near, far, wherever you are.....

sheesh, my neighbor has played enrique iglesias's hero, shania twain's forever and for always, and now, you guessed it, celine dion is belting out that her heart will go on. i was trying to take a nice little afternoon nap, too. booohooo.

first time for everything

yesterday was the first time i caught a student doing something in class i never really imagined i'd deal with. oh i've had sleepers, nose pickers, phone callers, sneaky text message senders. but yesterday, one student whipped out his nail clippers and started cutting away, right in class! i let him do it for about 30 seconds and then just looked right at him and said, "Mr. Q. Can you do that at home?" He nodded sheepishly and let the nail clippers that were hanging around his neck drop silently onto his shirt. He's been wearing those nail clippers for the past few weeks now. How come I never expected him to use them? hehehehe

il divo

thanks to my friend sally, i know who i'm listening to. it's il divo, and it's driving me insane. actually, i can't decide which is worse, the stream of il divo italian opera or the interspersed celine dion. i am totally serious when i say that one of the first things i heard this morning was "my heart will go on". yikes!

new year, new goals

i have no idea if anyone will read this, since it's been months since my last post, but lately i've been feeling the urge to have a place to catch some of the random thoughts and things i experience each day. today i'm overcome by the urge to tell someone, anyone, that my neighbor has LOUDLY played an opera version of mariah carey's "without you" at least once a day for the past week. how do i know it's this song, and that it's an opera version? well, she plays it so loudly that i can hear the first verse in english, and the rest of it in italian. i can't help but be reminded of this video and want to laugh while i listen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo