What you learn when you fall off the face of the Earth June 22, 2008
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This is my last BUSY week, school is done this Friday and then I’m sure I will be blogging 21.8 times a day out of boredom until I find a summer job that feeds my soul pays my bills. Instead of trying to cram in blog posts, I’ve been really focusing on planning great lessons for my last week. As a class we’ve been having a tremendous amount of fun, but I’m not looking forward to the last day of school. One of my favourite students- Taylor, asked me if it would be okay if he went to the bathroom for a little bit on the last day because he thinks he might cry a little bit and doesn’t want to cry in front of everyone else.
Can you hear that noise? Yeah, that one. That’s the sound of my heart breaking.
Despite my schedule right now (to everyone who commented and emailed MC advice for the wedding, THANK YOU!), I decided there’s just some things that you all must know RIGHT NOW. Let’s do this up like Annie Oakley- bring on the bullets!
- Remember when that charming young man worked with my grandfather to fix my car? Yeah. They didn’t really fix it. So, I went to a mechanic. I expected my repairs to cost $1000. I was wrong. Turns out, my repair (a head gasket leak?) will cost TWENTY THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS. For the record, I don’t remember anything else the mechanic said after the words TWENTY THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS- there was some type of ringing in my ears and I grabbed the counter for balance. It was an out of body experience I can only compare to the time I drank an ice cream bucket full of sambuca. (And I realize bullets are used when someone is NOT planning on writing a paragraph but when I’m talking about TWENTY THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS, a paragraph is necessary).
- The Good Shepard is THE LONGEST MOVIE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. And also? Matt Damon, you lose any respect I have for you when you let them take a crow bar to Dumbledore. That’s like condoning Fred Flintstone getting curb stomped. For real.
- As mentioned earlier, I’m the MC for a wedding in July. I have two dress options- yet I’m not IN LOVE with either of them (I am apparently in love with using capitals today). Anyone have an excellent online dress site they want to share that delivers to Canada?
- I finished “What happened” by Scott McClellan. The full review is here. I give it 2 Scooter Libby’s out of 5.
- Speaking of that book, if you are a guy trying to pick up a chick- or at the very least impress her with your reading selections, don’t tell her that you read “What Happened” last year. It only came out this month. Background work men! Do background work!
- I’m working on being nicer, this is requiring me to say much less. I’m curious to how healthy not speaking your mind is however. I suspect if I continue this ‘don’t say anything if you can’t say something nice’ bit, I may explode like Mount Etna, causing severe casualties.
Have a good week everybody!
Also, I just watched “Sleepless in Seattle”. I have many, many views on that movie that I feel I will need to share in the near future. (I just felt 88.36% of you unsubscribe to this blog).
The Good Shepherd is WAY too long. My parents loved it but I didn’t. It’s nearly 3 hours of my life I want back. I like how you crossed our “feed my soul” and replaced it with “pay the bills.” Sadly that’s how it is.
I feel for ya – I just had a THIRTY NINE HUNDRED DOLLAR repair job. Yep, you read it right. Since my two long weekend trips visiting friends this year was already booked and paid for, this means that NEXT year my butt is stuck at home. Traveling budget SPENT.
I hate car repairs. My turn signal is broken so that when I turn on the left one it won’t shut off automatically, I have to physically do it. The problem is a spring that costs around $10, but it will cost around $500 to take everything apart and fix it. No thank you. Good luck this week!
I love how you threw in the tip for the males. They need that, ya know.
i have never heard of the good shepherd?! i guess i need to climb out from under my rock — off to imdb.com
as for dress sites: forever21 is always good (&affordable!) go-to. i never realized that they had a separate canadian site!
jcrew.com also offers really cute dresses but, usually, they are over- priced.
hope you have a good last week of school!!
oh cringe! how embarrassed were you for that guy? i hope you made him feel stupid. good luck with your kiddos this week!
That’s pretty bad, but there are worse dating scenarios.
Jessica- I’m glad someone is with me on that movie. Seriously. Wars could have been fought and won in that time span. Children born. Countries built. Planets discovered.
tpgoddess0103- Seriously? Nothing in the world should cost that much money. Nothing. Not even a house. Or a brand new car.
tiedtogetherwithasmile- Ouch! I know, I looked it up online, and I could fix my own car and only pay $300 for parts. I would be saving $2100- but I would also you know… have to take apart my car and put it back together. And considering I don’t know how to check my radiator fluid levels….
JK- Agreed!
thatShortChick- It’s Angelina and Matt. And Billy Crudup and Wiliam Hurt and Robert DeNiro. And Dumbledore. In fact, there are tons of great people in it, the casting is spot on and Angelina rocks her role, but the movie is about 1.5 hours too long.
