OK, I can top y'all for Embarrassing Sap factor, on The Sopranos last week, Tony's boss, Johnny Sack, danced with his exceedingly homely daughter to "Daddy's Little Girl" and fucking killed me.cheap sentiment, and a dad awaiting trial on forty-two RICO predicates, but I still went for it...something about her being so plain, but yet her dad would just dare anyone to say his Allegra wasn't the most beautiful thing ever... strangest places I feel that particular deficiency. Sad when your dad is worse than a mob boss, but in the light of day? Silly, huh>

Did that help?

No, strangely. No! Don't try it again!

I want a cupcake. That would make my day better.

It really gets to you, I can tell.

Of course it does! Weird little girl and her pet monster!

Hey, Fay! So, I see you're unsure what you'll do if your boss refuses to let you come. I say come here, then couch-hop around the U.S. until it's time to fly to your new job.

Okay, it's not very realistic, but it is a GREAT idea.

I can make it drily through all of Lilo & Stitch except for the surfing scene.

Plei, what 'evdorable'?

Still, could be worse, could be emodorable (emorable?).

I say come here, then couch-hop around the U.S. until it's time to fly to your new job.

Yes! Or, or, you and I could team up, find a middle school teacher, and we'd be like traveling schoolteachers of the Old West. Hired Chalks, they'd call us. We Fight Crime! And ignorance.

Plei, what 'evdorable'?

ev(il)+(a)dorable.

(There are lots of poems I simply can't read to kids, even though they're very good, because they BREAK me.)

I can't read The Velveteen Rabbit. I can't even describe it or explain the plot to someone else, because I get very very emotional about it.

It is the very best Disney movie bar none. OMG. And Lilo, bless her, in her wee (WhateverTheHawaiianWordForGalibeyaIs), and the other bloody wretched little girls in their pink tops and clean sneakers and jeans, with their bloody Barbie dolls, argh! And Lilo is so entirely fabulous, feeding Pudge the fish because he controls the weather, and suspecting her sister's boss of being a vampire with legions of undead, and loving Elvis, and just being The Coolest Wee Person Ever, and I...as it turns out, need to stop typing, because I can't see the bloody screen anymore. Argh. Am snotty mess.

Enough already.

Anyway, on a more cheery note I have a wee Grade 1 in my end-of-the-day class (3 wee boys & 2 wee girls) who is pretty much as adorable as Lilo. But in a much less heart-breaking way. Which is good. Yes. Having her in my lesson always makes the day end on a high note, because she is unspeakably endearing. Although sans monster.

ev(il)+(a)dorable.

Hmm. It's no adorkable, I'll tell you that. I think it doesn't work for me because you don't get to do the fun eeeeeeevil part of e[eeeeeeee]vil.