weird news…all I can say is thank goodness I don’t drive in Korea

This lady has taken her written driving test 950 times and finally passed. She gets to go for the road test next. You can read the AP article here.

I wonder how many attempts she’s gonna need for that (although I suspect she’s been driving without a license anyway).

distractability and the comfortable shoes

Please note that I am wearing one brown shoe and one black shoe. Yes, I know that’s what I get for getting the same shoe in different colors. I submit to you that as a teacher, comfortable shoes, in whatever color I can find, are a win every day of the week. Mock away.

FAIL! Ha!

poor kids…

guess who has the swine! ha ha not me!

Poor Christi.

Feel better!

it’s October! Merry Christmas!

I know, it’s not Halloween yet and I haven’t had my fill of candy corn and bite-sized Snickers. I just thought I’d get into the retail mood.

Does this annoy you as much as it annoys me? Just wondering.

canoe, anyone?

In case you live in a vacuum and haven’t noticed, Georgia is having a wee bit of trouble with TOO MUCH RAIN! First, there’s a drought and we’re fighting with Tennessee and Alabama and condemning lots of little fish in North Florida to their untimely deaths. Now, we have tragedy of the human kind, including a goofball who thought it’d be a good idea to go swimming in a river losing its banks (that’s what the Darwin Awards are for).

I need to fly outta here in the morning to get to Charlotte, NC before 10:30 AM. I’m still going to have a drive to my destination. Things are not looking good around here.

This is the road I would have taken out of the neighborhood. That lake is the river run-off. It hasn’t even crested yet. I’m thinking I’m going to miss North Carolina in the early fall.

some people are soooo professional

I’ve lost my mind

This is what I did this evening. Stand around in the hopes that a hummingbird would come and eat out of my hand. I’ll save you the comments: I’m a loser.

what a day! it’s been a while since I have a wild rant.

My day started rather early — before 7, took a quick shower, grabbed a bite, and then settled into the lousy routine of figuring out what to wear.

No, I am not some coy clothes horse. I have lost a little weight. Okay, I’ve lost a lot of weight. Something like a whole little kindergarten person. That’s a good thing. However, it has presented a bit of a wardrobe problem. It’s not like I can go shopping every day, and so I’ve kind of shopped as I’ve lost. That means stuff I wore last month is useless.

Cue this morning’s dilema. I had to dress for graduation (you want to know why I was going to commencement in the middle of July? I ask myself that question every July, too) which means I have to find a black or dark dress to wear under the regalia. Yes, that’s an awful lot of black for July in Georgia. Thank God for air-conditioning: the eighth wonder of the modern world.

Anyway, the night before I dusted off the robe  feeling all Hogwarts and stuff, and untangled the little tassle-thingie, inspected the hood which is looking a little ratty, and hung up a navy dress next to the robe. It looked good hanging in the bathroom.

And then this morning, I put on the dress. Let’s say it wasn’t a good fit and let it go, okay? I mean, I really could smuggle my kindergarten-age nephew in the dress, and maybe squeeze my godson in for good measure. It wasn’t a good look for me.

At that hour, without waking up John or agitating the dog who was already looking at me funny, I had to find an alternate. Luckily, there was a black dress that looked like it would fit, only it was sleeveless, and let me tell you that I’m not wearing anything sleeveless until I start going to the gym, but heck, I was going to have the robes, so no one was going to see my arms. It fit better than the other one and has a tie in the back so it actually looked fairly good on me. The only thing missing was pantyhose, and I have a secret stash of that for these kinds of emergencies.

By the way, we are required to wear the hose if you can beleive it (I guess the men are wearing ties).  Perfect! I looked grand. Or at least, like faculty should, so I proceeded on my merry way, stopping by the office on a small errand.

If ever the fates have smiled upon me it was today to have me go by the office. As I walked the 50 feet into the building I could feel that the queen-size pantyhose were coming loose. By the time I got to my office, they were by my knees and falling quickly. Can you imagine if that had happened in the processional? LOL, gives a new name to pomp and circumstance.

I’d like to stop here to thank my parents for teaching me to be adaptable and resourceful.

I locked my door,  grabbed a rubberband, hiked the dress up, tied a knot in the hose, and went on my merry way.

By the way, graduation was lovely, as always.

TV’s digital switch

Making history…bla bla bla. I am underwhelmed although that’s probaby because I have cable. I’ve read in my twitter/facebook friends that those using the converter box have had wiggy reception. I hope it’s going to come in clear for them.

Still, I wonder why there is government intervention by way of using community resources to check house by house. Really? Vouchers and such? Is anybody gonna help me pay my cable bill?

Yeeeaaaaah. I thought so.