Baby names

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We are watching last Thursday’s LOST.  It was a Sun and Jin episode.  There was a sweet little scene with them on the beach talking about getting ready for the baby.   Jin suggests they talk baby names, but Sun says it is bad luck.  I don’t know that it could be bad luck if you aren’t pregnant.

Names I like for our yet-to-be-conceived baby.   I am not going to tell you which one we have actually chosen for our first born.

Girls names are too easy.  I just keep thinking of them.  There are many ladies in our family that we would like to honor.

  • Abigail
  • Amelia
  • Bonnie
  • Betsy
  • Caroline
  • Caitlin
  • Ellen
  • Hazel
  • Ingrid
  • Isabella
  • Joy
  • Marion
  • Ruth
  • Sarah
  • Sylvia

Boys names have not been as easy.  There are lots of names that I like, but they either don’t go well with our last name or I have had a student with that name that was a problem.

  • Benjamin
  • Edward
  • Elliot
  • Eric
  • Ethan

1990 – In largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts

17 things that are Green

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  1. Grass
  2. Clovers
  3. My lunch bag
  4. Limes
  5. Mountain Dew
  6. Leaves
  7. The list next to my classroom phone
  8. My towels
  9. The “stone” in my class ring
  10. The walls at the Dummerston Grange AND the Putney Community Center
  11. My favorite color
  12. Spinach
  13. Emeralds
  14. Pickles
  15. Kakapos
  16. The Statue of Liberty
  17. Christmas Trees

1756 – St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).

Never could tell a joke

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A 22-year-old kid is sent to a maximum security prison for larceny. Benefiting from a cliché often found in prison stories, he ends up with an older, veteran cellmate who takes a liking to him and helps him get acclimated to prison life.The first night in the cell block, the kid hears something strange. Other prisoners are calling out numbers in the darkness.”Sixteen!”All the prisoners laugh, except for the new kid.

“Twenty-five!”

More laughter.

And so on. The kid asks his cellmate to explain what everyone’s laughing at.

“Well, at night, we’ve got nothing better to do than to tell jokes.”

“But they’re not jokes. They’re just numbers.”

“That’s all you know. Thing is, we’ve all been here so long that we’ve heard all each other’s jokes so often that we’ve memorized them. So rather than tell the whole joke again, we’ve numbered ’em all. Now we just remind each other of the joke by calling out the number.”

So the kid calls out, “Eleven!”

The entire cell block erupts in almost hysterical laughter.

Then the guy in the next cell calls out, “Fifteen!” Crickets.

The kid asks, “What happened?”

His cellmate answers, “That guy never could tell a joke.”

That is one of my all time favorite jokes. Just the line “That guy never could tell a joke.” can crack me up. And…sadly, it is reminiscent of me, I never remember the whole joke (unless it is short), but punchlines…I can do punchlines.

  1. “I pissed in its ear.”
  2. “It is dark in here.”
  3. “Wrecked’im hell, it killed ‘im.”
  4. Jesus Johnson
  5. “Anyone can roast beef.”
  6. “Sand”

1906 – Henny Youngman, American comedian (d. 1998)
1926 – Jerry Lewis, American comedian

Things I am really glad someone invented

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There are some things we all take for granted, but someone had to invent them.

I am really glad for:

  1. Air conditioning I may live in a mostly cool climate, but it can get hot here. It gets especially hot in my computer lab. It took 7 years for me to convince someone that I needed a/c in there and it has made all the difference. I am actually in a better mood during the heat waves.
  2. Reach dental floss holders I hate flossing my teeth. It is not a lot of fun for me to stick my fingers in my mouth. I floss every day now. My flosser is pink and his is blue. We also have a purple one that neither of us has used.
  3. Indoor plumbing When it isn’t so hot that you need a/c, it is so cold that you need a down parka. I am thankful every day that I don’t have to go outside to p.
  4. DVR For someone who does a lot of plays, it is great to be able to record “appointment TV” like LOST and Grey’s and watch it later. I hated messing around with tapes and the DVR is awesome.
  5. iPods Our local radio station got bought last year and when they changed over the owners got rid of the 2 great DJs that had been there over 20 years. I hate the new morning guy, so I really only listen for the local news. The rest of the time I listen to NPR on my iPod in the car.

1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.

Simply not true

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Things that people believe(d), but just aren’t true:

  • The Earth is flat.
  • Walt Disney is in cryonic storage.
  • Federal law allows Texas to fly the state flag above the US flag.
  • Iraq has WMD
  • German would have become the official language of the USA, but for one vote.
  • The sun revolves around the Earth.
  • Britney Spears is talented.
  • Stars can be seen during the day from the bottom of the well.
  • Paris Hilton is hot.
  • We only use 10% of our brains.
  • The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object can be seen from the moon.
  • Chewing gum takes 7 years to pass through your system.
  • If you blog it…they will read.

