ancora imparo

Forty-eight myspace-free hours, broken only to congratulate a fellow teacher on his spotlight in the HA ... My own teacher appreciation story du jour: Ms. Nishimura, grade four, who said a life-sized skeleton model named Ralph was her boyfriend, who read from The Portmanteau Book by Thomas Rockwell on many a muggy afternoon, who taught us Linnaean hierarchy in an ocean animal unit, who brought Hokuleia crew members into our classroom, who let us chew bubble gum after lunch as long as we didn't move our mouths too much, who once walked me home in the rain after I told her a really embarrassing secret about myself ... I want to be just like you. Minus the fiberglass boyfriend.

B and Zeke spent an uneventful hour at the Bark Park. It rained. Ever notice that all the cats at the HHS are named Missy or Tad and the dogs are called Koa or Sunshine?

"American Idol" - bleh. "House" - bleh bleh. Forgetting the bag with Season 5 of "Gilmore Girls" AT WORK - bleh bleh BLEH.

Weird things I learned today: 1) MK has a thing for Phoebe Cates; 2) you can queue as-yet-unreleased movies on Netflix; 3) Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery had a lot of sex with the native women. That's enough info for one night, I think.