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my knee is green and purple and my world is upside down.

I’m so tired… tired of school, tired of work, tired of problems, tired of myself… there’s not an ounce of positivism in me today, so I’ll just go to bed right now and hope to sleep until I’m 40.

I got an email back from the non government translation job thing. They wanted my SS# and other info, just in case they get enough people to open up an office and offer them jobs. So I wrote back saying something like « not to be overly cynical, but if your common practice is to ask for people’s personal information and social security information without even having and office or a job for them, you will attract only those on the bottom of the intelligence scale »

In fact, after I sent the email, I was so suspicious of the company that I searched the internet for some proof that it was a scam so that I could email that proof back to the linguistics department, where I got the info on the job from. Well, it turns out, not only does the company exist, with that same email address, but the guy who started it has worked for the church translation department for years and the company has recently won entrapreneurship awards. As I was searching this information, the phone rang. It was the guy from that company, callling to explain how it all works. So anyway, I may fax them my info and social security number. He was very nice and all. Then later, Dave is on the phone and mentions that guy’s name. I was confused. Well, it turns out Dave knows the guy really well, and when he saw the number on call waiting, he thought it was for him. It took a while for that guy to figure out who/what had happened. Anyway, so I feel sheepish! (baaaaaa). Remind me that sometimes its a good idea to be civil to people and give them the benefit of the doubt!

Wierd. The Spanish characters look fine now. I don’t know why they looked wierd before.

Darn. Your blogger doesn’t support Spanish characters. Well, you can probably figure out what I was trying to say. Every accent mark or special character got messed up (see below).

�Q�e pasa? �C�mo fue la reuni�n esta tarde?
Espero que todo est� bien ahora, o por lo menos, que el monstruo no te moleste m�s.
C�entame q�e pas� y c�mo te sientes.

I’m happy again Guess why??? Spring’s back, Bequi will be here tonight, Ting and Dilia were in my class today so I could see friendly faces and not feel too threatened when in front of my students, I still have not written my paper but I don’t care, the checks from Utah, Indiana, and the IRS are starting to come, it’s almost the weekend, my place’s nice and clean and almost in order, I love my new red hair–told my students that I have to dye my hair because they (my students) give me too many white hair! I want to cut it like I did with Guillermo 2 years ago… it was so cute!!! …but I know that the minute I’d have it cut I’d regret it…. darnit!

Who’s going to write here when Bequi’s in Indiana???

OK, latest news: I’m failing one of my two classes because I can’t seem to be able to write the final paper which counts for 35% of the grade in this class… ouch… am thinking of getting an incomplete, what a looser I am! I need a break!

Got a sinus infection because it was so warm and then so cold… so my head feels like a pumpkin, my body’s all sore, I have used up all the toilet paper in my house, I feel nauseous, I have a fever, I keep sneezing (I guess that would be from the hay fever starting to act up)… taught only 20 minutes each class yesterday because I was feeling so bad… And things are not much better today I’m afraid.

I’m thinking of rewriting my teaching philosophy… everything… wow, I’m not sure about things right now, and I think it’s good that I’m going to take administration classes this summer, it will be a very welcome change!

I wonder who reads these entries. If you do, please let me know, because Bequi’s going to be here now so we’ll chat « live »!!! But if you enjoy reading my babling nonsense, let me know! It’s always fun to send pieces of my life to the great internet void! Even if you’re someone in Australia (it’s always been my dream to be read even in Australia!!) and would like to say hi, just send me an email, I’d love that!

I’m kinda homesick these days, I miss so many people plus I was watching Amelie, that French movie that I didn’t like the first time but now like more every time I watch it, and I have to confess, it makes me cry every time at the end! Happy b-day Maman, Catherine, Jarkko, and Hae Jin!!!!

SNOWING, it’s SNOWING!!! we had close to 80 degrees for a week, for goodness’ sake, and now it’s SNOWING???????? AAAGGGHHHH i hate this place!!!

I like it! (Your chicken crossing the road post).
So, my thesis defense is officially scheduled for April 15th. I’m just glad I got my taxes done so at least one thing in my life that’s due April 15th is taken care of!

Why did the chicken cross the road ???

GEORGE W. BUSH
We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road.
We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or it is against us.
There is no middle ground here.

AL GORE
I invented the chicken. I invented the road.
Therefore, the chicken crossing the road represented the application of these two different functions of government in a new, reinvented way designed to bring greater services to the American people.

COLIN POWELL
Now at the left of the screen, you clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

HANZ BLIX
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed access to the other side of the road.

MOHAMMED ALDOURI (Iraq ambassador)
The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We don’t even have a chicken.

SADDAM HUSSEIN
This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

RALPH NADER
The chicken’s habitat on the original side of the road had been polluted by unchecked industrialist greed. The chicken did not reach the unspoiled habitat on the other side of the road because i was crushed by the wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV.

PAT BUCHANAN
To steal a job from a decent, hard-working American.

RUSH LIMBAUGH
I don’t know why the chicken crossed the road, but I’ll bet it was getting a government grant to cross the road, and I’ll bet someone out there is already forming a support group to help chickens with crossing-the-road syndrome. Can you believe this? How much more of this can real Americans take? Chickens crossing the road paid for by their tax dollars, and when I say tax dollars, I’m talking about your money, money the government took from you to build roads for chickens to cross.