Welcome back folks.

My first classes of the semester have gone about as smoothly as was expected. I still haven’t hung out the promised sign up list mentioned above. I will try to do that Wednesday. In the meantime, anyone still interested in that course should contact me via my form mail (the contact button on the left).

In other news, regarding one particular “grown up” class off campus, I did a little “research” regarding the nature of the “Guerteltier”.

I had no idea what a “belt animal” was in English, so I played a round of 20 questions as to what kind of animal it was supposed to be. Is it a real animal? Yes. Is it warm-blooded? They didn’t know. One student thought that they lay eggs. We established the fact that the animal in question did have a hard shell, but one student insisted that “it’s like a turtle, but with long legs”. My first guess would have been armadillo, but then I wasn’t sure. I could go on, but I’ll spare you the details. Below are some children’s websites that put us in the picture.
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So, long story short, it’s an armadillo, a kissing cousing to the anteater and the sloth. That’s good company.

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Any former L2 students who are still interested in taking the Z1 course (you need it to minor in English, pal) should sign up this coming week on the list hanging out at the P-Amt in Gru. We are extending the sign up period another week so you have a chance to not mess up your future plans. Want to minor in English? Don’t be a fool, crackermouth! Sign up for my Z1 course for the 5. DS Mo., Okay? The list will be hanging at the P-amt next week. Don’t bring shame to your family, sign up with no delay!

Wee. Its the first day of the semester. Easter is next weekend. I’ll be seeing you little punks starting next Tuesday. I need to take time out from blogging for the next week, though. Too much to do!

As I dredged through story after news story this here Thursday, as I am often doing in idle moments on any given day, I encountered a number of hoaxes and the like–and a number of self-congratulatory commemorative pieces listing the “best of”s for this day, All Fools’ Day, to boot.
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Homestarrunner.com has lost its domain name! Say it ain’t so.

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I believe someone is trying to kill me.
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As I am sure you have already heard, Pete Ustinov died yesterday. This morning, we learned that Alistaire Cooke, mere days after retiring, has followed suit.

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Three is a magic number. Somewhere in that ancient mystic trinity you get three, ’cause it’s a magic number. The past, present, the future. Faith, hope and charity. The heart, brain and body give you three. A man and a woman have a baby. There were three in the family, it’s a magic number.
–Paraphrased from Bob Dorough, writer for Schoolhouse Rock!

I happened upon this very lengthy but very good article about the editing and rewriting of old children’s classics. ( you have to sit through a lame ad to get the day pass to read the whole thing, but it’s worth the wait )It is nothing new. In my youth I knowingly read editions of Frankenstein, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Red Pony, all which were edited or abridged. Looking back, it is as if I never read them at all. When I read Farenheit 451, Ray wrote an afterword condemning the act of condensing or editing literary works. His notion, it was not much different than what his “firemen” were up to.

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It’s poetry time again, kiddies. Garrrison reads Victor W. Pearn’sReceiving.

This is a rabbit with a pancake on its head.
Oolong