How was his attitude when you left him last night? Is it Spring Break for him?

His attitude was sort of quietly ironic, making jokes about it. (This may be in part because I gave him one dollar for his good report card, and one dollar for his broken nose.) The last thing he said to me was "Chill out, Dad." His spring break is the last week of March. So coming up soon.

Poor Emmett. And poor Hec and EM and JZ.

I was teaching at 8 this morning, and I let them leave half an hour early. I'd gone over all the material I needed to go over, and a bunch of other stuff to fill some time, and I just couldn't find anything else to say. They've got almost no new material this week, and what they do have is really easy.

I've never actually seen the Theismann play. The descriptions were so bad that I always change the channel when someone says they're going to show it.

I remember watching MNF live when that happened.

My interest in watching football has waned since then.

Poor Emmett.

Frank, ugh. It's possible that he's out to get ya, but more likely he's just being extraordinarily self-involved and has his head up his ass. We get in rages about parking stuff too. It's like people have no concept that other people live and park in the same small place. (I have several detailed rants in my head, but since I am actually out of my head angry already about other stuff, I won't go into it, for fear I wil fall to the ground clutching my chest in an anxiety stroke)

To Sum Up: I hate people a lot.

Parking sucks. I am amazed at how many times I see cars completely parked in in my neighborhood. Like, an inch of space both ahead of and behind a car.

The apex of my LA parking issues revolves around the Hummer (oddly, I saw one the other day that had a gazillion things strapped to it, and it looked almost useful. But I digress..) and the ultra-long'n'wide pickups with the bed-flap down. They bleed too far over in their parking spots, and/or you have to weave around them just to navigate the parking area.

IMDB says Hayden Church is playing Venom in Spidey 3.

Timelies everyone!

On Alias: Isn't it funny that Vaughn stumbled upon Elena (if that is who she is) while Jack and Arvin are searching high and low for her.

I've never actually seen the Theismann play. The descriptions were so bad that I always change the channel when someone says they're going to show it.

DX is wise. Saw it once; never need to again.

It's possible that he's out to get ya, but more likely he's just being extraordinarily self-involved and has his head up his ass.

My paranoid guess was that he reparked so that he could just pull forward into the space in front of the house next door without having to shovel out, or with minimal shovelling, which he couldn't do if I was in that space. Why he didn't park that way in the first place, I have no idea.

That is, if it is the guy next door, and not just some random idjit.

Gah. Upsetting. No more mousetraps.

Yikes. I mean, yay for the Beatrix Potter gentleness, but boo for having to demonstrate it. I am thinking the humane traps are your best bet. Although now thinking affectionately back to moments in history of my stepmother girding herself to catch a mouse in a bathroom once -- apron, boots, oven mitts, broom and paper bag. She looked like a hockey goalie, lacking only the mask.

Emmett! That face! Glad to see someone has already invoked Owen Wilson. By no stretch of the imagination should anyone say the name Tony Conigliaro to him.

I've never actually seen the Theismann play. The descriptions were so bad that I always change the channel when someone says they're going to show it.

I've seen lots of talk about it, but never seen it either. I don't think they actually show it any more, only still photos of afterwards. (I did watch part of an NFL game where a man broke his neck, and was being breathed for on the field, and the commentators in their booth were carefully not explaining that as they hastily cut to commercial. He ended up OK later.)

Anyone else seen the AARP commercial criticizing Dubya's Social Security plan where the woman has a clogged sink and they demolish her whole house?

I saw that! Halfway through I was like, Oh, this is political! Clever.