Instead of news, how bout a shiny new meme?

Hey friends! I know it's been forever since I've posted and I AM indeed alive, which I'm sure some of you were wondering. But, for those of you lving the life of the academician you know that it's final time, or leading up to finals time. I have a record 5 papers due in the next 3 weeks, 30 final papers to grade, several final presentations to give and grade, and only so much caffeine in my fridge. Therefore, I am respectfully not going to be reading and blogs or posting until the hell that is finals ends. Luckily there is light at the end of the tunnel on 2 accounts: (1) After I'm finished with finals, I'm flying to the Left coast for 2 weeks and am spending quality time with my oldest friend in the world in L.A. and then off to a conference in Hawaii:) Yay!!! (2) After this semester I'm officially done with coursework for the rest of my life:) It's about damn time (I'm sure you're all thinking). I calculated that I've taken something like 130-140 course credits in my college career. Crazy, no?!

Before I go back to reading, I promised to fill out Mommymatic's request to do a new meme. Since between her and Lisa, everyone I know has been memed, my meming stops here (a la Malfeasance). Here are the "parameters" of this meme:

Your mission, should you accept: Post 6 strange or interesting things about yourself, and then choose 6 people to do the same (I know I only did 5: do as I say, not as I do.). Tell them they are tagged in their comments box. You can report back to me when you've done it or not.
Just remember that we're all counting on you.

So here goes, 6 things you never knew (or maybe did) about me...

1) I love, love, love Heinz ketchup, tomato sauce, salsa etc., but loathe the taste of actual tomatoes. They make me gag!

2) After introducing myself to the U.S. Ambassador to Germany at a Fulbright function, I totally blanked as to how to carry on the conversation so I flat out told him, "I have nothing else to say to you." How's that for diplomacy?;)

3) In my senior year of high school I was named West Virgina State Forensics Champion in Poetry Recitation. I also was a state semi-finalist in impromtu speaking and dramatic interpretation.

4) Although my memory of them is pretty much all gone (except for German, and even that is shaky anymore), I have officially studied 7 languages: German, French, Latin, Middle High German, Old Irish, American Sign Language, and Sanskrit.

5) I was an extra in the movie Spiderman 2. I infiltrated the movie set when it was being shot at Columbia and by the time the crew figured out I wasn't supposed to be there I had already been filmed in a scene with Tobey Maguire, so they decided to pay me $75 for a day of work anyway. (For those of you who now plan on looking for me on the DVD in slow motion, sadly I was cut out of the scene, although part of it is still in the movie- Tobey Maguire is running late to campus and gets his books knocked out of his arms).

6) I and my friends Mo & Phil talked our way onto the red carpet (wearing jeans and backpacks no less) during the premiere of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in NYC. We even got tickets to go inside and sit among all the stars (don't ask me how I pulled that shit off), but after we made it through security and were about to go in to sit down, we were told that all the (assigned) seats were now full because the Bush's and the President of Mexico were in town and wanted to see the movie. Yes, and we were escorted out by Secret Service (I kid you not!)

Okay, hope the is the meme you were looking for folks! Hope you're doing well! Ciao!

Everyone Has Had More Sex than Me

I know that I've already posted once tonight, but I had to share the BEST video on the Web since Glen's Starbucks commercial. It's an animated video by the group TISM called "Everyone Has Had More Sex than Me". I've been raving about how catchy this song is every since my ex-boyfriend introduced me to it. The video features animated bunnies with the number of sexual partners they've had printed on their chests. It's hysterical!! Just click on the link below to access the video!

http://daemlich.net/2736

Drink Till They're Smart

Evenin friends! I hope everyone has recovered now that March Madness is over. For all the build up the rest of the tournament was, I found last night's game surprisingly underwhelming. Oh well! How long till Football season starts again?;)

So I've been busy with school lately-- blah, blah, blah-- but I had to share 1 funny story. First, as most of you know, I teach a Freshman Composition class to International students. Well, I LOVE this group of kids!! They are hilarious and because of Facebook, I see pics from all their drunken shenanigans all the time. Well they always try to convince me to go out drinking with them (note: these are 18 yr olds). Of course I'm not about to go out drinking with my students, even if they weren't minors, but lately they've been trying to convince me to go out with them on the last day of class. They got so fed up with me laughing at them and saying no that one of the students started a group dedicated to me on Facebook and they all joined it. It's hilarious!! It's called "Alcoholics of Emily's ESL 015 Class" and the slogan says "A group of International ALCOHOLIC students fighting for the right to drink on the last day of their ESL 15 class with their teacher in mass amounts....HOLLAAA!!!!"

How funny/disturbing is that? I keep joking with them that I'm going to lose my job and so they've been offering to find me teaching jobs in their home countries. So basically if the administration finds out about this group, you can reach me at the Joe Schmo Arab school for Linguists on the southern coast of Turkey:D Check out the picture above they created to be the group's logo on Facebook... Anyhow, even though I'm not drinking WITH them, I joined the online group they started because (1) they invited me and (2) because, well, I'm a little narcissitic and can't help but join a group dedicated to me;) Am I a bad role model?;)