This is a picture of real stocks. Colonial Stocks- the kind of stocks you simply could do without. Apple is at $77.00 a share. I am amazed and I'm waiting for the split. I'm always watching out for the Forrest Gump factor, but I don't see a slide anytime soon. If Job jumps ship then I'm out of there too. I don't see Zune or Microsoft taking market share from the ipod. The ipod has become iconoclastic. Kick ass! Ebay is making a climb to $28.41. I bought it almost 2 years ago at $35.00 so I'm planning to sell as close to that number as possible. I held onto it thinking that Skype was going to take Ebay to the next level, but now I don't see much profit potential in VOIP. Plus Google seems to have a vendetta against them. What really sucks is that I should have sold it at $60. Turbochef and Ruth Chris Steak house, my IPOs are floundering. I'm going to unload them as soon as possible. Google continues to kick ass, but I think I should have sold ...

I'm going to do all the exercises in the book first, pages 108-111. Then I'll do the activities the first one on page 166 involves them going around asking each other what they did yestersday. I know that all of the students will answer I played computer games so I'm going start by showing them some magnets with their names, so then they have to imagine what these people did yesterday. After that I'll use the cards on page 185 to play a game like Egyptian Rat Screw.

I know I haven't updated the podcast in a while, but my buddy Jen in back home hence my motivation went out the window. I'm getting the itch again so who knows, I might get to it. I'm realizing that I need to learn Korean if I'm going to start my empire in Korea. Having money is one thing, but not being able to trust your business partners is another. You can't live on charm forever. Ugh...No more 2003 Jacob's Creek Shiraz. It tastes like ass filtered through grapenuts with hints of crayola and smelly kid's shoes.

So what do I think of Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami? It has gems of epiphanies set in a tarnished silver setting that will probably be worn to B-list events. Or so it goes. Having been a long time fan of Murakami, I find that he is recycling some old premises, yet the familiarity is comfortable. The protagonist Kafka Tamura is another cookie cutter Murakami character: seemingly indifferent with no motivations in sight, infinitely perseptive, well educated and unopinated, set in a mystical, magical, "Like Water for Chocolate" world. He acts through inaction and through inaction all sorts of really cool and weird shit happens to him. He is the nexus for all sorts of really weird stuff- a Murakami-esque black hole of weirdalities, if you will. So do I like it? Yes, because Murakami continues to wow me with incredible situations and tidbits of zen and he takes me into his strange world of the occult and mystics without it seeming occult or mystic. The story is ab...

I'm combining both parts 3 and 4 in the book because of the holiday next week. Plus I get to do the role play which is always fun. 1. Start with a review of the characters from last week and what their jobs are. 2. Pass the ball and get them to introduce the person next to them. Vocab= Who is she? Who is he? S/He is... 3. Page 55 the let's read portion. Get a student to do it on the board. 4. Do the role play on page 57 and then finish with the Let's review on page 58 and 59. 5. If there is time do the where's Waldo thing from www.ebaumsworld.com

I going to start with a review asking everyone what they did yesterday. Not everyone of course, but a group at least and then I'm going to get the class to make a fake schedule for Princess Cindy. Then I'll do the text. I'll use manythings to supplement vocabulary and end with a game from page 183.

Yesterday I climbed a mountain with all the other teachers. It was a lot of fun, now if I could only pronounce what the name of the mountain was... There is a bus that goes there, I think it was 4312. Pictures will follow. 13 minutes until classtime... I am going to do the text book and then do a lesson using sports and buildings from www.manythings.org Here's the Link Game?...Pg 183 cards...get them to cut them out. I went shopping / to the zoo./I did my homework. Directions for Activity ① Students make groups of four(six). T : Let's make groups of four(six). ② Place the cards face down on the desk. T : Stack the cards. Place them face down on the desk. ③ All members of the group ask one student. "What did you do yesterday?" the student answers by guessing the card and turning one card over. Ss: What did you do yesterday? S1: I went to the park. ④ If the student answer correctly, he/she gets the card. T: If you are correct, you can get th...