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At 11/5/07 08:54 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I don't think I have enough books.

Neither do I. I'm reading "El Amor en los tiempos de cólera", by Gabriel García Márquez. You (as in citizens of the US) are making/have recently made a movie out of it.

At 11/6/07 02:57 PM, Proteas wrote:

Here's the website of the brand itself, if anybody is curious.

I must test my fortitude against this cheese

Amazon.com must love my fiancee and I. Every week there's a box from them filled with books.

and they the last two boxes haven't even been my discworld series..which just conquered it's own shelf on the bookshelf....nudged a few of my fiancee's books to the floor and left and we won't get into what it did to the poor Dean Koontz audio book....

At 11/6/07 03:53 PM, Der-Lowe wrote:

At 11/5/07 08:54 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I don't think I have enough books.

Neither do I. I'm reading "El Amor en los tiempos de cólera", by Gabriel García Márquez. You (as in citizens of the US) are making/have recently made a movie out of it.

I don't like that book, and my sister wants to see the movie...
100 Years of Solitude was a better book that deserves to be made into a 3 or 4 part mini-drama like the Thornbirds.

At 11/6/07 05:05 PM, fli wrote:

At 11/6/07 03:53 PM, Der-Lowe wrote:

At 11/5/07 08:54 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I don't think I have enough books.

I don't like that book, and my sister wants to see the movie...
100 Years of Solitude was a better book that deserves to be made into a 3 or 4 part mini-drama like the Thornbirds.

Why can't you people read books that don't have Spanish words in it dammit.

Read something by T.S Elliot, or Scott or Poe.

Just not Oscar Wilde, he sucks.

Tomorrow is level up day, and I am closing on 1 K posts.

Any ideas for the post, PM me or go to my NewsBlag.

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At 11/6/07 05:19 PM, reviewer-general wrote: Tomorrow is level up day, and I am closing on 1 K posts.

Any ideas for the post, PM me or go to my NewsBlag.

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Make sure you keep your stats up to date on NGlog and be sure to tell the nice guys in the Wi/Ht Level up! Lounge'

At 11/6/07 05:16 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:

At 11/6/07 05:05 PM, fli wrote:

100 Years of Solitude was a better book that deserves to be made into a 3 or 4 part mini-drama like the Thornbirds.

Why can't you people read books that don't have Spanish words in it dammit.

You could read some stephen king. I have shelves full of his stuff. Plus he confirms my beleif that Maine is full of evil.

At 11/6/07 04:42 PM, stafffighter wrote: I must test my fortitude against this cheese

It's got a nice spicy bite to it (or a "good sting" as fli would say), it's not like some habenero sauces I've tried that leave you curled up in the fetal position, sweating and crying for your mother. But it was the morning after that made me think twice about ever ordering any of it... I'm still contemplating it, mind you, I think it would go great on a nice flame broiled hamburger, or grated up on some home-made tacos or something.

I think I've got you all beat as far as books go, to be honest. Behind me sits a 24 foot long set of bookshelves about 6'8" tall stacked to the brim with books, and that's not the only place we have them hear either. It seems like we each have our own miniature bookshelves in other parts of the house as well....

At 11/6/07 05:33 PM, stafffighter wrote:

At 11/6/07 05:16 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:

At 11/6/07 05:05 PM, fli wrote:

You could read some stephen king. I have shelves full of his stuff. Plus he confirms my beleif that Maine is full of evil.

I really don't like Stephen King. When I want to read something ridiculus and funny, I usual work my way to the comic section of the bookstore.

Latin America is a WEALTH of literature and film that's been seriously untapped by the rest of the world. And I'm not talking about the big name of Garcia Marquez... Some of the neo-Nuahtl poetry is spectacular, which can seriously be taught with the English pastoral poetry if anybody thought of that.

Right now, I love scouting out on eBay for legit DVDs in Latin America that hasn't been imported here in the US.

But anyways...
Oscar Wilde... He's DIVINE.

If you remember, I named one of my doves Dorian... after his book, the Portrait of Dorian Gray.

At 11/6/07 05:52 PM, fli wrote: If you remember, I named one of my doves Dorian... after his book, the Portrait of Dorian Gray.

I named my pet boa Io from Pratchett's Discworld god, Blind Io.

though, we named our cat Raja because of Aladdin

At 11/6/07 06:23 PM, SevenSeize wrote: Social services came and took one of my students away today.

She had told me this morning that her mom was real sick and couldn't take care of her anymore.

I asked another teacher if she'd be back, and she said probably not.

They took all of her sisters away too. I asked if they'd be separated, and they said probably so.

They didn't even let me say good bye....

......cried my entire drive home.

Not trying to sound like a calloused bastard but you really should just let it go.

