Somewhere in the Vicinity

First and foremost... whichever of y'all keeps calling me on my home phone... please stop OR leave a freakin' message. I'm screening (most of the time, the only people who call that phone are telemarketers)... AND I'm too lazy to run get the phone when I hear it ringing from any other room in the house. If you don't have my cell number (either of them), e-mail, IM, leave a comment, leave a message on the home machine, call my mom, my sister, something -- I have no problem giving out the number of the phone I'll actually answer almost every time -- but, by all means, please stop calling my unused line.

Speaking of that line, Memaw called me tonight. Mom had told her that I wrote about her e-mail on my blog... and she called to tell me she didn't write that e-mail! Turns out, she did... but she didn't think she sent it. ♥ Sweet computer newbie ♥

Let's see... there were several other things that I wanted to talk about here. I actually meant to include a few of these thoughts last night; but the Coop&Kona story got long and I figured y'all had lots o' real work to do. Anyway, I wanted to give you a taste of a few headlines that caught my attention (not that that's anything big... I'll read anything on the internet!):

• Moms Arrested Alongside Brawling Daughters -- No doubt this is something that would've happened to me if I were still teaching. Oh my gosh... I don't think I've ever blogged about the Angela/LaShunda fight in my 11th grade classroom the year I taught high school English! Well... another day... but this story definitely reminded me of the time. What would you do if the MOMS actually got involved, though?! Good gosh.


• Teacher Fired For Being Artist -- Again, probably something that would happen to me. I'm not sure I would choose his particular form of art... but I'm sure I'd get in trouble for something I wrote, drew, painted, or otherwise created if I were still teaching. No matter that it's in your spare time/private life. The life of a teacher... severely underpaid and constantly held to what some may call (I'd like to call it that myself) an unreasonable double standard.


• UM Quits Affirmative Action, Has Voters To Blame/Credit -- Hasn't the Univ. of Michigan had affirmative action problems in the past? Well... no worries anymore. Now they have voter approval to drop race and gender considerations completely from the admissions process. Hmm... how should we feel about this? In theory, I'm a fan... if we really could stop seeing race and gender. But we can't... so I feel certain UM will be right back in the news soon with another "oops, this didn't work either" story.


• MyHeritage.com -- While I was trolling for new tunes & other fun stuff for my space, I ran across a which-celeb-do-you-look-like page. I had (evidently) done this before (since I already had an account there!), but it's always fun to try different pics to see who you might look like in a little bit different light. Kinda like looking in a mirror... only not at all. Some of the funny/interesting ones (1-umm, JT? (Jason/Justin) LOL! Too fitting... like I love [him] and 2-I actually had someone walk up to me in San Fran one time and ask if I was Helen Hunt... SERIOUSLY):

Finally, I am now addicted to taking videos with my new digicam and uploading them to YouTube. Mary, I had to upload one more for you. I just didn't think you'd believe it if you didn't see it with your own eyes. The "indestructable" toy is in the process of being destructed. Oh yeah, and notice the snake-like gray toy beside Coop? Yeah, that's the remnants of the bunny.


And one more W Word vid... then I promise I'll stop. Notice Kona watching his silliness this time. You can almost read her mind! No doubt something like... "Idiot!"


Nighty night, kiddies. Enjoy your Fridays! Sing with me, Haley... finally Friday, free again... ;)