My favourite part is the next question...

When you use live animals such as rats and snakes on the show, how do you make sure they are not hurt or mistreated?
Fear Factor always hires professional animal handlers that raise and take care of the animals. These are the same handlers that work many major TV and movie productions. When animals are involved in a stunt, the handlers are present on set at all times. They also advise producers on how to humanely and safely interact with the animals.

This is a load of hooey. Note how they say they advise producers on how to humanely and safely interact with the animals, no mention of the contestants, who, let's admit, are of questionable mental capability anyway. I'm sure they're being super careful of whatever animal they're stuck in a tank with, they're not rolling on or otherwise harming any of the animals. They eat live animals. Sure, they're only little animals, but I'm pretty sure no matter how little you are, getting your head bitten off or being turned into a slurry in a blender is a less-than enjoyable experience.

Anyway, that's my rant for tonight. I'm off to watch CSI:Miami, even though it's not nearly as good as the real CSI. A word to the wise, do not take Advil cold and sinus before bed. It will lead to possibly the worst sleep ever. Neo Citrin on the other hand, will do good things for you. But with this also you must be careful. At all costs, stay away from the honey lemon flavour. It sounds tasty, no? It's not. It tastes like ass. Grotesquely sweet ass, but ass, nonetheless. Stick to the lemon.

One final thought, has anyone eaten at McDonald's lately? I have, and the fries taste different. Not bad, just different. I'm worried that they've switched to veggie oil. They have always cooked in lard. Disgusting? Perhaps.... Delicious? Most definitely. Anyway, they're on this whole health kick, getting rid of large pops and super sized fries, introducing salads as a substitute for fries in your combo... I'll have to ask my students. Some of them work there, they'll tell me what's going on.

One of my 11s brought me an apple today, for a joke for my birthday. Very cute. She made me a card too; the other kids made fun of her a bit, but they were joking and it was funny.

CSI now, then bed.

monopolies

not the board game. I have just received my power bill for the month, and am upset to find a "monthly service charge" of $16.25. Now, if this were like the phone company where you pay $35 or whatever, and that's for all your calls for the month, that's one thing. But the power folks are charging me for every kwh I use, and this extra service fee just for fun, as far as I can tell. We don't have a choice here for power, as in most places I'm sure. If I owned my own house I'd probably switch to natural gas, but I can't just get that hooked up in my apartment.

I'm going to have to call them and see what's up. I'll let you know what they say.

live and learn...

Yeah, so the 'target="new"' tag is all that I needed to be doing. I'll leave the other ones as javamess, too much effort to change all that jazz.

Why isn't anyone updating their blogs? Jenn is, quite faithfully I might add, but the rest of you need to too! See, I'm living by myself now, and need to live vicariously through other people's (hopefully more interesting) lives. Forgive me.

I might have to take a drive out to the cottage tomorrow to make sure it didn't get washed away by hurricane Juan. I'm pretty sure it only really hit Halifax, but they're not talking about anywhere else so it's hard to say.

Anyway, I have to go make myself something for supper or I'll end up having popcorn or ice cream or something equally tasty but not very nutritionally balanced.

is it possible?

I've been typing in this annoying javascript code to get my links to open in new windows....when all I had to do what include the tag target="new"?

Let's give it a go, shall we?

click me

warning: funny spacing below

yes, so I have the title thing all figured, thanks to Jenn. I've realized that where it's leaving spaces after the titles now, for organization's sake, there is some funny spacing in the old posts with no titles. I could go back and title them all, but that seems silly, and I think you guys like me well enough to forgive me some superfluous line skippage.

I forgot to mention earlier, I installed a new power supply fan in my computer this morning! It has been making horrid noises at start up for quite a while now, and thanks to the nice guy at PC Medic, I did the old, 'popsicle stick in the back of the computer' trick to see if that fan was what was causing the noise. It was, I bought the new fan for $10, and installed it myself. Very proud. It took the removal of quite a few screws, and the realization that the inside of this machine is gross, but I cleaned out the dust and it still works, so I'm happy. The new fan is so quiet, my computer sounds new! Now, as a bonus, if I ever am able to save some cash and buy an iBook, I can sell this baby to Grant's parents without feeling really guilty about it possibly dying in the near future. wooh!

it's like coming up with a name for a poem though...

Which I have a problem with most of the time. But I like the idea of titles, like Jenn, and hopefully if I can't come up with one, I can just not enter anything in that box up there?

