Last night was a lovely night. Been sick all weekend and last night had a mental beak down over all the things I have to get done, many of which I probably should have been getting done earlier, but convinced myself it'd be OK to do them in September (which has come and gone ( Read more... )

so today Ken was supposed to babysit for our friends who have an 18-month-old daughter while mommie had a doctor's appointment. Since he had to go up to MA, I ended up going in his place. Babysitting was uneventful, she slept the whole time. But when mommie got back she was in tears. Umm oh no she's dying, I thought. No it turns out she might be ( Read more... )

Hola from Spanish-land ( Read more... )

I must say, I'm sick of learning Spanish. I think I'm at the point where I'm ready to learn anything else, another language, how to weave baskets, how to run a sports betting ring, anything else. I just want five days with no Spanish ( Read more... )

So for some reason I'm watching Daisy of Love on VH1 and I have a new favorite quote:

"He ripped his pants off and shook his banana hammock unlike anyone I've seen shake their banana hammock before."

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So it's time for us to go to the language lab, but today I'm in no mood. So I thought I'd just hang out in the library for an hour before lunch and goof off. My brain is just not kicking in today. So I thought I'd share some random thoughts ( Read more... )

thought you'd like this, you darn dirty hippies:

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/04/28/cassuto

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So today is our first regular schedule day of spanish. And it's 8 a.m. to 10 in class, then 10-11 it's lab time or study on your own time (cause she gave us homework) then 11-12 lunch, then 12-2 back in class to go over what she told us to read. Fun fun fun, but it'll take some getting used to 11 lunch rather than the 1 lunch we were on ( Read more... )