formal banquet pictures
I thought ya'll might enjoy a few pictures from the 2005 12:00:00 home school formal baquet [i.e. prom with food instead of dancing]
***pics will be replaced soon***
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I thought ya'll might enjoy a few pictures from the 2005 12:00:00 home school formal baquet [i.e. prom with food instead of dancing]
***pics will be replaced soon***
So, since school is over, but I don't feel like updating in a serious way today, here's something totally random I stole from one of my sister's friend's blogs.
Put a * by the ones you have seen ...
(btw, this is a really long list; sheesh)
10 Things I Hate About You
13 Ghosts
13 going on 30*
2 Fast 2 Furious
2001: A Space Odyssey*
50 First Dates*
A Beautiful Mind
A Bronx Tale
A Chorus Line*
A Cinderella Story
A Clockwork Orange
A Day at the Races
A League of Their Own*
A Lot Like Love
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Series Of Unfortunate Events*
A Walk to Remember
a.i. - Artificial Intelligence
African Queen, The*
Almost Famous
Along Came A Spider
Along Came Polly
Amelie
American Beauty
American History
American Pie
American Pie 2
American Wedding
An Affair To Remember*
Anger Management*
Arsenic and Old Lace*
Aviator, The*
Back to the Future*
Bad Boys 2
Battle Royale
Beautiful Thing
Bedazzled
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Bend it Like Beckham
Best in Show
Big Lebowski, The
Big Trouble in Little China
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure*
Billy Madison*
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blue Velvet
Boogeyman
Boondock Saints
Bound
Braveheart
Breakfast Club, The*
Bride of Chucky
Bring it On
Bringing Up Baby*
Bruce Almighty*
Buckaroo Banzai
Burbs, The*
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
But I'm A Cheerleader
Butterfly Effect, The
Calendar Girls
Catch Me If You Can
Cat's Meow, The
Chances Are
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels 2
Chasing Amy
Chicago*
Children of the Corn
Child's Play
Chocolat*
Christine
Chuck and Buck
Citizen Kane
Clerks
Closer
Coffee And Cigarettes
Collateral
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Conspiracy Theory*
Country Girl
Cowboy Way, The
Coyote Ugly
Crossroads
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*
Cruel Intentions
Cujo
Darkness Falls
Dawn Of The Dead
Day After Tomorrow, The
Dead Poet's Society*
Deep Impact
Defying Gravity
Dick
Dodgeball
Dogma
Donnie Darko
Doom generation, The
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Dude, Where's My Car?
Dumb & Dumber
Dumb & Dumberer
Dune*
Eight Crazy Nights
Elizabeth*
Ella Enchanted*
Emma*
Empire Records
ET*
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Event Horizon
Ever After*
Evil Dead Two: Dead by Dawn
Exorcist, The
Fast & The Furious, The*
Ferris Bueller's Day Off*
Fifth Element, The
Fight Club
Final Destination
Final Destination 2
Finding Nemo*
Finding Neverland*
Forrest Gump*
Frailty
Freaky Friday*
Friday Night Lights
Friday The 13th
From Hell
Galaxy Quest*
Garden State
Gattaca
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes*
Ghost Ship
Gladiator *
Gone With The Wind *
Goodbye Girl, The
Goodbye Lenin
Goonies, The
Gosford Park
Gothika
Grease*
Grinch, The*
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?*
Guildenstern and Rosencrantz are Dead
H20
Hairspray
Halloween
Halloween 2
Halloween 3
Halloween 4
Halloween 5
Halloween: the Resurrection
Hannibal
Happy Gilmore*
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone*
Heavenly Creatures
Hellboy*
Hero*
Hildago*
His Girl Friday
Hitch*
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The*
Holiday
Hot Chick, The
House of Flying Daggers
House of Sand and Fog
House of Wax
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days*
Howard the Duck
Huck Finn *
I <3 Huckabees
I Am Sam
I, Robot*
Identity
If Lucy Fell
Igby Goes Down
I'm Gonna git you Sucka
Incredibles, The*
Independence Day*
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade*
Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom*
Intolerable Cruelty
Iron Jawed Angels
Jacket, The
Jaws*
Jeepers Creepers
Jeepers Creepers 2
Josie and the Pussycats
Joy Ride
Just Married*
Kill Bill vol. 1
Kill Bill vol. 2
Kingpin
K-Pax
Kung Fu Hustle
Labyrinth*
Lady Jane
Latter Days
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The
Like Water For Chocolate
Lilo & Stitch
Little Black Book
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Women*
Lizzie McGuire Movie, The
Lone Star
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers *
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*
Love Actually
Maid in Manhattan
Mallrats
Man on Fire
Manchurian Candidate, The* (the original)
Mars Attacks*
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World*
Matrix, The*
Me, Myself & Irene
Mean Girls*
Meet Joe Black
Meet The Fockers
Meet The Parents
Mighty Ducks*
Mildred Pierce
Minority Report*
Miracle*
Moon Child
Monty Python and the Holy Grail*
Moulin Rouge*
Mr. Holland's Opus*
Mr. North
Much Ado About Nothing*
My Boss' Daughter
Mystery Men*
Napoleon Dynamite *
National Treasure*
Never Been Kissed
Night of the Living Dead
North by Northwest*
Notebook, The
Notting Hill*
Now and Then
