what a blogful day

i am ill once again. i get ill so often now that i teach. runny nose, congested head, sore throat. i've got it all. at least, this time, i haven't lost my voice. try teaching without a voice. it's cute. i had to write all directions on the board.
i spent a productive five minutes this evening crushing fortune cookies. i found them in the top cupboard, next to the theraflu. so, i sat on the counter, mixing my theraflu and cracking the fortune cookies into the sink. my fortunes are:

you may have to change your plans.
you will make a name for yourself.
someone is looking up to you.

i find that i have a strange superstition about fortune cookies. as i crack them open, i sometimes get this fluttery feeling of "wow, i wonder what it's going to say," and for a moment, while i'm actively reading the slip of paper, i actually believe that this, this is my destiny. it's forgotten in the next five minutes, but for that moment, i'm like, man, the fate of my universe is in my hands. it's heady stuff. who needs reality television, honestly.
anyway, it was sort of devastating to read about how i need to change my plans, seeing as i was just informed that UC Riverside never received one of my reccommendations. i'm hoping the prof sent it, or will send it. i emailed him. i hope he replies. i hope i get in. i really hope that i won't have to change my plans.
but then it was so uplifting to think that no matter what i do, i will "make a name for myself," and then i was like "ahhhh...some student looks up to mini-teacher tang. how sweet."
it was a rollercoaster of a five minutes, obviously. good times were had by all.

while i was lying in bed, before the whole fortune cookie thing, i was watching channel 13 news. who is the stupid blonde chick doing the reporting about violence in houston schools? "we'll follow up on this news story so that we can continue to give you perspective about what's happening in your schools." whatever lady. who does she think she is? you giving us perspective? who says that you have perspective? who says that the 3, count them, 3 teachers and 1 student and 1 parent interviewed in the 5 minute blip about one of the largest school districts in the nation in the aftermath of one of the most publicized hurricane seasons in recent history in any way presents an accurate and viable perspective on anything? i'm not saying that houston does not have a problem. i'm saying who gave the blonde chick with bad streaks in her hair the credibility stamp? who told her she oculd talk? i mean, artifical coloring aside, please. give us perspective, please. i'd like to give her a fortune.

in your next life, you will have a teleprompter chained to your right leg.

seriously, there should be more speech writers. we need them the way we need good secretaries and trustworthy tax lawyers. i wish i had a script writer. who wrote the script that had me trapped in bed with a mug of theraflu? tonight people are salsa dancing at taco milagro, without ME. i am very displeased.