Teacher’s Training

Coincidence: People were talking about Babel in the car today and I brought up Crash (cringe-inducing, but deserves its credit), and how although I saw the blanks coming the best bits were the scene I saw as a promo (giving the daughter the cloak) and its follow-up (the shooting). It wasn’t until the credits were rolling on Shooter tonight (Colin needs to throw some stuff out so I was looking for the longest movie I’m not going to give more than two stars to) that I wondered if the supporting actor was the father from the scenes I mentioned. A few webpages later and I find he was in Babel but there’s no mention of his story line. Then I realise Babel≠Crash and find he was also the father in Crash. Coincidence? Similar movie choice? Disproportionally/disproportionately small amount of Mexican American actors? or just what happens when starring in three films each year?
Even care?

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You say “Party!”, we throw pub quizzes.

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Not bad for a pocket camera without a protruding lens.

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Is there any research on smells affecting dreams? The last part of my last dream this morning was about [probably processed] turkey to go in sandwiches, and it’s all I could smell when I woke up.

Actually I could smell other things when I put my mind to it, but something about my duvet or its surroundings gave the same aroma as that particular sandwich meat.

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Just another warm sunny day in the middle of spring, with the occasional burst of thick hail.

Yesterday I woke to find I was stained. I put it up there for friends to give me their non-professional diagnoses and sure enough I have now accepted the likelihood of phytophotodermatitis because it is not permanently debilitating/scarring and it has an explanation (all the lime juice on the dishes I washed yesterday and the sun I sleep in) but allows for some peculiar ones. And it means I don’t gotta go through the doctor procedure.

“I want some internet right now.” *kisses Derek with a whopping great one right over his face.*

Okay, new priority for today is to back up everything. Things are going so great (festivals, travel plans, SNOW! and now my drowned iPod has risen from the grave after a few weeks) I have to prepare for the absolute worst, being the loss of my whole [electronic] life.

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Snow lining the streets like discarded wrapping paper, I spent the day with my nieces; Mighty Destroyers of Snowbeings!

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Sometimes the snow comes down in April, sometimes the sun goes ’round the moon (relatively). Just when I thought the chance for snow had past…

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Protecting Children

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