…back on your heads.

I wonder if any of my students (past or present) remember that joke. Heh.

So anyway, after a long weekend (some of you will notice I was unable to attend the inservice yesterday), it’s back to the grind. At least I got the paper done. Not sure if it’s what she wants, but…

I have an RNF or nine this day.

1. OK, so I joined Facebook soon after it was first launched, and just let the account sit there. Then I went away because of school commitments. When I came back, the place was crawling with people. I like it. I like to comment on people’s posts.
2. Does anyone go to MySpace anymore? I ended up deleting my account there because of all the silliness (a thousand surveys about kissing a boy, spam in the inbox, ugly-ugly-UGLY profile designs by people left to their own devices, etc.).
3. Today I am driving the Thriller’s “classic” Mercedes Benz to school so he can take the Mighty Ford Ranger to Cleveland for a meeting. (The fact that he is not driving the Mercedes should give you a rough indication of its overall condition and roadworthiness. Yeah.)
4. Speaking of Cleveland — this Saturday, Young Frankenstein the Musical!!
5. I will never, ever, ever, ever choose to visit Boston. (Been there, nice town, but the mere mention of the name just makes me mad nowadays.)
6. How did I get detention duty and parking lot duty on the SAME DAY? Becky must hate me.
7. The Thriller bought me a new computer on Saturday, and I haven’t had the time to set it up yet. It’s sitting in its box in my parlor. Amazing. So unlike me. Ugh…
8. Last night I read A Nation at Risk, and Michael Apple’s commentary on it. That is an hour out of my life I will never get back.
9. What are Don and Betty Draper doing?!?!?!

There is much more on my reptilian brain this morning, but alas, I must fly. Gotta load my stuff into that classic Mercedes and head to Green Town for detention duty.

Bliss.

FO

This is a “New Jersey Housewife” with a really fake face. Poor gal; all drawn-up and stretched, stuffed and pulled and Botoxed and hair-extensioned (I have yet to see a single woman on whom extensions don’t look stringy).

Honestly, do people really go into a plastic surgeon’s office and say, “I want to look like one of those Rick Baker demonic creatures in the movie The Devil’s Advocate“? Bizarre.

Keanu Reeves is a pretty bad actor who gets some great roles. I need to know how that works.

The Devil’s Advocate has one of the best Al Pacino speeches ever: penultimate scene, where he’s in his office with Keanu. Crazy. You should rent it, if for no other reason than to see that scene (and the creature cousins of the NJ Housewife on the left).

I need a new desktop computer. This one’s going toes-up after eight years.

I had a good rehearsal last night with four guys.

Mavis and I need to get together and make candy.

Is it December yet?

Gotta get going — late, as usual.

Three Four weeks till this show opens — a little less than that until BFF Kay comes home.

FO

Write down this date.

For the first time in many months (some would say years), I have absolutely nothing to say. So get the ball rolling this morning, fiends. Need me some fairy dust to get the neurons firing.

Where are my peeple? Escribe!

Fink out (of palabras)

7:59 a.m. I did find this article on GNews:

Kate Gosselin to Bleat Until the World Suffers Collective Aneurysm.

I just like the title.

…is DVR.

I’m finding I cannot watch Mad Men at 10 p.m. on Sundays, then get to sleep by, oh, 11:30, then wake up and at ’em at 4:50, rarin’ to take on another week of school/rehearsals/BU rubbish. I admit it: I’m getting too old for that krazy kockadoodie krap.

However, I am not too old to have had a huge water fight with Jake during his bath time at my house last night, using washcloths for swords — he in the bathtub, and I on the bathroom floor. He won. We laughed. It was epic.

But henny, Grammie is tired.

So DVR from now on. Still, I wonder: how shall I get through my autumn Sunday nights, after having watched the Browns lose (again)? Guess I’ll have to do something productive. How boring is that?

FO

Do you have a secret favorite site? If so, you must share it this day so the rest of us might benefit.

I have many, and as you might find completely unsurprising, one of my faves deals with etymology (*yawn*). For those who A) don’t know, or B) do know and don’t care:

et·y·mol·o·gy 1. The origin and historical development of a linguistic form as shown by determining its basic elements, earliest known use, and changes in form and meaning, tracing its transmission from one language to another, identifying its cognates in other languages, and reconstructing its ancestral form where possible.*

I know: geeky. But I do luv it so. Oh, here it is: phrases.org.uk

So share one of your favorite sites. Maybe I will bookmark it. It doesn’t have to be about anything geeky, mind. Just something you find really interesting. Ready, steady, go!

Headache this morning….yick. Karma.

FO

* American Heritage Dictionary