Fast Facts from a Fun Fall Break

I love cheesy alliteration. ;p

Fall Break is coming to an end. The color here this year is waning thanks to the lack of rain. Still, what's here is a nice reminder of why I decide to live in the little town of Bville.

Good week. Graded about 100 student papers (still about 100 more to go), stayed up late and watched Frasier and Golden Girls, won some sweet Neiman Marcus cosmetics samples on Ebay, started my SECOND part time job at MEC ($420 for 12 hours of monitoring kids and assisting with computer stuff), scored approx. 450 SAT essays for a total of 35 hours at $18/hr. (can't do the math). I love successful weeks. Oh, and Jon drove a new car home last night; it's a 2004 Mazda RX8. Black. He's always loved that car. Sooooo, there's a distinct possibility that we are trading in my Jeep on Monday and I will inherit Jon's current Mazda 6, and he will get the RX8. There's only about 15 more payments left on Jon's car, and I've been looking to trade in my Jeep for a while. I love it, but it gets terrible gas mileage, and something seems to always be tearing up. Or, my dad may even take over payments of the Jeep and drive it.

Now, to the fun facts. Last night I was watching "The History of Sex" on The History Channel--which, I might add, was NOT pornographic. It chronicled the changing attitudes toward human sexuality from the French Revolution (Marquis de Sade, that freak!) through the Victorian Era. Very interesting. The tidbit that got me, though, was this: In Victorian society, legs were referred to as "limbs," and it was thought that the site of a pair of "legs" would drive a man into a sexual frenzy. So, the "table skirt" was invented during this time to prevent any "unnatural union between men and this piece of furniture." Now that's funny. Gotta love Victorian idealogy.

Oh, and one more fun fact from a Food Network show today: when you visit a blood donor clinic in Dublin, Ireland, and donate a pint of blood, guess what they give you in return? A pint of Guinness! Stout, of course. Man, I want to go back there! Even though I detest beer...shhh...don't tell the Irish!

Hey...someone's outside mowing our grass! Better go see...