I just skipped a bunch. (((Gud))) P-C, I love your story telling. Connie's storyis a clasisc along the Dogs in Elk line.

I'm very sleepy right now and I'm asking for some hardcore apartment~ma. Short story is Grandma E is moving out of the house she's renting, sometime this spring. It's a nice, small, one bedroom house, sort of the size of a large 1 bed room apartment. Grandma E is going to tell her landlady I'm interested when she tells them she's moving. Her rent is really low, very low, so there's no way they are going to keep the rent at what it is, but I might be able to afford it if the rent doesn't go up too much. because the utlities are cheap as well.

I want this place. really really bad.

And if I can't live there then I plan to be in a place by August. Living on my own (or with a roommate) by August 1. And I have the ability to do this.

Also, my stereo just turned on for some reason, I'm not sure why but a few weeks ago it was turning itself off and on. The whole thing is unsettling.

So, if I'm a 46" bust and 38" waist, I should get what?

Aimee, this might work for you with those measurements. Drop me an email if you want, I'll send, and you can send it back if it doesn't work.

Cartoon network's Adult Swim will have a special preview of "Elektra" Starring Jennifer Garner at Midnight (ET) tonight.

That's about 10 minutes.

I have no further info.

It's super weird to be in DC at the beginning of January, and be able to comfortably walk around in a short-sleeved t-shirt...

Can you make up terms that *sound* like they could be part of connecting to the internet? Great! You can be a writer at a giant software company!

Hee. Just put iSomething everywhere?

Also, I just watched the OC: I have stayed at the Montage! It is SUPER swanky.

The kids do WAY more scary, dangerous, transgressive shit than kids today are allowed to do

Sigh. It's really kind of sad.

Yay, me! App's all filled out. It is now staring at me, trying to guilt me into finding an envelope for it.

I'm scared.

It's super weird to be in DC at the beginning of January, and be able to comfortably walk around in a short-sleeved t-shirt...

Yeah. This morning, I put on a wool coat without really thinking, because, hey, it's January, then was sweltering by the time I got to my office.

Random hint to people on Craigslist personals: If you are going to label yourself a "dork" in your ad, please try to spell the name of the suburb you live in correctly. Otherwise, I'll think you're a freak, not a dorky-smart kind of person. LAME. (I mean, please--if you really live in Manassas, do you put on your return address "Manases"?)

WindSparrow, I'm sorry, I totally thought you were talking about an essay. For a fill-in-the-blank form, handwritten is totally fine.

Maybe you could find another book from that era and contrast the treacly moral tone and two-dimensional characters?

Nope, I have two book plus Romeo and Juliet to teach in twelve weeks. I’m happy about R&J...except the mentor teacher wants me to teach it one day a week, for all 12 weeks. A whole two/three weeks of Shakespeare would be just too, TOO much for the little darlings.

Needless to say, I am NOT thrilled with this. In fact, I think it’s wildly counterproductive.

Erin, is there some nifty non-class-discussion thing you could do? When I was a senior in H.S. and we read Hamlet, our teacher had us each pick a quote from it, and put it on a t-shirt, with some sort of illustration, and then got permission for us to wear the t-shirts all day (it was a Catholic school, and we wore uniforms). We loved it. Granted, we were the honors class and therefore HUGE geeks, but still. Ooh, that’s a good idea. I don’t think I could swing the $$ for tee’s...but maybe stickers? Bumper stickers?

Damn, I knew there was a reason I missed y’all.

I like "White Fang" because it has a happy ending, and I love the whole part of White Fang in California. Especially the part where his master gives him permission to take off after the dogs that have been tormenting him.

I already looked up the Jack London site at Berkely, and it’s got lots of great stuff. I only wished I had a laptop – I think a VCR is about as sophisticated as this school’s equipment gets.

In both Tom Sawyer and White Fang, you're talking about the tension between license and civilization that was a common theme as Americans saw the end of the frontier.

Good point. And one I think I’ll use. The school is mostly Irish and Hispanic students, so talking about the American dream, frontier and pioneer ideas is something I think we can get into.

I'm also developing my first ever webpage for this class as an independent study I'm taking. I have a book on HTML. I figure I'll moon around the net and copy a lot of code from sites I like and adapt it.

Tell me I can do this, right?