The Oscars are Green. Hmm... I think I'm intrigued. I love how they keep baiting Al Gore to make an announcement. Oh, that was brilliant. They cued the music right as he was about to make a so-called announcement.
The first two songs were kind of ehh.
Again with the Nicholson!
Here comes Animated Film: Happy Feet
Adapted Screenplay: The Departed - A hint of things to come? Oy I think that the long speeches are going to start. Yup, cue the music.
Blunt and Hathaway are so cute, and I'm loving that Streep playing around with them. So Prada.
Best Costume: Marie Antoinette
Now they're presenting a humanitarian award to Sherry Lansing. She's wearing a gorgeous dress, and she's so accomplished too. Kudos.

The choir was wicked cool!
Wow, they just censored Greg Kinnear. And he and Carrell were so funny.
Sound editing: Letters from Iwo Jima
Sound mixing: Dreamgirls - My friend just killed me. She asked if mold was growing on Beyonce's dress. Oy, poor woman. She just doesn't pick them well.
Oh, supporting actor is coming up. I wonder if there is going to be an upset. I love surprises. Wow, Alan Arkin won. Definately an upset.
LOL. Ellen is trying to give Scorsesee a screenplay.
Ok, the dancers are cool. They just did an interpretation of Happy Feet. So nifty, and so cute.

Will and Jack Black? Seriously, this is cool. Now they included John C. Reiley. The Oscars used to rush through everything, and so far I'm entertained. And the men want to take home Helen Mirren. I don't blame them. She looks amazing for her age.
Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth. Woo-hoo
Aww, now the kids are presenting. So cute.
Animated Short: "The Danish Poet"
Live Action Short: "West Bank Story" - ok now that I've actually seen a clip of this, weird!
One thing I've noticed is that the speeches have been blessedly short. Granted, none of the big presentations have started yet, but so far I'm impressed.
They just showed some clips from Letters from Iwo Jima with narration by Eastwood. I'm really looking forward to seeing that movie.

Ellen calls it celebrating the nominees, and the montage was nice and funny. They used Peter O'Toole, and it ended with the lullaby from Pan's Labyrinth. I'm so hoping this takes a few awards. Actually, go Mexico.
She's saying it's an international awards show because of all the nominees.
Dude! Jack Nicholson is bald!
Aw, she just picked on Leo DiCaprio, and he just blushed!
Ellen just danced. So far I loved the intro.
Here come the first presentations. A very snazzy looking Daniel Craig too, but the bow on Kidman's dress is kinda iffy.
Art Direction: Pan's Labyrinth. Yes! Oh yeah. Here comes the sweep.

Out of all the dresses I've seen tonight I've been impressed the most by Rachel Weis. She said she was wearing Vera Wang, and she looked fabulous. I can't say the same about J. Lo. She was supposedly wearing vintage. Methinks she just wanted to look like a long lost Dreamgirl.
As for the Oscars, I'm pulling for the Mexicans. I hope they show del Toro the love. He so deserves it.

I'm actually doing this, aren't I? The hardest part has been convincing myself to relax. I've been a pro at it until the last two days. Then suddenly the doubt crept in. I need to do a reversal. And just so that I can prove I have a handle on my life, I will be blogging the Oscars tomorrow! The bar will not destroy my life.

Fashion Week in NYC had a surprise this week, and it included wheels. Last week one of the fashion shows was dedicated to raising money for spinal cord injuries, and four of the models gracing the runways were in wheelchairs. The wheelchairs were designed by four separate designers, and the event managed to raise over one million dollars.
Here's to being fashionable.

According to Pop Candy, the first season of Beauty and the Beast is now available to own, or rent if you're a Netflix hag like me. I don't know, but every time that show is mentioned, I just sigh. The music was gorgeous, and oh, it was that good! It was all about Vincent and Katherine. And there's the sigh again.

I deserve an award or something for stupidity. I thought the bar exam was in a week. I thought it was the 20th, 21st, and 22nd. I've been studying this way since December. So today while researching the so-called new MBE questions, it puzzled me to read that the MBE was going to be on the 28th. I hit reload, and even downloaded the manual, but the date didn't change. Was Texas different?
No, I was just under this insane belief that the exam could never overrun into March. Now I have an extra week.
I think I want to die. Maybe cry.

I think I lost another student. Or maybe he'll show up on Tuesday unannounced, and I'll have to suddenly pull out a lesson plan from thin air, because right now I just don't want to put in the effort. This really is horrible on my part, and really, I can sometimes wing it with my conversational students, but there is something about this one, he can throw me off. Knowing my streak for being a perfectionist I'll have something prepared, and he won't show up.
Oh well.
This is not the end of the world. I'm ecstatic! Thrilled. Ask me again on the 23rd.
My brain is making plans, and if I make it to the 19th, I'm hoping it won't be riddled with holes. I kept repeating the definition of negotiable instrument all day yesterday. I thought I was going mad. It was also the point were my head felt full. That moment were I'm pretty sure nothing more will fit, but please, oh please let's not forget that I have to go over Sales and Secured Transactions! Somehow I know I'm going to become obsessed with PMSI's again. What is it? It's perfected for twenty days, but after that if you don't file you're SOL. Until then it beats out everyone, but I know there are exceptions. It's all so thrilling and useless. I'm going to explode. Secretly, I just want to throw this all up on paper on Day 3.
Walking time bomb.
And then it's all over. No more bar exam for me. Ever. Because 5 timers rule.
If I did lose this student it kinda sucks, but here's hoping that he'll show up on Tuesday. If he doesn't then more will come, and it's more study time for me though I will be winding down by next weekend.