yay Matilda. I love those mini walking people.

Go Matilda with becoming a biped!

That would make a good t-shirt.

I'm bipedal - ask me how!

yay Matilda! very cool!

msbelle, your post cracked me up in its inspeakyness.

So, new job? Intrigues me, which is nifty. It is simultaneously more responsibility and less than before.

You know what is surprisingly delish? The chocolate and cinnamon bread at starbucks.

It's nice to actually be stimulated by work, isn't it?

I feel like I've kind of blown it for the first two weeks. I'm hoping I can make up for it, but I kinda think the students decide what they think of you and the class on the first day or two, so I've basically blown the semester. Oh well. Nice students anyway, so it won't be a total loss.

Just got back from a show by this guy [link] who is a good friend visiting from NYC. Very funny, strongly political piece of rant/comedy. He started performing these pieces after we moved here and had never seen him do his thing, so it was very cool.

More importantly--Hooray for Matilda walking and Kat's new job being interesting!

Interesting job! Cool.

Actually, mine's not uninteresting. I just have so little energy these days.

And Matilda is even more of a scaled down human, with the ambulatory and the glayvin.

I am so tired. Must go fake dinner.

Poking my head to thank Monique for her cake answers. Whenever any other of my friends worldwide will get such awesome cakes, and I can't attend, she deserves be there and get the largest yummiest piece. [Edit: and not just for my own pleasure! No, really.]

In fact, last night my roommates got me some nice-looking ice-cream for my birthday, and as we were talking about dividing it among ourselves, thus making it a bit less pretty, I started gushing about paperdol's cake-book (none of them has enough English to read the actual book, but they saw me with it often enough - oh, well, who am I kidding, they saw me dancing around the apartment with the ARC I got, pointing at the acknowledgment page and squealing "memeME").

Heh! Fantastic, Nilly!

And fantastic to Walking Matilda, too.

I saw and actually liked Natural Born Killers a whole lot, Woody Harrelson is just on fire for that movie, and I loved the jump cuts, the use of different film stocks, the complete over-the-topness of the whole thing, the soundtrack. I'm not surprised a lot of people don't like it, but I suspect a lot of the distaste is for the form more than the message.

I am sending my first note to a school teacher cc'd to the principal. I am going on a parent list, I am sure. oh well. better this than more verbal altercations (which I had yesterday with the asst. principal). 5 MORE DAYS OF WHEELCHAIR!