"I'm not superstitious ... I'm just stitious."

Tonight we ate JennMcMuffins for night-breakfast and watched the premier of The Office. It was a wonderfully Zen-like synthetic combination, this union of an adapted mockumentary and a homemade version of a fast-food version of homemade dish. How appropriate for the day after the day after the day that saw a new record for the most sales of an entertainment product in American history. Said $170 million dollar selling product was Halo 3, the English version of the hit Spanish video game Hola 3 (“Hello! Hello! Hello!”). Living with Jay and Jenn rocks! Have I mentioned this? Jenn has good taste in decorating so they have really nice dark brown leather couches that are also very comfortable. I enjoy sitting in tasteful dark brown leather couches and playing video games on large HD TVs. Yes, I enjoy that a lot. Plus they have a killer surround-sound system, so when someone snipes me from out of nowhere in Call of Duty 4, I jump out of my seat. This happens a lot. It’s fun. Another good thing is that Jason is adept at downloading HD movies which he can play on the PS3. Oh yes, the sweetness is sweet. Last week we watched Knocked Up. Judd Apatow is so funny. Yeah, so, I don’t really have anything to say. School is surprising easy. We do a lot of gardening. Next Wednesday I will visit South Kelowna Elementary, that should be fun--hola kids! I are senior Davido! Do you know where a Taco Bell grows? Speaking of hilariously and subtly warped things, achewood is a great online comic. Oh yeah, I’m coming up North for thanksgiving, thank goodness.

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On the Flatness of the World

Oh good grief! I haven’t posted on my web log for a whole month. What is this world coming to? Sometimes I don’t even know if it’s flat or not. I’ve been busy like a bee. Not a busy bee, mind you, just a standard bee, which is still fairly busy. I have 7 classes this fall, which sounds like a lot, but they only add up to 17 credits (a standard term is 15 credits), and it doesn’t feel like much work, so c’est chouette. I could tell you what the courses are, but that would be boring and it would force you to stop reading, drive to Vernon, stab me in the hand and say: “Stop writing boring stuff Mr. Bleedy Hand!”

Today was my first day in a public school as a student-teacher. It was le fun. I wasn’t anxious because it wasn’t the school where I’ll be doing my practicum. It was just one of a number of schools I’ll visit this fall for observation. Dr. Knox Middle School has 800 students in grades 7, 8 and 9. It was weird because the adolescent growth spurt begins in those years so there were some tiny kids and some ninth graders who were inches taller than me. I observed 2 social studies 9 classes (each had a different teacher), one English 9 class, and one Art 7 class. It was nice to get out of the ivory tower and get my feet wet. I felt comfortable because I think I’ll be able to do everything the teachers were doing, so that’s cool. On Saturday I have some educational conference to go to. My goal is to heckle until someone tasers me.

Rock should get back from NYC (via Ontario) soon. I know that she changed the city for the better--really, even more than Borat changed it for the better. This I know because while she was there the NYT decided to discontinue the pay version of its site. Now all their fantastically awesome journalists’ articles are free again. My life is now complete.

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