Don't know Terry Bullman, He could be from TN just not this part. Our instrucors are Patrick Terry, Ralph Norwood, Sam Pike, Michael Hooker, Tom Warrick, Eric Ferrante, and Melissa Norwood. I see Patrick, Ralph, Melissa, and Sam the most, but I've only been catching the evening classes, and we've been having some weekend seminars. I think the weekend seminars are even listed on the national krav website.

Bill Moyers is talking about evangelical Christian environmentalists. They're devoutly Christian and they believe pollution and global warming and such are offensive to God. It's the most hopeful I've felt in years. And they scare the willies out of the whackaloons.

If they start turning against run-away capitalism, I may start rethinking my religious stances.

Cindy-

What season are they on? Is there is a place to get recaps/primers that are (much) shorter than TWoP's? How do people tell all the boys apart?

Heh. Johanna's finally started watching and she thought the guys all looked alike, too. I think the guys are all distinctive -- it's the girls (well, the non-blondes) I get confused by.

I wouldn't try to catch up with summaries, honestly. Given the premise this season, you don't need to know everything that has happened before in order to follow what's going on now. There will be references you won't get, but it's not like it's Alias, y'know? I think it's more like Buffy or Angel -- you can follow an individual episode even if you don't know why this character doesn't like that one, or whatever. And the complicated stuff won't be in a short synopsis anyway. If you wind up liking the show it seems like it'll be more fun to go back and watch the previous seasons and go "Oh, that's why..."

That reminds me! Now that I have escaped the land of mouse infestation, I can have microwave rice bags again! (Totally easy to make your own, btw, you can use regular rice and a towel and some nice-smelling stuff and voila.) I couldn't before, because the mice ate the rice.

The SO is back in NM this week and is (when not teaching) getting the last of our junk out of the pink house. He says the place is already totally overrun. Blargh. I am so freaking glad to be out of there. I love my little duplex! It's so pretty and nice and in the pines and comfortable and has services and okay, it's much smaller than a 6-bedroom house, but so worth it!

We have a microwave. But I am a total kitchen appliance whore. I have a bread machine, sandwich toaster, electric grill, crockpot, blender, fondue pot, chopper do-hickey, etc., etc. that all see regular use.

For years I didn't have a microwave, on the principle of the thing, because that's how I grew up. And then I discovered that my parents (flush with college savings that I wasn't going to cost them, 'cause, eloped) bought a ton of electronics and a microwave as soon as I was out of the house. Now I have their old microwave.

I should get a new one, though, because it's huge and takes up a bunch of kitchen landscape.

about evangelical Christian environmentalists.

Yeah, this was a revolutionary point in my faith, when I went to a Christian music festival and discovered a bunch of freaks who passionately cared about both their faith and the environment. Then I found those who cared about Christ and about social justice, and my whole worldview shifted.

It's still the only place that I don't feel torn between my left-leaning secular friends and my right-leaning religious family.

Liese, where did you move? (I guess I skipped too much)

30 Rock is almost, but not quite doing it for me.

Mostly it's Alec Baldwin that's keeping me interested. Being a 1/2 hour show, it doesn't have to interest me for very long, and at the moment, all it has to compete with for me is a rerun of CSI.

Ha. I dunno if I really mentioned it here. I moved from NM to AZ. I'm in Wagon Wheel, AZ now, kind of east-central Arizona. It's just north of the Whiteriver Apache reservation, one of the places we work. So we're doing the same thing, just driving in the opposite direction.

Among other things, one of the schools in New Mexico lost their teacher so they didn't open this year. That put more of our opportunities here in Arizona instead of there. And of course our house situation there was getting less and less tenable.

The move took a while longer than we wanted, but we're so thrilled to be here. It's actually in a town; I get cable internet and trash pickup and working plumbing and everything.

That sounds great, Liese.

I agree about 30 rock, Sean. It gets one more shot, but that's it

You sound fabulously happy, Liese -- you'd mentioned moving, but I don't think I knew the details before now. Yay mod cons!