I love birthdays. I'll have to take that banner down, it's just silly now!

My grade 10 class sang happy birthday to me yesterday, and most of my students remembered and wished me happy birthday too. My school has a policy where you bring in your own cake for your birthday, that way if you want people to know, they know, and if not, they don't. I wanted everyone to know, obviously. I've also discovered that I'm the youngest teacher at the school. Yay me!

I got home from work to a card and the Bill Bryson book I wanted from Tiresa, who has gone back to Fredericton to be with her husband. Makes sense to me! I'm very much looking forward to when Grant is home here for more than a weekend. Only 3 more months! Tirésa also did the dishes for me, which was very much appreciated, though only noticed a while after I got home.

Jenn and I went out to supper at Jungle Jim's, and had exceedingly large drinks and free cake. She also made me my cake, and it was tas-tay. She also got me Crayola window writers, a (my little) pony, and a (toy) puppy! She couldn't find the Blue Planet vol 1 dvd, it apparently hasn't been released yet, which is odd since I own the other 3. But no matter, it's been ordered and will arrive some time in October. We watched the new show, Joan of Arcadia. I quite like it, it has funny bits, but just seems interesting. It was on opposite Miss Match, which is getting really good reviews, but looks incredibly stupid. If you've watched it and found otherwise, let me know, maybe I'll give it a chance.

Grant was home when I got home, so I got to have birthday fun there too. He got me 2 more glass balls to hang in the window, very pretty. Also some lottery tickets (that I didn't check yet, I may be a millionaire!), and the main thing, a (not *that* kind of) ring. Very pretty, and I'm wearing it on *that* finger, because it fits perfectly. So there. He got me some salt water taffy too, but I think that was more for him than me. We'll probably go out to dinner or something tonight. He doesn't have to go into work this weekend, which is more time for us to hang out. Always a good thing.

Anyway, all in all a good day, now I have to go shower and buy some advil cold and sinus. Sick on my bday? Yeah, I was impressed too. Just a head cold though, nothing too bad.

and you have to go here. She's very, very funny.
Thanks to D for the excellent recommendation!

Ok.

I've had a pretty full couple of days, and I'm freaking exhausted, but you must know all the details.

Tuesday we had a staff meeting, which was fine but totally kills your after school prep time and makes you have to do stuff at home, which I like to keep to a minimum. Wednesday was meet the teacher night, where the parents come and run through all their child's classes and meet us all, get a welcome from the principal etc. More on that in a minute.

Yesterday, my 4th period class, grade 9s, were all giggly. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why. I checked my teeth and face, and made sure I didn't have anything sticking to or hanging off me, and I was in fact clean. Very odd. I asked one of my (supposedly) more reliable students what everyone was laughing at. She says, very sincerely, 'I don't know!'. I say, 'really?, she assures me that yes, she has no idea. Ok. It was also Hawaiian day, we're doing spirit week. Today was 80s day, tomorrow is PJ day, but I'm getting off track. Anyway, because it was Hawaiian day, I had flowers on my desk. One of my students was up getting a pencil out of the cup on my desk where I keep pencils, markers, and pens for them to borrow. She says, I thought, 'is that a real flower?'. I say, no, it's fake, and go to pick it up to show her. She says 'no, is that a real frog?'

I look in my pen cup, and sure enough, there is a frog in there. I say to her, 'I don't think so, somebody must have put it in there for a joke!'.

Then I notice it is breathing.

I am surprised, but I don't scream or anything. I just say 'oh! it is real!' and then turn to my class and ask who did it, tell them nobody is leaving until I find out who it was, and that I am upset with them because the poor frog had been sitting in the cup for like 15 minutes before anyone noticed it.

I made them feel pretty bad, then took the poor frog outside. I had a feeling I knew who it was, but couldn't be sure, but I knew that at least half the class knew because they had all been giggling for the whole time, and had burst out laughing when I found it.

One of my students told me who it was, but I didn't confront him on it, I just let it go to see what would happen. I always give them a few minutes to clean up before the bell, and as they were doing that, one of my other students came up to me and told me that the boy who did it had written me a note and left it on my desk, and wanted me to read it. I said ok, the bell rang, and said boy stayed behind and waited for everyone to leave, and delivered what seemed to be a very sincere apology. I thanked him for coming clean and told him not to even think about doing it again. After the frog, since I didn't freak out, they were all like, 'well how do you feel about snakes?/spiders?/moose?'. I said I'm not afraid of anything that's not going to hurt me, and good luck getting a moose in here. They were reaching at that point.

