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Happy Halloween from Pash't and her furry fiend

My anime boys tells me that BJDs are creepy; the life-like eyes and limbs create atavistic memories of tiny homuculi who create havoc when everyone is asleep -- a cross between Chucky in Child's Play and Woody's crew in Toy Story. There are guys out there who enjoy the dolls; however, most come into the doll fold because their SO likes them ... or they're gay and enjoy designing a OOAK doll (not all, mind you, but most that I know). I still love the name of one of Joy's groups: Creepy Old Folks Who Play With Dolls. Too much fun!

Tonight the Texas Rangers play the SF Giants in San Francisco ... I normally don't follow America's game; however, I am a Texan, which means that I follow "the boys" when they make the playoffs. To tell the truth, I'm using the internet to check on their progress (right now, lack of progress, since the score is 4-2) because baseball games just move too slowly for my taste ... even when my dad took the family to Arlington Stadium (now only a vague memory), I took a book along. I'm sure it was a fantasy book, though which one I could not tell. I saved Lord of the Rings for the long drives from Dallas to my grandmother's home in Evansville, IN, and my aunt's home in Morehead, KY. Like Christopher Lee, I enjoyed re-visiting Middle Earth every summer.





Of course, my students talk of nothing but the World Series ... if the Cowboys were doing better, there would be a choice of subjects; however, "da Boys" aren't winning much this year, like our Bison football team ... and this week is homecoming. Oh, well, I'm sure the Bison of years past will enjoy more than just the game ... I've never felt the need to visit Wildcat Country at Wildcat/Ram Stadium, perhaps because I deal with high school sports all the time. I feel little desire to re-visit the scene of my mis-spent youth. After all, I know where to find the 3 people who were my closest friends at that time -- Facebook just makes it a one-stop-shop.

I enjoyed college and grad school; however, I never kept up with any of those folks. Oh, I met some of them later when we were all theatre teachers in Dallas ISD; however, after I graduated from college, I only saw one of the folks from ETSU -- and that friendship shattered when she started sleeping with a married man ... That was one crazy spring! A fruit basket turnover of relationships, a veritable soap opera. As my niece says, I try to steer clear of drama; still, sometimes the drama finds you ... as it's done 3 times this year. After 3 blessed years of relative peace, we've had 3 fights among the sophomores -- 1 involved alleged gang rivalries, but 2 were girls fighting over name-calling and boys. (Puh-leeze! I teach the little brat -- he ain't all that.)

Dance Quote: “Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.” -- Voltaire