RMU English Skills Competition

This is what I’ve been working on the past couple of weeks in between teaching. It culminated in the actual competition yesterday, which went well except for the poor planning and execution of a couple events/aspects. The guilty parties won’t even admit there were problems, which is part of the problem, of course. At least, that’s the feedback from some of the school administrators who attended. Both from what I saw and the feedback survey, everyone else did really well; props all around.
Our next event is the annual International Day. Preparation begins next week.

Max has a stomach bug or something

He threw up everything four times today. I thought he had gotten a bit better after he came with me to our faculty’s new year dinner and he chowed on steamed fish, but he threw it all up again after we came home. Oops. Had to strip sheets off of two king size beds and start drying mattresses with fans.
We keep making him rehydrate, but dehydration is a fear since he throws up so much; we’ll take him to the clinic tomorrow.
Mina is being no more or less cooperative than can be expected of a soft, pink, newborn potato lump.

The preview of the sequel to the best movie review, ever


I wish this news had come out before George Lucas was on the Daily Show last week because it might made his weak argument that the target audiences of the first three and last three movies are different, so it’s OK that the last three he made sucked a little easier to swallow. Let’s put this in perspective: The sequel to the review ripping the shit out of the movie is going to be more hotly anticipated by the original fans than the sequel itself was (the fans had seen the first one by then and knew it was all a sad downhill slide after the appearance of, say, Ewoks).
BTW, the creator was interviewed by heeb magazine a couple weeks ago.