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.

Anybody get this thing on lj where a couple of popups appear with ***** at the ...title bar thing and nothing else?

It's happened only a couple times ever. I figure this browser is so antiquated, it's probably some thing it can'thandle (it has crashed it.)

Sara, come into the 21st century. It's ever so pretty.

I have a random question--when you make your bed, or when you leave your bed for the day, what do you do with your nightclothes. We were taught to fold them and put them under the pillow, so that's what I do when I'm behaving, but I did it once as a guest at a relative's house and someone slept in my bed a night I was away and freaked out.

The relative ragged me on it hard, but wasn't able to explain where the hell else she was expecting me to put my stuff (uh, she was crazy, mostly--I mean, she kept her nightclothes in the same place).

Just wondering.

My dad does that, but I never have. It goes back in the drawer (or, more realistically, back on the floor) until needed again. Or hangs on the back of the bathroom door.

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.

I can ask my students about this at lunch tomorrow if you would like, ita.

what do you do with your nightclothes

Sleeping in the nude takes care of that problem.

I can't! I have to use the network-provided browser, which is mozilla from 5 years ago.

When I'm travelling, the nightclothes get tossed under the covers. At home, they hang in either the bathroom or off something in the bedroom.

Need something to gape at, awestruck, like you've just seen Richard Simmons naked this afternoon? Have no fear!

Jesus Jukebox

The creator also wrote AND sings the songs. You can thank me later. Right now I have to go smoke.