Anyway, all's well that ends well. The note he wrote me was very sweet, I kept it and it reads something to the effect of, 'Dear Mrs S., I am really very sorry for what I did, and I promise it will never happen again. Sincerely, x'.

The topper to all this is that this boy's mother came in for meet the teacher, and I just sort of laughed, because she asked me how he was in class. I said we had a couple of rough spots but he's a good kid in a class of kids who when they get together just bounce off the walls. I didn't tell her about the frog, and I feel good about that. I think I made my point; I didn't need to get him in trouble. She said she's glad he's behaving (ha) because he told her he just *loves* my class. Very sweet. One of my other male students told me this boy has a crush on me. He has a funny way of showing it, but he is a 14 year old boy, so who knows.

Anyway, this is an insanely long post, so off I go! Birthday tomorrow, I have to bring my own cake, and I don't think I feel like making one as I had planned, so I think I'll buy a Superstore pound cake, they're delicous and have real butter icing. We bring our own cakes on our birthdays, because that way if you don't want people to know, they won't know. I like everyone to know, as you may have guessed based on the banner up yonder.

ok, off I go, for real.

mmmmmm.

I watched a new show, "I'm With Her". It was cute, as promised. Not cynical or mean, just cute and funny. Refreshing.

I have to go to bed, I've been sitting in front of this stupid machine all evening punching in class lists and other such exciting stuff. I do have concrete timelines for all my classes though, which is nice, and makes me feel better about things. It'll be nice to have to add to the syllabi when I'm talking to the parents at meet the teacher tomorrow night.

I have to go to bed though, seriously, or I'll never make it through tomorrow night. Tirésa's making me go to ESM tomorrow too (twist my rubber arm) so I have to be well rested. All are welcome, it'll be at least 9, which is good since the deals only start at 9 anyway.

Just in case anybody was wondering...

Easy one-bowl chocolate cake

2/3 C butter/margarine, softened
1 3/4 C sugar
(cream together)

2 C flour
1/2 C cocoa
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
(combine)

1 1/2 C milk
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla, Khalua, OR dark rhum
(combine)

Add flour mixture alternately with milk mixture to creamed butter & sugar.
Makes 2 8-9" round pans. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Let cool before icing.


Boiled/Seafoam Icing

2 egg whites
1 C brown sugar
4 Tbsp corn syrup
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
2 Tbsp water
pinch of salt

combine all ingredients in pot. Beat with hand mixer over medium heat until it holds its shape. Remove from heat and beat one more minute.

I'm doing marking, so I can't stay long, but I just wanted to pass along a happy moment from my day.

I had a student come in after school to work on his project, of his own free will I might add. He's working away, doing a really good job too, and just chatting with me about school and stuff. He came in with the attitude that he's no good at art, doesn't like it etc. He's not giving me attitude or anything, he just never really enjoyed art class. But we're chatting, and he says you know, I don't know why, but I really like art this year. I was like, awww...yay me!

That means I'm a good teacher, right? It made me feel good anyway. I just said well, I try to make it fun for you, to get you hooked so you come back and make masterpieces in a couple of years!

ok, back to marking.

Here, for your viewing pleasure, is a list of the upcoming season premieres. I didn't include the ones that have already passed, or the ones that I have no interest in. I did include the ones I like, and the ones that I think you guys will be most interested in. If you don't see your show, check out this site, which is where I got the rest of these dates.

this site has them in alphabetical order, if you're feeling especially anxious and can't bear the chronological order of the first site.

(Chachi's favs in bold)