NCB- I didn’t make him feel stupid. I suspect there were many things in this mans life that could have been used to make him feel dumb, I didn’t want to add to the list.
aww… taylor just made ME tear up too. way to go kiddo!
good luck on your last full week of school missy. ps- have you read eat, pray, love… speaking of books?
Books? Books? I can barely get caught up on reading blogs these days. Darn it, I need a vacation…
you need to get another opinion on the head gasket. I did that in my moms car and it only cost me 700 bucks to get fixed. 2300 is insane. you might as well get a new car.
Oh God, your debacle with your mechanic is giving me flashbacks to the horrific moment when I had to pay almost the same amount last year. I was NOT a happy camper.
And woot! One more week!
ugh. I saw The Good Shepherd in the theater and I could not handle the length. WAY too long!
Errr….ummm…$2300 for repairs?! I SOLD my car for less than that.
Ah yes head gaskets are NIGHTMARES. Buy a new car. And how cute to Taylor’s comments. Kids rock.
Woohoo and aw for your last week of school! I cannot imagine how tough it must be to say good bye to all those shining faces…especially that little Walter!
Agreed, The Good Shepard definitely one of MD’s greatest – kinda boring like the Talented Mr Ripley – another one of my not so favorites of his. Yikes! $2300, for repairs – you mine as well get a new car. I mean what exactly is a head gasket and is it encased in gold?? Stupid cars.
awwww taylor : (
also, i would love reading a sleepless in seattle post! throw in you’ve got mail while you are at it too. ha
Awww, that’s so sweet that your class will miss being in class. That means ya done good, girl. (Yeah, I’m ridiculous.)
Sorry about the car. That sucks immensely and I will buy you drinks if necessary.
As for the dress predicament, I know this may sound crazy but I just got two off Overstock.com that I sort of want to never take off– like I’m 4 years old and have decided to make everyone call me Her Majesty.
(Do they deliver to CA though? I do not know.)
“. One of my favourite students- Taylor, asked me if it would be okay if he went to the bathroom for a little bit on the last day because he thinks he might cry a little bit and doesn’t want to cry in front of everyone else.”
Oh. My. God.
My heart just made that sound too. I now want to be a teacher.
Ya, I’ve been hearing that all you need to know about “What Happened” can be learned from watching McClellan’s appearance on the Daily Show.
P.S. Dying to know what your thoughts are now that Sleepless in Seattle has disrupted your life.
GOD I know what you mean about being nicer, I’ve been trying to do the same thing and i’m so much LESS funny. damnit.
Nicer? I’m sorry, I’m not sure what you mean. Instead of speaking your mind out loud, could you still come here and blog about people? I’m all on board with talking behind someone’s back. Unless it’s me, of course. Then, you should be a little nicer.
“sleepless in seattle” holds a special place in my heart because it’s a movie my sister and i always used to watch on vhs with my dad. it’s on of his faves. i like the soundtrack too.
so um no. i will not be unsubscribing to your blog any time soon. or EVAR.
topshop ships to Canada! Check them out, cute spring flirty dresses appropriate for a wedding!
Two words: SECOND OPINION! Seriously…twenty three hundred dollars kind of makes me pee my pants, but not in a good way.
And, really? Someone takes a crowbar to Dumbledore in the movie? Not cool, yo. Not cool.
Au contraire, I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Sleepless. I’ve got a few of my own on Groundhog Day if we’re really going for it!
That’s why I hate being at the mercy of car mechanics. I really wished I was interested in that kind of stuff growing up so I could have learned to do it myself. I had a $2,000 bill a year or so ago when I needed a seal replacing. The seal wasn’t overly expensive but the problem was they had to take the entire engine apart to replace it. Was not happy at all.
Normally I loooove staring at Matt Damon. I couldn’t handle The Good Shepherd though.
Be nicer? Psshht. You’re nice enough. As a fun twist on “nicer,” try making all the bad things SOUND nice so you can laugh on the inside and the other people can tell themselves “aw, she was just being nice.”
I didn’t like Good Sheperd. Way too long for me!
Good Lod baby Jesus! $2300!!
sorry babe, i stopped reading after that “bullet point”
I stopped watching The Good Shepard after the Dumbeldore beat down. Not a good idea people!
Good luck with your last week of school. I’ve been done for a few weeks now, and I still feel like I’m recovering. Of course, I didn’t have much of a break since I went straight into my summer job…
No. Don’t think you can get me to unsubscribe that easily.
See, my problem is that I say anything, even when it’s not something nice. Sometimes it bite me in the butt, but most of the time I think the other party needs to hear it, even if they do end up hating me for a while.
Like that guy who read What Happened? I would have totally given it to him.
I love Sleepless in Seattle and Tom Hanks was my first celebrity crush ever (I was three, he was in Splash), so we’ll see if I unsubscribe to your blog or not
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