More pics from the bowling excursion. For every one of these, there are two or three others the same except with different lighting and varying degrees of clarity. In case anyone is wondering, those are Ernest's shoes and that is my phone.
Ernest bowls.
And Ernest continues to bowl. See?
We're playing basketball (well, one of us is playing-- the other is trying) but I look like I am worshipping something while Ernest makes shadow puppets at it.
This was the first time I've ever seen people play DDR. It's a little disturbing. ~*~
We (Holmes, Brockway, Schreffer, Cronin, Adler, Hodson) leave for Vegas tomorrow to present at the National AP conference. It was 116º there several days last week, and this week it has been averaging 106º. I've been to Vegas before (in the winter) and I don't care what anyone says, IT'S NOT A DRY HEAT.
But get this: they are forecasting RAIN for the entire time we're there. Can you believe that? They may as well ship the locusts over too.
I've been crazy busy getting ready for this trip, reading, catching up on movies I've recorded, going to the theater, and watching my two favorite reality television programs (Big Brother and Gene Simmons Family Jewels).
I saw Evening... it was a nightmare. There are several scenes in it where the disgustingly-in-love couple picks out stars for each other (like, out of the sky... the sky that nobody owns) and claims they "remember" which star they chose. Whatever. Each time they'd start that star nonsense, my friends and I would groan.
I also saw Ocean's Thirteen... a great movie to get us in the mood for Vegas, providing we were going there to rob a casino. I enjoyed the movie, though. The music was great.
I'm waiting until I get back from Vegas to see Harry Potter. The crowds will be insane this week.
I finished several books and they were all just kinda there. Gore Vidal's memoirs (Imperial America and Point to Point Navigation; the latter was a colossal bore), as well as Spalding Gray's memoirs.... Vidal writes beautifully but is a little full of himself and Gray's book was just insanely depressing. Today at the library I got a biography over Ben Franklin (my hero) and a book about Rafe Esquith and the Hobart Shakespeareans. I encourage you to check out the Hobart site... it is astounding. www.hobartshakespeareans.org
Back from Vegas on Sunday/Monday... have a great rest of the week!!
But get this: they are forecasting RAIN for the entire time we're there. Can you believe that? They may as well ship the locusts over too.
I've been crazy busy getting ready for this trip, reading, catching up on movies I've recorded, going to the theater, and watching my two favorite reality television programs (Big Brother and Gene Simmons Family Jewels).
I saw Evening... it was a nightmare. There are several scenes in it where the disgustingly-in-love couple picks out stars for each other (like, out of the sky... the sky that nobody owns) and claims they "remember" which star they chose. Whatever. Each time they'd start that star nonsense, my friends and I would groan.
I also saw Ocean's Thirteen... a great movie to get us in the mood for Vegas, providing we were going there to rob a casino. I enjoyed the movie, though. The music was great.
I'm waiting until I get back from Vegas to see Harry Potter. The crowds will be insane this week.
I finished several books and they were all just kinda there. Gore Vidal's memoirs (Imperial America and Point to Point Navigation; the latter was a colossal bore), as well as Spalding Gray's memoirs.... Vidal writes beautifully but is a little full of himself and Gray's book was just insanely depressing. Today at the library I got a biography over Ben Franklin (my hero) and a book about Rafe Esquith and the Hobart Shakespeareans. I encourage you to check out the Hobart site... it is astounding. www.hobartshakespeareans.org
Back from Vegas on Sunday/Monday... have a great rest of the week!!
