Another joke, from a compilation of largely un-funny jokes by Stuff magazine. This one just struck me as funny, and it's short.
2 goldfish are sitting in a tank. One goldfish says to the other, "so, do you know how to drive this thing?".
Ha!

ok. Here's a joke I heard today from the teacher of the grade 7 class I work with.

2 cows are standing in a field, chewing their cud. One cow looks at the other cow and he says,"you know, all this mad cow talk is making me nervous. I'm really worried I might get it! You seem really calm though, aren't you worried?"
The 2nd cow looks back at him and says, "what do I have to worry about? I'm a penguin!"

the webcam is up and running again, all I had to do was format the hard drive to reinsall the GD software. Seems worth it eh? Anyway, I'm working 8-8 yesterday, today, and tomorrow, so I'm not around much, but I'll let you know if anything really exciting happens, I promise!

Well so I formatted my hard drive. I also partitioned it so that next time things aren't working I don't have to lose everything. I backed everything up, but it was still a pain in the ass. Went to see Bruce Almighty today, and it was pretty funny, I have to say. I have to also say though that there were a lot of kids there, and it's really not a kid's movie. It's not too offensive or anything, but there's a good amount of sexual humour and swearing, as indicated on the website. Just my 2 cents I guess.
We just watched Drumline, and it was decent too. I haven't seen a really good movie for a while, that I can think of anyway.
I was up really late last night fixing the GD computer, so I'm going to get my pjs on and go to bed momentarily. nighty night!

Take a moment and look at this. It's a proposed law requiring treatment and pre-release evaluations of sex offenders which may allow them to be placed on the dangerous offenders list. If you agree, please sign the petition.

In this new unscripted drama series, 15 beautiful girls come for love but are surprised to learn in the first episode that there is also a million dollar prize at stake - but the winner and the bachelor will not know that she ultimately must choose between the man of her dreams or $1 million.
I cry for the generation for whom this is normal TV.

I realized that I haven't posted any pictures of my new car! I washed her today so she's extra purty.
glamour shot #1 and glamour shot #2. Would you mess with that? I haven't been cut off yet!

ok, going back to my commentary on the Matrix: Reloaded....Ernie did a great synopsis of it in his post from the 20th. Enjoy!

I just want to let everyone know that if Clay wins American Idol tonight, I'm going to vomit. I haven't even been watching the show, but I know that he's creepy, and has a voice fit for show tunes, not top 40 radio. Ruben doesn't have a great radio voice either, honestly, but he does have a great voice, and he's way cooler than Clay.
I also see that tonight buddy Firestone from the Bachelor has made his choice and we get to see what's going on now, and meet the next Bachelor. *sigh* What's wrong with people that a top choice for tv is complete strangers meeting other complete strangers and proposing to them? I don't get it.

On a brighter note, I realized what great experience I'm getting at my tutoring job. I have to basically make SEP's for all 8 of my students, and be far more creative and flexible than I would have to be in any regular classroom. I have one student who wants to learn. The rest range from "I'd rather not" to "I would rather shove hot nails into my eyes than do work". It's not very fun sometimes, but there are only 21 school days left, and sometimes it is fun. The student I'm working with in the mornings has made improvements in how much work he gets done. Mainly because he comes for tutoring 3 times a week and I make him do work there, but still, it's better for everyone. He's gone from having to stay in every day for not having work done or assignments handed in, to actually having his homework done one day without having been to tutoring the night before. It's really frustrating because he's more than capable of doing any of the work that's thrown at him, but chooses not to most of the time. How to make 13 year-olds understand that school is just something you have to do to get on with your life?

As promised, zoo pictures! Be warned, they're not small pictures, and there are about 25 of them. Enjoy! I didn't put any pictures of the lions or tigers or most of the chimps up, because I didn't figure out til the end of our visit how to not focus on the fence separating me from the animals. I now know how to manually focus the camera, so I'm all set.

Just got back from the Matrix. It wasn't horrible, but there was a really poor plot : fight scenes ratio. It also really seemed like a bunch of guys just sat around and threw out ideas, and given no coherent way to get them all in the movie, they just said, screw it, put them all in! Good action, overall I'd say 3/5. I will have to go see the next one, because be warned, this one just sort of ends. I realize it's a trilogy, but normally there's some sort of closure before embarking on the next chapter, no? This was more like the season finale of a TV show, leaving you more annoyed like, 'I can't believe they're ending it THERE!' than 'ooh, that's fun, I can't wait for the fall!'

Also, I went to the Magnetic Hill Zoo yesterday. Pictures to follow, I'm too tired right now. We saw jaguars rockin' on though, it was pretty funny. We thought they were having a drink because they were lying right by the pool, but then Jenn was like, oh...they're not drinking...
We saw a bunch of animals, and I got a super cute picture of 2 ring-tailed lemurs. But you have to wait to see it! mwah ah ah....Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! and zebras, and a HUGE camel, some ducks and bunnies, and deer and goats, peacocks and turkeys, a lynx, jaguars, as mentione, assorted primates, and a guy without his shirt, who had no business having his shirt off. I think that's it.

I got some not especially stellar pictures of the eclipse, it got really hard to focus at the end, and I'm still working out the details on this camera, but they're not too bad. So here you go, in approximate order. The shutter speed was slow, so a couple are really odd looking, but I kind of like them anyway! tripod will have to wait for now...

beginning of the eclipse
getting smaller
smaller..
almost gone
not much to focus on in this one

OOOOh, there's a lunar eclipse tonight! click for details and times.

(ha ha, I almost posted with the link to the Wolverine pic in there again...)

I'm not dead! yaaaaaay! Yes, there was some doubt there on Tuesday. Feverish and just feeling like crap in general, but Wednesdy I woke up feeling pretty good, except for a cold. I watched the series finale of Dawson's Creek today, they've been playing all the episodes on Superstation for the past month or so. I was *really* confused though, because Jenn was dying and had a baby, and when I watched Tuesday her Grandma had cancer and there were no babies on the way. Apparently this was to be 5 years in the future. Ahhh. So I won't ruin it...yes I will. Jenn dies from some weird heart disease, Jack takes her baby and he and his boyfriend, Pacey's brother Deputy Doug (now the sherrif) are going to raise her, Dawson is a successful writer of a show called "The Creek", and Joey and Pacey end up together. So there you go. I had to call Calleen though, I was all confused cause I missed 2.5 shows between Tuesday and today. She cleared everything up though, thank heavens! haha...I had to watch it, if only to be sure it's really over.
I think Friends and ER are both season finales tonight, so that about sums up my plans for the evening. I lead *such* an exciting life. We went to see X2 last night, and I don't know what the bad reviewers were talking about, it was supercool. I love Wolverine. Even bleeding, he's still hot. He does some serious damage in this movie.

Well. Not much new here. I caught a nasty bug from Grant's parents, so I'm not too thrilled about that. I don't have a lot to say really, I'm not feeling to super. Grant is once again MIA, but this time he made and left me supper, so I can't be too upset with him now, can I? I'm guessing hockey. Also, he was making me feel a bit bad about buying a digital camera, since I really don't have any money, but they have 12 months no payments no interest, so surely I can pay it off in that amount of time. So I said fine, whatever, if you're going to make me feel bad about it then screw it. He comes back (obviously having given it some thought) with that photography is my hobby, and if I'm not going to give him a hard time about spending whacks of money on hockey, then fair's fair. So there you go.

I'm watching a really, really excellent video on learning disabilities called "Misunderstood Minds", off of PBS. Go here and scroll down to the "try it - experience a learning difficulty". It's about phonemic awareness, and it's really hard. And as they point out, they've only changed 8 of the 40-some phonemes. It was hard, but you can sort of figure it out as you go, because you'll probably know what it's talking about, the passage. It would be even worse being a child, and not knowing at all what the passage was saying. Try it!

The fish seem much happier without the cannibal bastards in the tank. Cleatus still hasn't realized he's allowed back in the cave, but he's fun to look at anyway, so him being out in the general population is ok. He doesn't eat my other fish.
It's beautiful outside, not terribly sunny but supposedly about 18 degrees, so yay spring! I'm going to not waste my entire lunch hours inside like I did yesterday. I think George needs to go outside. Mort already did, so it only seems fair.

gross eh?

holy shit. what the hell just happened? Do I really have to wait until fall to find out what's going on with Alias? This is not good at all. Just in case someone hasn't seen it, is watching it on ABC at 10, I won't say much. But holy shit.

