Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Nah, I'm in AZ. I guess our bats have similar habits!

I have been working hard to be social in my new ward, and so far it's fun. I even participated in the date auction last night (people bid candy on the date descriptions without knowing who they're with until later), and that should be fun, too. My friend and I sold two double dates--one for dinner a...

Ugh, you all like Catcher in the Rye? I've started it twice now and haven't been able to finish. The first time because I was younger and had less tolerance for swearing, the second time because the main character is so angsty I wanted to slap him. Then again, I couldn't get through Emma because I t...

(Not sure what kind of racial makeup your school has.) It's a fairly high socioeconomic area, so probably rich white kids. Plusses and minuses, there. I'm guessing they'll be able to handle a little more than most regular English 9 kids because their parents and teachers have pushed them, but they ...

Just watched the Korean movie The Recipe. Not what I expected. I thought it would be a cooking show, but instead it was a serene detective ghost story. Odd, but I liked it.

Bonus: there are a few titles we don't have enough copies for the whole class, but we COULD replace one of the main titles with a literature circle--where the class splits into groups and each groups reads a different novel (usually with some unifying thread) and then they discuss in groups and then...

I have to pick 4-6 books from this list, to cover in my regular 12th grade sci-fi centered English class next year. Most of the books on the list I've never read, and though I'm going to try my best in the 2 months before school starts, I don't know that I can cover everything. So--this is what I'm ...

Bonus: there are a few titles we don't have enough copies for the whole class, but we COULD replace one of the main titles with a literature circle--where the class splits into groups and each groups reads a different novel (usually with some unifying thread) and then they discuss in groups and then...

I have to pick 3-5 books from this list, to cover in my regular 9th grade English class next year. Most of the books on the list I've never read, and though I'm going to try my best in the 2 months before school starts, I don't know that I can cover everything. So--this is what I'm hoping for. I wan...

Yeah--if they don't need you on that weekend, then you can take off easily. If they seem reluctant to let you go, you can tell your dad that you're sorry you can't make it, but you must made a time commitment you can't get out of.

You could also go for part of the time, if it works out that way.

I've had friends whose boyfriends/girlfriends/fiance(e)s felt like it was okay to say that movies or tv or video games or whatever was off-limits for both parties, when they didn't approve. I know it happens. But I think for the most part, one half of the couple doesn't lay down the law for the othe...

I was at some huge film festival with a bunch of people from my fictional dream ward, and we'd all gone to see some movie that seemed to be part James and the Giant Peach, but it kept having famous characters from other stories drop in like Sherlock Holmes, and it was a heist movie. Anyway, the thea...

I was watching Bollywood songs on Youtube because I do, and I ended up researching one of the names in the songs. It turns out it's one of the names for one of the major gods, and it essentially translates as "cowherd." At first I didn't think that it's a very glamorous name, and I guess i...

I dreamed that I was at Brick Oven and they needed help and so I had to jump back into things unpracticed during a very busy time. Then I woke up earlier than I meant to, so I went back to sleep. Next, we'd discovered that someone my family didn't want to see implicated had committed some crime with...

I've been trying to find the version of Falcon in the Dive by Rex Smith in the Scarlet Pimpernel soundtrack all day, but Amazon and iTunes both have the wrong version in the mp3 downloads for that album. I keep seeing people say that the Terry Mann version is superior, and maybe if I were more musi...

I've been trying to find the version of Falcon in the Dive by Rex Smith in the Scarlet Pimpernel soundtrack all day, but Amazon and iTunes both have the wrong version in the mp3 downloads for that album. I keep seeing people say that the Terry Mann version is superior, and maybe if I were more music...

To play devil's advocate, here, my dad is quite sensitive to swearing. If a book or movie swears more than once or twice, he stops and picks another, because he feels there are enough admirable books and movies without that he doesn't need to subject himself to ones that cause him pain. He told me t...

Oof. I just gave a lesson in RS about the Priesthood conference talk from last conference. I tried to stay away from saying "Ordain Women is right" or "Ordain women is wrong" and mostly just talked about all the questions that I still have after the talk, and how I really don't k...

I was neutral, because limbo does that to you, but I just got a job teaching English at a good high school in the same city as my family, so I'm rocketed straight over to awesome (and with a mild case of shock). I expect I'll sink down a bit again when I hit all the planning and moving and prep work...

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Much Ado? (I feel like I look that word up every time I watch it, and then forget it again.)