At 11/6/07 05:16 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:

I don't like that book, and my sister wants to see the movie...
100 Years of Solitude was a better book

Today my Culture teacher said precisely the opposite :)

that deserves to be made into a 3 or 4 part mini-drama like the Thornbirds.

Why can't you people read books that don't have Spanish words in it dammit.

Of course, I'm reading Vor dem Gesetz, I'm trying to get Der Schloss, der Prozess, and die Verwaltung.

At 11/6/07 06:23 PM, SevenSeize wrote: They didn't even let me say good bye....

......cried my entire drive home.

I'm sorry
*hugness

I have some meat if you want... although I probably burned it already.

At 11/6/07 06:23 PM, SevenSeize wrote: They didn't even let me say good bye....

Social Services are a bunch of fuckheads.

......cried my entire drive home.

*BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG HUG!!!!!!!!!*

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At 11/6/07 06:26 PM, SuperDeagle wrote: Not trying to sound like a calloused bastard but you really should just let it go.

Well, you're doing a great job of sounding like one...
Let her.

Not many teachers care for the well being of their students. It's a good thing that she cares.

Ovens are not my friends.....

At 11/6/07 07:05 PM, fli wrote:

At 11/6/07 06:26 PM, SuperDeagle wrote: Not trying to sound like a calloused bastard but you really should just let it go.

Well, you're doing a great job of sounding like one...
Let her.

Not many teachers care for the well being of their students. It's a good thing that she cares.

I know I'm a horrible person.

Fli.

I've read Dorian Gray before, because I thought I would like Wilde.

But, I just didn't. I didn't like his support for the decadent movements, and I just didn't like The Happy Prince.

But I did like An Ideal Husband though, wierd.

Anyways, I've always though Whitman was a bit better then Wilde.
And Burns was better then both.

At 11/6/07 09:53 PM, SevenSeize wrote: WHY CAN'T I SLEEP???????!!!!!!!!!!!

the easy answer is stress. you have a bunch rolling around in your head that isn't being resolved.

You'll live Seven. Remember the end goal of teaching:
To help the kids as much as you can while you have them. It's not up to you to control when or how they leave your care, but do what you can while you got em and don't worry so much about when they take off. You've got other kids to worry about as well after all....

Sorry if I sound like a coldhearted bastard....but I am.....

At 11/6/07 10:02 PM, Imperator wrote:
Sorry if I sound like a coldhearted bastard....but I am.....

Yes, you're sexy anti-hero like Vin Diesal or House. This isn't about you

At 11/6/07 10:06 PM, stafffighter wrote:
Yes, you're sexy anti-hero like Vin Diesal or House. This isn't about you

Sorry if it seemed like I was trying to make it that way.....

Just trying to offer advice as someone who's had a lot of students drop out on him.

I think Wilde is the type of people you get or don't get...

But his many sayings are just absolutely memorible. Some authors come and go out of fashion. I really enjoyed Portrait, and when I saw League of Gentlemen... I was SOOOOO happy to see Lestat play Dorian.

Wilde, I think, is the type of author that gets a new league of followers every other decade... sort of like Graham Greene. Everyone is all about Graham Greene and adapting his stuff after 9-11 (after The Quiet American came out.)

I haven't read Burns and the who-whatz-it. Right now, I'm trying to read Anna Carina and I guess I can find a used Burns book somehwere.

At 11/6/07 10:18 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I know.
I have alot going on, alot of which isn't even related to work/school.

I think it's a combination that has me this way.

Probably. Seems to me you're managing just fine.

I apologize for making the lounge so bleak as of lately.

Wouldn't be much of a lounge if we didn't try to get our favorite 1st grade teacher back to her ol cheerful self, now would it? ;)

tea is so awesome with milk instead of water.

I pushed the eject button on the CD player in the van

an audio book CD of ANNE FUCKING COLTER popped out :/

also, watched Totoro tonight. I loved it. Cute movie!

At 11/6/07 10:12 PM, fli wrote: I think Wilde is the type of people you get or don't get...

Obcessed with alagory to the point that the narrative can get lost. Hit or miss really. Mostly in the case of the reader

But his many sayings are just absolutely memorible. Some authors come and go out of fashion. I really enjoyed Portrait, and when I saw League of Gentlemen... I was SOOOOO happy to see Lestat play Dorian.

Were you upset that the movie blew?

At 11/6/07 10:12 PM, fli wrote:

I haven't read Burns and the who-whatz-it. Right now, I'm trying to read Anna Carina and I guess I can find a used Burns book somehwere.

The Who Whatz it?

But Burns is key, he's one of my favorite romantic era poets, and him being the national poet of Scotland, and my moms ingraining him in my head was also helpfull.

I consider him next to my love for Dylan Thomas.