O Brother Where Art Thou?*
Ocean's Eleven*
Ocean's Twelve*
October Sky*
Old School
On Golden Pond*
Order, The
Orlando
Other Sister, The
Others, The*
Out of Sight
Parent Trap*
Party Girl
Passport to Paris
Paulie
People Under the Stairs
Persuasion*
Phantom of the Opera*
Philadelphia Story, The
Pillow Book, The
Pirates of the Caribbean*
Powwow Highway
Practical Magic
Predator*
Predator II*
Pretty in Pink
Prince of Darkness
Princess Bride, The*
Princess Mononoke/Mononoke-hime
Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, The
Princess Diaries, The*
Queen Margot
Quills
Rainman*
Ray
Red China
Red Dragon
Reign of Fire*
Remember the Titans*
Resident Evil*
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Rigoletto*
Ring 2, The
Ring, The
Ripley's Game
Robin Hood: Men in Tights*
Romancing the Stone*
Romeo and Juliet*
Royal Tenenbaums, The
Rutles, The
Sabrina*
Saved!
Saw
Say Anything
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 3*
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3
Secret Window*
Secretary
Seven
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Shaun Of The Dead
Shawshank Redemption, The
She's All That
Shrek*
Shrek 2*
Shutter
Sid and Nancy
Sideways
Signs*
Silence Of The Lambs
Sin City
Singing in the Rain*
Six Weeks
Sixteen Candles*
Sixth Sense, The*
Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow*
SLC Punk
Sound of Music, The*
Spiderman*
Spiderman 2*
Spinal Tap*
Spirited Away
St. Elmos Fire
Stage Door*
Star Wars episode I: The Phantom Menance *
Star Wars episode II: Attack Of The Clones *
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith *
Star Wars episode IV: A New Hope*
Star Wars episode V: The Empire Strikes Back *
Star Wars episode VI: Return Of The Jedi*
Starman
Starsky & Hutch*
Star Trek: The Motion Picture*
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan*
Star Trek: The Search for Spock*
Star Trek: The Voyage Home*
Star Trek: The Final Frontier*
Star Trek: First Contact*
Stealing Beauty
Stuart Little*
S.W.A.T.*
Sweet Home Alabama*
Sweetest Thing, The
Swimfan
Swimming with Sharks
Taxi Driver*
Team America: World Police
Terminal, The*
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
Three Kings
Thrill Seekers
Titanic*
Titus
Top Hat
Toy Story *
Toy Story 2*
Trainspotting
Troop Beverly Hills
Troy*
Universal Soldier
Upside of Anger, The
Urban Legend
Usual Suspects, The
Varsity Blues
Velvet Goldmine
View from the Top
Village, The*
Waiting for Guffman
Waking Ned Devine
Wedding Planner, The
Wedding Singer, The*
When Harry met Sally*
White Chicks*
White Christmas
White Noise
White Oleander
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?*
Whole Nine Yards, The
Wilby Wonderful
Wild Things
Willow*
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory*
Wizard of Oz, The*
X-Men*
X-Men 2*
You Can Count on Me
Young Frankenstein*
So based on this, I have no idea what my movie watching taste is, but apparently it's stronger in the second half of the alphabet. Or soemthing.
So, I saw the new [u]Star Wars[/u] movie. Wow. It was phenominal. I really enjoyed it. The story was impressive. Even though you knew what Anakin would eventually decide, his path is surprising. You can't help hoping he will, somehow, stick with what he knows is right. But he doesn't . He wants to control fate too badly. His love has a defect: the inabilty to let go of what he loves. An all too human defect, I'm afraid. But previous loss has made him afraid to lose what he loves--possessive to an extreme that leads him to betray what is right for the promise of playing God to keep what he loves. Such a poignant reminded that all we have on earth is temporary, and we should be prepared to relinquish it at the proper times. This is exponentially true for Christians. Watching Anakin's descent into darkness was almost more than I could take--it was so dark and seemingly irrevocable. Yet, even near the end, when Obi-wan confronts him, he could have walked away from the darkness--such a picture of the availabilty of redemption. But he refuses, instead wallowing in his hatred and bitterness and false paranoia--such a picture of the sinful nature of man. It is a wrenching movie. The parallel between Padme's death and Anakin's "death"/return as Vader is beautiful and heartbreaking. I was so emotionally exhausted by the movie. I also had to come home and watch "Episode 4" (as it is now known) to renew my heart. I will say the end of the movie does give the glimmer of hope that is brought to life in the next movie. And it does so flawlessly. I was astounded and washed away by this movie. It should be seen. I will also say that the movie not only presents an introspective examination that is sharp and skilled, it also reminds us what liberty truly is worth. And that peace at any price is oppression. A reminder much needed in an age when we are told to keep to ourselves and mind our own business; that maintaining peace is the ultimate goal we should have, justice and right be damned. Though I would not go so far (as Padme almost does) as to say that all war is a failure of diplomacy, I think the movie makes a strong case for listening as well as for not sacrificing liberty and justice on the altar of peace. It's good stuff.