9/22 CSI: Miami CBS
9/23 8 Simple Rules ABC (only 3 shows are scheduled to air this season)
9/23 According to Jim ABC
9/23 Less Than Perfect ABC
9/23 I'm With Her ABC
9/23 Law & Order: SVU NBC
9/23 The Guardian CBS
9/23 Judging Amy CBS
9/23 Gilmore Girls WB
9/23 One Tree Hill WB
9/24 Paradise Hotel FOX
9/24 My Wife & Kids ABC
9/24 ED NBC
9/24 Law & Order NBC
9/25 Friends NBC
9/25 Will and Grace NBC
9/25 Coupling NBC
9/25 ER NBC
9/25 CSI CBS
9/26 George Lopez ABC
9/26 Hope & Faith ABC
9/26 Life with Bonnie ABC (I hope David Duchovny is on again this season!)
9/26 Boomtown NBC
9/26 Joan of Arcadia CBS
9/26 The Handler CBS
9/28 Law & Order: CI NBC
9/28 Charmed WB (if you haven't watched this, you should give it a chance)
9/28 Alias ABC
9/28 The Practice ABC
9/29 Third Watch NBC
10/1 Smallville WB
10/1 King of Queens CBS
10/1 It's All Relative ABC
10/2 Scrubs NBC
10/4 Saturday Night Live NBC
10/28 24 FOX
10/29 That '70s Show FOX
10/29 Bernie Mac FOX
10/29 Cedric the Entertainer FOX
10/30 The O.C FOX
11/2 King of the Hill FOX
11/2 Simpsons FOX (Halloween Special, after Halloween, as usual)

and can I just share this with you?

Apple - Why Switch? Top 10 reasons. I drool over the thought of no more blue screen of death...and over iPhoto.

*sigh*

edit: the link works now

I've been reminiscing lately. I was in a musical in high school called "stuck on the 60s", written by my English teacher. It was cool. Well, it was pretty lame actually, but the music was awesome. I had a solo, "Johnny Angel". Look up the lyrics on that baby, it's terrible! but funny. Anyway, I've just been having all those songs in my head this weekend. I think I need to get them all and make a cd to sing along with in the car.

What happened to the iBooks that were all pretty colours? I want a blue one. They're not as neat now. Still very cool, and not more expensive than PC laptops. The powerbook G4s are, but I don't want one of those, that's a bit much. I do want an iBook though, I've decided. 2 desktop computers is silly, and Grant will be back here with his sweet-ass desktop at Christmas. I do think I need my own computer though, I'm very needy as far as internet goes, and Grant tends to take over my computer when he's home, so I can infer that he'll be even more possessive of his own... which he has every right to be, of course, but what about *my* needs? Anyway, so we'll add that to the bday wishlist, which has been updated a wee bit, take a look!

ok, I'm back, having bid a fond farewell to a little neon tetra.

I just bought myself some plants for my classroom, having told the girl that I get no sunlight whatsoever. She advised me to buy this Kalanchoe plant, which is very sweet looking, and comes in a bunch of colours. So I did, but then I'm just searching on Google to find the name of it, and it says that it does indeed need lots of direct sunlight. If they die, I'll be sad, and I'll take them back.

I'm trying to type here, and my cat is laying on my arms and nosing my hands. He's very friendly, but sort of a pain when I'm trying to blog.

I vaccuumed the whole apartment today, I was pretty proud of myself. Did the stairs and everything. I also opened up the paint for the apartment to show Grant's mom, and the one that is for the main walls, supposedly a green, is yellow. Maybe it has settled out, I'm not sure. I'll get our landlord to shake them up again when I have time to paint, soon I hope, and see what colour it is then. I like yellow, but not for my whole house. Anyway, that's about the extent of the excitement for my weekend, so I'll quit here and go make myself some supper.

a bientot.

An interesting take on "Operation Iraqi Freedom". I'm not saying I agree with everything he says, but he has some exellent points. Thanks to Tiresa for the link.

In other news, I have to hem my curtains, and without pins, it's turning into quite an ordeal. They need to be hemmed about 20", because they're hanging over baseboard heaters and I don't want them to touch. I don't want to cut the bottoms off though, because I will probably have use for full length tab curtains in the future. I tried to do it today, got one ironed but got frustrated on the 2nd one and gave up. I did fix a pair of pants I got for $5.99 though, the seam was coming apart in the ass a bit, so I just stitched it back up. What do you want for $5?

Eep, one of my fish seems to be dead and stuck on the filter. Let's have a moment of silence whilst I go perform the ceremonial flushing. Back later.

Miss me?
yeah, you did.

I hope you've all started your birthday shopping, only 9 more days!

I'm having a pretty good time at school. Meet the teacher night is next Wednesday, I'm a bit nervous about it. I'm sure it'll be fine, whatever. I have to go out tonight and buy some proper art pencils and good erasers. That's about the extent of my excitement. I'm not sure where to go, I'm hoping Staples or somewhere sells that stuff.

