Summertime, and the livin's easy
School's been out for a week now, and finally I feel as if I'm beginning to relax. That anxious feeling that I have to grade papers or prepare lesson plans is gone and I'm getting into the rhythm of being home with the kids during the day. A few updates from my summer so far:
- I may be a Trekkie. I saw the new Star Trek movie on Mother's Day (and again since then), and absolutely loved it. I've always been more of a Star Wars fan than Star Trek, but I enjoyed the movie so much that I've begun watching episodes from the original series on Netflix. And let me tell you, they are
HILARIOUS (probably not intentionally so, but that's besides the point). Seriously, if you have some time, you should check them out. "The Enemy Within" from Season 1 has some especially smashing acting from William Shattner (and I mean that literally) as well as an extraordinary space dog (some poor mutt in a shag carpet with dixie straw antennas).
- Lately, Vika is asking me to do her hair "like Uhura's" and Eamon wants his hair to be like Bones'. So I may be making my kinds into Trekkies too. Poor things. They don't really stand a chance. I'm making them into geeks already!
- Tomorrow we are going to see the King Tut exhibit in San Francisco. My parents visited it in San Francisco back in the 70's, and I remember as a child looking through the King Tut picture book they bought, amazed at all the treasures and the story of the boy king. I tried to see the exhibit in Chicago a couple years back, but tickets were sold out. So we bought our tickets for this one way in advance and are planning to take the kids (I hope they aren't bored out of their minds). We're going to see the exhibit on the same day as the Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco, so I hope it's not too crazy there. Nevertheless, I don't think we'll take public transportation. Seeing a grown man with his bare bottom peeking out of backless leather chaps is not an image that the kids need to have burned into their brains at this young age. ;)
I just missed the exhibit. We were at the Steinhardt aquarium for Ori's first fishie visit. She gave all the little fishes kisses. So sweet. I was disappointed that I would miss the Tut exhibit. Hopefully, we'll get an opportunity to check it out during our next bay area visit.
Glad you are enjoying the summer so far - don't know about you but it hasn't exactly been beach weather here yet - bummer!
Love those old star treks - my favorite one is with the dribbles or whatever those colorful puffy things were that multiplied so much they took over the ship.
Your father will be so happy to find out that you are a Trekkie!! Enjoy King Tut. I'm envious.
They won't be bored. They picked the brains out through the dead person's nose as part of the mummification process. How is that boring? (My second graders love the mummies at the Hermitage.)
Seriously? Trek? I'm a Star WARS girl (only the originals, thank you very much) and don't think I can make the leap.
Drats...I was hoping for a video of the guy in the a$$-less pants!
I'm sure they'll love the exhibit. I remember loving it as a kid, and I'm not normally into that kinda thing!