lots of thumbs up

when i watch movies i often zone out or rather i zone in to the movie so much that i lose touch with my surroundings... can't help it. my husband can attest to this and it's sometimes a frustration for him when we're watching lame movies that need to be made fun of while we're watching. sorry chum. anyway, on Fiday night we saw Walk the Line, a movie we were both very excited for and we were a bit bummed when the only seats left in the stadium seating theater were the upper right corner. nevertheless, it was excellent! let's just say i don't remember where i was from 9:50 - 12:45 last Friday night but i know i was with Johnny Cash.

www.walkthelinethemovie.com

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yesterday, as i drove home in the 4:30 setting sun i realized that my fly was down... and had been for the majority of the day.

the worst part was realizing that i'd spent over six hours interacting with all of those people, not having the foggiest notion. geez!

would you like me to sing for ya?

okay, okay... it's been a while but blame it on the students - not me. last weekend i had a dream that i was teaching the intro to the visual arts class and i was shooting from the hip. i was just making stuff up (including the assignment i gave, which was to memorize a portion of Handel's Messiah to sing to me). half way through giving the assignment i realized that it was a lousy, irrelevant assignment and even more importantly, i really did not want to listen to all these students sing for me. i was frustrated and to make things worse i couldn't remember any of my students' names. the jerks. so cut me some slack.

dia de los twix bars

this halloween was a first for me... i now live in a place where kids came to my door to trick-or-treat. some of the best stuff i saw was: a silver alien, a dead guy and butt-kicking skeleton costume. of course we had a few teenagers come dressed in a t-shirt and jeans and when we asked what they were it was some totally lame thing. one kid just put his candy bag over his head and made a boogalie-woogalie sound. give me a break. oh well, the reeses is what he came for and a reeses is what he'll get. on a more positive note, i was very gald to see that the so-called 'trunk-or-treat' had not completely phased out good ol' fashioned trick-or-treat. indeed, there is still hope for the future.

this year we won 'best overall' in the pumpkin carving contest