I don't really have much to report...my parents are coming up Friday, Grant is coming down. I was thinking of going up to Fredericton for a new teacher NBTA thing, but we had a new teacher thing on Monday, and it answered all but like 2 of my questions, so I don't feel like driving and spending the day there for that.

It's been really hot here the past few days. I don't know whether it's that crazy storm affecting the weather or what, but it's no good! It's been pretty cool up til now, very odd.
Anyway, it's supper time.

Ok, and I used a laser printer today, and I'm actually considering going and getting that one from the other day, that didn't come with toner. Apparently, the toner that comes with printers only half fills the cartridge, so you really only get 2000-2500 pages out of it. Maybe the 6000 pages for $50 is a good deal?

*sigh*

I want a new computer too, just because I have new computer envy over Grant's new one. Plus, his parents want a computer, so I could sell them mine and put that toward a new one myself. I really just want one that's faster. I don't like how they all come pre-loaded with a bunch of crap though, I like to put on what I like, so if anyone knows of a good, not terribly expensive company that builds computers, let me know! I'd *really* love a Mac, but I'd like to keep my monitor, since it's relatively new, very cool, and was a graduation gift. Do Macs ever come not attached to monitors?

On a completely unrelated note, but related to Jenn's post, I also have tropical fish that need a bigger home, if anyone's interested. They're silver dollars, but they're really much bigger than silver dollar coins, probably about 5 inches in diameter. I have 2, and they are constantly trying to escape through the tank walls. They may have brain damage by this point, it's hard to tell, from all that head ramming. The ramming freaks out the other fish too, who are all small and probably afraid of the giant silver bastards.

Jenn says that this bad boy blogger has a spell checker in it now. It's not finding any errors for me, but maybe it's only when you publish. Anyway, she's also got her 100 things up, so that's very cool. I'm glad we're friends.
I had a good week at school, and we get Monday off, sort of. We have to go to a beginning teachers thing for the day, so we don't have to teach, but we do have to be there for 8:30, so it won't be much of a sleep-in for Tirésa, but it will be for me. 6:07am? Not for 3 days! Grant is coming down this weekend too, and Tirésa has gone to Fredericton, so it's worked out nicely. Jenn's not happy with me though, haha.

Finally a good movie, or good-sounding movie anyway, has come to Famous Players. You see, they have the good popcorn, and you can get Kool-Aid instead of pop in your combo. The movie is Matchstick Men, with Nicholas Cage, Sam Rockwell, and Alison Lohman. It looks entertaining, so I'm planning on going this weekend with Grant.

I also have to revamp my course outline for the grade 12s. I have some students who are actually taking the 11 course this term and the 12 course next term, so I can't have them basically the same. Which is unfortunate, because I have to teach them at the exact same time. There aren't enough students to warrant separate classes, nor another teacher to handle it. I think my 12s are feeling a bit stunted anyway, held back I guess. There are only 7 of them, and they're all really quite talented, so I'm going to take an even more independent approach than I had planned and let them decide exactly what they want to do, with guidance and suggestions from me. The 11s I'll keep structured, they still need it (it's strange the difference a year makes), and there are still a couple of kids at this point taking art for lack of anything else to do; they don't want to do phys ed or tech, so that leaves me, unfortunately. Anyway, I took them outside today to sketch at the wetlands centre, which is a really cool place. It's also the reason there is such a preponderance of dragonflies, I've decided. It's just acres of marshland basically, but it's internationally recognized and praised, and they do a duck banding program every year that's fairly important in ... duck banding circles I suppose. Anyway, it was a beautiful day, I have them last period, and I thought it was a good way to end the week.

This is getting pretty long, with many, many links there at the beginning, so I think I'll end here and go have a quick nap before Grant gets home.
Oh, there's the spellchecker! My buttons didn't load properly, so I didn't see it.
Wow, it doesn't like a lot of words in here. Ironically enough, "blogger" was one of them. Ha!

Ooh, yet *more* options for blogging! V exciting. Well, feeling better obviously than I was last time.

