mambo italiano?

i have blogged about my supercute asian student who sometimes calls me yuh-miko. i also teach her younger brother, who also happens to be a supercute asian. coincidence??

so tonight, we were talking about different volume levels in music, like forte and mezzo-piano. he told me that these words are italian. i asked him how he knew that, and was he italian? he gave me a blank stare and said: "no. are you?" he didn't get the fact that i was trying to be funny since he is clearly not italian...but i guess it went over his head.

drinky drinky

we went to the food and wine show last night. we didn't get there until around 8pm. we were greeted with a lady who said that they weren't selling anymore tickets because the place was at capacity...this was annoying since we had just spent $15 on parking...gotta love toronto...but people were lined up at the ticket window, and after some investigation, it turns out they just started selling tickets again. the lady kept telling everyone to go home though, i guess she didn't get the memo.

it was fun, and gave us a chance to try wines that we wouldn't normally consider because of the price tag. we also found some great reds with a normal price tag, which is exciting. i also tried a really nice lychee sake. the only problem is that it's only available to licensees, but we went with a friend who works at a conference centre, so he's going to buy a case and let us buy bottles through him. yummy.

re: forever young

at first, i thought lexie brushing alex off was a good thing becuase it gave thatch an opportunity to apologize to meredith; when meredith believed everything her dad said, it seemed to heal meredith a little...then lexie crushed her happiness and she's back to square one, if not negative one. i always love seeing the chief stand in as meredith's father.

about the girl who broke her butt. in unversity, i fell on a stair - not down the stairs...just plop, on a stairstep...it was surprisingly painful and i swore that i broke my bum. the doctor said that's not possible. he lied!

i really enjoy the complexity of the character that is bailey. first she's lecturing everyone not to act like they're in high school, and her words end up haunting her through this episode - in every way. she was doing everything she told her residents not to do, right down to the crying! i have to say that blubbering bailey is way better than blubbering izzie. the scene with derek at the end was wonderful and touching...of course he was a band geek. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING A BAND GEEK. i just wonder if bailey realizes that she still has a mushroom haircut?

my favourite line of the episode: "hey dad, want to get a drink?" haha! and finally...to rose (the nurse): back off, bitch!

introducing gambit bilan

our friend sebastian (bargnani look-alike) got a puppy! it's a black lab and he named it gambit. GAMBIT IS THE CUTEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!

we always said we would get another kitten in a few years. well, i always said that. but maybe we should get a puppy...hmm...

re: physical attraction...chemical reaction

this is where the shocking storylines from the season premiere unravel and we realize that yes, the writers do know what they're doing...too bad they're on strike now.

george and izzie have no chemistry! i knew it! i'm sure this will somehow change in the future, but at least i can sleep well knowing that the writers don't buy their relationship either. chalk one up for sibling love.

bailey gets the chief resident job! of course she does! she's obviously the best for it. i like how bailey was so strong throughout the episode, and gave callie all the credit for her great ideas, but broke down at the end when the chief gave her the position. it showed how much she really wanted it. question...did callie actually get fired fired or just fired from the chief resident position? i'm assuming the latter...poor callie. she loses her husband. and then her title.

the unusual couples - the chief and derek...sloan and hahn...lexie and meredith...daddy and baby keisha. some of them worked well together, some didn't. i liked the asymmetry of that. one thing i didn't buy at all: when meredith was working on the mother and lexie kept bothering her asking her if she would be okay, and meredith said "i'm a little busy, okay, lex?" lex?? i say it takes two people to be friends before they can start giving each other nicknames, even if they are just unoriginal short forms of your given name.

finally, the heartbreaking scene at the end. i have issues with tv shows abruptly turning characters into alcoholics (case in point: kirsten in the o.c.), but it still made my heart ache. and in this situation i suppose it makes sense, because thatch no longer has the love of his life in his life, although you would think his daughters and granddaughter would make up for it. i guess you can never predict how people will react...that, and these aren't real characters anyway...

sicko miko

i am sick. again. this is the third time in five weeks that i've been sick, reminding me of when i first started working at the school, when my immune system was low and i was weak! now it appears i have become weak again - or maybe just run-down with wearing too many different hats at work. figuratively, of course. wearing too many hats literally would probably ward me from sickness if you listen to the old-fashioned wives' tales.

yesterday, my student came in looking terrible. i asked him how he was doing, and he said bad because he has the flu, and stayed home from school all day. luckily his fever broke just before his lesson. sarcasm. so now i'm sick. i can't even stay home tomorrow because i'm running a meeting.

my allergies have also been bad since the spring, so when i'm not sick, my allergies are attacking me, so i haven't really have any nasal refuge for a while. i have found that when my allergies are bothering me, if i have to sneeze but can't, it's mildly annoying. when i'm sick though, if my sneeze is interrupted, it's like the worst feeling ever. i feel my head is going to blow up and explode if i don't release the pressure through sneezing. and then when i finally do sneeze, i sneeze 8 times in a row.

blah.

an addendum to people who look like people, part xi

**edited to add: the video doesn't appear to be working. i will troubleshoot, hopefully it will work soon.

although i've seen this video before, i find it funnier since kris has labeled himself as the big panda, and me as the little one...for several reasons too. the obvious size difference between us (although not to the extreme of the two pandas). the fact that the little panda is sleeping in this video, and the big panda is snacking, our respective favourite hobbies. and of course, the little panda and i have similar sneezes...i too, often scare kris because of these enormous sneezes.

people who look like people, part xi

this came up a long time ago, thanks to hayley. i couldn't find a good picture comparison though, which is why this took so long.

my husband:


liev schreiber:


kris is slightly offended because he thinks liev looks old and is typecast as creepy scary guys in movies. he has retaliated with a comparison, which i will post posthaste...

sleep-deprived

i've been so tired lately. although i'm sure delaying the change over to eastern standard time saves a lot on electricity costs and makes the days seem longer for one more week...i really think that my body was used to having an extra hour of sleep by now. add to that the fact that our high-tech belongings tried to be helpful by changing the time automatically, making for a disconcerting and groggy week.

i will relish the extra zzzs tonight. is it bad that i'm considering going to bed right now?

re: kung fu fighting

pretty and prettier. sigh. derek is definitely prettier. i like that we're getting away from the mcdreamy and mcsteamy - as cute as that is, it's getting a little old. thanks to that comment, hahn is growing on me. she's spunky and fierce and stands up for herself. it makes perfect sense that she joined a bunch of other spunky and fierce and self-defending women. she also looks nicer than last season with her flowing blonde hair.

mer and der's tender moment in the on-call room was nice. and definitely not the behaviour of two people who are friends with benefits. which gives me hope. yay!

lexie and alex. maybe i've been doing too many word jumbles, but when i just typed their names, i realized how similar they are. alexie? ha! just like how i know a couple named paul and pauline. i wonder if that was done purposely. probably not because that's silly. at first when i saw the final scene, i thought lexie was really callous and cold, going to meredith's dead mother's house with a potential one night stand. then i realized that of course she wouldn't know that alex lived with meredith because that would mean they talked, and alex made it clear that's not what he was looking for. and how was lexie able to spend the ENTIRE day with alex? wasn't cristina looking for her? since when did interns disappear for a minute, never mind a day, without their resident looking for them?

one last thing. i detest blubbering izzie. i didn't like it when she was begging denny to let her kill him, and i didn't like it tonight. it's just too much.