I surpassed 10,000 levels on Gardenscapes. God, help me.
The movie Clueless is still one of my absolute favorites and the Super Bowl ad was perfect. And can we all appreciate the fact there's another gay in Cher's class named Christian? "Is it James Dean or Jason Priestley?" The fashion designer, Christian Siriano, sitting on the front row, for those sporting a huh? face right now.
What are your reading/writing/spoken pet peeves? Mine? Thanks for asking. The words that and just. I over use them. All the time. In my rewrites they're currently the two words I look for the most. What's the rule for swapping that for which? Is there a rule? Mrs. Anthony, my HS English teacher, could tell me. Help me out here, Dottie. Also, when people use that instead of who. "There's the woman that threw a fit at Hobby Lobby." Come on! "There's the woman who threw a fit at Hobby Lobby." Better yet, "there's the bitch who threw a fit at Hobby Lobby." And why was she throwing a fit at Hobby Lobby? Now I'm just curious as to why she was doing that.
I'm not a terribly political person, I don't think. I mean, I'm aware and I vote, but I don't spend much time discussing politics. However, I do watch yesterday's news on a daily basis. Tuesday through Saturday mornings, I pour my coffee, grab my cereal, and watch the previous day's CBS This Morning. Sunday morning, Jane Pauley and I have a regular date with last week's CBS Sunday Morning. Not even the boyfriend can deter me from my weekly rendezvous with Jane. Then Monday morning it's me and the Saturday team with CBS Saturday Morning. It's a whole intricate schedule. But back to politics. The thing I can't handle is the meanness, name calling, and constant fighting between parties. I don't care which party it is. I know it's nothing new, but it does feel nastier these days. All the parties do it and I hate it. I hate when they behave in ways we actively teach our children not to. Can we send them all back to elementary school for a review on kindness, sharing, listening, and cooperation? They're all exhausting. Can we start refusing to elect people who behave like that? Do we not have better options?
I used the word rendezvous in the previous paragraph. When I first typed it, I left out the Z. Rendevous. Though I received the red line of idiocy beneath the misspelled word, when I right clicked it, spellcheck was clueless as to what I was attempting to spell. Looked up it up on the interwebs, added the Z, all good now! Really? You were stymied over one missing letter, spellcheck? As if!
Shanghai is back to normal. It's wild. After three years of ups and downs with the pandemic, it's all back to normal. It's a bit of a mind duck.
Ducking is one of my favorite autocorrects on my phone. When someone is trying to drop a fuck and I get duck instead, I like to respond with a quack. It's ducking brilliant.
Last of Us episode 3. It undid me. So good.
Stephen King's the Institute . . . I'm having a hard time connecting to it. This is my second try. I thought after I read Fairy Tale and absolutely loved it, maybe the Institute would work for me. Nope, second time and I can't get traction with it. How do you know you're connecting with a book? For me, I find myself thinking about it and looking forward to cracking it open again.
. . . so I started reading Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart. I think about it a lot. Sort of beautiful and gut wrenching at the same time.
Also finished reading the Tempest by our old friend, William Shakespeare. Pretty sure it's what we're going to do next year for the play. I have some very clear ideas for it which is usually my hint it's the right direction. In twenty-one years of teaching, it'll be my first Shakespeare to direct. I'm intimidated as duck. Quack. Shakespeare's Star Wars doesn't count . . . though it was a blast and hard as hell. Next year's musical is what I'm struggling with. Our students who participate in the musicals are predominately female, not an atypical situation. A student suggested the Lightning Thief (yes, as in Percy Jackson) as it has a flexible cast and the script encourages not sticking to gender norms/assignments for the roles. I don't love the music, but I can see it in my head and it would be a nice balance to the Tempest. Would also be pleasing to a variety of audience members.
Share a brain-dripping of yours in the comments or respond to one of mine. Drip away!
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