Amelia

I watched Labyrinth tonight, hee, nostalgia trip. I loved it when I was in junior high and I remember at least one rewatch in late highschool in tribute to David Bowie's tight pants.

( random thoughts, can we really call them spoilers for a movie that came out in 1986? )

It's still *so* *tragic* I didn't grow up to be Jennifer Connelly, even ( after dressing like her character in highschool )

Hee!

Best Quote: "Me had crazy times in 70s and 80s. Me like the Robert Downey Jr. of cookies."



Can't Hardly Wait is on tv and I think it's my favorite teen comedy from when I was in highschool/early college. Besides starring Lauren Ambrose and Seth Green it has a ton of cameos from people I recognized only later ("Tara", Sara Rue, the-guy-who's-not-Zach-Braff from Scrubs, Clea DuVall, Freddy Rodriguez, Jamie Pressly, Selma Blair, Jerry O'Connell, that dude from that other thing (imdb says his name is Sean Patrick Thomas) as well as the obvious mid-to-late 90s people: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jenna Elfman, Melissa Joan Hart).

Love the dated pop references: "who does he think he is Brad Pitt? You are so much prettier than Gwyneth." Plus dude goes to Dartmouth at the end.

I haven't really been posting a lot recently. Things are pretty good. My African Art class is going well. Some of my students are really smart others less so (example: I'm showing an Eygptian work with three figures, one male, two female. They are: the pharoah Menkaure, goddess Hathor, and a Nome--a figure representing an area of Egypt. One student "doesn't get it it". Why? "Is is called Nome because it's short?" "What?" "Because nomes are small people." "No, that's gnome with a g." (trying not to smirk, I'm the teacher, the teacher, must.not.taunt.students.).

Another grad. student observed me last night. Since it's my first class I wanted some objective feedback on my lecture style (am I making sense or do they have blank looks for some other reason?). His evaluation was mostly positive although he did say I was mean for making them memorize medium and date. God forbid they know what the item is made out of and when it was produced.

Reading for comps is going. Slowly, but progressing and that's considerably better than last year.

I've done a couple DC Ravenchase hunts recently and they have rocked! I'm really looking forward to the upcoming hunt in Annapolis and the Halloween one in Richmond! (also curling soon, yay!)

Tonight we ordered Chinese food and are watching random things on tv. Did you know that Alan Rickman was the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Price of Theives? This movie came out when I was in early middle school and had a big effect. The cheesy factor on the rewatch is awesome.

Oh, wondering about the subject line? Denis found this. I think number 1 merits a WTF?