November 7, 2013
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Today was spent at home grading tests since my class for today was cancelled. Hours of "there is vs. there are" and "on (day) at (time)" and correcting "fourty," "elven," and "twenteen" more times than I want to count drove me to eat chocolate and have some Dekavita C energy drink! I got them all done and now have to record the results in my grade book and in the computer. I will do that next week because I don't like to take the grade book out of school. If I forget it on the train I will make at least the local news!
One of the teachers has acquired a toy "Ted" bear of apparent movie fame. I had not heard of the movie, which is no great loss, as I learned from looking at snippets on You Tube. Anyway, this talking bear is an R-rated foulmouthed, obnoxious piece of junk. The folks in the teachers' room kept squeezing his paw to make him spout all kinds of filth because the only English word they could understand was the F-word and they wanted to know the rest of what he was saying. I would have liked to explain some of the utterances to them and embarrass them, but I just couldn't do it in mixed company. I mean, this stuffed animal was imitating an orgasm! I couldn't bring myself to translate the "Thunder Song," either. I did open a window and offer to toss Ted out of it. Seriously, this movie was a big comedy hit?? What are the American entertainment industry and their audience coming to?? "Ted" was just a nasty, shallow, stupid waste of time.
