[in best Sally Field voice] You like me…you really like me.

Kidding. Well, actually, I hope you like me…but we won’t get into that again.

I enjoyed looking at the survey results. Of the twelve responses I got over the last 24 hours, here’s how it shakes out:

For a long time, Schmenglish was the leading category. Amazing…gotta do me a Schmenglish post right quick here. And I also noticed that fewer liked the history lectures. Hehe. OK, I hear ya.

Regarding suggested categories to add at RtB, you said “Musical Inspirations,” “Things I’ll Never Understand,” and “Tech Help for Lamers.” HAA (Guess who suggested the last one??) Great ideas, and you will see those in the future. Needed me some fresh ingredients to work with around here.

I’m also considering a guest blogger to come in every once’t in awhile. Any takers to author a post now and then? If not, no problem; I’ll just do what I do in choir. If you don’t volunteer to sing this passage, I’ll just call on you to do it.

I love me.

There was also a suggestion to include more pictures. I will do that this day — although I doubt the respondent meant “Show us more photos of the grandkids!” But hey, he/she probably knew that wouldn’t matter. If you see a grammie with a camera, just git out the way.

Speakina…Jake’s Grandma Jane (Hannah’s mom) sent me a fabulous photo in email last night. Jake got caught in the act of playing Big Boy in his uncle’s boots. Priceless…

And in other news…the Thriller gave Rousseau his monthly humility training yesterday:

And I am off to give a piano lesson and get some choir tour stuff done today. No, really. I’m working today. Right now. Bye. I’m going.

Finkus outus.

Several things to report today:

— I have taken the plunge and requested a name change at Facebook. Too many people have told me they are searching for me, but can’t find me. Oh all RIGHT! I’ve put in the request and it should happen tomorrow.

But I like the name Rat Fink. <<whiny, pouty, mopey face>>

— The Orlando Magic have been officially defeated. Heh heh. I feel a microscopic smugness. Grin at that, Dwight Howard. (I know, I’m just a sore loser, gettin’ me some righteous schadenfreude.)

— The Thriller has decided to go for his Clinical Counseling degree. How cool is that? He starts at seminary in the fall, if all goes well.

— School starts in 71 days. My final curriculum course for this masters degree starts in 79 days. Full scale rehearsals for the fall musical start in 85 days. Not that I’m counting.

— Yesterday’s survey responses are quite revealing! Nine in so far. If you haven’t taken it yet, then by all means scroll down and do it.

Off to the showers. Have a dandy MundaneDay.

FO

“If you don’t really want to know, or if you’ll get upset by what you hear, then don’t ask.”

This is precisely why I do not distribute surveys to my students, or even ask their opinion about my repertoire selections (although I will do that on a rare occasion — extremely rare). Thing is, surveys give people license to snark anonymously. I don’t care if I don’t know who it is; I guess I have issues with deliberately opening myself up for full metal jacket responses. In other words, I’m a delicate flower. *sNiFfLe*

But hey, I was in a geeky mood this morning and decided to mess around with some stuff at Google Docs. So I did a quick and dirty embedded survey. Three whole questions.

Please feel free to fill it out, and I will post the data in a couple of days. I covet your responses, so come on: gi’ it a go.

Happy Sum-day, fiends. I look forward to the tally.
FO

Random Neuron Firings

1. Ya know…I just don’t see the attraction. Tepid at best.

2. Remember that “New in Box” or “New With Tags” item you bought on eBay last week?  There’s a 50% chance it’s hot.

3. BoomR (and other iPhoners out there), have you heard about the big flap between AT & T, Apple and iPhone users? And of course, now they tell me, after I get my Storm (which I adore, btw, but I did want an iPhone first). Anyway, what’s your take on the whole thing? Seems I remember you liked the reception from AT & T, especially since you live and work in urban areas.

4. I don’t know how I got this, but I was going through some papers in my classroom, and found something that someone printed out for the fun of it. The title of it was “Things You Would Never Know Without the Movie Industry.” I thought it was rather amusing. Behold the truths that stretch our suspension of disbelief:

In the movies…

• Large, loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the price range of most people, whether they are employed or not.
• Even if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts, your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
• All grocery bags contain at least one loaf of French bread.
• You’re likely to survive any battle in any war, unless you show someone a picture of your sweetheart waiting for you back home.
• The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No one will ever look for you there.
• All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts, so you know exactly when they’re going to go off.
• Any person waking from a nightmare bolts upright and screams. (Don’t we all?)

And my favorite of the lot:

• A man will show no pain while taking a ferocious beating, but will wince and make a fuss while a woman tries to clean the wounds.

Ha.

I’ll bet we could come up with some more. There were more on that list, but I didn’t include them all. You know, the standard ones having to do with lipstick that never comes off, panes of glass that shatter into a million pieces when bodies are thrown through them, never saying goodbye when you hang up the phone, etc.

I guess they call the movies & television an “escape” for a reason. And speakina…

We watched The Wrestler the other night. Interesting. Depressing. Great performance by uber-ghoul Mickey Rourke though. Very nice. Tonight’s NetFlix menu: The Other Boleyn Girl. I look forward to it. I like this NetFlix thing, btw. At least until fall gets here…but we won’t discuss that right now.

Have a great…um…what day is it anyway?

FO