WooYoo!!!

Another 2 pounds!! Total of 13 lost.  I would really like to hit 20 by the end of the month.  Hopefully.  It’s going to harder with the weather getting colder and me getting busier with school work.  Like now, how I should be reading my Avery book and instead I’m pissing around on the internets.  It’s so bad, it really is the new TV.  Maybe I’ll get tired of it some day.

Oh and the car is acting up.  Yeah the one I just got from my mom.  Yeah, it’s pretty awesome.  Especially when I’m going to need it to get back and forth from the burbs next weekend for the wedding.  Bull.

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Dreams in boxes…

I was searching through my papers (just papers, you know, business papers).   Really I was looking for my poetry stuff I used student teaching because I have a poetry project in a class and wanted to us some of the poems.  I found all that plus my teaching certificate.  The two year old cert that has never been used.  That one that expires in 2 years if I don’t teach with it. 

I realize my goals have changed.  I changed them because I knew I didn’t want to teach then.  But I’ve never made it final.  It’s always back there that I can get a teaching job if I want.  But here is this document representing all that work and time and tears.  I put it away thinking I was being organized and keeping it safe.  It was so safe I forgot about it.

I’m halfway through the Watchmen which maybe influencing this reflective, what do it mean, our work and our jobs?  It’s dark stuff but I like it.  I don’t know how I swing from this and Stephan King to romance novels and picture books.  There’s no middle ground with me.  I’m also watching Shameless, a BBC show about this messed up Scottish family.  It’s very graphic and with people that are not nice, honest and rarely decent.  But you love them anyway.  And James McAvoy gets naked.

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I am not a professional…

I worry about my future career.  I just spent a good hour, hour and a half printing Married to the Sea images and taping them to various surfaces of my co-worker’s desk.  Maybe this is why I want to work with kids and YAs.  I AM A CHILD!  Seriously I would never last in a corporate environment. 

In case you don’t know Married to the Sea is a great site.  They take old images and put new text with them.  They are, naughty, in the real sense of the word.  Some swearing yes but mostly they’re mischievous.  There’s a new one each day.  This one is my fav of the moment. http://www.marriedtothesea.com/090708/european-vacation.gif

Project Runway delivered yet again.  Gave Terri and Blaine or however he spells his name the boot.  Finally.  They were okay but they were never good.  Not as good as my girls Korto and Leanne.   I think they’re going to Bryant Park and hopefully Jerell.  Joe’s not high class enough and Suede is too inconsistent.  But then what do I know about fashion?  And Michael Kors is sooo mean.  I heart him. 

Have I told you all to watch The Fall.  Watch The Fall with hottie Lee Pace.  Its a great movie, he just makes it hotter.  Watch it. 

Ugh…work on Saturdays.  Evil.

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Hostile takeover…

Well not really since Diyaman made me a administrator.  But this blog is too good to waste so I’m commandeering it. (Int. Talk Like a Pirate Day, Sept 19th)  I was trying to get back to Xanga but I think I’ve moved beyond that and the person who wrote there.  So we’ll keep Litfromthewasteland as close to professional as I can be professional and use this one for randomness.

So I’m rocking Pandora Radio right now.  I know, late to party but I have a Brit Rock station I set up with bands I’ve been meaning to get like the Kaiser Chiefs and Bloc Party.  Yes, it’s not strictly Brit but you know, that sound.  I also have a Foo Fighters station (duh).

I’ve also entered week 7 of Weight Watchers and have lost 10 pounds.  Yeh.  I mean I’m proud and it’s not too hard, during the week.  But then the weekend comes around with it’s drinking marathons and delicious meat parties.  We’ll keep trucking along and see what develops.  I would like to lose 10% by the end of the month but that doesn’t seem likely to happen. 

New semester of classes.  They’re totally different than anything I’ve done.  It’s mostly performance based stuff, storytelling, read alouds, draw and tell.  Me, they want me to draw a story.  But it pulls me out of my comfort zone, YAs, and gives me a challenge which for some reason I feel the need to do. 

