OK, I just read the summary on Amazon, and they're only in 5th grade, so I guess that wasn't the book I read where people Did It, which I then felt compelled to hide from my mother. Also, I probably would have been more traumatized over the fact that the main characters have mine and my mother's names.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jul 05, 2006 12:20:45 pm PDT #5515 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Jul 05, 2006 12:22:59 pm PDT #5516 of 10002
OK, being reminded of high school classes reminded me of this movie that we watched in civics class that I cannot recall the name of and now it is making me nuts. I *think* it was a trial where the defendant was beaten by someone (her husband?) and killed in self defense or something. And was a piece of work. There may have been an affair too and I vaguely recall a roadhouse or something. Any case, probably 50s , maybe early 60s, defendant was a sultry brunette . Any bells? I have NO IDEA why we watched this in civics class.
I think my brain stores these fragments just to make me nuts. Like the stupd fall of saigon movie that I've forgotten the title to AGAIN. At least that one is easy to look up.
Strix - Jul 05, 2006 12:37:08 pm PDT #5517 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Kristin, driving back from the grocery store, I had the same thought.
I think I will teach the following novels: Haunting of Hill House, The Great Gatsby, The House of Mirth, and The House of the Spirits.
Hmm. Seems I have an entirely unintentional "House" theme!
Amy - Jul 05, 2006 12:39:09 pm PDT #5518 of 10002
Because books.
A friend of mine got to teach an elective early on, and she did Science Fiction -- using Frankenstein and all kinds of other stuff. I thought that sounded like fun, but then we'd had no English electives at all in high school ourselves. Kristin's idea of teaching something you really love is the key, I think. I also love the idea of Madness in Literature -- besides Lear and the Yellow Wallpaper, you could even fit in Jane Eyre and the first Mrs. Rochester!
msbelle - Jul 05, 2006 12:39:23 pm PDT #5519 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Our CEO is convinced that LAy skipped the country, until they show the body.
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2006 12:39:44 pm PDT #5520 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If someone gay asks you out, what's wrong with "No, thank you"?
Because "No thank you" means "Please try again, but harder."
Whereas "I don't do your gender" means "No, really."
When I pretend to be gay to avoid a date it's not to spare anyone's feelings but my own. And that's to spare me the feeling of saying "no" seven million times. Not all guys who ask me out need or deserve that, but it does work better than "I'm involved."
bon bon - Jul 05, 2006 12:42:39 pm PDT #5521 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Our CEO is convinced that LAy skipped the country, until they show the body.
That's kind of nuts. He may have been sick for awhile; they hadn't filed an appeal yet.
Strix - Jul 05, 2006 12:50:08 pm PDT #5522 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I might add "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Awakening."
I will definitely do a poetry unit; Herrick, Herbert, Donne, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Tennyson, Rossetti, Yeats, Whitman, Millay, at first cull.
Hmm. Maybe "The Once and Future King."
Ginger - Jul 05, 2006 12:59:21 pm PDT #5523 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think I will teach the following novels: Haunting of Hill House, The Great Gatsby, The House of Mirth, and The House of the Spirits.
I wouldn't pick The House of Mirth, but that's because my reaction to The House of Mirth was, "For God's sake, Lily, pull up your socks."
You could do a discussion of novels to film with your selection.
Sheryl - Jul 05, 2006 1:00:18 pm PDT #5524 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
G and I still split the bill when we go out to dinner, unless it's for a birthday or Valentine's day.