My New Year's Eve fun this year was a puzzle, which is what my brother, my mom, and I used to do back when it was an accomplishment for my brother and I to stay up until midnight (yes, at some point in my life, I had trouble staying up until midnight). Anyway, since I wasn't exactly equipped to do anything else this year, my mom and I decided to ( Read more... )

I saw The Hours for the first time in the US tonight. I'd only watched it dubbed in Italian before this, and I have to say, dubbed in Italian was amazing. As, actually, was the original English. It's such a beautiful movie to look at. It was also interesting to see it this time, because I've read the book since I've seen it last. Knowing the ( Read more... )

Sorry that my post is a meme, but I liked the sentence. I'll update for real too ( Read more... )

Today is a very exciting day, because my weekend is essentially beginning. I don't so much have weekends, seeing as my personal agenda changes very little, but when weekends come, it means three things: seeing other people, talking to other people, and Broncos. This weekend there are no Broncos, but there's tons of seeing other people! Really I ( Read more... )

One of the most interesting parts of this whole episode is getting to talk to/see people with whom I'd completely lost touch somehow or other. I just got off the phone with a teacher I had in high school who I never thought I'd see again (she changed schools after I had her), and two days ago I had a visit by a friend in high school that I'd ( Read more... )

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While I was in the hospital someone replaced my right foot with the gigantic swollen foot from outer space. Seriously, people, that is NOT my foot.

I'm back home and back online. I think everyone who reads this knows what has been happening to me recently, so I won't get into it except to say, I'm back home! I got home last Friday, and have not left the house since, which is at the point of making me a little stir crazy. Maybe I'll get out this weekend, but it's hard with my mom in The ( Read more... )

So, I'm up at 1AM, trying to write lesson plans, and my damn disk won't read. It's so frustrating to do simple things when they suddenly aren't simple.

My computer flaked out on me too, at the beginning of my time in Houston. That, at least, I got partially resolved tonight. Although still not to where I'd like it to be.

Grrr...

At least according to my students! (well, except the one who basically told me to not quit my day job). In the teaching of character in stories, I introduced the lesson serenading my class with a cowboy hat on to see if they could deduce from the (rather substantial) clues what my character was. They succeeded admirably, and I got some ( Read more... )