Rhymes With Orange is the Worst Comic Ever!

My god. It's never been funny. Not once!

Anyway, the snow-shortened week is almost coming to a close. I'm having this extreme craving for Chinese food, so I think that's what dinner will be tonite.

According to this website, there are some really dumb excuses for calling out sick. Most of them are crappy, but the one I actually laughed at was I got spit on by a venomous snake. I might try that one someday. I was hiking in rainforest behind my house when I came across this snake. I guess that won't work in Bloomfield, but maybe when I live in Arizona.

Kids Say The Darnedest Things

Ok, I'm gonna try this again. When I first published this post, only the title showed up. Let's see if it works this time...

So, when I got home today, I was thinking about the many dumb things I used to say when I was little. For instance, I remember the first time I saw a sign that read Open 24 Hours, I read it aloud in the car as "Open 24 Whores." Also, my family always went on vacation to Ocean City, NJ, every summer, and I remember seeing a sign hanging by the vending machines that read Beverages. I thought it said Beaver Bags. To this day, my brother will still look at the menu when we go out to eat to see what Beaver Bags they offer. I thought of a bunch more, but for some reason they have slipped my mind. I don't even know what made me think of them in the first place. I guess you'd figure there would be some story related to the kids at school tonite, huh?

Even Frosty Wouldn't Be Jolly This Weather

The snow started at 11:43 AM today, and the reason I know this is because Kim and I were planning to at least meet to get lunch before going to our respective homes and getting snowed in. I had just gotten into my car to warm it up and head to her house when I looked up and my window was covered already. So our plans of going out to get lunch ended up with us making turkey sandwiches at her house and then me going home after about a half hour because the streets were already covered. It's still coming down rapidly. The snow is very tiny and light-looking flakes, but the volume is amazing. Tonight, the wind will pick up and make it blizzard-like. I think they're predicting up to 15 inches. Can't wait to shovel tomorrow.

So my day after lunch consisted of playing ESPN basketball for PS2 and then coming online to talk about my uneventful day. After completing this blog, I will probably go back to my room and play more basketball.

As Kim said, the news is official. Their website now has the message. Hey Mercedes is broken up. Add to my list of beloved bands that have, well, disbanded:

• Kid With Man Head
• Fig Dish
• Face To Face
• Wu-Tang Clan
• the Benjamins
• Dynamite Hack
• Knapsack
• Ozma
• Saves the Day

Oh wait, that last band didn't break up, they just turned into crap. My bad. Anyway, you may not agree these are the best bands, but I loved all of them, and it stinks especially because HM was the one band we caught every time they came to the area. Actually, for a stretch Kim & I saw HM like 4 times over the span of 8 months or something, and no one else in between. At least I still have their EPs and CDs to listen to, and of course their awesome cover of When In Rome's The Promise.

So it's sad news unfortunately, but hopefully the members will continue to stay involved in music in some form and we'd be lucky enough to hear from them again.

Tomorrow will consist of shoveling my parents' cars and mine out of the foot or more of snow and shoveling off our steps, sidewalk, and my grandmother's house. Then I will watch the playoff games and hope the Eagles win and the game between the Pats and Steelers goes into 7 overtimes and half the players get stuck in snowdrifts so the AFC forfeits the Super Bowl. My brother would be happy that his team finally wins the big game, and I don't have to hear about Ben Hamburgerhelper winning a record 16 games as a rookie QB, or hear about the genius of Bill Belichik any more (no offense to Rob).

Kindergarten Crap

Welcome to my classroom, where there's no pooping in your pants allowed! I went to work today and heard those dreaded words,"Kindergarten today, Brian." I have literally feared this day since I started the job at Fairview, because the AM class is awful, and you can ask every teacher in the building to confirm this statement. I was lucky enough that they had French and music, so I got 2 mini-breaks from them, but it wasn't an ideal day. The PM class is always much better behaved, so it helps to have the better half after you're tired and frustrated. I really hope she's back in tomorrow, since I don't think day 2 will fare better, but the secretary said she sounded pretty bad. I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

Last night, Kim & I saw Elektra with my gift card to the movies. And besides the fact that I like Jennifer Garner, I did actually think it wasn't too bad. It did have some semblance of a story, and some of the effects were nifty. When I was driving home, I saw this huge flash in the sky and the lights in Bloomfield and Nutley completely went out. No street lights, no traffic lights, nothing. I was luckily close to home and when I turned the corner to my house, I looked across the cemetery and those houses had lights. My grandmother who lives around the block still had lights, but the entire stretch of my ride home was pitch black somehow. Pretty eerie...My playoff pool is finished since I had Indy in the SB. Philly's still alive, so that helps, but getting half the games wrong pretty much eliminates me.

Critters

My week from hell is one day from being over. Monday I had a 4th grade class, and for the past 3 days I've had the 1st grade from hades. The critters are all evil. I swear if you cut them open, little lawyers will come out of them wearing devil suits. No, they weren't all bad. Just a select few. I've had the other first grades before and none even compared to this one. It was no fun yelling and throwing them thru windows to get them to get on task. Tomorrow, the teacher's supposed to be back, but she was also supposed to be back today. If she's back, then I might have a 5th grade class.

It's really weird that it's 60 today, but it's supposed to be 20 by Saturday. It was also London-fog like this morning. Very thick and it had that smell of water in the air. You probably have no idea what I mean.

Tomorrow we may be going to P-town to get some Lebanese food. I like eating things that taste good, even though I don't know what they are. And for lunch, the school is ordering from Mexicali Rose, probably the best Mexican food in New Jersey. I hope the children enjoy the effects of my Mexican Tacos after lunch. Eww.

In sports news, I'm glad the Blue Jays actually got someone else, even though I still think he sucks(Shea Hillenbrand). But I'm confused because he's supposed to DH, and originally they had Catalonotto at DH because they didn't want him in the outfield anymore. I'm thinking they may trade someone else, either an outfielder, or Hisnke.

New Year, Alias, subbing...

I don't believe this is the first post of 2005. Happy New Year. I haven't had much to say since going back to school I guess. The week off was awesome, and now there's not really another one until the end of April. I really was anticipating the new season of Alias, but the premiere had about 40 minutes of commercials in it and made me stay up until 11 for no reason. That annoyed me some.

There's this one teacher at school who likes me (not in that way), but I guess she doesn't realize I absolutely can't stand her and think she's a terrible teacher. Pretty funny I guess. I also talked to a teacher who I graduated high school with and we both sort of came to an understanding that we don't want to really work in our current town, but if it's all we're going to get, it works. I got some good news about possible jobs for september in saddle brook, too. I think 4 teachers(maybe more) are retiring in the district. Nice. Is it summer yet?