‘The Book of Love’ by Stephen Merritt (The Magnetic Fields)

The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It’s full of charts and facts and figures
and instructions for dancing

But I, I love it when you read to me
And you, you can read me anything

The book of love has music in it
In fact that’s where music comes from
Some of it is just transcendental
Some of it is just really dumb

But I, I love it when you sing to me
And you you can sing me anything

The book of love is long and boring
And written very long ago
It’s full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes
And things we’re all too young to know

But I, I love it when you give me things
And you, you ought to give me wedding rings

I, I love it when you give me things
And you, you ought to give me wedding rings

i found my very own domo. this makes me very happy. he is only a day old but has been on so many adventures so far. he has a lot more to go.

at the movies with Andrea

enjoying some coffee

on Parliment Hill for Canada Day

taking a rest with auntie Andrea

for more of Domo’s adventures “east of Ontario” click here

Happy Birthday to me. The big 27.Headed “east of Ontario” for a couple of weeks. Will be back with photos! 

Happy Birthday to the love of my life
 

Happy Mother’s Day Cata (and birthday on Thursday!)

I have a new favourite movie. If you’ve seen it and you know me even a little bit- you’ll know why.

Across the Universe. Wacky. Musical. The Beatles. Love.

Other things that I have been occupying my time with.

- making class movies

- school play

- reading, reading, reading

- finishing my course

- making buttons

- eating oranges.

I`ll be back again soon.

i love the whole world. 

I saw Horton Hears a Who on the weekend. Cute. Jim Carrey and Steve Carrel are great, as usual. I especially love Carol Burnett reprising her role as a “villain” (hello Ms Hannigan!) - this time in the form of an evil kangaroo.

This weekend Rob and I also had a random romantic dinner at the Brasserie in town. yum. We hadn’t been yet and we took advantage of the menu.

In grade five, M. Pelland told us that we would have to take a very important test that was government mandated. A government official by the name of Loo Flirpa would be evaluating these tests and if we did not follow all of the instructions, we would not pass grade five. He told us right before morning recess. I remember Kristy and Danielle planned to skip school to avoid this test at all costs. We came in from recess very scared. We took the test - which in the instructions said “read all questions carefully before beginning the test”. The very last question on the test explained that it was an April Fool’s joke, to not answer any of the questions and not to reveal the secret.

Fast forward to today. Last night Ashley, Laura and I composed a test very similar to the one described above. We made an official School Board cover page and printed the test on coloured foolscap. We had the principal remind teachers about the “academic achievement” test that would take place at 10:30 am over the announcements. My students didn’t catch on (even though they had being trying to pull an April Fool’s prank on me). After recess, I spoke to them about the importance of the test. It is very serious - everyone would see their results - including the government! We went over the instructions on the cover page - 40 minutes only to write the test, teacher cannot give hints only read the questions out loud for you, read all questions carefully before beginning and use a pencil. We separated the desks and went over the instructions 3 times orally. I repeated the instructions about 25 times during the 40 minutes stressing the reading of the questions first instruction. They totally bought it. They were sweating and some were almost in tears. I told them the government official, Loo Flirpa, would be in to evaluate the tests at the end and he doesn’t like to be disappointed.

Only 2 students actually read all of the questions before beginning. They got to question 10 at the same time, looked at each other, smiled and then just waited for the others to catch on. They didn’t write a thing.  Little by little students started catching on. Only two of my students didn’t catch on at all. At the end of 40 minutes, they hadn’t even finished half of the test. We went over the instructions on the cover page. I explained that the last question was the most important question on the test and had one of the unfinished students read it out loud to the class. He turned completely red and the other one was totally embarrassed too.

hahaha.

that ruled.

ps. Loo Flirpa is April Fool spelled backwards.  

some musical goodness for you and yours by me. make your own here.