Thursday, December 4, 2008
Out of Commission
I am unavailable for social interaction until Monday, Dec. 15. I have one paper due tomorrow and another due on Wednesday, plus a group project due on Tuesday. I have barely started, and I have a total of 40 pages to write. That's like 2/3 of my Master's thesis. Then I have my students' last essays to grade. THEN I have to grade their final exams. What have I gotten myself into? Any and all words of encouragement would be appreciated!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Cleveland Pictures
Peyton Manning putting on his helmet.
Merry Christmas, Jonathan!
The Browns vs. the Colts!
Rock and Roll!
Monday, December 1, 2008
Cleveland
We are back from Cleveland. I will post pictures tomorrow when I am back in Dallas. The trip was great! Better than either of us expected, I think. We arrived late Saturday afternoon and got a cab to our hotel which was right downtown. Our room had a great view of the city, and the hotel was within walking distance of a ton of restaurants and also the football stadium.
On top of everything, the hotel was hosting a convention for the movie "A Christmas Story." They had a walk-through model of the house and a prop museum, and they were showing the movie in a continuous loop on the big screen all day long as well as airing some documentaries about the making of the movie. Apparently some of the actors were there, too, but we didn't see any of them in person. Then, that night there was a Christmas parade down the main street, and our room had such a good view we ordered a bottle of champagne and watched it from our window. Fun, fun, fun! We had no idea there would be so much going on!
Sunday we slept in and ate our hotel breakfast, then moseyed on over to the stadium. There were a ton of people walking over at the same time, and they were all wearing Browns logos all over their clothes. Jonathan turned to me and said, "I don't know what to do with myself!" He's so used to being the only Browns fan, and there we were surrounded by an entire city of Browns fans. It was fun!
Our seats were awesome. We sat on the Colts' sideline, and right after we sat down I was like, "Hey, that's Peyton Manning right there drinking Gatorade." And it totally was. I am proud of myself for recognizing a football player. If I had yelled something at him he totally would have heard me. We were that close. He's skinny. I wasn't expecting that.
After the game (the Browns lost 10-6), we strolled over to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was going to close in an hour and a half, and the staff was all, "You guys had better hurry!" But, really, an hour or so of looking at rock and roll paraphernalia is all I can take, and I felt like I saw plenty of stuff in that time. My favorite thing was a T-shirt that the drummer of U2 made in high school art class. He silkscreened "U2" onto a white T-shirt with a green circle on it when he was like 17. It's the first U2 T-shirt ever. They also had a collection of their rejection letters from record companies. I thought it was the best part of the exhibit, and I'm not even a huge U2 fan. I just thought their exhibit actually told a story about the band instead of just displaying a bunch of their crap.
I also actually liked the Jimi Hendrix exhibit even though I can't honestly say I've ever sat down and listened to a Jimi Hendrix song. That's not to say I haven't heard one in passing - I've just never made a deliberate effort. They had a bunch of his drawings on display. Two of them were of medieval knights fighting. The rest were mostly football team drawings and motor boats. One was of a good shepherd and his flock. Looking at teenage Jimi Hendrix's drawings made me want to listen to grown-up Jimi Hendrix's music. Jonathan said he has a Hendrix album. I will have to listen to it.
We got up at 4 am this morning to catch our plane to Dallas. All went well, we got our Toad from my mom's house, and came home. I took a nap and drove to my class. Now I'm in Waco procrastinating with this blog. Whew!
On top of everything, the hotel was hosting a convention for the movie "A Christmas Story." They had a walk-through model of the house and a prop museum, and they were showing the movie in a continuous loop on the big screen all day long as well as airing some documentaries about the making of the movie. Apparently some of the actors were there, too, but we didn't see any of them in person. Then, that night there was a Christmas parade down the main street, and our room had such a good view we ordered a bottle of champagne and watched it from our window. Fun, fun, fun! We had no idea there would be so much going on!
Sunday we slept in and ate our hotel breakfast, then moseyed on over to the stadium. There were a ton of people walking over at the same time, and they were all wearing Browns logos all over their clothes. Jonathan turned to me and said, "I don't know what to do with myself!" He's so used to being the only Browns fan, and there we were surrounded by an entire city of Browns fans. It was fun!
Our seats were awesome. We sat on the Colts' sideline, and right after we sat down I was like, "Hey, that's Peyton Manning right there drinking Gatorade." And it totally was. I am proud of myself for recognizing a football player. If I had yelled something at him he totally would have heard me. We were that close. He's skinny. I wasn't expecting that.
After the game (the Browns lost 10-6), we strolled over to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was going to close in an hour and a half, and the staff was all, "You guys had better hurry!" But, really, an hour or so of looking at rock and roll paraphernalia is all I can take, and I felt like I saw plenty of stuff in that time. My favorite thing was a T-shirt that the drummer of U2 made in high school art class. He silkscreened "U2" onto a white T-shirt with a green circle on it when he was like 17. It's the first U2 T-shirt ever. They also had a collection of their rejection letters from record companies. I thought it was the best part of the exhibit, and I'm not even a huge U2 fan. I just thought their exhibit actually told a story about the band instead of just displaying a bunch of their crap.
I also actually liked the Jimi Hendrix exhibit even though I can't honestly say I've ever sat down and listened to a Jimi Hendrix song. That's not to say I haven't heard one in passing - I've just never made a deliberate effort. They had a bunch of his drawings on display. Two of them were of medieval knights fighting. The rest were mostly football team drawings and motor boats. One was of a good shepherd and his flock. Looking at teenage Jimi Hendrix's drawings made me want to listen to grown-up Jimi Hendrix's music. Jonathan said he has a Hendrix album. I will have to listen to it.
We got up at 4 am this morning to catch our plane to Dallas. All went well, we got our Toad from my mom's house, and came home. I took a nap and drove to my class. Now I'm in Waco procrastinating with this blog. Whew!
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