I went to Future Shop tonight to buy a printer that was on sale. $199 for a laser printer, pretty good deal. So I get there, and find the printer, but also find an HP refurbished for $179, even better deal. Thing is, for some reason it doesn't have toner in it. It's supposed to, so the very helpful guy goes to find some. He comes back and can't find any, but his manager says he can meet me in the middle (give me half price) on a new toner cartridge. Now, that is a good deal, but not when I'm supposed to be getting toner for free. The stuff that comes with does ~4000 pages, the stuff they wanted to sell me for $50 ($100 regular) does about 6000 pages, since it's high yield. Whatever that means. So I said, ok, well 4000 is 2/3 of 6000, so I'll pay you for the other 1/3, which would be $33. Nice guy takes this back to his manager, spends quite a while talking to him, comes back and says he can't do any better than $50. I say I'm sorry, but I can't pay that much for something I'm supposed to be getting for free.

I did want the printer, and could reason paying 1/3 the price, but I saw no reason why I should have to pay 1/2 the price, when I shouldn't have had to pay anything for quite a while, since I don't do all that much printing. I do need to be able to print well when I need to print though, which my little Canon s400 just isn't doing for me.

In other news...
I have no other news. I found out today that some little punk in one of my classes was, as I suspected, not supposed to be coming to my class. Dink. He'll be gone as of tomorrow though. He's trouble in other ways too, so I don't feel bad for whatever's coming his way. Most of my classes are good overall though. I have one boy who likes to comment back to me on everything I say, but I gave him his official warning today; and one girl who has enough attitude to last several teenage girls 3 lifetimes. She too has been given notice.

Tirésa bought us supper fixins last night, and cheesecake. We ended up saving both for tonight, which is why I must leave you now. Cheesecake beckons.

a bientot.

I am a bad blogger.
Had a pretty good weekend in Freddy, went to the market and bought bagels and salsa, left them both in Freddy with Grant. Not happy. Didn't have a very good day at school. Going to go shopping to pick up a couple of things, hopefully I'll remember what when I get out, because I was never near my desk when I remembered something I needed to get.
I don't really have anything to say. I'm sure it's related to my being in a down-ish mood. I'll try to think of something to say for later; I just wanted to let you know I'm alive.

There have been some questions regarding the toaster oven/rotisserie/griddle. It's just what it sounds like, you can bake and broil and rotisserie, and on the top there is a little pan that fits in that you can cook stuff in, like eggs or veggies. Ok?

School was good. I was a bit frazzled because I never plan enough stuff, but I know that about myself, so I plan "if enough time" things that I almost always end up using. It works for me. My students seem basically good, some of them are repeating grade 9 for the 2nd or 3rd time so they're a bit pissed off to be there at all, but there's not much I can do about that really. I'm putting together my formal plans for things to do tonight, going through the interest sheets to see what specifically the classes want to do and don't want to do; I'll take that into consideration but of course I won't let the 9/10 classes completely decide what they get to do, since a lot of them put "nothing" when I asked what they liked about art classes in the past.

Anyway, I have about a million and one things I have to do, including, but not limited to, dishes, laundry, making banana bread before my bananas grow legs and run away, make syllabi for my courses, make an "emergency lesson plan", do a sheet on how to respond to art work, buy some paper and fake flowers, etc, etc. That just made me more tired, so I'm going to go get started.

I am cooking a tasty, tasty chicken in my new Toastmaster toaster oven/rotisserie/griddle. I've never rotisseried anything, so I'm pretty excited. I've got some potatoes going in the pan that's catching the chicken-y goodness which should also turn out to be darn tasty.

On a completely unrelated note, I have a tip to pass on to you folks. You know when you pop in your DVD and it goes through all the FBI warnings and crap, and you can't fast forward? If you hit stop and completely stop the DVD, then hit play, it skips that part and you can fast forward through the movie company crap. That's it, I'm off to tend to my chicken.

It's that time of year again folks, the birthday counter is back! Thanks to Jippy.com.
I've put up a very short birthday list over on yonder sidebar, I'll try to think of more stuff, but I'm really not very good at that.

It's cold this morning! I took Grant up to Fredericton yesterday, so I was a bit lonely last night, but didn't get back here until 10, which was a bit late to be doing anything. I rented "Bringing Down the House" and watched it, it was pretty funny. I also rented "The Life of David Gale", but I thought that might be a bit much for me late at night so I'll watch that one today.

My brain's been going a mile a minute planning for my classes, I think I'm ready, and I'll feel a lot better once tomorrow is over and done with. Tomorrow, eep. Anyway, I'm going to write down some plans to get them out of my head, and maybe get dressed. I'm pretty sure nothing is open today, so that sort of decreases my motivation to make myself presentable, since I probably won't be leaving the house.