A Vote for Huckabee is a Vote for Hillary

gonna get political for a second. watched the NH primary for, like, six hours the other day--RIVETING, by the way--and now I can't stop myself.

Apparently, there's a lot of assumption that Huckabee is going to win most of the South because they like that he's an Evangelical Christian.

But let's think about this, people.

Bush:associated with the evangelicals? I'd say so. Especially after appointing Mr. Roberts head of the Supreme Court.

Bush: liked? Uh, not so much.

You nominate someone purely based on the fact that they're Evangelical--i.e. very, very, very socially conservative--I think you're going to turn off, like, ALL of the independent voters who are friggin sick of it. John McCain winning the NH primary should prove that.

Don't do it, people. Just don't do it.

I can type again!!

My huge old whompus of an arm cast thingy has now been replaced with this much more managable (and typable!) brace!

Yay for being able to be wordy!!!

look how big sam is getting!

a lot bigger than he is in that picture to the right for sure!

coming back soon!!

The thingy comes off tomorrow, if all goes well. then i'll be able to type again and not just peck like a chicken.

Just another reason to hate the friggin snow

The parasite is back

come swiftly death.

the parasite's, or mine. at this point, I'm kinda ambivalent.

Signs of Aging

I'm working on a re-write of a story right now.

In response to original scene in which protagonist runs about town trying to find out what someting means, agent says the following to me: "So, uh, why wouldn't she just *Google* this?!"

duoh.

Because I am so very, very, very old now that it didn't even occur to me.

*I* didn't have Google when I was 16. So why should *she*?!

Santa loves Sam and Lily

Congratulations to the Highly Effective Cartoon Network Marketing Department!

We were driving around and looking at Christmas lights, but Sam was being a bit Scroogish and just wanted to go home.

Me: "We can't go home, Sam! We're having a Merry Christmas time!"

Sam: [disdainful voice] "Not every day is a Merry Christmas day, Mommy."

Me: "Really? When *is* it a Merry Christmas day, then?"

Sam: "It's only Christmastime when the Cartoon Network says it is, Mommy."

Congratulations Fall of 2007

not only are you now done with finals, you have officially managed to blow my mind. and not in the bad way like most semesters!!

Build your own windmill for $150!

http://www.thekevdog.com/projects/wind_generator/

"Well, the other day we showered together,"

As I was walking away from the testing center, someone on a cell phone said that.

Anyone have any good ideas about the probable context of said quote? (Remember, this was at BYU...)

stuff students will do for extensions

They will fake Ron Paul's Southern accent and give impassioned speeches about why we should all drink unpasteurized milk.

stuff students will do for extensions

Forget the whole war in Iraq thing

what really ticked me off was that Georgie's energy bill today did NOT renew the PTC's that keep windmill farms afloat.

Dude's on my *list* now.

stuff students will do for grades

They will pat their bums to music in synchronization.

Counseling with my conscience, I pondered the thought of victory.

that was a line from a student paper I just graded.

muster all of your creative juice and write me the best next line EVER!!

If you want to guess what grade I gave the paper that birthed that fascinating line, you can do that, too. ;-)

Look! One of my students wrote me a touchy-feely haiku!

Kill death kill
Blood mangled teachers once
Kill death kill

Elder Ballard Wants Us to Blog

http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/using-new-media-to-support-the-work-of-the-church




(I don't think that this blog is exactly the kind he was talking about, though...)

Of course

Me: "Oh, Sam, I think you are *handsome.*"

Sam: "Oh, no, Mommy. I not handsome."

Me: "You're not?"

Sam: "No, Mommy. I am VERY handsome."

Merry Elfin Christmas from Us!

You'll have to click this link for the fun, but it'll be worth it!!

Sam hearts Mitt Romney

We were watching Mitt's religion speech on TV the other night when Sam asked,

"What are you *watching*?"

We said, "We're watching Mitt. He's talking about how he's Mormon like us! Isn't that great?"

Sam gave me his dirtiest look. "It's NOT great, Mommy."

"Uh," I said. "okay."

But then he broke into this huge grin and yelled, "It's AWESOME!!!!"