Misguided Blog

See? This is what happens when you give kitty people food. Give'er an inch and she takes a mile. Give her a greasy sliver of chicken and she wants the whole Eight Piece. But she's cute so how can you resist? Even Benny Goodman is smiling. 

We hope that you all had yourselves a wonderfully glutenous, late afternoon nap inducing Turkey Day. For Sue and I it was an adjustment having our first Thanksgiving away from friends and family. BUT we are making new friends and we did have a fun evening with Sonja (who runs the Spanish dept at Newman) and Michael (Sonja's husband). We met up with them at a park nearby and played with their adorable white poodle and they came over our place later for a traditional Thanksgiving feast of chili and rice and assorted other cobbled together whatever was laying around the place goodies. We played games, we ate, we laughed, we base jumped off the roof, we mowed the grass of the vacant lot next door, just for kicks. You wish you were there, don't you? 

We didn't have a traditional Gobble Day, but we did participate in a local tradition this Sunday night when we attended the Christmas children's opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, 

held every year at the WSU campus. It's the local version of what Christmas Carol at Radio City is for New Yorkers. 

For those who participated in the Guess What This Sign Means

contest (um, all one of you) I can report that the sign was 

corrected, sort of, the following day to say: 

"Kids meet Puddles as the clown". 

This cleared things up greatly. Of course...I still didn't understand why Puddles was AS the clown. Did Puddles have a day job, like "Hi, I'm Puddles the Paralegal. In the evenings I play a clown, and I call myself...The Clown.". And how terrifying would it be to meet a clown named Puddles anyway? I don't ever want to meet a clown named Puddles, I don't care how may chicken fingers you let me stuff

my face with. But the revisions didn't stop there! The day after that the sign read:  

"Kids meet Puddleas the Clown". 

So the mystery is finally, unquestionably solved! Ryans is the only place I'm aware of where kids can meet some sort of ancient Greek clown. Now that's a different story. As for our lucky contestant, your Meat Paddle is in the mail. 

So if you couldn't figure it out from the above paragraphs, I have too much time on my hands. The economy has resulted in a hiring freeze for many of the local companies, especially for temp assignments, and so even though I've signed up with five different temp agencies, I haven't gotten a bite yet. I did take a civil service exam last week for the Post Office for some temp work they're offering and I should find out how I did in a week or so. 

Lack of job opportunities has been a little discouraging but I press ahead with my

ultimate goal, which is to return to school! I have enrolled and signed up for two classes in the Spring, an Ancient Art History class and a one credit prep class for the Guatemala trip we're taking next summer with the Spanish dept. In the fall I'll be a full time student. Scary but

exciting. Newman has accepted more than a full year's worth of credits from my stints at SVA and

NCC, which was a nice surprise. I was also extremely excited to find out that Friends University, which is across the way from Newman and has a partnership

 with us, is offering a class in Mandarin! I was studying on my own and at Shaolin Temple

  in New York for a few years and was not expecting to find a class here. 我开玩笑就你去吃晚饭。Take that! I just told you that your mother smells like socks. It's actually a polite greeting in Chinese. It doesn't sound as good in English. Anyway. 

Speaking of free time, I've gone a little bonkers with the videos. You know, I was putting together these makeshift videos for some of my songs so I could post them on YouTube. Well, I have a bunch of them now. You can check some of them out on my YouTube channel or my MySpace page. 

Soon I will have an album available on the interwebsnet and then I will take over

the world! Mmmwahahaha! But first, a nap. 

Love you guys, 

Sonny & Sue.