Words from the burbs

In the ideal world, we'd be in class learning, but since the subject matter is dense and arcane, all mind's turn to other matters, most people have laptops, so there is a lot of solitaire going on. Or Black Spider. Or internet. I don't want to fuel my internet addiction, so I take notes by hand, which leaves most of the class flumoxed. However, I am prone to old school note passing. Today, in Contracts, via a note passing flurry, I came to the conclusion with a friend of mine that gay people are really grossed out by descriptions of straight sex. I have no idea if this is anecdotal, so I'm going to ask my gay friends.

So, I've been officially rejected from all the jobs I applied for for the summer. Blech. Not that I really wanted a job, but it would have been nice to get out of the house. I suppose I'll take classes or something.

So we have all these old school games, that Zule got. Two notes:

1) Sweatone, at 2 3/4 is a pac man master. The funniest part is he gets this demon voice while he's playing (zule got a real arcade type controller) and Sweatone says the funniest shit like "Take that, you silly goose!" (to the ghosts, and ironically, exactly what I say in traffic if I cut someone off*.).  He can actually play! Admittedly, its a simple maze, but the concept of evading the ghosts, eating the pellets and then eating the ghosts when they're blue, its really neat to watch a little kid figure that out. He gets enraged when his pac man dies.

2) Dbot pointed out there are Marlboro ads on every corner of the original 1982 Pole Position game. No wonder I smoke.

Really, those games are classic.

*sometimes I say "Christ on a cracker, learn how to merge". I'm hoping my kids don't say that.

When I picked Sweatone up from daycare, he gave me a little wilted dandelion. I think its probably the most beautiful flower I've ever gotten.

So, at 6:45 I came downstairs. Dbot and her best friend were dressing their avatars for the fourth straight hour. I felt sorry for them, so I was like "Hey want to go to a movie?" Then there was initial resistance from Dbot, but her friend saw her one chance to get out of the house and jumped on it like frogger on a log. So, twenty minutes later I had them at Cinemark Tinseltown with a big bag of popcorn, two cokes and some happy smiles. Movie name: Aquamarine. Something about a mermaid. I fully said "No boys are nice, do not talk to them."

 

The AMA warns against spring break. Really, the article tries to be informative, but its hilarious instead.

 

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20060308%2F0707041325.htm&sc=1500&ewp=ewp_news_0306spring_break

 

 

 

Everyone here is sick. Some sort of virus. The little guy is taking it hard. He's old enough now to speak, and its so sad, he says "mommy, I not feel good". Overall, he's been stoic.

Parenting screw up 765:

Zule and I were out on the patio discussing a moot court argument I have on the 25th and to which I'm not looking forward. Sweatone was inside watching Jay Jay the Jet Plane. However,  we have a tivo. If the tv is left on, it will show whatever it begins recording. We came inside and apparently, the tivo was recording and showing "The Silence of the Lambs". About twenty minutes worth apparently. Luckily, for the first time in recorded history, Sweatone had fallen asleep on his own and apparently did not see Jame Gumb's opening scenes. Thank God. Either that, or he was rendered catatonic. I hope for the former.

I saw a tee shirt today that said "I blogged your mom". Too funny!

   http://www.rathergood.com/laibach/

 

thanks Baal.

alas, it is. but this one is better.

so, when we were all walking in, there was this cutish chick holding two kids. Then, the older dad shows up. Later, I find the cutish chick in the bathroom holding a toddler.

me: she looks just like you! (they did) Are you the mom?

Her: no, I mean, I'm the fiancee of the dad. They're used to me though, I used to be the nanny.

 

AWESOME!

 

 

I got to see how a bowling alley's pin machines work last nite. It was super awesome. Its not leprechauns setting the pins up, its a super robot machine!