My student had this to say about what she learned in my class ( Read more... )

...for tomorrow I will have to sing in the soprano range. Freakin' Hosea ( Read more... )

what's the arabic word for "frickin'" ? (I would settle for "very")

This is the trouble with living in Columbus. Current temperature? 11 F. It's supposed to get up to 25. Tomorrow's high: 9. Frickin weather.

Also, I see Tarvek will have clothes in the next issue. Excellent.

Impromptu letter of recommendation composed, printed on shiny department letterhead, signed, and in the hands of my student! I wish him well. Cross that off the to-do list ( Read more... )

Last weekend I got horribly vomitoriously sick. A major perk of being married is someone else willing to clean up your barf. Things have quieted down since then, but I've been running at the nose pretty much constantly. And somehow I've managed to melt all the skin off of two parts of my mouth and then eat something with vinegar in it every ( Read more... )

Here are some things that have been going on with me. I should really post about them at some point.

- Circleville Pumpkin Show was awesome. As always. I've totally got pictures. Steve & Ali came, and there were fried pumpkin flowers! We totally failed to get pumpkin Canoli again. Next time.

- Ballroom Dance Class that Joel-Henry and I are ( Read more... )

I was very proud of myself for successfully making an cayn for the first time yesterday.

But I'm so stupid! Walking back from arabic today (practicing the cayn) I realized that pharyngialization is simply the difference between Homer and Marge (saying "mmm").

The reason this makes me stupid is I already knew that. It just took my independent ( Read more... )

Joel-Henry and I have started watching Heroes online (via Netflix) so I feel compelled to comment on the fact that today is October 2nd.

And independently good thing about the date is that yesterday was October 1st. Which means we're allowed to put up Halloween decorations! And it means Pumpkin Icecream at Denise's. This is a very good thing ( Read more... )

Good first day. My students totally win. There was vigorous discussion!

Now - lunch, new keys, and Arabic!