I'll write more later, but. . .I have a 6th grader (and his siblings) who are going through an intensely difficult time. They (and their mother) have discovered that their father is not the man everyone thought he was. My heart aches for them all, but especially my boy--his father has been his hero, and he is a very sensitive child. How does one even find words to say to another that can even hope to help? This is when magic power to hurt people would come in handy. All of my protective instincts come out and I want to avenge the aweful hurt that has been done to people I care deeply about. But I can do nothing. Well. . .not nothing. I can pray--and who is a better Avenger than Jehovah? But something tangible to do would help me. It seems so . . . inane to hurt with those who are hurting, but it must count for something since Paul said that believers are to do that. He wouldn't have emphasized it had it not been important. Seeing the broken heart of my student makes it seem so insignificant, though. I wish people would, in their selfishness, pause for a moment and consider the widespread ramifications of their sin--but then, I suppose it is the selfishness of their sin that prevents them from seeing it. Sometimes I hate people. I guess I really hate sin, and sin natures, and those who claim the name of Christ yet willfully continue in sin knowing what the consequences will be if they are caught. At any rate, I posted all of this to ask you, my brethren and theirs, to plunge yourselves into prayer for this family and their pain. Please. They need it desperately.
5th grade girls are so melodramatic. I think I've mentioned that before, but sheesh. Everything, especially now that spring fever has set in, becomes this huge emotional ordeal for everyone--including me. I have decided that under-the-counter Valium pills are definitely not out of the question. . . .Okay, I'm just joking. Mostly.
Right now we are working two simultaneous projects in 5th grade history--polishing skits about George Washington and making a big poster on the Louisiana Purchase and (pause to referee more melodrama "we don't all fit on this side, one of us needs to move to the boys' side." "we've already planned out what we're doing. Why can't they just stay over there." "Because we don't all fit over here to work." Sigh. Compromise and adapt aren't words in their vocabulary) the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It should be really cool--if everyone can work together and get it done. At this age it is so difficult to get projects done: not only are their leadership skills rudimentary, but there is also this weird boy vs. girl issue. Bleg. It isn't the war it was at the beginning of the year (thanks to some rules carrying an automatic detention consequence), but it is still a "thing" that they have to bring up as some kind of division/competition. Weird. And it isn't that I don't remember being that way, I just don't really get it anymore. And I don't like dealing with it. Sigh.
Upper school composition is wading deeply into research papers (woo-hoo). And as most of them have done this already (last year, as well as smaller research type projects this year) I am astounded at the lack of brain retention regarding how to take notes and do research. The plagiarism of it all. So, step by step we go. Hoy.
New topic. I'm a little ADD today. Too much caffeine, perhaps, if there is such a thing. I need prayer/thoughts for guidance. Way back a coupel fo months ago I mentioned a possibility of becoming 6-8th Humanities teacher. Well, long story short, after examination, thought, prayer, discussion, I'm not getting the position. Which also means that I need to figure out what I'm doing next year. For those few of you not already familiar with my Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education woes, I am in a position (thanks to the asinine educatonal policies in my state--policies that have not improved the state of our education) which makes it very difficult for me to find a teaching position. I am completely unsure what to do with myself--whether to teach, whether to pursue a writing career, whether to try for a university position or assistantship, whether to . . . .????? So, great prayer is needed--and suggestions from those that know me-or don't-are welcome. :) Oh. And i haven't told my parents yet that once again I'm in search of a job. I didn't think they'd want that stress added to the stress of Grandpa's death and funeral and will stuff. I really just want to find a place where I can burrow in and settle. I prefer to have my life-spices/uncertainty be on the fringes and voluntary rather than a core instability. God, apparently has other things in mind right now.
My sister's softball team won the league championship last night. Granted there are only a few teams in their league (Louisiana Christian School Athletic Association), but they could have done just as well in a bigger league. They really have a powerhouse team. My brother's baseball team has done well this year, also, but lost their playoff game due to outfield errors and several overthrows to 3rd base. A shame since Ben's pitching was really great--and he had some nice plays at 1st base in the last 2 innings. He want to try out for the Southeaster Louisiana University team in the fall. I hope he makes it. He's a good ball player and he loves the game.
Okay. I'm done now. Randomness and all.