]> http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/index.html lunarhunk's Blog en-us © 2008 Greasy.com All rights reserved. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:03:52 GMT 30 http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/political.html I spent most of this afternoon designing my first political ad! I have to buy the space this week. Enjoy! Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:42:04 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/history_boys_movie_review.html This movie is based on a Tony-award-winning Broadway play. It is set in an Enlgish school where a group of very talented young men are preparing to take apply to Oxford and Cambridge with the hopes of not only getting in, but maybe even getting scholarships. Over their school careers, they have been mentored by Hector, a teacher that introduces them to pop culture, and Mrs. Lintott, a history teacher gives them a glimpse of a modern woman role model. WIth thoe hopes of helping the boys alo ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:35:54 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/climbing_stairs_padma_venkatraman.html This one is written by a woman who lives right here in Rhode Island. I have been meaning to read it for a while, but I am just now getting to it. It is a teen novel that is loosely based on some of the experiences of various family members. Vidya is a 15-year-old girl growing up in a less-than-traditional Brahmin family in WWII Bombay, India. Her father has taken on the view of a new modern India, which is professed by Gandhi. This means more rights for women, such as a promise to Vidya to ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:20:30 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/interviewed.html Well, I felt honored today. I was approached by a college student to be interviewed for a project for a writing class. He had to choose someone they looked up to and interview him or her in order to do a paper on their life. He actually was the dishwasher I worked with at the Farm (historic restaurant). Even through we had a big age difference, the whole group of people who worked there were really close and friendly. He is a really bright kid, and I really see him going far in live. He wo ... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:22:10 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/name_loser.html Don't worry! I am not depressed, and I definitely am not being hard on myself. Ray and I went to our usual Saturday night game of scat. It was a small group since two of the ladies were on a bus trip and another was feeling under the weather. As a result, it was just Ray and I and two others. We had our usual good time. Unfortunately, I have had my usual level of luck while playing. I get the rules of scat, but I apparently am not terribly good at it since I did not win any rounds. In fact ... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:10:20 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/trouble_grading.html I know that I mentioned before that I was using some of this week to get caught up grading a pretty major project that the students in my class have to do. Well, I hit the first rough grade I have had to hand out. What makes it more awkward is that it is actually a project done by someone I consider a friend and a colleague since she is a practicing teen librarian. Well, the project is one where the students have to compile a bunch of demographic statistics for their local community and us ... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:02:44 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/genghis_lords_bow_conn_iggulden.html I first really got into Iggulden's work when he was writing a series of books following the life of Julius Caesar. This is the second novel in another series, though, you probably guessed from the title that it follows the life of Genghis Khan. While the first novel in the series focus on the rise of Genghis from an exile from one of the many Mongol tribes to the uniting force of a Mongol Empire, this volume he sets his eyes on the Chin Kingdom, the neighboring Chinese that have looked dow ... Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:38:44 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/bad_news_sister-out-of-law.html My sister-out-of-law got some bad news when she went to work. She was laid off. She worked in an industry that is probably really unstable in our economic climate. She was the office manager for a company that did laser hair removal. This type of procedure is really not something that people think is a priority when money gets tighter. She actually was taking it pretty well. It sort of stinks because she had almost left a couple of times recently, but they had talked her into staying. The ... Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:01:44 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/press_release_2.html For those of you actively following my school committee campaign, I sent out my second press release today. I will be putting one out a week from now on. The local papers will only print one per candidate a week. This week, I did one on the drop out rate in town. Anyway, here it is: COUTU TO FOCUS ON HIGH DROPOUT RATE BURRILLVILLE – Aaron J. Coutu, school committee candidate, will call for the formation of a subcommittee focusing on the town’s high dropout rate once elected. The propos ... Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:46:16 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/connecticut_.html This May 14, 2007 file photo shows Joanne Mock, left, and Beth Kerrigan speaking to media in front of the Connecticut State Supreme Court in Hartford where they were among plaintiffs in a suit brought after eight same-sex couples were denied marriage licenses. The state Supreme Court ruled in the suit Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions. (Source:AP/Fred Beckham) BREAKING ... