they must've coined the phrase 'melting pot' in dallas during a similar heat streak

speaking of heat streak, it's so hot i almost feel like streaking. ok dallas! really? 105? c'mon, 24 days in a row over 100 and counting? whose idea was it to try to beat a heat record? dummies. sara haze must've lived in dallas when she wrote her song 'melt into you'.
well, today was the last day for my students to work on their backdrop for their culminating event-which will be tomorrow. so this morning we discussed what the word culminating means for about 10 minutes. i'm such a vocabulary person, i think my kids hate it. (but wow, do they ever sound smart!) now remember, i said they are finished-i did NOT say they were amazing.

as for the nfl lockout- my opinion of sports players goes down every time they do something like this. i remember when they had the baseball strike back in 94-95, i was frustrated because as it is they make so much money...i didn't watch again for about 15 yrs (last year when the rangers were in it). it will take a lot to win me over-they are so spoiled and act like sports divas.

don't really care much about amy winehouse, but she was born in 1983, which is a year i remember well-great michael jackson year and the year we moved to costa rica! so i know that was really random, it was on the news just now.

so chaco has this thing he does when he gets excited about something (mainly when it's playing fetch with his squeaky toy). i'm including a video because it's ridiculous. watch his little lower lip while he's trying to maintain composure:

the part you are missing that you cannot see from this view is his little tail wagging 50 hundred mph (i realize that 50 hundred is merely 5000, but since it's an exaggeration, that's still awfully fast).

oh, and if you haven't heard, the chilean miners' ordeal is going to become a film. hmm. spoiler alert: they live. as if we hadn't seen enough of it on t.v. weird things- during that time, i randomly mentioned to a friend that one of my coworkers was from chile. and the response was: oh, does she know any of the miners? (??? really?)

 dear dallas, you're a hot mess...stop this ridiculous insanity with the heat. no one likes it. no one.
sincerely,
julie