Weddings=Christmas in that they take too much time and anxiety and money to plan for the amount of fun that is had:  my verdict for my brother's wedding for which I refused to have my hair, nails, and makeup professionally done, and also fended off more than the average amount of questioning as to when I was getting married. The best part was I got ( Read more... )

What is this new movie with graphic violence starring Carl Urban (Eomer a.k.a the Beowulf-like guy from LotR) as a brawny  Viking warrior dude?

I hope he can live up to being a wrecker of mead-benches.

It is fashionable now to proclaim one's self a nerd now as it was formerly to proclaim one's self the unconventional outsider back in high school. Either way it's extremely annoying to suppose that no one can fathom the depth of your soul when you sport a look manufactured by a shopping mall clothing chain and honed by MTV Top 20 bands.

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Monday night I watched the pilot episode of the new series on FX, The Riches, starring Minnie Driver and Eddie Izzard as the heads of a modern-day southern-gypsy family. Eddie's a much better actor than I expected judging from his standup (Do spiders make gravy?) and Shadow of the Vampire (to give him credit he was playing a hack actor).

He throws ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was shopping for plain-Jane, non suped-up toothpaste (sans whitening and tartar control) (do you know how frustrating it is to find plain toothpaste?) and I spotted tubes of Aquafresh with yuppie space-age silver packaging. One of the flavors was called "Empowermint."

The dopey, dopey pun struck me as being so perfectly ridiculous that ( Read more... )

"In two weeks it'll be the longest day of the year." She looked at us all radiantly. "Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it." --The Great Gatsby

Lesson plans looming.
A strange feeling as I am not a procrastinator,
and am compulsively ready.

I believe my ( Read more... )

I sat down last night with some knitting and watched American Idol (brainless pop music is often the soundtrack to my knitting). When it finally ended I realized that it had lasted two hours instead of the single hour I had expected and promptly had a mini-freak out ( Read more... )

Valentine's Day is better than Christmas. It just makes a regular day more special. No added expectations except maybe a chocolate treat. Just lovely love and loving love ( Read more... )

My students are "researching" for their biography projects this week (I put that in quotations because google and wikipedia searches are not real research; I haven't completely converted them to Michigan Electronic Library as of yet.)And in honor of a few researching John Lennon, I thought I'd bring in Abby Road and we'd have a listen to lighten ( Read more... )

In October chuckpalahniuk.com posted that he was again doing his letter writing, and that anyone who sent a letter during that month would be sure to recieve a letter from Chuck and possibly a package ( Read more... )