This adorable couple is Rand’s cousin, Paul Spitale, and his girlfriend Tyra. They met on the show Confessions of a Matchmaker. (their episode is the only one I’ve seen…if you watch the show, Paul is aka the “wannabe rock star”) Meeting online is SO 2004…
We got to hang out with them at Kristen’s wedding, which was a lot of fun. Photos here.
This has been making its merry way around the internet. I saw it first posted at Toasted Cheese.
The Right Brain vs. Left Brain test
I can only conclude that I am incredibly right brained. I keep going back, trying various “tricks” people have mentioned that they’ve used to make the dancer flip to the opposite direction. And nothin’. She will not go counter-clockwise for me. Ever. Not even for a second.
My friend told me about an incident at her part time job. I teach part time at the same college, and so I felt compelled to chime in.
Another part time instructor had scheduled a library instruction session. He got sick and decided to send his class to the library without him, even though he wasn’t going to make it in. I can understand the reasoning behind this thinking…library instruction sessions are supposed to be scheduled two weeks in advance. It could potentially screw up the entire schedule to have to push a session back two weeks.
Apparently, the library in question didn’t see a problem with it, because they went ahead with the session. My friend, as the on-duty librarian, taught the class.
She ended up in a situation with a belligerent student calling her a c**t and walking out. Here’s the comment I gave her:
I think that probably several assumptions were made in this situation…
1. The library assumed that they were dealing with adults, not children.
2. The library assumed that the instructor had done his job up to this point.
3. The library assumed that the instructor had already given his students guidelines for the assignment.
Apparently, those assumptions were wrong. 😛
I admit, when I first heard about this situation (without knowing it was you, and without knowing the details), I wondered what the big deal was. I’ve never done this before, but I’m fairly confident that I *could* have sent a class to the library without me, without incident. I would have explained the assignment to the students beforehand. I would have made sure that the librarian in charge had excruciatingly explicit details about the assignment. I would have made sure that the students knew that any questions about the assignment would have to be saved for ME.
At any rate, no one should have been expecting you to play substitute teacher (or babysitter, as the case may be…).
Clearly, this guy doesn’t have control over his class…and if he’s really missed that many classes, he has no business teaching. That’s ridiculous. He seems to be leaving a lot of people to pick up after him, which is uncalled for. No wonder his students don’t know how to behave themselves…
I’m a little bit shocked about a couple of things…first, that this guy has really missed several classes. We’re not even halfway through the semester. I’ve felt guilty canceling A class on those rare few occasions when I had to.
Second…well, I’m shocked that college students can’t be expected to behave themselves for an hour-long library session without their instructor present.
How can a short work week seem so long?
Received some potentially good (but unofficial) job-type news today. I’ll update, should it become official.
Things are going well at school…not much to say there. Still very, very busy, of course!
Watched Pushing Daisies again. I am charmed…I really am. I just don’t see how the concept is sustainable long-term. I loved Kristin Chenoweth singing “Hopelessly Devoted to You.” I *love* Chi McBride. I love that last week, when I said Ned reminded me of a male version of Jaye from Wonderfalls, I had totally forgotten that he played Jaye’s brother on Wonderfalls. (God, I loved that show. Stupid FOX.)
Erin, to TV, when the fake Irish girl told Peter he could stay where he was for now:
Noooo! I hate fake Ireland!Â
Why is Adam Baldwin so great?
🙂
That is all.
Continuing to love Dirty Sexy Money. Here’s a weird observation…Peter Krause has been in three television shows. On Sports Night, he was recently divorced from a woman named Lisa. On Six Feet Under, he had a child with and married a woman named Lisa. On Dirty Sexy Money, his wife’s name is…wait for it…Lisa.
Weird, right?
And I still adore Chuck. 🙂
Have not yet watched last week’s Reaper. We did watch the first episode of Pushing Daisies. I liked it. I’m not sure I loved it. I’m also not sure it’ll last the month. 😉
It has made me want to pull out the Wonderfalls DVDs. I adored that show.
And Heroes! Yay! Although I’m still waiting for Kristen Bell to make her appearance…
And I’d really like to know why.
It feels like a Wednesday.
Tonight is yoga (yay!) and grading (boo!). Oh, and also getting the Toasted Cheese newsletter out. Bad editor.
Watched last night’s Chuck, and I continue to enjoy. Haven’t watched Heroes yet, but I saw Kristen Bell on the cover of this week’s TV Guide with Hayden Panettiere and Ali Larter. Whoo!
I ordered my dress on Saturday. It’s pretty early, but I wanted to get in while the shop was still having the sale. The shop I ordered from is Bauer’s Brides and Belles in Wilcox, PA. They were very nice to me, and I’m happy to give them my business.
And that’ll do it for me. Later!
When Debbie came to visit at the beginning of September, she took some amazing photos of me and Rand. She also gave us a CD with all the photos she had taken on it. I just got around to uploading some of them to my flickr account.Some of you may have already seen them on hers, but here they are!
This one is probably my favorite photo ever.
You can see the rest in this set.
So, Rand and I have been watching Sports Night on DVD. Approximately 7 people watched Sports Night when it originally aired on ABC, and I was one of them. I don’t know what made me watch it, really. I probably caught the beginning of an episode by accident, because the premise (behind the scenes at a Sportscenter-type sports show?) didn’t exactly call out to me.
But watch, I did, and I loved every minute of it. I’ve been wondering what the rest of the cast has gotten up to…I mean, Felicity Huffman is busy being a Desperate Housewife, but I haven’t seen the lovely and charming Sabrina Lloyd in anything since Ed. (a quick trip to IMDb tells me that she’s been on Numb3rs, but I’ve never seen that…and apparently, Joshua Malina’s been spotted there as well.) Josh Charles did some episodes of Six Degrees, but I’ve never seen that either.
And then, of course, there’s Peter Krause. Peter Krause was great on Six Feet Under, of course. And now he’s starring in this season’s Dirty Sexy Money. Rand heard good things about that show, and so we recorded the pilot. I didn’t want to like it.
But guess what? I liked it. I’m on board. The pilot was very well done–introducing a large cast, providing all the necessary background, and introducing the mystery that’s going to drive the show. Good stuff.
I also watched the pilot episodes of Chuck and Reaper, both of which were a lot of fun. Chuck is like a cross between Alias and…um…something funny. Reaper is like “what if Xander from Buffy got his own show.”
Good Lord, that’s a lot of TV! What are you watching? What are you excited about??
Hope you’re all having a good weekend.