Brought to you buy too much TV
Hubby is actually home! The last time he was home was around the first of September, and the next time will probably be after Christmas, so I'm going to enjoy him while I got him :-). As usual, he's busy fixing ALL the things because he is incapable of sitting still. I do not have that problem.
Fannishly speaking, I think I have an opening line for my MTYG story, but I'm not entirely sure where it'll go from there except, of course. the general direction of X falls for Y and Y falls back. I probably won't write on it until William's gone anyway.
Also fannishly speaking, this week in TV was slim pickings with so many shows taking the week off. It's messing with my exercising. I need something interesting to watch while I'm peddling eternally across the room, people. Keep the TV coming already.
In school news, this was a long week. In the past two weeks, I've gotten 11 new kids and lost one. Eleven new kids is like starting the year over. I have to retrain the basic routines and re-establish the classroom atmosphere. That's too much work for this time of year. Compositions start this week, too, which is also too much work for this time of year but nevertheless necessary. I tried giving them their prompts early this time in the hopes that they'll come to class with a story in mind. We shall see how that works.
And in totally random thoughts that have crossed my mind this week:
--Are we entirely sure that what we want to do in a recession is have the government reduce its spending? I'm no economist, but I'm unconvinced that this is such a good idea.
--If you want to encapsulate what is wrong with this country in a 1 hour reality show, you can ... actually watch most reality shows. However, the "School Pride" one is the one that actually pisses me off. Not the show itself, which from the commercials seems to be doing a good thing. But what kind of country lets its educational infrastructure get so destroyed that a reality show has to come in and make repairs?
--You know that blond, curly-headed kid on that car commercial? The one who not only has the selfish arrogance to believe that his parents should base their car-buying choices on what is socially acceptable to him, but also uses totally ablist language? Whoever wrote those commercials needs a reality check. Recession, remember? People are lucky to have cars, if they do.
--I taught a kid who had that kind of arrogance. You literally could not convince him that there were kids who couldn't buy whatever they wanted when they wanted it. I spent a lot of time wanting to pinch his head.
--The highlight of my week was reading that Bush, Jr. called Dick Cheney "Darth Vader". That was totally awesome.
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(I'm also on DW. You can comment here or there. There are
comments on DW.)
Fannishly speaking, I think I have an opening line for my MTYG story, but I'm not entirely sure where it'll go from there except, of course. the general direction of X falls for Y and Y falls back. I probably won't write on it until William's gone anyway.
Also fannishly speaking, this week in TV was slim pickings with so many shows taking the week off. It's messing with my exercising. I need something interesting to watch while I'm peddling eternally across the room, people. Keep the TV coming already.
In school news, this was a long week. In the past two weeks, I've gotten 11 new kids and lost one. Eleven new kids is like starting the year over. I have to retrain the basic routines and re-establish the classroom atmosphere. That's too much work for this time of year. Compositions start this week, too, which is also too much work for this time of year but nevertheless necessary. I tried giving them their prompts early this time in the hopes that they'll come to class with a story in mind. We shall see how that works.
And in totally random thoughts that have crossed my mind this week:
--Are we entirely sure that what we want to do in a recession is have the government reduce its spending? I'm no economist, but I'm unconvinced that this is such a good idea.
--If you want to encapsulate what is wrong with this country in a 1 hour reality show, you can ... actually watch most reality shows. However, the "School Pride" one is the one that actually pisses me off. Not the show itself, which from the commercials seems to be doing a good thing. But what kind of country lets its educational infrastructure get so destroyed that a reality show has to come in and make repairs?
--You know that blond, curly-headed kid on that car commercial? The one who not only has the selfish arrogance to believe that his parents should base their car-buying choices on what is socially acceptable to him, but also uses totally ablist language? Whoever wrote those commercials needs a reality check. Recession, remember? People are lucky to have cars, if they do.
--I taught a kid who had that kind of arrogance. You literally could not convince him that there were kids who couldn't buy whatever they wanted when they wanted it. I spent a lot of time wanting to pinch his head.
--The highlight of my week was reading that Bush, Jr. called Dick Cheney "Darth Vader". That was totally awesome.
--
(I'm also on DW. You can comment here or there. There are
comments on DW.)