Ten Things Tuesday
Mamacita says:
1. I’m tired.
2. I have forty essays to grade before I can go to bed.
3. It’s almost 3 a.m.
4. They are not good essays.
5. They are, in fact, terrible essays.
6. Spell-check is not your friend. Spell-check is not anybody’s friend. Spell-check will stab you in the back and exit, laughing.
7. Repeat after me: “Anyways” is not a real word.
8. Commit this to memory: “Done” is not a helping verb. People who say things like “I done went” make baby angels cry.
9. Thank you, certain members of my Monday morning class, for those VERY kind e-mails.
10. People who have a bone to pick with someone, but who proceed to pick that bone with everyone EXCEPT the person involved, are cowards. Thass what I said.
11. Idioms are funky and fun.
Eleven is a cool number. Christopher Guest’s amp goes to eleven. Wizard kids go to Hogwarts when they’re eleven. I’ll just stop at eleven.
Except, of course, that I didn’t. Not really.
Quotation Saturday
Mamacita says: It’s always sad when the guests are gone and the house echoes with silence again. I don’t “do” peace and quiet very well. I much prefer the bustle and noise of lovely friendly people around me, and music playing in the background. MY music, of course.
As for me, personally. . . well, see #25. Sigh.
1. One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another. -Juvenal
2. We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he or she is someone today. — Stacia Taushe
3. Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. –Chinese saying
4. What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds. –Eric Hoffer
5. It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. — J. Krishnamurti
6. A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success. –Anonymous
7. Life’s not about waiting for the storms to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain. –Vivian Greene
8. Life is short; break the rules. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably. Never regret anything that made you smile. –Unknown
9. Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. –Abraham Lincoln
10.When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. –Japanese proverb
11. I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There’s a vanity to candor that isn’t really worth it. Be kind. — Richard Greenberg
12. Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. –Dorothy Parker
14. A healthy male adult bore consumers each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience. –John Updike
15. I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. –Bertrand Russell
16. Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish. –Albert Einstein
17. If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. –Norman Douglas
18. Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways, it can change someone else’s life forever. –Margaret Cho
19. Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. –Plutarch
20. A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. — William James
21. There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. –Goethe
22. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. –Bertrand Russell
23. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. –Nietzsche
24. Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. –Logan Pearsall Smith
25. Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don’t necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. — Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider
April Fool!
Mamacita says:
Yesterday’s post was really clever, wasn’t it. It was funny and well-written and, well, juuuuust right. The more I go back and re-read that post, the more I like it. It just couldn’t be improved upon, it was that good.
I didn’t write it.
Scheiss Weekly’s April Fool’s Day post was written by Mrs. T, of Chucheria, and she’s a MUCH better writer than I am. Sigh. That’s why the post was so extra yummy good.
Those of you who read “teacher blogs” might have noticed a big April Fool’s Day switcheroo; many of us traded blogs for the day. This was thought up and coordinated by none other than Mister Teacher, of Learn Me Good, and he did a fabulous job. Good on you, Mister Teacher.
So, where is MY April Fool’s Day post? It’s over at Learn Me Good. Perhaps you were one of the readers who wondered why Mr. Teacher was blogging about a husband and kids? Well, that’s why.
MY husband. MY children.
Great job, Mr. Teacher. What next? Because, you know, the switcheroo was fun, and now I’m ready for another stunt.
As for YOU, Mrs. T, you’re a hard act to follow. Thank you for making my blog look so good yesterday. You rock. And Mr. Teacher rocks, too.
I thank you both.
