1. man, my brain is fried, and it’s only monday. sometimes i feel like i live a lifetime in a week. anyone else? 2. i am listening to this old gem of a song: Keren Ann – Lay Your Head Down. it’s dreamy, and wistful, and (like with most new songs) i can listen to [...]
Archive for August, 2009
monday mornaftevening ughpdate.
Posted in 2009, tagged monday morning ughpdate on 24 August 2009 | 2 Comments »
just.
Posted in 2009, tagged family on 23 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
verbiage.
Posted in 2009, tagged cringeworthy, lexican!, word snobbery on 22 August 2009 | 4 Comments »
aaaand, we’re back with another word nerd lesson, this time concerning word choice. i’ve seen this offender a multitude of times, and it just crossed my path via twitter. no free passes for twitter, just because you are limiting letters does not mean you choose the wrong word. especially when said person is an english [...]
want to know what being a student teacher is like?
Posted in 2009, tagged how i feel about it sometimes, school on 20 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
yeah. like that.
currently listening: frightened rabbit.
Posted in 2009, tagged musical stylings on 18 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
it’s very, very good. glad i gave it another try after being nonplussed at the one song i sampled of theirs from KEXP song of the day. and thanks to the boy, for being the musical catalyst for rediscovery. that should go on a business card.
what’s that smell?
Posted in 2009, tagged cringeworthy, nothing on 18 August 2009 | 1 Comment »
this summer has been an epic iron-chef episode of “let’s identify the ingredients of the funky smell in the basement”. catchy title. after careful consideration, the recipe had been identified as: equal parts old carpet and basement mustiness ala old books. sprinkle with a bit of old cat urine, cleaned up, but lingering just a [...]
monday morning ughpdate (resumed)
Posted in 2009, tagged monday morning ughpdate on 17 August 2009 | 3 Comments »
now that summer is officially over (despite my squeezing the last drops of leisurely summer evening dates out of the days before my workload goes nuts), routines are coming back in full force. and so monday morning ugh-pdates return, just as long as nobody mentions how it sometimes comes in the afternoon and how i [...]
no, i’m sid.
Posted in 2009, tagged movies, musical stylings, pop goes the culture on 16 August 2009 | 1 Comment »
if you recall, i’ve been looking forward to several movies all summer, and this is the last of the trio that we saw. oh, it did not disappoint. it actually ended up being the worst movie i could think of to go to after a particular relationship conversation, me not wanting to see a dreamy [...]
know your idioms! or, idiomatic for the people.
Posted in 2009, tagged lexican!, teaching, word snobbery on 13 August 2009 | 4 Comments »
hey, if it’s the hardest lesson for english language learners (i.e. those for whom english is a second, third, fourth language) to learn, it is understandable how many people get them confused, particularly now that we write much more on a daily basis for a wider audience, ala internet machine. it happens to be both [...]
