Oh dear. I am making myself overwhelmed by trying to hash out my teaching schedule and Franny's kindergarten plan on the same day. This was not a good idea as far as my sanity is concerned.

Oh well, that ship probably sailed long ago.

I volunteer Bush to be the first covered under the STFUA Act of 2008.

I second that as well.

If necessary, I will third it.

If necessary, I will pi it.

Seven...eight? (lord!) years ago I was the emergency backup in case my friend's husband's back was going to prevent him from assisting with the birth of Miss P (it didn't and I met Miss P when she was less than a day old.) I happened to be at the hospital visiting another friend when her second child was born and saw him before he was an hour old, and they were still in the birthing suite.

Now? If everything goes according to plan, I'm going to be IN the room when her third is born, being the chaperone for Miss P.

Funny progression.

Franny is heading to kinder? ! repeats "lord!"

Are they winning easily? I thought the games were flat-out rigged.

I have a memory, I don't know where it comes from, of some sort of coverage of the Washington Generals and how hard it was to be them because they were not just rolling over for the Globetrotters but went out and tried to win playing straight basketball.

Franny is heading to kinder? !

SAY WHAT?!?!?

That's all bananas -- both Franny and Miss P! I mean, both of them are just babies!!

I'm so old.

Franny is heading to kinder? ! repeats "lord!"

Yeah, I know. Scary, right! My littlest wee baby is no longer a baby. She isn't even a toddler anymore.

This just isn't fair. The students started back today and I was so busy that I didn't get to check on Natter, etc. until now. Hmmmmm, how can I arrange computer time during the day. Such wonderful conversations going on and I missed them. I may have to pout for a few minutes about this.

Ah well, at least I got to expose my Intro to Drama students to the joys of Eugene Ionesco and "The Bald Soprano". Freshmen experiencing the bliss that is theatre of the absurd for the first time...pure joy.

Now that that's out of the way, going to the link reminded me of a completely superficial question I've had for a while: Can someone explain to me why teen girls always make that duck-smoochie-face in their MySpace photos? It's really not attractive, IMO.

I asked some of my students that question one day purely to see what they would say. They felt people did it makes themselves look 'cool', 'sexy' or 'pouty'. I did have hope, though, when they went on to say they thought it just made people look stupid.

I need to also ask about teenaged guys and their wisps of facial hair. Almost none of them look good, yet too many do it. Is it something that gets looked back on with an eye roll?

Oh, and the soul patch. That weirds me out. I can't stop looking straight at it.