ninja2themaxx

Wikipedia your birthday and pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.

October 9th

Events

1003 - Leif Erikson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, becoming the first European to reach America.
1446 - The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1635 - Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
1986 - The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

Births

1940 - John Lennon, British musician and songwriter
1964 - Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician

Deaths

1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed)
2002 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer

Holidays

Uganda - Independence Day (from Britain, 1962)

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I like it- don't love it. I mostly don't really care.

I leave for New York tomorrow, and then I leave for Cancun on Tuesday, so I won't be in Livermore until August 7th. I'm excited for my trip, but I'm not so pumped for the four plane rides. Ugh. Anyway, I'll see everyone in a couple weeks!

I just discovered that my station wagon has seats that face backwards.  My life is complete.

Oh my goodness - I'm for sure going to buy the 1989 Ford Taurus Station Wagon.  It's going to be hideous as hell, but it's only $700!  It has 150,000 miles on it (yuck), but my insurance will be a lot cheaper because the type of people who drive Ford Taurus Wagon's aren't usually reckless drivers.  I will definitely have to embrace the embarrassment that this car will surely induce, though I'm sure I will grow to love the car in the "I hate it so much" kind of way.  Besides, it's my first car (basically), and I am actually buying it myself.  YES!  

Now I get to start paying for gas.  Oh boy.

1. I've been trying  to call Tommie for the past couple of days and sort out the conflict with my other job.  I need to call back the school district and tell them whether they need to hire someone else or not.  BUT TOMMIE IS NEVER IN.  AH!  We have a meeting tommorow, so I can talk to him then, but I just really needed to get back to the school district as soon as possible.  I don't want them to only have a few days to try to hire someone new if this doesn't work out.

2. Tara's dad found me a possible car for only $700.  It's a 1989 Ford Taurus WAGON.  That's right - a station wagon.  I just might buy it.  I don't care if I look like a fool, as long as it gets me from point A to point B safely.  Anyway, my insurance on that car would be cheap, which helps the expensive post-car-accident insurance issue.

3. I just watched Federico Fellini's "81/2," and now I feel like I am in a dream.  It probably has the most beautiful cinematography I have ever seen in a movie.  It's just so surreal.  I'm probably going to have to watch it again to fully understand it, which I usually have to do with foreign films anyway.  You lose a lot of the visual impact when you are trying to read subtitles the entire time.  

My job at the school district is already conflicting with my job at Tommie's.  I told Tommie I couldn't work before noon on Mondays through Thursdays starting on the 23rd, but on the 24th I'm scheduled to train from 11:00-3:00.  I guess I'm going to have to leave the middle school early to get to training, because there aren't any other training times.  We are also going to be having a lot of meetings and field trips in the future that may also conflict with my tutoring job.  Ah!  I guess I'll just call Tommie to try to find out specific dates for that stuff so I can sort this all out.

On another note:  
CONGRATS TO EVERYONE WHO GRADUATED!  Good luck with all your post-high school experiences!  I'm going to miss you all a lot.

It never ceases to amaze me how stupid and unlucky I am.

Boy my life is hilarious.