A kid in class today, after I handed out some ee cummings poems:

"Did you know this poem is all messed up?"

Yes I did, young r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r.

...I always liked the Book-A-Minute version of "The Complete Works of ee cummings:"http://www.rinkworks.com/

Subbed for drama teacher on Friday. Spent the day teaching kids why they shouldn't call things "gay" and "retarded," (good going, class who is reading THE LARAMIE PROJECT- I mean, honestly), and why rape is neither an appropriate nor a remotely hilarious subject for the game of charades ( Read more... )

The Theatre Dept. has asked all the seniors to send in a blurb about their plans after graduation for them to print in the program for the degree ceremony. Everyone's so far says something like "I will be moving to the D.C. area in order to pursue acting." I wasn't really sure what to put for mine. But then it hit me ( Read more... )

Arena

(known to self and others)
calm
Blind Spot

(known only to others)
accepting, brave, intelligent, loving, mature, silly, sympathetic, trustworthy, witty
Façade

(known only to self)
caring, clever, complex, reflective, searching
Unknown

(known to nobody)
able, adaptable, bold, cheerful, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted ( Read more... )

Dear people at the rehabilitation center: thanks for putting my grandfather, JUST released from two weeks in the hospital, into a room with a man with the norovirus. Now he, after aspirating on his own vomit, is not only back in the hospital, but in the ICU with pneumonia in both lungs, partially collapsed airways, and sepsis. You guys are real ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, Constantine XI Palaiologus Dragases aka, greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgranduncle. (no, I have no idea if I am actually related in any way to this person or not, but we do share a last name, and that's kinda cool, so I'm just gonna run with it).

"you're like so legit...like you can just be like, heir to the BYZANTINE EMPIRE ( Read more... )

I have determined that the root of my health problems is really quite simple: I am allergic to stupid.

I feel like being like this to people sometimes:

...Be a crab! FIGHT THE WORM!

In the two minutes I have left.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANE AUSTEN!!!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091110105401.htm

ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2009) - A woman is six times more likely to be separated or divorced soon after a diagnosis of cancer or multiple sclerosis than if a man in the relationship is the ( Read more... )

"The non-profit animal protection group, Mercy for Animals, recently released an undercover video displaying the practices of the Hy-Line hatchery in Spencer, Iowa. According to MFA, each day 150,000 healthy newborn male chicks are thrown into a grinder (called a macerator) while still living. Females have a portion of their beaks removed with a ( Read more... )