Banning Sousaphones

"By the sidewalk, there's a sign with what I presume is a Korean character in the universal slashed-circle prohibition symbol, but at a fleeting glance it kind of look like Seoul has banned sousaphones."

Snarky Review Quotes

Favorite Quote for the Snarky Review?

"You can't carry handguns if you're an Australian citizen? What if you're in the outback and you need to kill something? Do you just throw a Foster's bottle at it and hope for the best?"

Every time I come to Seattle I waste entirely too much time on cable and free internet. Which is much faster and less annoying than going to the library where the characters take a second apiece to type. And God forbid you make a typo.

I spent all evening watch reruns of sitcoms and playing around on the internet. After doing the crucials of email, myspace, and blogging, I started doing searches for the complete Harry Potter boxed set. Usually the new book comes out in the early summer, but from all the fan sites, I gather J K Rowlings is still writing it, and it may not come out until 2007. Which might kill us all, but is a very good plan if they're still trying to film all of the movies. If she holds off for a year that will give a chance for Hollywood to catch up a bit. The last chapter was written long ago, and the last word is "scar." Which is the end of my hours of research. Which consisted mostly of taking Harry Potter trivia quizzes. My average on the easy ones was 100%, and on the very difficult ones was 85%. As you can see, I'm managing my time wisely. One set of questions I got wrong every time were the Heads and Ghosts of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Who even cares about those houses?

Then I found this site which features snarky reviews of recent sitcoms. I've spent all morning reading reviews of Lost.

Lest you think I'm completely wasting my time, I'm also doing laundry, getting enrolled into an online degree program, researching scholarships again (speaking of which, I have to read a book and write an essay about how the US would be different if the current abortion laws were reversed. Does anyone know a good book on the subject? Preferably something non-incendiary. I'm pro-life myself, but surely there's something out there that would just logically state what would change if our population was growing at the rate of conception instead of births...maybe it's impossible to be impartial on this one). And I've cooked two meals. Neither of which involved Ramen.

Doors Swinging Again

Doors Swinging Again

I had a meeting with my principal about whether or not we'll be having a spring program. We won't. Not with this little time left in the year. But she also told me that they won't be re-upping my contract next year due to budget cuts. So I won't be teaching in the fall. Which leaves me open to other things. I don't know what. But I'm free again. To do...something.

Two nights of working

Two nights of working in a row. A major incident with the credit card machine -- I'd forgotten to clear out the previous night's batch, so I could not for the life of me get my paperwork to balance. Shane was there to help close, and he found the problem. We were there late anyway with a lady whose husband was still trying to get their truck out of the snow. There was no one else in the bar, so we watched Lifetime. Early in the afternoon we watched several typically Lifetime-esque shows that Will and Grace refer to as "Honey our daughter ran away from home but don't beat me 'cause you're an alcoholic." Later that evening we watched Will&Grace, and back to back Frasier. It was great. Some nice hours for me, since I was bartending instead of cocktailing, and I don't work the rest of the week.

Tonight I'm going to finally see V for Vendetta.

He is Risen!

He is Risen!

Settled Again...finally

Settled Again...Finally.

I'm now moved into my new place. Alone for the moment. A little concerned about expenses until job #2 picks up a little. Speaking of which, I called in for my schedule on Friday, found out that I was supposed to work today. left early today to get there on time (after coming in 2 hours late last week) and was told the schedule had changed and I wasn't working. New rule: call closer to monday.

I'm back to the Entre Nous guide to living. I've started walking to the grocery store once a day to pick out about the next three meals worth of food. This is partly thrift, since I have almost no money, and am currently borrowing from my tithe cache, and partly because I can buy little bits of very fresh food instead of all the processed crap. This morning I had a cup of coffee, a banana, and yogurt. For lunch I had a baked potato with butter and cottage cheese. Tonight I will be resorting to tuna helper, but instead of canned tuna, I'll be adding a pound of imitation crab meat to the garlic cream pasta. Tomorrow, more yogurt and another banana with my coffee. Tomorrow lunch, another baked potato. And then probably tuna helper leftovers for dinner with the remaining fresh broccoli and french bread.

I'm going to go now. I'm using the library computer, and it takes about a minute for the screen to catch up with my typing. Free evening, I'll probably be working on some sewing projects.

Highlight of the Sermon on Sunday

"If religion was all that was needed, then Jesus was just a bad Jew having a bad Friday." ~Garth Gustafson

Old Shadows of Ecstacy

Old Shadows


Rachel: "And the first day of Christmas is..?"

2nd Grader: "A porridge in a pantry?"



Rachel: "So, Denise. Bible Study? Jackson's? Tuesday night?"

Sean: *Almost sprays the table with $8.50 per glass wine* "Alright guys, that's enough Bible study, lets go get drunk."

Rachel: "If I could drink I wouldn't mind drinking at Bible Study."

Tasha: "My friends bring a six pack to ours."

Nancy: "My brother is a pastor and he has a brewery in his basement."



Rachel: "And the first day of Christmas is?"

1st Grader: "December 25th?"



Denise: "You should see her house."

Allison: "That's nothing! You should see my shoe."

Sean: "There's two sentences I've never heard before."



Sean: "Every time I hear this song I think of the funeral scene in Lethal Weapon II."



Dawn: "Um...52."

Rachel: "Took you a while, didn't it?"

Dawn: "I had to double it. It was hard!"



Rachel: "Cindy, your son just called."

Cindy: "Again? The boy's sixteen. Cain't he do nothin' by his-self?"



"Miss Kunze. You know what's cool? When you started to sing you made the sun come out."



"...Once an ostrich went yodelling..."

The thing about today is

Today I was driving around trying to find a box spring to buy at any of the thrift stores in town, and I got a phone call. It was Sarah. Asking if I was coming in to work. No, I thought I work tuesday. Nope. I was supposed to be there half an hour ago.

Crap.

So I rushed home, detoured around road construction, and threw on my clothes. I made it into work almost exactly two hours late.

And to top it off, my stockings are being held on by rubber bands.

They kept falling down at work.

I need to invest in another garter belt.