Yeah, I ate freezer ravioli for dinner tonight because I was too damn hungry to wait for dinnertime.

Now I'm cranky because the Fedex lady is tearing up our neighbors lawn. She was trying to do a U-turn, which is completely stupid because we live on a cul de sac. Still, she brought me my NAS, so yay.

Is it OK to skip doing grading tonight because I just "don't want to"?

The 2 English classes that were forced on me have FCAT testing next week since these kids haven't passed the test, yet. I figure they can do practice testing for the rest of the week and while that is going on I can get caught up on grading.

Lego Zombie Apocalypse.

Hey Hec, did you see the WSJ piece on tiki bars and the Tiki Bar Crawl? Pretty cool stuff...

Hey Hec, did you see the WSJ piece on tiki bars and the Tiki Bar Crawl? Pretty cool stuff...

I didn't! I can't believe I still haven't been to Forbidden Island, though its opening does basically coincide with Matilda's arrival. Toddlers + Excessive Drinking + Next County Over = NSM.

Speaking of things retro cool, Tease-o-Rama is coming up soon. It's the annual Burlesque fling with lots of sexy sexy retro girls wiggling their bits.

For people who want to learn more about the current economic crisis by having it explained in a straightforward (as possible) way, this thing from This American Life is awesome:

365: Another Frightening Show About the Economy

Alex Blumberg and NPR's Adam Davidson—the two guys who reported our Giant Pool of Money episode—are back, in collaboration with the Planet Money podcast. They'll explain what happened this week, including what regulators could've done to prevent this financial crisis from happening in the first place.

You can download it as an mp3! Stick it on your iPod and listen to it on your way to work! Then when you get to work you'll cower under your desk and cry!

I was totally already planning to listen to it on my way to work tomorrow.

I can't believe I still haven't been to Forbidden Island, though its opening does basically coincide with Matilda's arrival.

The equation does not work so well, 'tis true. Especially since getting back from the Next County Over is... difficult at night. Nigh impossible. Sucktastic. Etcetera.

Maybe we could try to go around a dinnertime one weekend? I would like to see this place.

It's the annual Burlesque fling with lots of sexy sexy retro girls wiggling their bits.

I approve of this.

Wait - Fleet Week is this weekend, isn't it? (Which would be why I saw the Blue Angels during my lunchtime run.) And the Tiki Bar Crawl will be hitting Bamboo Hut? Yeah, that should be a good time. Arrests galore.

The next big organization that might go bankrupt due to the financial crisis? Iceland.

Iceland is on the brink of collapse. Inflation and interest rates are raging upwards. The krona, Iceland's currency, is in freefall and is rated just above those of Zimbabwe and Turkmenistan. One of the country's three independent banks has been nationalised, another is asking customers for money, and the discredited government and officials from the central bank have been huddled behind closed doors for three days with still no sign of a plan. International banks won't send any more money and supplies of foreign currency are running out...

When Bush was inaugurated in 2000, the Onion headline was, "Bush: 'Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over'"

There was an extremely depressing website linked to a while back which took this article and added links to all the items in it which had come true. Practically everything but the photo caption was underlined blue.

Anyone know where this is?

Carrot Top? Gallagher? Rich Little?

Whoa. You just made me feel bad for Rich Little. Dude.