I had a very deep conversation with myself (out loud) on the drive home today while eating Goldfish:

I think it should be legal to marry food.

*stares fondly at Goldfish crackers for a moment*

You'd totally marry me, wouldn't you? Yeah, I know you would.

There are few things in life better than eating cookies that have just come out of the oven.

I just finished reading Vonnegut's A Man Without a Country and this bit made me all contemplative:

I had a good uncle, my late Uncle Alex...He was well-read and wise. And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, ( Read more... )

I finished Perfume this morning. I'm not good with reviewing books and movies, but I can say it was interesting. So, silverwraith, I'd say it's worth a read. It did make me try to notice how things smell ( Read more... )

People always post snippets from deep, intellectual adult novels. Well, I teach 2nd grade and my reading often consists of elementary school books. Doesn't mean they don't have anything to say. I'm reading my kids The Trumpet of the Swan which I've never read and I'm enjoying, I don't know about them. Anyway, here's my favorite bit so far. I ( Read more... )

Actual deep thought voiced out loud at dinner by me:

I wonder what a potato-flavored lollipop would taste like.

I came to this conclusion ages and ages ago, but it struck me again today while driving home with the windows down and my arm out the window ( Read more... )

I'm not typically one to post these sappy things, but I just got this one from my principal (she's always attaching these to the weekly newsletters) and I don't know, maybe I've been dwelling on things lately and it just kind of made me realize that I need to stop with the dwelling. ( Mayo jar and two cups of coffee. )

Picked up my nicely laminated and bound book this morning. Skipped Math in order to cut out 32 laminated penguins (left a huge dent in my finger) and then the very painless two second presentation. We got out about 40 minutes early so I jetted into Delaware and got Finding Nemo at Best Buy. They were out of the Coldplay DVD/CD so I hit Circuit ( Read more... )

I am officially addicted to Carnivale.

On a not-really-but-kind-of-related topic, I think that it should be illegal for attractive men to wear shirts.

That being said, I am now off to force myself to do more of this stupid Classroom Management project.