Speaking of challenges I applied to be a Special Events Educator Volunteer at the Planetarium.  Hoping to get more exposure to working with kids of all ages.  So I don’t have to say, two years ago when I student taught.  Because really, I’m not busy enough, full-time job, two classes, exercise, and now throw an volunteer position on the pile.  Yes!

That’s what I’m thinking about this morning.  Maybe I’ll try it again tomorrow, without the royal “we.”  I just like to pretend there are always people with me.  Makes the day go by.

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Blast from the past, or maybe Lazer…

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Who would win? Turbo or Wolf?  Old School vs New School?  I’m torn!

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Greetings from the Wastelands

That is the name of the WRA former headquarters. If you could see the destruction left by about a month and half of packing and 2 partial moves you’d understand. But if you could see the spoils of war, some ramen and Johnie Walker Black.

So while at dinner with Lt. Angie I pondered out loud why I dig myeslf into certain holes. Meaning why do I not confront things sooner rather than later. And she answers “Because there’s pierogis at the bottom.” Good answer.

Song/Video of the Day: Maroon 5 “Makes Me Wonder”

Book finished: To Sir Philip with Love, romance de jour. It was not Nora Roberts, but decent.

Word of the Day: anemious (uh-NEE-mi-uhs) adjective, Growing in windy conditions. [From Greek anemos (wind)}\] Has a poetic sound I think.

Coming soon…blogging from extreme locales, the Far North Side!!!!

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What’s wrong with us??

We are awful, awful members of the WRA.  Seriously, nobody meets for meetings, nobody does any fundraisers, and nobody blogs.  The VFW has shown us up.  I can’t believe it.

 Actually, that gives me an excellent idea.  Perhaps we should host Bingo on Saturday nights…  Hmmmmmm…….

 Over and out

Lt. Angiree

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Blogging Day in Canada?

Today’s blogging day, eh?  Well, I don’t have much other than the raging feminist that tried to kill me yesterday at the bord.  I was told that a certain selection of CDs were $1, so I picked out 3.  Nothing huge, but still good titles.  I get to the “reg” and the CDs ring up as $17.  I informed the woman that Amanda said they were $1 a piece.  She replied that they were $1.  Thinking I was set, I paid with a $20.  The register said the change was $2 but I figured this was some sort of joke and she seemed to understand that the CDs were $1 each.  The lady hands me $2 change and gives me a look.  I smiled and said that the CDs should’ve been $1.  I wasn’t about to pay $15 for the Dukes of Hazzard Soundtrack!  She said they did ring up as $1.  I know I missed a lot of college, but I was fairly certain I was getting cheated out of some money.  I told her once again that all the CDs should be $1 but the “system” apparently couldn’t grant me my wish.  (I really just wanted to listen to Jessica sing Boots)  So, I decided to return the CD.  After getting a creepy look from the woman, I got my money back and left with the 2 CD’s that were actually $1.  I was pretty sure that at some point, I’d have my head ripped off by this woman possibly because, as “The Man,” I had been oppressing her people all these years.  I tried not to bust out laughing before I got out of the store.  Good times.

 I picked up Sudoku for the DS, and I can say that it’s basically Sudoku on the DS.  No frills, no nothing.  And you know what, that works for me.  I went to FYE thinking “I want to play Sudoku on the DS.”  I’ll pay $20 to do that, and now I can.  Screw the reviews; it is what it is.

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Lt. Angiree here…

So I got bored and decided to figure out this shite on my own.  Chris, you were a bad teacher.  You didn’t show up to class.  Anywho, the world’s tallest man was married, most likely over the weekend.  7 foot 9 inches.   The article is semi-boring, going through his resume, the fact that he’s in the Guinness Book of World Records, the height of his new wife (5′6″), when he had his growth spurt….and the most interesting piece of information:

“In December, Bao saved the lives of two dolphins by reaching deep into their stomachs with his 1.06-metre (42-inch) long arm to pull out pieces of plastic, according to Chinese media.”

How awesome! 

In other news, an environmental group in Austrailia captured a ‘monster’ toad the size of a small dog. 

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Girl Scouts

How come I never see Girl Scouts selling cookies?!?!  They’re missing a key demographic…cookie lovers…like me!  Maybe I’m too creepy looking…

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/16

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