I don’t have a lot of time, but I have time to dream. Maybe if student teaching/teaching doesn’t work out I can build myself one of these over time.
Teaching takes a lot of time. Building trailer-park mansions is looking more and more appetizing.
i hope to blog six quality blogs in a matter of minutes/hours/snowflakes.
1) update on those things
2) spicy steoup
3) the kids with the baskets
4) aminals!
5) possibly a little tiny magical f_yi_g _q_i_r_ _l
6) secret surprises you could never predict.
stay tuned?!!??!
so…just wait…i have videos and many a story to come. hope later tonight. i promise tomorrow if not in the next 8 hours.
update- so i lied a little, student teaching really has me caught by the foots…soon.
let’s just say it had to do with public sparks and public works.
let’s also just say we met the likes of a couple ‘o crazy people, and a couple ‘o crazy drawings, and created some crazier times than we might have thought. videos will show you what i speak of:
videos coming soon?!?!
look at dis guys’ phot-ohs-yeahs!- “vanishing america”
re: lacey diamonds?
the fresh cut salads did quite a nice job with their non-day jobs:
lacey diamonds whispher and whisk me to sleep. i need more water to drink.
New Amerykah…coming out February 26th, on her birthday.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
- “the healer” - MADLIB PRODUCED BEAT!!!
- “honey”- sweet single
- talkin about the healer
- challenges in making album
Can’t even handle it. MADLIB!!! and MY FAVORITE BEST FRIEND!
if only i could live in a large lot with a forested area and conduct experiments to see what would and would not get eaten by trees.
check out these eaten by trees photos from a runner!
i think my mom wants to make a story/picture books about funny things from her runs. she should. she runs enough (probably almost like 50 miles a week!) she does most of it at a nature center and even i have some stories from running there.
but back to trees. can you believe some of those photos?! it reminds me of something horrible….a man turning into a tree disease? you might not actually want to see that video. i’ve heard the stories and seem him from afar but it is the grossest sounding thing i have almost ever heard and i want nothing more from it. but i will still share it.
’tis the joy of blogging, you must sometimes be willing to talk about things you yourself would never care to talk about. wait. what?!
if you’re feeling a little bit sad that you don’t have a valentine, or if you can’t spend time with your valentine…listen to this mix: Stones Throw V-Day Mix. i know exactly what i’ll be doing. school, lesson planning, and then at night- letting the Fresh Cut Salads be my valentine! go directly to that myspace link to find out about how to come to the show and try and woo me.
not really. i’m taken.
by the fresh cut salads that is.
woo hoo! anyway. truly i apologize for the lack of all the blogs i’ve been meaning to write. but someday soon i will be done student teaching (end of april) and until then i’ll do my best. it’s up to you to remind me how awesome sharing information can be.
fromage!
Beware you vegetarians and animal lovers- animals were harmed in the making of this video!
Pacman Frog Bites Mouse on Head
They ended up taking the mouse out and letting it live a few more days (all wounded?!) because it was so brave and strong.
You can do it, little mouse! Live a little longer. It was probably in so much pain and so traumatized that it hated life anyway.
Well. You can look at it from either angle.
And in any case, the mouse did get eaten. I have another longer video to put up of the frog eating a whole mouse. Should I put it up? Or will my animaltarian friends cry?!?!
I will put it up. It’s only a matter of time.
All I want to do is get more than 4 hours a night of sleep, but apparently not enough- I procrastinate, have “fun” (like going to TJ’s or Whole Foods to get some sustenance), and end up doing lesson plans for HOURS until the evening becomes miles from where my bedtime should be for having to get up so early. My friend sent me this to make me feel better- (I’m deeply disappointed that I haven’t been blogging more because I have sooo much to share! I promise I’ll blog 10X this weekend!)
“The photo above showing a beautiful crimson and gold sunset was taken from Marseille, France on January 12, 2007. In the background (at right center), notice the Canigou Mountain — at the eastern end of the Pyrenees Range, along the border of France and Spain. This mountain is approximately 250 km (150 miles) away! What is shown here is simply the image of the mountain and not the actual mountain itself.
Without considering the effect of atmospheric refraction, these mountains are far too distant to be observed from Marseille. However, on occasion, atmospheric conditions permit objects typically too far away to be easily observed to come into clear view. On this evening, summits in the Pyrenees Mountains higher than about 2,300 m (7,546 ft) can be detected. Most of the distance between Marseille and the Pyrenees Range is over the Mediterranean Sea. When the water is colder than the layers of air above it, a ray of light traveling through the lower atmosphere will be bent or refracted downward — the image of a distant object is thus displaced upward (superior mirage).
Notre Dame de la Garde is at the lower right center of the photograph. The faint vertical streak just above the horizon at left center is Comet McNaught.”
(http://epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=404000)
At the end of a French class today, I had a nice conversation with one of the students who has family living in Ireland. She talked about how she wants to take French for 4 years to help her get into an international school and how she wants to study abroad in Ireland. I was happy to hear her say that, and it also made me want to go to Ireland, or anywhere, really. Oh to travel!
I’ll have to make a point to tell the students they have to study abroad in college no matter what their major (and maybe I’ll sneak some photos/stories into my lessons about my time abroad)
i got a random 24 hour bug, or maybe it was something i ate during superbowl foods time? all i know is that i felt awful in the following ways:
1) physically i felt like sickysick all day, even after napping and beveragizing myself
2) i felt so bad about missing school. maybe it looked like i faked it after having too much superbowl fun, or maybe i was nervous about teaching my first lesson and faked sick.
luckily my teacher is a kind woman and the school supervisors were nice about it too. now that it’s evening i am left with a headache and a slight sense of illness and feel out of it and disappointed that i couldn’t have done more today.
is this sick too? i know my roommate has very sensitive skin and she can make designs puff up when she scratches it, but i have never seen skin condition “dermatographia” turned into art. it is kind of sweet, but kind of sickly so.
let’s hope i stay healthy and not throw-up-in-my-car-on-the-way-to-school-y!
