Hey Erin, apparently I'm slated to teach newspaper this year. What's on your syllabus?

Connie, there has to be a doc around there who doesn't buy into the whole mindset. It might take some trying, but i am sure they are out there--and will probably love having you as a patient!

Kat, thanks god!

Basically, at this point, it's a course descriptor, and some stuff about grading, which I might make more vague, since I swiped it from the net, and I might need to fl by the seat of my skirt.

There's never been a newspaper, and I've never taught it, so I will be really about a week ahead of my students. I am glad my writing and editing teaching skills are strong.

I would be more than happy to exchange syllabi roughs with you, and ideas and problems. The fact that you are also doing NP this year makes me very happy. Have you taught it before?

Erin, nope. Not even a little. Sigh. Nor have I started my syllabus. I keep hoping that I'll go back to work and that I WONT be teaching it after all.

I might have loved it when it was working, but I can't stay in an abusive relationship with an appliance.

Where is Super Porny Pants when you need her?

Hah!! Nice. Except that you're talking about burning out a STICK BLENDER, and suddenly I'm going OW OW OW OW OW OW!!!!

So all the sugar in the Little Debbie snacks made the students turn on each other? Terrrrrrible tragedy!

Hee. Sparky is funny.

I am HUNGOVER. OMG. Last night is rather blurry. There are bits that a friend has promised to fill in for me later. Because at the time, five minutes after it happened, I said to her, "Um, my short term memory was not on "record" right there. What just happened?" It was rather odd--I mean, I knew that we had just been dancing, and she and another friend were throwing me up against a wall, and I was enjoying it, but I was drunk enough that it was the memory equivalent of hearing something and having it go in one ear and out the other. It just didn't stick. And I was AWARE of it, (and remember SAYING so, which is odd...) and she was like "I'll fill you in tomorrow". Heh.

So then later, after a frustrating incident where my friend went off to get me water and never came back (and I was trying to be good drunk girl, and wait and not leave, and eventually gave up and left, and found her on a whole other floor of the club, with my water, and was like "WTF??"), the club closed. And my friend was like "OK, let's go to an afterhours place!" And I'm like "Uh, hell no, let's go HOME!"

And friend convinced me to walk PAST the afterhours place. Cause it was on the way home. Riiiiight. And somehow we ended up in the alley outside the place. Where there were lots of people hanging out. Including some girls we'd run into at our second bar of the evening, who were from out of town and had asked us where to go. And so we somehow started talking to them. And we didn't go INTO the afterhours club...

...but what was it Erin said the other day about making out with strangers in alleys??

Yeahhhh....my story went way better than hers. Mine was fun.

Speaking of Idina Menzel, she was in an all-star cast performance of Chess in London last May along with Adam Pascal from Rent, Josh Groban, and Kerry Ellis who replaced Idina in the London cast of Wicked, It's apparently going to be shown on PBS sometime next spring,

OOOOOH! That's awesome, I love Chess! I stage managed it sophomore year of college. The production was hellish, but I still love the show.

He was such a skeeze. I'm just glad that my awesome lesbo GP was as horrified as I was.

Thank god, cause that's DISGUSTING. And you are SUPER HOT. And I am nto even drunk anymore.

...but what was it Erin said the other day about making out with strangers in alleys??

Pffttt. I didn't MAKE OUT in the alley, ma femme; I was CLASSY, and let a stranger PICK ME UP in an alley.

(Although I have made out in an alley before. But not in a long time! I have...um...standards? Yeah, that was weak even to me.)

I stage managed it sophomore year of college. The production was hellish, but I still love the show.

It's a lot harder show than people give it credit for because in so many ways, it's so spare a production and the songs aren't exactly easy. One of the last auditions I went on, many, many, many moons ago, I did a bit from "Nobody's Side."

Oy, but I love that song.

"That's interesting. You don't see too many white women in math. Most women in math are Asian. And do you know why? They get their periods later, and so their mathematical ability keeps developing for longer. You must have gotten your period much later than your friends, right?"

Did he also believe that if you played sports your uterus Holy Incubator would fall out? And that women are should be isolated from the tribe during That Time because they're Unclean?

Yay for fun making out in alleys!

Thank god, cause that's DISGUSTING. And you are SUPER HOT. And I am nto even drunk anymore.

Hee. Thanks, and back atcha.

Speaking of random makeouts, talked to a certain mohawked boy on the phone last night. He's back in the land of cellphone coverage, and super broke. But brought up road-tripping to see me over winter break! That could be fun...