In other news, I worked my last shift at MCRI today, it was a trade I had done to get Easter off to visit my Grannie. So that was pretty cool, Sundays are easily the easiest day at work, and overall every day is pretty easy.

Also, remember the walking catfish? I'll try to find the link to that post, it was in March I think. Anyway, I bought 2 of them because they were small, sort of ugly, and hang from their noses at the top of the aquarium. I'll admit, I don't check my fish numbers very often. I guess I take for granted that they'll all be there, day to day. I do check them for stress and disease etc, I'm a decent fish-mom. Yesterday, Calleen, Travis and I went to Pets Unlimited, where I got said catfish. I want to show Calleen how much bigger mine are than the ones in the store, but surprise, the one left in the store is enormous. Really, really big. I'll say..7-8 inches and a good size around. Odd looking critters. Anyway, so I say to the guy, wow, mine aren't that big, and he says oh really? They will be! I'm like, oh crap, really? He says, it depends how much they're eating. Are they bothering any of my other fish? I say no, I don't think so, they mostly just hide in the cave. Wow, he says...they normally eat anything they can get their mouths around (which, due to the increasing size of these bastards, is getting to be a lot of my fish. I start to worry.). I say wow, nobody told me that, but I haven't noticed any problems yet. One of them is probably 6 inches long and pretty fat, they have big mouths like...pacman or something.
So I go home, and to my shock and horror, I have NO NEONS left. Not one. I do, Calleen, have the little orange glowlight tetra that I got from you in like, 3rd year. But no neon tetras. I am saddened. I mean, those guys hide all the time; there are...were...a lot of smaller fish in my tank, so I hadn't noticed. I notice now. I notice later that the bastards have also eaten my favorite baby fish, a little orange platy who was one of only 2 that my now dead orange platy mom had. The other one lives, but is orange and black and sort of ugly. *sigh*
Grant offered to euthanize the mo' fo's for me, but I felt bad, even though they're cannibals and clearly cannot continue living in my community aquarium. I take them out, or Grant does, he being the engineer comes up with a way to catch them, they're big and fast, and I didn't want a repeat of the algae eater on the floor incident. I put them in my 3 gallon unheated tank for the night, and bring them back to PetsUnlimited today. The people there are like, who sold you the fish? I don't know, any more than when I go to any other store I remember the person's name. So whatever, I tell them that yes, I am sure that I told the guy what size tank I have and who lives in it, and that there was no mention of the size or violent nature of these fish. Live and learn I suppose.

Today's moral: Don't buy pets at super-sized pet stores..
If you must, buy your food and supplies there, but not the pets. Spend the extra dollar and go to a reputable pet store. That's my two cents. More like a loonie I guess, sorry about the length!

Where is my boyfriend? Why doens't he leave notes? I went out for ice cream and supper with Jenn last night after work, while Grant was at 'card night'. I did not leave a note. I was feeling very rebellious, but then kind of bad until I remembered I had my cell phone on me if he actually was wondering where I was. I got home at about 10:30. He was still not home. Mild guilt turned quickly to relief then mild irritation that he still wasn't home and that I'd been feeling bad. Why do I care? Why don't boys get that it's just nice for them to let their significant others know where they are? Maybe even an approximate time of returning! I know, it sounds crazy. Good thing there's good tv on tonight, or I'd be bored and annoyed.
I have a headache, which is from a combination of being tired, not eating anything today, and trying for 3 hours at lunch to get my cover letters done and printed off to hand in today for the non-jobs at district 2. My printer is very split-personality. Sometimes, it'll print perfectly. Most of the time, however, it will print 50-90% of the page perfectly, and screw up one line. It'll print half of it, or skew it all to hell. So this is what I did for my break between jobs today. I got my resume and one of 4-5 needed cover letters printed. I'll finish tomorrow, it's a day off anyway.