What’s your favorite zoo animal? It’s a tie between bears and elephants. I don’t think we have bears at our zoo, so at least here at home, it would be elephants. They are so noble and admirable. What’s your favorite circus act? I dislike circuses after what happened in 1994. I won’t go to a [...]
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What’s your favorite “just add water!” food? Costco sells a brand of instant mashed potatoes whose recipe calls for just adding water. Where other instant mashed potato brands have lots of funky ingredients, these just have potatoes, if I remember correctly. For the price, you get a heck of a lot of potatoes and they [...]
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My own Friday 5 questions lately have intrigued me, so I’m going to answer them here. October 2: Story Which of your stories have you probably told the greatest number of times to the most people? Since I have a fresh batch of ears every year, the stories I tell my students are the most [...]
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This week’s Friday 5, my favorite in a long time, is based on Scattergories. What random letter was generated by the online random-letter generator? Y. Great. With what famous person, whose name begins with the letter in question #1, would you most like to be stuck on a desert island? Why do I get the [...]
A big raspberry to readers of this space who dislike this kind of thing. I am (obviously) a fan. (stolen from malia, who got it from tenseteacher) Where did you take your profile pic? The one I use most was taken while sitting at my desk. I held my point-and-shoot in one hand and pointed [...]
I’m not quite in summer vacation mode yet. Got a few more of my end-of-year requirements to take care of. Took care of one today; gotta do two more. Hopefully tomorrow. Went to a two-day workshop Tuesday and Wednesday. I’ve realized for the past two years that I suck at teaching vocab, so it was [...]
I’ve been asked several times recently about why I don’t do my own Friday 5 memes. I do, I answered. I just don’t do them weekly. So here’s a little catchup. From May 29 What is the longest you’ve gone between haircuts? It has now been seven years since my last haircut. What is the [...]
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I outed myself at Friday5.org a few weeks ago. So if you don’t already know it, that’s me. That’s my project. It’s not original (to say the least!), but it’s mine. The world is full of these day-of-the-week memes, and Friday seems to be the popular day for it, so there’s not one thing original [...]
Five on Friday Primary Colors When is the presidential primary in your area? September 20. Do you plan to participate? Have you participated in the past? Unless Penny and Grace say they’re both not doing it, not only will I participate, but I will work at one of the precincts as a poll official. I [...]
Feeling a bit on the melancholy side, despite having a good evening. Went to dinner with Grace, Anto, George, and Ross at Teddy’s in Waikiki. Good conversations and good company, ‘though I’d have liked more time with Anto because I wanted to talk about Big Fish, which he’s read and I haven’t. We saw the [...]
