Currently Watching The Andy Griffith Show: The Complete Fourth Season By Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier, Howard McNear, Hal Smith, Jack Dodson, Elinor Donahue, Aneta Corsaut, Betty Lynn, Hope Summers, Jim Nabors, George Lindsey, Ken Berry, Parley Baer, Dick Elliott, Jack Burns (II), Paul Hartman, Colin Male see related

Since we finished the second season of Lost within less than two weeks, it was time to look for something else, so Ricky bought a season of The Andy Griffith Show.  It is one of his favorite series, but I would never watch it with him because I thought it would be so lame.  I gave it a try, however, and I love it.  It is actually really funny; I love Gomer, and for some reason I feel very American when I watch this show!  We hope to watch some more of it and the latest Smallville season as we just signed up for Netflix. 

Other random happenings:

1. I just finished teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream in my Pre-AP and Pride and Prejudice in my AP class.  We will begin studying Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus next week.

2. We recently purchased our tickets to go to Germany this Christmas.  Since I didn't get to go this summer because of my thesis, I am extremely homesick and am suffering from German food withdrawals!

3. Speaking of food, I seem to have acquired a craving for eggrolls.  I have to have one almost every day as an after-school snack; they are soooo good!

4. I am 15 weeks along today.  Last week I switched doctors so I could have the baby at St. Francis instead of in Ruston, and my first appointment with the new doctor will be on Nov. 7.  I feel fine; I just seem to find myself in awkward stage of the pregnancy where I don't really look pregnant, yet my clothes just don't seem to fit right anymore.  We are getting more excited every day and started painting the baby room this week.  Since we don't want to find out the sex of the baby until the birth, we are trying to come up with something that will work for a boy or girl.  Stay tuned for updates!

Currently Watching Lost - The Complete Second Season By Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Naveen Andrews, Emilie de Ravin, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Maggie Grace, Josh Holloway, Malcolm David Kelley, Daniel Dae Kim, Yoon-jin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Dominic Monaghan, Terry O'Quinn, Harold Perrineau, Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Watros, Ian Somerhalder see related

In the News

Hey, if there is anybody left out there who is still reading this blog, we did want to inform you of some very exciting news--around April 14 of next year, we will have an addition to our family!  I am 11 weeks along, and you can't imagine how happy we are, not even mentioning the future grandparents on both sides of the Ocean!  I am feeling pretty well; I think I have left the nausea stage behind me, but I still wish I could sleep about 16 hours a day... thus, combined with the new job, the lack of posting. 

Anyway, just thought we'd let you know if you don't know already!

Currently Reading Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics) By Sherwood Anderson see related

Thesis Defense is tomorrow!  Please pray for me.

Also, on Wednesday, Ricky and I have to go to New Orleans for an appointment at the Department of Homeland Security/Immigration Services Office to renew my Green Card so I can remain legit.  It will be a flying trip since we have to be back for work/school Thursday.  Immigration appointments are always somewhat unnerving since you are pretty much at the absolute mercy of the Immigration Officer in charge of your case.

Oh, and on the way to the big city of Archibald, Louisiana, as I was visiting my close friend and her cute baby girl last week, I saw one of these truck-at-the-side-of-the-road vegetable and fruit vendors featuring the following spray-painted sign: WE EXCEPT FOOD STAMPS!

Not quite the message it was meant to be...

P.S. I have always wondered if these people selling produce out of their truckbed have to have a license to do so.  In Germany, such a sight would be absolutely unthinkable since you have to have a license or permit for everything.  For example, did you know that an establishment selling any kind of alcoholic beverages is mandated to feature restrooms accessible for the customers, whereas a restaurant offering only non-alcoholic drinks only has to have a bathroom for the employees? 

Les Bourgeois de Calais, Pour Les Bourgeois de Ruston!

I guess this is a replica???  Anyway, this serves as part of a comment I made over at Know Tea.

Currently Reading A Moveable Feast By Ernest Hemingway see related

Hemingway--not one of my favorite authors, to say the least.  I made it through six years of college without him, and now, two classes short of graduating, I am taking a whole course about him and other expatriates.  We'll see how that goes.  I guess my other class, Milton, will probably balance Ernest, or Tatie, as his wife used to call him.

Well, at least Ricky and I were able to frequent Ruston's own movie theater and watched Nacho Libre.  An extremely welcome break from all the intellectualizing critics I have been dealing with in my thesis research.

And somebody please tell me why formatting a paper has to give the author almost as big of a headache as writing the thing in the first place?  All of a sudden I had fifteen Page 1s, Page 2 had a huge gap in it because the margins had to be changed, tabs were put in places they had no business to be in, etc., etc., etc.  I don't know how long I had to wrestle with page numbers, margins, etc., until it finally came close to looking what the Graduate School required.  Is it because I  just don't know what I'm doing, or have the Microsoft Word people not figured out a way yet to make formatting a little more user-friendly?