Top 5 Reasons Horses Are Like My Junior High Students
It’s all about getting out of work.
They know what they can get away with–with everyone. God help the sub/new rider.
They respond better to praise than punishment.
I have to be willing to toss my lesson plan/arena plan out the door and come up with a new one instantly if need arises. (Bird flies into classroom, time for a minilesson on birds. Big sheet of aluminum foil blows in the wind, time for a minilesson on handling Spooky Things.)
5: The one where Scully almost kisses Mulder
4: The one where Mulder almost kisses Scully
3: The one where Mulder and Scully almost kiss each other
2: The one where there’s killer bees, and when someone spills Raisinettes everyone thinks they’re killer bees
1: The one where Mulder and Scully kiss - or DO THEY?!?! Psyche!
The Saga Begins Top 5 people/shows/franchises that are nowhere near as good as they used to be
Star Wars
Star Trek
Disney
Tom Clancy
Dana Carvey (no, you are NOT turtle enough for the turtle club) Top 5 Recurring Saturday Night Live Skits of All Time (or at least since I’ve been watching regularly)
5.** Birches** Robert Frost
4. I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You Pablo Neruda
3. The Wastelands T.S. Elliot
2. THe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T.S. Elliot
The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams Top 5 Beatles Songs
A Day in the Life
Strawberry Fields Forever
Abbey Road Medley
Blackbird
Yesterday
Top 5 Wilco Lines
5. How to fight loneliness,
Just smile all the time.
I dreamt about killing you again last night
and it felt alright to me.
When the devil came
He was not red
He was chrome…
The ashtray says
You were up all night
A cheap sunset on a television set can upset her
But he never could
Top 5 Things I Love to Cook:
5. Portabello enchiladas
4. Black bean and sweet potato burritos
3. Zucchini lasagne
2. Lentil-stuffed Red Peppers
Fettucine Primavera
Top 5 Things TeaDottir Loves to Eat:
5. String cheese
4. Sweet potato
3. Broccoli (aka trees pease pease mommy gimme treeeeeeeeeeeees)
2. PB&J
Cheerios
Top 5 Places I Wouldn’t Mind Being Right Now:
5. That park in Canonsburg
4. That Krispy Kreme in, um, Glen Burnie, I think it was
3. Kensington House Hotel, London
2. Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
My own backyard
Top 5 Pure Entertainment Shows I Hate to Miss:
5. Law & Order
4. Charmed
3. Amazing Race
2. Six Feet Under
Monk
Top 5 Dopers I Wish I Could Meet:
5. Eve
4. Monstro
3. Bear_Nenno
2. Seige
Top five Tragically Hip songs:
(countdown style)
5. It Can’t Be Nashville Every Night - (my favorite off the new album)
4. Fully Completely - (GREAT song live!)
3. Little Bones - (two-fifty for a highball, and a buck and a half for a beer)
2. Blow at High Dough - (Woo! Baby, I feel fine…)
New Orleans is Sinking - (of course, it’s their signature song)
Top 5 Oscar Wilde Quotes[ol][]Work is the curse of the drinking classes[]The only way to overcome temptation is to yield to it[]Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative[]Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreatWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars[/ol]
I can’t stop laughing at this one! You left out *Never listen but pretend you’ve been listening the whole time. *
“What? When did you say that? You did?! I don’t remember that. I DO SO LISTEN TO YOU!!!”
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