January 2009
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“Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common...”
– Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen, p 29-30, A Signet Classic: New American Library, New York, 1965
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The Weekend Plus a Couple:
+ Grammy’s Birthday Party + Playing with Cousin’s Kids + Maggie Sofia Morrissey + Holding the smallest, newest baby I’ve ever held + Receiving Daria in the Mail + Freaks and Geeks + Writing + Writing + Writing
Her Name is Maggie.
My sister had her baby today. She wasn’t due until the 7th of February, but there were signs of preeclampsia and the doctor didn’t want to risk anything. So She and Matt went into the hospital for some test at 10 o’clock this morning and the doctor decided to keep them. It was going to take 12 hours to prep her body before they could induce, so they were waiting and...
There's Going to Be a Baby.
Sarah’s at the hospital. They’re going to induce. By tomorrow morning, early, presumably, I will have a little baby in my life forever. More importantly Sarah will have a little baby in her life forever…. and ever… and ever.
When I first found out S was preggers I was excited. Obviously I still am. What I have to say now, is very interesting … to me. When I...
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Reasons Why I Hate the "Twilight" Series #1.
+ How Edward and Jacob treat Bella + They are both in love with her and they both want so desperately to make her happy; which, ok, sure, sounds good — you want your loved ones to be happy, sounds excellent, right? But they both are so desperate to be the one that protects her - even from herself. Most people who know me, know my stance on this whole...
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'Birthin Babies.
The only part of Gone With the Wind that I have ever seen is the part where the servant/slave girl Prissy says “I don’t know nothing ‘bout birthin’ no babies!” — Quite literally the ONLY part I have ever seen. My sister may or may not be induced either tomorrow or over the weekend. She’s not actually due until the first week in February, but I guess...
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Frost/Nixon: On Presidents, On Film.
Today my country swore in a new leader - Congratulations, President Obama - and I went to see a movie about the one that resigned his job. Jon and I went to see Frost/Nixon this evening and while is was a good film, well done, good direction, excellent acting (God bless Frank Langella) but I’m not sure what I was supposed to come away from that film feeling or knowing. I’m very...
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The Weekend Plus a Couple:
+ Chin’s + The Boys’ Secrets + Time with Sarah + Football + Editing Ideas + New Writing + Matty + Tacos + Dentist = Numb Face + Gossip Girl + Franz Ferdinand + Camera Shopping
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Today Meant:
+ Daria + Daria + Daria + Editing + Editing + Editing + Meatloaf with Carrots + Jeans Shopping + Starbucks + Happy
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Today:
+ Soooo Much Daria! + Coffee + Green Guide + Daria + Editing + Daria + Pom + Daria
Daria! →
What do I do????
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K's Bday:
+ Daria + Red Wine + Gouda + Star Wars + Kissing + K’s Birthday + P.F. Chang’s + Pania
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Today:
+ Coffee + Hair Dye + Starbucks + Stephs and Nephs + Steak + Vin Bin Promises + Hannaford Customer Service + Coffee + Twilight
I Wish I Knew What I Want To Do With My Life.
Teaching with the DoDEA has been suggested to me and I greatly appreciate the suggestion. I’m actually really interested. I don’t really want, necessarily, to be a teacher, but this sounds just interesting enough to make me want to study up and take the PRAXIS. However, I wonder, and greatly doubt, that my teaching experience with Nature’s Classroom would suffice for Student...
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Today:
+ Minor Breakdown + Smoking Half a Clove Sober + Remembering why I HATE smoking sober + Sebastian Bach + Spaghetti and Meatballs + Walks + Face’s ipod + Dunkin Donuts + Vogue Magazine + Juno
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I ::HEART:: the Ninth Amendment. →
“Do or do not; there is no try.”
– Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
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Tonight.
+ Sully’s + Debating the Trinity vis-a-vis ‘our church’ + Vodka + Best of Will Ferrell
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Today Meant:
+ Philadelphia and Spicy Salmon Rolls + The Danforth Museum + Sedrick Huckaby: A Love Supreme + Faith Ringgold: Story Quilts + Spaghetti and Meatballs + She&Him + Editing + Twizzlers and Tea
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George, the 140 year old lobster →
PETA petitioned to have returned to the ocean, the guy that has been living in a tank in a restaurant in New York City as an Attraction to bring more business to the establishment, is being returned not to the Newfoundland coast where he was picked up, but to the coast of Maine - the Kennebunkport area. That’s a good 900 mile difference in location. That is NOT George’s original...
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We Were Without Eggs Tonight.
Therefore I could not make the chocolate chip cookies as I wanted to, but had to find something else to make since I was kind of bored and determined to bake something. So I started looking up recipes for ‘eggless … something or other’ — I don’t remember. Anyway, I found a recipe on a blog for Kourabiedes, apparently. (The other name was Greek Clove Cookies.) ...
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Stole this from Kris and did it myself.
Here is the 4th Picture Tag. Here are the rules:
The object of 4th picture tag is to: 1) Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer 2) Select the 4th picture in the folder 3) Explain the picture 4) Tag 4 people to do the same
This is a picture of Zac and myself in the living room of the Greenfield house. We sort of invited ourselves over one weekend — most of...
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Today Meant:
+ COFFEE + Shoveling Slushy Snow + More Gilmore Girls Season Five + More Horseradish Cheddar Cheese + Lots of Online Stuff
The End of the Day Was the Best.
+ Gilmore Girls Season Five + Horseradish Cheddar Cheese + The Curious Case of Benjamin Button + Holding Hands
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Highlights of the Day:
+ Walking 3.2 miles + Casablanca + PATHWORDS + Orange juice mixed with Cranberry juice
Things That Made My Day:
+ Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl” + Face’s ipod + COFFEE + Baking Spice Cake + Rum and Pomegranate juice + Trading Sarcastic Comments with Cousins + Baby Trivia + COFFEE + Becky’s Bar Flies coming in SECOND to Grandparents ETC. + Conversing with Melillo + Starbucks + COFFEE + Celine Dion + Conversing with Jon + Sully’s First Edition Pub +...
Tumbleweed Shakespeare.
The tumbleweed doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a tumbleweed
Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from?
Get your own quotes:
“We’re actors — we’re the opposite of people!”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
ASC - Home →
The goal of the American Shakespeare Center is to replicate the feel of Elizabethan/Jacobean theater as it would have been experienced in the famous Blackfriars theater in London. They have a thrust stage with seating on three sides, plus stools on stage and in the Musician’s Balcony above the stage. The wealthier theater-goers sat on either side of the stage, even wealthier sat on stage...
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If my students are old enough, or, rather, mature enough to have the debate, when I teach Ancient Graffiti I end the discussion with the debate over graffiti - it is Art? or is it Vandalism? And I let the kids tell me what they think. I let them know that their opinion is valid whether they are for or against and discuss the reasons behind each argument.
I honestly think it depends. If it is...
PostSecret →
I’ve come across many people who still don’t know what PostSecret is — I find that fascinating. And it’s not people like my mother who don’t even know how to turn on the computer, let alone navigate the Internet, it’s web-saavy guys who have been using it for research and communication since its impetus. Not only are these surprising people web-saavy, but...
Perhaps.
Perhaps starting yet another blog is the dumbest thing I have done today…..
Perhaps starting yet another blog is the most brilliant idea I’ve had all month….
Perhaps….
It’s hard to say.
