Worst Movies Ever

Hey, there, world. My students' next assignment is to evaluate a movie. I have a list of good ones, but I am having trouble thinking of bad ones. I'd appreciate it if you would leave me a comment with the worst movies you've ever seen so I can add them to my list!

Book Sale!

Yesterday audible.com sent me an e-mail that they are having a book sale, and little did they know that it was an awesome birthday present for yours truly. I bought 3 books for less than $15. I am downloading them now. Today also just happens to be the day my account renews, and I get my monthly credit, so I'm actually downloading 4 books today!!! Here they are:

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
"Skinny Bitch" by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
"Atonement" by Ian McEwan

I am so happy! Now, which one do I start with?

Sorry, Katie!

So, of course, immediately after I published the last post about Katie's annoying cell phone ring, I discovered that it was actually an alarm she had set so that she would get up and leave me this before I left for class:



It had a little bottle of Eau de Toilette in it in a cute little flower tube. Adorable and so nice of her. Plus she totally gave me a ride today when I forgot that I drove myself to campus, then walked home only to discover that my car was still on campus!

That'll teach me to be grumpy!

The Most Annoying Cell Phone Ring Ever

I have just discovered it. At precisely 6:52 this morning, my roommate's cell phone began to ring. It is now 7:23, and it has not stopped yet! The song: "Alouette." You may have heard Pepe Le Pew sing it when you were a kid. It goes a little something like this:

Alouette, gentille alouette,
Alouette, je te plumerai
Je te plumerai la tete,
Je te plumerai la tete,
Et la tete, et la tete
Alouette, alouette,
Ooooooooooh!
Alouette, gentille Alouette,
Alouette, je te plumerai.

Translation:
Lark, gentle lark
Lark, I'm going to pluck you
I am going to pluck your head
I am going to pluck your head
And your head, and your head
Lark, lark
Ooooooh!
Lark, gentle lark,
Lark, I'm going to pluck you.

Then it continues with different parts of the bird's body: I am going to pluck your throat, your beak, your neck, etc., etc.

This website has a pretty cheesy version of it if you want to hear the tune:
http://www.songsforteaching.com/french/parapluie/alouette.htm

It's probably the most annoying song ever. Especially at 6:52 in the morning. Played in tinny cell phone beeps. Oh. My. Goodness. Now I kind of want to go pluck HER head.

Backyard

I'm rediscovering the joys of having a backyard. Dallas has been blessed with absolutely gorgeous weather this week, and when we went to go water the grass and take our Jeep-ful of moving boxes to the new house yesterday, I decided to spend most of my time sitting in the yard by the pool. It was really relaxing and fun. Toad had a pretty good time, too, as you can see:

He was actually on his back sunbathing before I got up and bothered him with my camera. He has become quite the one for communing with nature.

I am getting more and more excited about actually living in the house. I think I will like it. Even though it is totally broken again - something is wrong with the water pressure now because we couldn't run both sprinklers at the same time. Whatever it is, it must be fixed. We picked out our granite countertops this weekend. They are painting this week, and the utility room is finished, so it will be ready for us to move in next Saturday. We are just waiting on the cabinets to come in, etc. so we can have a working kitchen!

New Bed

I am feeling better today. Still tired, but better. Another week accomplished. Yay! So, Jonathan came down to Waco with me on Wednesday since he was working from home this week. His mission: to find a bed for me with a REAL mattress to sleep on. I have been sleeping on an air mattress for the last 5 weeks in Waco. I already had a bed picked out, but the trouble was finding a vehicle big enough to carry it, plus we had to find a mattress. All for a reasonable price. The bed I found was at Wal-Mart, and it is a cute little affair with 3 built-in drawers and a bookcase headboard. Assembly required. But "assembly required" means it is in a box small enough to fit in our Jeep, and my wise husband had enough foresight to think to bring the toolkit along with him. So, we bought the bed.


So, today, Jonathan - my hero - built me the bed and bought me a mattress which he had delivered to the apartment. I built the bookcase when I got home from teaching class. Here is the final product:





My room feels like a real room now instead of a temporary camping site! Thank you, Jonathan!

Tired

I'm exhausted. It's not the driving. It might be the 8:00 am class I have to teach. It's definitely worrying about moving. It's definitely worrying about getting all my work done. I am on a pretty tight tether right now, and I feel kind of close to snapping. Little things seem like insurmountable obstacles that I just can't deal with right now. I feel like I am just trying to keep my head above water and survive. Getting things done early is like a big joke to me, and I have no idea how I'm going to fit moving into this whole picture. Jonathan is packing up all the art right now, and I'm sitting here blogging because I just wrote a paper proposal, and I am too exhausted to get up and help. So then I feel guilty, too. My birthday is next week, and I am thinking of anything I have to commit to in order to celebrate it as a chore. I don't have time to celebrate my birthday! Ugh, I'm in a miserable mood.