And I went to Paris over Christmas!
If I knew that, I'd forgotten. How wonderful. Wait. Did you go with your dad?
So that was nice. Spent Christmas even trying to explain in broken, drunken French why my students have to take two math classes and two language arts classes and are still way below grade level. Also about what it means not to have nationalized health care. This was not in my high school French classes! "Si nous n'avons pas l'insurance, et il faut que nous allons a l'hopital, nous devons payer -- payer? yeah? -- depuis nous n'avons rien d'argent. Rien! Alors, le gouvernement payent." I'm not sure it made sense even in English, but hey -- drunk!
Aye. I didn't take French, but I see your French is just about where my Spanish is -- I still know many words that resemble English words!
My neighborhood seems to be essentially Mos Eisley without the fun aliens.
Oh and that reference? Whoooooooooooooooooshed over my head.
Did you go with your dad?
Yup!
Oh and that reference? Whoooooooooooooooooshed over my head.
"You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious." It's from Star Wars. I'm a big geek.
Did you go with your dad?
Yup!
Okay, I did know. Maybe you mentioned it in a brief stop-in here, or in LJ.
A wretched hive of scum and villainy.
In SF, or fiction, or Somerville, Paris, or where?
Luckily, the body count is so very high from season to season on
24,
you barely have to know anything about what's happened with the characters previously to be able to follow a new season....
Star Wars. It's where the famous cantina scene is in the first movie. On Tatooine, Luke's home planet.
See my edit. I realized that if the name didn't click, the quote by itself wouldn't either. It's what Obi-Wan says about the spaceport where they hire Han Solo (Han shot first!).
Are you going to give us a recipe.
I'm just using Good Eats' recipe this year, although it's pretty freakin' task-intensive. [link]
Thanks Dana, and Emily. I would have recognized Tatooine.
Gah, my geek cred is so low.
eta...
Thanks, bon bon.
Wow. That does look labor intensive.
Say, anybody remember the conversation we had about elementary school teachers who tell their students that you "can't" subtract a bigger number from a smaller one, and how betrayed some people felt by that? The textbook we're using tells me that "Negative numbers have no square roots." Now, eighth graders don't need to know about imaginary numbers -- they're certainly not going to see them this year, and maybe not ever. But to completely deny them like that... for shame, McDougal Littell!