1925 – Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
1975 – Courtney C. and Joy D. born
1976 – Lisa H. born

Just PLAYing

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These are all the plays I can think that I have worked on outside of church and school. At least 40 of them before I was 30, not counting the 2 during elementary school. At this rate I will certainly hit 50 before 35! Unless a baby butts in.

  1. Moses and the Freedom Fanatics (second grade)
  2. A Christmas play with a forgotten name (third grade)
  3. Gypsy (1990 – costumes)
  4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1990 – costumes)
  5. Rimer’s of Eldrich (1990 – costumes/asst. stage manager)
  6. Oliver (1991 – costumes)
  7. Matchmaker (1991 – Ermengarde)
  8. Merry Wives of Windsor (1991 – Mistress Page)
  9. Comedy of Errors (1991 – costumes)
  10. Dracula (1991 – stage manager)
  11. Sound of Music (1992 – stage manager/costumes)
  12. Spoon River Anthology (1992 – stage manager/lights)
  13. Large Fears, Little Demons (1992 – director)
  14. Taming of the Shrew (1992 – costumes)
  15. Romeo & Juliet (1992 – stage manager)
  16. The Wiz (1993 – assistant to the director)
  17. The Italian Straw Hat (1993 – stage manager)
  18. Charley’s Aunt (1993 – stage manager)
  19. Bye Bye Birdie (1994 – stage manager/asst to the director)
  20. A Children’s Hour (1994 – Karen)
  21. Twelfth Night (1994 – costumes)
  22. Lysistrata (1994 – asst. stage manager)
  23. A Girl’s Guide to Chaos (1995 – stage manager)
  24. A Doctor In Spite of Himself (1996 – stage manager)
  25. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1998 – stage manager)
  26. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (yes, 3 times) (1998 – stage manager)
  27. The King Stag (1999 – stage manager)
  28. Romeo & Juliet (2000 – stage manager)
  29. Toad of Toad Hall (2000 – stage manager)
  30. Stop Kiss (2001 – stage manager)
  31. Comedy of Errors (2001 – stage manager)
  32. Prelude to a Kiss (2002 – extra)
  33. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2002 – Ophelia)
  34. A Christmas Carol (2002 – stage manager)
  35. Double Exposure (2003 – stage manager)
  36. Twelfth Night (2003 – producer)
  37. Spike Heels (2004 – stage crew)
  38. Equivalent Lands (2004 – Naked Bride)
  39. Taming of the Shrew (2004 – stage manager/producer)
  40. Bemused (2005 – stage manager)
  41. The Winter’s Tale (2005 – producer)
  42. The Tempest (2006 – producer)
  43. Light’s Up Broadway (2006 – stage manager/Elphaba)
  44. Variations of the Death of Trotsky (2007 – Mrs. Trotsky)
  45. All’s Well That Ends Well (2007 – stage manager/producer)
  46. HMS Pinafore (2008 – stage manager)
  47. The Lift (2008 – stage manager)
  48. King Lear (2008 – stage manager/producer)

1928 – Edward Albee, American dramatist

I didn’t do it

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Things I haven’t done, that you probably think I have

  1. Downhill skiing My parents took us once when we were kids and I hated it. I totally don’t understand the appeal. It is cold, windy, difficult, why would you want that?
  2. Spent large amounts of time in Canada You would think, since I live in a border state, that I would have been there a bunch of times. In fact, I have been 2 or 3 times. My parents claim we went when I was a child. We ate lunch just over the border when my sister was visiting her boyfriend at camp. We spent our honeymoon in Montreal. That’s it. 3 times. I’ve been to Cancun more times than that.
  3. Smoked pot I never really saw the need. I had a roommate in college that did, but she was not all that into peer pressure. I was in the room sometimes when my friends smoked up, but I never tried it. It probably has something to do with my pessimistic nature: I’d get caught; I don’t need the muchies to eat too much; I’d get sick; I would do something stupid.
  4. Had a lot of jobs My parents owned their own businesses when I was growing up (still do) and my dad figured I should work for them.  So when I was younger (okay, it wasn’t a real job) I worked in the store, stocking shelves, collecting empties, running the register.  You know, they sold the store when I was twelve, but I was still a better cashier and bagger than the kids who work in our grocery stores.  When I got older I had a lot of tasks around the appraisal office (in our house).  I sorted, labeled, recorded photos.  I photocopied and filed appraisals.  I have only had 4 “real” jobs outside of the family, but that is a list for another day.
  5. Seen a lot of plays I enjoy doing theater, but it has to be really good for me to sit through a performance.  I’ve seen more than your average person, but not as many as I should have seen considering my love for it.
  6. Read many “classics”  Mark Twain called a ‘classic’ a book that everyone praises but which no one actually reads.  I have always been more of a current culture sort of girl.  I have read some of those books others would call classics: Little House on the Prairie, Little Women, David Copperfield.  But I prefer modern fiction.

1959 – The original Broadway production of A Raisin In The Sun opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City.