hey. isn't it christmas? oh shit...

well, christmas is offically over. fuck it.

tonight i went to see Life Aquatic with some friends. i very much enjoyed it and was amused throughout. i thought the imagery was fantastic. the script was great, the characters were fantastic. just magnificant. i realize some will complain about it not being the royal tenenbaums, but it would be a shame if they missed how great this new film actually is. i wish monty were in town to discuss this film and all its greatness.

goodnight kids, see you soon.

christmas eve

i realize that it is christmas eve all over the world right now so my post will hardly be original or anything, but i would like to post some thoughts on whats going on around me. as some of you might know, i live in deep south texas, just 10 miles from mexico. well, it's weird to report, but it is snowing outside right now. when i get pictures, i will try and post them.

sure, i have seen deeper snow. when i lived in pennsylvania, it snowed like a mother and we got 3.5 feet of snow. those were good times.

this is a weird time for me. i am now 26. older than i have ever been, yuckity yuck. i feel like i am too grown up for my own good. a lot of the magic of christmas seems to be gone for me. i just dont feel the same pull like i used to. maybe when i have kids i will feel differntly.

speaking of kids. i think my wife and i want to adopt a baby girl from china. i am going to start looking into the requirments. i saw a special on chinese orphans and i really think it is for me. my wife seems to be in agreement. i really want to do it. if anyone has any clues about pariculars and such, let me know.

merry christmas everyone! i know it's not pc to say that, but fuck it! Merry Christmas!

top 5 things to get for christmas
1. cash
2. books (my personal taste)
3. gift cards
4. fruit cake (its a classic)
5. dvds, music, video games

questions

does anyone know how to check stats for your blog? apparently you can check to see where people are getting to your blog from. i am interesting, but have no way of know how to get to it. anyone help me?

homey the internet

finally, after months of work-only surfing, i have connected my home computer to the internet. it's dialup and it is pretty slow, but at least i have some connection to the outside world now. home is where the heart is, and it is also where the net is, as well.

top 5 things to do online.

1. blog
2. email
3. chat
4. doanload music
5. surf websites

sweet sweet deal

Last day of class before christmas break! woohoo.

so i will be doing nothing all day. its not like the kids will remember anything anyway. i just want this day to be over already. i have to babysit these kids till 130. after that, they will be released into the wild. fantastic.

i bought my wife a cd for christmas, light fare, i realize. please dont think i wouldn't have gone further than a pixies cd if the cash was around. that's why i hate christmas. never enough.

grades all messed up at school today. wonderful.

Really Strange Morning

i don't know how to describe the morning i had in one word, so let me lay it all out for you. i woke up this morning after the customary 3 snooze punches. the wife woke up and we talked for about 5 minutes. when i got up to get in the shower i was hit with a huge wave of fear and dread. i didn't want to get in the shower. it's kind of stupid, a grown man acting like this, i know. about 2 weeks ago, i had seen an ad for the new Michael Keaton (when i did spell check, the machine read this name as Satan) movie, "white noise". then i spotted a newsline (or something) ad for a show they were doing on the premise of the movie (that when listening to static or white noise you can hear the voices of the dead), and in the ad they played this tape of static with a voice over the top of it saying (creepily, of course) "get out of my house". anyway, this morning, this was all i could think of. so the wife got up and sat by the shower while i cleaned up. weird enough already, huh?

got dressed, got in my car and started up the road to the expressway to go to Donna (the town i teach in). i spotted cop cars ahead with flashing lights and it looked like an accident had happened, so i turned off the road to a side street and then i was going to cut back to the expressway. anyway, i drove down this road (which is parallel to the expressway) for about 10 minutes, trying to convince myself to turn back towards the expressway, but i was scared i would go the wrong way. very paranoid and freaked out. i kept repeating, "i'm lost, i'm lost" over and over again. just as i finally got the guts to start to turn, i saw cop lights on the road i had been traveling down (in a novel, i would say this is some sort of forshadowing or representative imagery). so just as i had changed my course because of cops the first time, the second time just as i turned i saw cops. i eventually got on the expressway.

when i arrived in Donna, i saw a cop pass by and do a "U" and turn around behind me. freaked me out completely. my license plate tags are out and i don't want to deal with a ticket. so i drove extremely careful all the way to my school. as i got out of my car, i realized my shirt wasn't fitting me right (i am a large man, so this is not unbelievable). so i was nervous some part of me would be uncovered. to compound it, all morning, i have been listening to two flaming lips' albums monty loaned me. they have such a weird feel and they have really contributed to the strangeness of my morning.

it has been a weird day, and school hasn't even started yet. i am sure a certain number of people will mock me for various reasons, but on a blog i can be brave and speak my mind. there you go.

i liked this on another blog

W	Whimsical
I	Important
T	Temperamental
H	Happy
K	Keen
N	Naughty
I	Insane
V	Vigorous
E	Exciting
S	Silly
O	Orderly
U	Unusual
T	Terrific

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The last of Everything.
[ Last ] letter of ur full name? N


[ Last ] thing you ate?
Weiner in a blanket

[ Last ] thing u drank?
bottled water

[ Last ] song you listened to?
Yoshimi Battle the Pink Robots (part 1)

[ Last ] thing u did?
checked my media player to see which song i was listening to

[ Last ] movie you watched?
Friday Night Lights

[ Last ] TV show you watched?
Re-run of The Practice (late at night, after the football game)

[ Last ] person who sent you a sms?
sms? i don't know what that is. Javier, if we are talking about IMs

[ Last ] time you cleaned your room?
Yesterday, was buttering up the wife


[ Last ] CD you bought?
Green Day - American Idiot

[ Last ] Travel?
Austin for South X Southwest

[ Last ] word you said?
later

[ Last ] time you cried?
dunno, this summer sometime

[ Last ] person who you chatted online with?
Javier

[ Last ] person u added to ur list?
Angie

[ Last ] website you browsed?
.requisite. which is where I swiped this idea from.

[ Last ] time you shopped?
grocery shopped on Friday

[ Last ] person you hated?
someone in charge of me, that shall remain nameless.

[ Last ] person u were thinking of?
my wife, adri

[ Last ] time u felt sick?
all last 2 weeks

[ Last ] person u chatted on the phone with?
Monty

[ Last ] no. of ur home phone?
9

[ Last ] place you went to?
HEB, middle of the night

[ Last ] friend you met?
like, for the first time? i dunno.