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:28:12 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/take_sarah_palin.html I know that most of you know that I love politics. To me, it is right up there with great television shows. I just love reading about it. I am one of those weird freaks who actually LOVES to watch the debates. Yes ... I even like watching the State of the Union Address. I know that I have not been doing much posting about the whole election. Heck! I haven't been doing much posting about anything lately. That is another story, but suffice to say that I have serious spread myself WAY FREAKIN ... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:09:46 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/shortbus_movie_review.html I ended up getting this at work after reading a few reviews of it on here. I think one of them might have been Dale, and one of them was most likely our resident reviewer, Martin. I remember reading about the controversy surrounding its content, particularly the fact that it presented a lot of realistic sex scenes. hat proved to be very true. This is not one for someone who is freaked out by sex becuase the audience actually gets to see sex rather than just acting/simulated sex. The thing ... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:36:03 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/night_cards.html Tonight, Ray took me to join him with his other card group. Rather than going to the senior housing center, we went to the house of one of the women with home he works. All of the people who play are bus monitors with Ray, and I know most of them from the Friday morning breakfasts they have every other week. They are also big supporters in my campaign. They play Michigan Rummy, which is both easy and complex. The image above has the game board, and you can win any number of ways during eac ... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:13:22 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/take_economy.html I have pretty much not said too much about the bad economic climate we are experiencing. I don't actually have a special background in economics, though I did take a year of it in high school and a semester of it in college. So much of what I am reading in blogs on here and in the response of people in surveys and articles represents how ignorant we are as a people when it comes to basic economic principals To start, economics is a social science. That means there are no hard and fast rule ... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:54:26 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/superhero_you.html Your results: You are Spider-Man Spider-Man 85% Green Lantern 85% Superman 80% The Flash 75% Iron Man 75% Robin 57% Catwoman 55% Supergirl 42% Wonder Woman 42% Hulk 40% Batman 35% You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility. Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz... Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:11:33 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/vacation.html I am not sure if I mentioned this earlier, but I am on vacation this week. I planned it specifically so I could use some extra time to grade papers that were turned in at the end of last week and still have time for myself. I have done a much better job this week of making sure to take some time for ourself. Ray and I spent two nights playing cards with the ladies. I always go on Saturdays, but I usually work too late on Mondays to join them. Since I am off this week, I was able to have an ... Wed, 8 Oct 2008 02:08:28 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/lost_neelix_today_1998-2008.html Neelix was the first addition to a shared family for Ray and I. The two of us had met on February 1, 1998. He was a big fan of cats, and living in an apartment, I knew I wanted to have something a little more than my 20 gallon fish tank for pets. Ray talked me into the possibility in March. At about that time, a guy (Louie) who was working as a cook at the restaurant I was at told me a good friend of his that he worked at the prison with had kittens she was looking to give away. As an asid ... Fri, 3 Oct 2008 21:29:03 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/pantheon_high_paul_benjamin.html The demigod children of any number of cultures are back for another set of adventures. This time, their troubles result from a challenge they make to Gilgamesh High, a similar high school not too far away. The result is an athletic event in which the losing players will be sacrificed to the parents of the winners. While all of this is going on, two heroes from the first installment thought to be dead find themselves traveling through the various forms of the afterlife as they make their wa ... Fri, 3 Oct 2008 21:02:26 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/compound_sa_bodeen.html Eli and his families lives changed drastically six years ago when they rushed into the Compound, an underground safe house set up by his incredibly rich father as a shelter to live through a nuclear holocaust. The place is stocked with everything they will need for 15 years, which is the estimated amount of time it would take the planet to heal enough to be safe. You would think that under the circumstances, Eli would be close to his family, but that is not the case. He is uncomfortable ev ... Fri, 3 Oct 2008 20:52:24 GMT http://greasy.com/lunarhunk/global_electoral_college.html I was reading The Economist today. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it is a great British magazine that does an awesome job of covering international news relating to politics and the economy. They have a whole section dedicated to American politics, and they have been keeping a keen eye on the quickly approaching Presidential election. They believe since Obama and McCain are working to become the most influential person in the world, that it would be interesting to see how the world w ... Wed, 1 Oct 2008 02:45:50 GMT