It's Not Looking Good, Folks

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I'b Thick...

Dude, it is only September and I have caught my first student-spread disease already. This sucks. I normally don't contract anything until at least November. I know I am sick because (aside from the fact that I have a sore throat and I am all-over achy) I have sneezed at least 6 times today. A sure sign. I can usually go for weeks--if not months--at a time without so much as a ha-CHOO.

I have that coughing, aching, sniffling, sneezing, stuffy head, fever so I can't rest feeling...

*sniffle*

This can't bode well for the rest of the school year...

Hey, what's that thing plummetting rapidly toward the lowest point on the planet?

Oh...it's just my line chart.

*cough* *sneeze*

Fun Spanish Word of the Day

Many a late night has been spent sitting in my jammies, suffering bleary-eyed giggle-fits, because a woman whom I have never met or even spoken with, finds words like "pelicula" (the Spanish word for "movie") wildly amusing.

And, so, it is in celebration of PDawg’s amusement with the Spanish language that we bring you our very first installment of: Fun Spanish Word of the Day:

Papalote - (pa-pa-low-teh) - kite.

And, because Pepita (PDawg) also finds sheer comedy in making any and every Spanish word small – however inappropriate – I give you, a small kite:

Papalotito (pa-pa-low-tee-toe).

Use it. Enjoy it. Randomly point to the sky and proclaim, "It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a papalotito!"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!

Does anyone out there remember how a while back I posted about the fact that I was going to enter the Powells.com essay contest? How I had to write about my most memorable reading experience of the last 10 years? How I posted my essay on my blog for all and sundry to read? Well...

I AM A FINALIST!!!

My essay has been chosen as one of the 25 finalists who are vieing to win $1000 worth of books!

Now, all I need is help from you all! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE go to Powells.com and click on the link to vote for the $1000 worth of books essay contest. My essay is titled "Never Shall I Forget," and there is a picture of Elie Wiesel's book Night next to the title.

Thank you so much to all who help me!

I'm gonna pee myself now, I'm so excited!

Pondering: Part Deux

Since Zam was pondering, I shall, as well.

Just wondering ...

... is it just ME being anal retentive and O.C.D. and overly territorial when I just about have an aneurysm big enough to explode my entire head over the fact that my sub who was in for me on Tuesday not only stood in front of the class and ate a candy bar, leaving chocolate bits inside my podium--which I "found" when I reached in there to get a hall pass for a kid--but also utilized MY PERSONAL mini-fridge that is by my desk, AND drank of MY PERSONAL iced tea, which was inside the fridge???

Am I wrong to be bothered by this information when the kids tell me this?

I was so angry, I thought I was going to pass out.

And, wow, what a great angry run-on sentence that was. *sigh*

(By the way, I have also adopted "Trebuchet" as the Official PDawg Font© for this blog.)

Pondering

As I sit here, nibbling on my lunch...ok, now that is just a lie. I was quite hungry and, consequently, am practically inhaling my lunch, try as I might not to scarf it down. But I digress...As I sit here, munching away, I am wondering just what it is about the curly fry that makes it taste so much better than the regular fry.

Are they not cut from the same potatoes? Can the shape of a food actually alter the taste?

God bless the curly potato cutters of the world.

Counter Haiku

Wagner on my back
Won't I look good in pinstripes?
Get me a small, mang...

And Pdawg is correct in her assertion that we are a couple of asses for not posting much here. Though, it seems that she has out-posted me, so I suppose that makes me the bigger ass. The most robust ass, if you will. Chock-full o' ass, that's me.

A robust ass will look good in pinstripes, no?

Two heads are better than one

By the way, did I ever mention how every time I look at that 2-headed donkey standing on a brain picture, it makes me giggle?

Well, it does.

Well, we sure picked the right name...

Yes, we are asses.

I cannot believe how infrequently we post here.

I cannot believe how little time I have lately.

*sigh*

In order to make resitution, I offer you this little haiku:

I am confident
Houston won't see snow this year.
Send the jersey, Zam...

;)

Tha Gauntlet has been thrown.

The bet is on, folks.

Zam has been bold enough to actually make a prediction on her blog that it will snow this year in Houston.

I laugh in the face of her prediction.

Ha HA!!

I challenged her assertion, and proposed a wager.

This is the bet:

If it snows in Houston this winter, I owe her a Billy Wagner Phillies jersey. If it does not snow in Houston this winter, she owes me a Jeff Bagwell 'Stros jersey.

All I have to say is....I wear a size XL.

Let the games begin.