We were talking about superlatives, comparitives and equatives in class. I gave my students some examples of equatives that are commonly used to compare people to things.

He is as big as a horse
as strong as an ox
as stubborn as a mule
as dumb as a rock
as cute as a bug


I admitted that sometimes they didn't make much sense- I mean, I personally never thought many bugs were especially cute . . . maybe a lady bug . . .

I asked them if they had any sayings in their languages that equated two things this way. Some of them mentioned some that sounded familiar when translated to English.

as gentle as a lamb

One student said, "He is as lost as Adam between his mother's legs."

"Well," said, I, "That is pretty darn lost."

Scrabble always intimidated me on the account that I can't spell- but I've been playing it online and I've only cheated once. :0) Of course I'm losing- but I am after all a first timer.

I've been watching CSI New York- New Yorker accents are annoying- like that should be a revelation to me. Are people who live in New York really like that or are they just stereo typing for the show? They seem kind of bitter, slightly psychotic and snappy on the show. I'll go to New York City one day and see for myself.

In other news . . . I thought I'd put up some pictures of other things I've been doing since May- as that is when I basically gave up on blogging.
amigurumi friends


1. Power to the amigurumi!
pumpkins and a seed pod
2. Been trying to draw/paint with Misty

3. Knitted and crocheted a thing or twoLouie's cape

4. Started to make a dress

(this is were I broke my camera and became dispondant about taking more pictures.)

5. Organized my copious collection of colored pencils, knitting needles and crochet hooks by making little paper pockets for them.

6. Painted a pink and blue mini-milk pitcher cow at the "Creative Hands" ceramics place.

7. Read a few books, but still working on the 1000 page monster I started on the plane from India.

8. Taught Buzz some new tricks, he can wave "bye-bye" now. He looks like a tiny retarded midget when he does it. That is so not PC- fine he looks like a vertically challenged, mentally different, small person (dog) when he does it.

I've been working on my mythical creature . . . here's some more parts. They area umm . . . special parts.

I'm actually almost done- I took this picture earlier- before I broke my camera. (sadness)

I dropped it and broke the LCD screen- it still takes pictures, but I can't see them, or any of the menues. I can still download them etc- but most of the fun of a digital camera is seeing the pics immediately. I'm guessing it is going to be about as expensive to fix it as it is to get a new one.

:0(

The blog might be back . . . I've been so busy trying to learn/teach grammar, trying to decided if this is what I really want to do, trying to decided where to live, what to do next, how to do it, etc that there is no time for the blog.

Not that I've run out of things to say . . . oh no- there are things to say. Not important things, but things no less.

I've started to crochet (Remember my amigurumi phases? Still in it.) a mythical creature. I shall let you guess what mythical creature it might be. Right now it has the unfortunate appearance of a crocheted breast. (About a C cup.)

No, the mythical creature is not a breast that Daniel is allowed to touch.

I am currently teaching two grammar classes and one speaking class at the University of Dallas, which is ironically in Irving across the street from NCH, the chemical company I worked at as I finished up my MA TESOL.

I will be moving to Irving to my own tiny not-so-ghetto apartment a few miles from UD next weekend.

I have a new facebook page. I don't know how to use it, but it is kind of fun trying to figure it out.

I will attempt more email writing and blogging in the near future.

is the blog back?