With our first band concert looming next Wednesday, and me not exactly knowing when I'll be cleared to go back to work (though I was bound and determined to go back on Monday to get ready for the concert), my assistant principal made the executive decision to postpone the concert indefinitely. I had already been considering it, but I'm glad she ( Read more... )

This SUCKS. My foot hurts, a LOT, and I can't sleep. All I want is somebody to come hang out with me or talk to me...

I know, I'm whiney, but you know what? I don't care. This blows.

So today found me in an emergency medical facility for the third time in one week. This morning I woke up to a swollen, red, painful foot ( Read more... )

So Wednesday afternoon I left Alaska and headed down to good ol' Georgia. The trip was pretty splendid, all things considered-- I didn't miss any connections, and I even got a bulkhead seat on the second leg of the flight (more leg room!). When I got off the plane in Atlanta, my bag was waiting for me at the carousel already (which NEVER happens ( Read more... )

Did anybody notice that the college professor in tonight's episode of "Veronica Mars" is the same guy who played Professor Lasky in "Saved by the Bell: The College Years"?

(Yes, it's official, I'm a loser and a dork.)

"The Guardian" was absolutely WONDERFUL. Seriously, one of the best movies I've seen in the theater in awhile. Very intense, very real... I was sitting on the edge of my seat for about half of the movie. Even the romantic scenes (of course there are romantic scenes... and that woman is HOT!) were very down-to-earth, not overly gooshy ( Read more... )

"Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" is the real deal. Even more Aaron Sorkin goodness in case we hadn't already had enough with "Sports Night" and "The West Wing". Dude's got ridiculous talent.

Decided to stop being a couch potato and get outside today... and man was that ever a good decision!

Fall in Alaska is very cool because instead of the trees turning awesome colors (they usually just turn yellow and then all the leaves fall off), the GROUND turns all sorts of cool colors because of the tundra that we've got up here.

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Hey you Athens folks ( Read more... )

"I need a drink, a man, and a massage. Or a drunken massage by a man."-- Christina in Grey's Anatomy

Yes.

Except for the man part.

Change that to "woman", and that would be correct. Yes.