well it looks like it's about time for my weekly tuesday update...
the weekend was over rather quickly. Friday, I went to Rory's and saw what he and Patrick have been working on in the loft. It looks pretty good. We went to the video store, but didn't find anything, so we decided to go see what we had lying around. Mickey and his friends wanted to watch Mafia the spoof of Godfather, Goodfellas, and Casino. It has Lloyd Bridges and Jay Mohr. There are some funny scenes, but nothing spectacular. After that we watched Munich, which was about the Israeli assasination squad that went after the Palestinians responsible for killing the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Munich games. It was interesting to see. The movie had to make some stuff up to make it all flow together, but it was interesting to see the differences. It was also interesting to think about how much time and effort the Israelis put towards taking out 11 individuals while the Palestinians were portrayed as blowing up busloads of people in the same time.
Saturday wewent out for Micki's birthday. We went downtown to the Christmas Markt. I bought an olivewood angel and my boot of glühwein. Then we went to Giordano's for pizza, and Oakbrook Mall. After a quick stop at Gram and Gramps' I had dad drop me off at Joe's mom's in Willowbrook for the "Stock the Bar" shower. It was kind of weird. The maid of honor went on and on about how drunk she was going to be at the wedding. I haven't heard idiots BRAG like that since listening to Aaron rant at U of I. You can always tell what kind of person someone is by how they takl about alcohol. Anyone over 21 who makes a big deal about booze is just trying to get attention and make people think they're hip. I probably shouldn't make random judgments about people I've only met once I guess. Oh well. I talked to John who I hadn' seen in a long time. And the party was catered by Portillo's, so I can't complain too much :). I had my first Portillo's italian beef sandwich with hot giardineira and holy crap. I did not know what I was missing. Who knew that cauliflower and carrots and peppers and who knows what else could be so damn good??? Then Krajniak drove me home in the ice storm.
Sunday I helped dad with groceries and did homework until it was time to go to Gram adn Gramps' for Gram's 82nd bday. She and Gramps are still getting used to the whole new situation and it's kind of sad but kind of sweet too. Gram didn't eat much and Gramps yelled at us for bringing too much food. Gramps beat me at the Crossword puzzle in the Sunday Trib. Then Gramps was joking about how we used up every plate and fork in the house adn he was getting dishwasher hands. So I made the mistake of offering to help (because it was already all done). whoops. I'm sure I won't hear the end of that one for a while.
Monday I had to finish up my portfolio for GER 448. Three hours driving to and from the city just to hand a binder to my professor. Sigh. At least I abused my printing priveledges to print it all out. Gotta get SOMETHING out of a 3 hour drive. Karate was fun. We did sparring drills for the first time in like a year, so my right foot has a nice blister forming, and my right calf is sore. Then we did kata. I guess I'm not going to test this time around. The curse of the green belt remains.
Today I helped mom's kids paint their volcano and pick out some good facts to share with the class about volcanos. Man, some of these kids are off in their own little world. As they were painting the rest of the class was working on something, and my group kept talking and talking and talking. Mostly they were talking about the episode of Spongebob, where he and Patrick pretend to be married and have the baby clam... Sadly I knew exactly what they were talking about, but that's beside the point. I kept asking them to quiet down and I don't think they even heard me. They wanted to talk about their shows so they talked about their shows.
Only two more assignments to go and the semester is OVER. My portfolio for ED 432 is almost done, but I still have a few things left, and then the paper for GER 448 that the grad students have to do. Friday morning at 9am I am DONE DONE DONE!
Strange and Stupid things in the news... Santa is too fat. Santa shouldn't be allowed to say "ho ho ho" because it's offensive to black women. Santa can't say Merry Christmas because it's offensive to non Christians. Seriously people, get a LIFE.
One of mom's friends has a son who is a freshman in high school. Apparently he was really bored in class (while they were talking about diversity), and drew a picture of a plane bombing the middle east. Now, I'm not trying to condone this or anything. But he was suspended for 10 days, and the principal said that the school was thinking about pressing charges for a hate crime. a hate crime. what the hell are they thinking? the mentality of school administrators baffles me. hasn't anyone taken any educational psychology courses? this disgusts me. although, in my favor, the kid takes German, and the mom asked me to come over and help him keep up with it, so that's a little bit of extra tutoring for the holidays.
speaking of the holidays, if anyone needs a last minute gift idea for me, i wouldn't say no to a severed horse head pillow from The Godfather :)
now back to putting my laundry away so when Helen comes up this weekend she has a place to see the floor. :) I haven't seen her in like a year. :(
