Ok, television. I...
Ok, television. I've had it.I've had it with your selling out any modicum of realism in the development my favorite characters for the sake of a trumped-up plot twist. (Except you, The Office. You're still on my good side. For now.)Now listen, TV. I'm not unreasonable. I understand your need to create and maintain romantic tension between your leads. You have to have the unrequited lover--like this guy...

Ok, yes
I am doing NaNoWriMo this year. (See sidebar.)I probably won't say much about it on here, but watch my Twitter feed for *live updates* (aka, live whining*)

Headband Happiness
Last time I was in Nampa, I did a little shopping, and in almost every store I visited, I noticed one new item: headbands. Cute headbands. The kind of headband that you build an entire outfit around because it's that cute. But there were two problems.#1: I have a big head. (Some of you know this about me already.) This means that plastic headbands tend to break after an hour or so of me wearing them, and metal headbands have to be skinny enough that they don't put too much pressure on my temples or I get headaches.#2: The super-cute headbands were expensive. Like, $26. Or more. That is too much for one poor schoolteacher to pay for a headband, no?My solut

Walking through t...
Walking through the campus courtyard this morning, I heard a frog croaking. And for a moment, I wished I was ten (instead of twenty-seven) and wearing playclothes (instead of an "outfit" and heels) and could crawl around on my knees in the mud and catch it (instead of grading essays and lecturing on Plato). *sigh*

One of my eighth-...
One of my eighth-grade students brought Cupcakes for Life for her class this morning, which was sweet. Guess what she brought me.A Ho Ho with white frosting and sprinkles.Which is, obviously, disgusting.And also, um, kind of awesome.(I ate two bites. That's all I could take of that much awesome.)