Oh, you jet-setter, dag!
I would love your job! Never a dull moment.
I'm very jealous indeed.
Bye Dasha - stay safe and have fun!
English 101 and Psychology 101. Two dreadfully boring classes for me. The former was taught by a graduate assistant who didn't know how to teach.
The latter was taught by a full professor, but it was at 8 am on Mon-Wed-Fri. He would walk around the front of the hall filled with 100 sleepy teenagers and drone on and on and on in a monotone, all the while tossing a piece of chalk up in the air. Sometimes he would catch it, but usually he wouldn't and he would go and get another piece. By the end of the hour the floor would be coated with chalk dust.
Try to stay awake, craven, but if you don't you probably aren't missing much.
Craven
Have fun getting eddicated!
I got mail from Oz! So exciting. Thanks Margo! <smiling>
The last time I got a mail dispatch from margo, k, It was some delicious (Margo-made) little Christmas cakes. Yum! Hope yours was just as interesting!
Margo never sends me anything.
<fighting back tears>
Mails from Oz are usually nice and gentle...
(gus, we send stuff to each other all the time, but you refuse to tell us where your are. Reap what you sow, dude).
I got a call a week or so ago from a friend of a friend of one of my employees. She is involved, she said, in a filmmaking club for teenagers. The current project includes a scene that involves an art supply store. Would I be willing, she asked, to allow the "shoot" to take place in my store on Saturday, August 13? I agreed and promptly forgot about it.
So this morning three adults and seven teenagers show up at 9 am for a couple of (somewhat disruptive) hours. I was impressed. The kids were awake, alert (with one exception), and attentive to the tasks to which they had been assigned (lighting, cameras, sound, acting etc). There was no horsing around. And they had some pretty sophisticated equipment.
The only potential mishap involved the transaction between the "clerk" and the "customer." The clerk (who we taught how to run the cash register) would take the customer's money and put it in the drawer. After each "take" one kid was supposed to watch the money to be sure it was returned to the customer for the next take. He got a bit confused so when I balance tonight I may be about ten dollars over or maybe I'll be ten dollars short
And this was a nice touch. Each kid wore an ID necklace that read "Dakota Road Films-Crew."
The three adults sought me out as they left to offer thanks for our patience and about half the kids thanked my staff member who helped them with the register and finding electrical outlets etc.
So that is what made me smile today. We sure didn't have activities like this when we were kids. Did we?
(ps rjb didnt't quibble with the script, but when the "customer" came to the check-out counter, the "clerk" was reading a magazine and had a cell-phone to his ear. My employees know that if I or my managers ever catch anyone doing that, they will be taken out and shot).
I got ki-iissed agaaa-aain. <grin>
I finished an afghan to give to a coworker for his new little baby boy.
Very nice of you, Bodhisattvaw!
Nice story by Rjb too ... <smiles>
Last night was one of those moments that made me smile ... like, sometimes everything suddenly just comes together. Serendipity. Tam and I had been up at Normafa in the afternoon, to enjoy the view, ride the children-run train. We came down and discussed what to do: take a break first, rest a bit at home, and then go have dinner later? Or have a cup of coffee now at Kiskert, the cute courtyard-cafe around the corner? (the improvised, hidden summer-only courtyard cafes are one of the cutest things about Budapest).
We opted for Kiskert, and everything suddenly was just there. A band was doing a last-minute sound-check; one of the bands playing the Sziget festival? doing an "off-Sziget" gig. Americana-like, reminded me of Calexico (I like Calexico). We shoved our table aside for a girl practising a fire-juggling act, a small, darkhaired girl of utter grace. Fifteen minutes later, the band started playing, their instruments perched underneath an awning, the beer-hall style tables right at their feet. The girl juggled with fire in amazing, elegant patterns, and another dark-haired girl came out to dance with Spanish passion. The band went from grungy rock songs to ever more happy intermissions, interjecting dubby reggea sounds, doing off-the-cuff rapping, jumping up and down, getting into it. More people started dancing, a little dancefloor emerged, a guy took homegirl's torches and started blowing fire, the band loved it and just kept on playing, for two and a half hours straight, nobody knew who they actualle were not even the charming girl at the bar, two dogs were all the time running through it all in big circles jumping and jostling at each other, the place filled up with all kinds of people, beautiful girls, some children were milling around even at this late hour, Tam was falling in love with first the drummer, then the singer (we decided to take 'em both home, plus the firejuggler, but of course pussied out about talking to them after the gig). At one point the singer hauled this kid onto the stage, twelve or something, and coaxed him into shouting FUTOAN into the mike, and again, and the drummer and guitarist picked up on it, built a perfect rhythm around that outrageous scream, FUTOOAN, FUTOOAN, everybody was shouting along and it was a motherfcking perfect night that might just as well have lasted on forever. One of those nights.
BBB
I smiled today because Lola returned from Texas in time to save Blatham's life.
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BBB
I'm smiling because it rained and the laundry on the line is soaked and the humidity went down and my hair will fit in the car again.
just see a joke!
basically, these days I am very tired,sometimes i Want to give up,but because of my lack of courage,I make myself painful in heart.wish everyone happy!
I smiled and laughed when I saw an email at work today with the word "definitizing" in it.
Then I had a bigger laugh when I found out it's a real word!
my daughter makes me smile everyday. Today specifically cause its her 16 month birthday and we "played" football.
