusting to grad school nicely)

Ben: Why would you go to Amish country?
Me: People just like to stare at people in funny hats, I guess.
Ben: (pause) That's one of the great truths of the world, actually.
Me: What ( Read more... )

Updatage ( Read more... )

Normally I avoid these types of things, but I like books. So, if you feel like playing along, I'd be interested to know your answers, as well. Does that count as "tagging" people?

One Book...

(I hate having to pick just one!!)

That Changed Your Life: The Georgics, Virgil

You've Read More Than Once: the entire Little House on the Prairie ( Read more... )

Teaching starts the week of the 11th. Until then it's "teacher inservice," but luckily as a part-time, I don't have to go! If you have ever been to any all-day work-related training, you should understand the pain involved ( Read more... )

Mrs. Rachel Renee Loer

::squeals::

It was awesome. Thanks to my most amazing and hardworking K-Mo and TNT, without whom it would have been less cute and less organized, and let's face it, less cool.

Now to jump in a U-Haul for three straight days... Let us all say a prayer of thanks for the amazing power of Dramamine.