Yes more. And the Mycroft actor is show running. Mmmmmmmm, Mycroft.

There is, in fact, a Fuck Yeah Mark Gatiss Tumblr.

As is right and proper.

BINAO: Fry or Gatiss?

also,

BINAO: Cumberbatch or Freeman?

(Note: I FIND THESE VERY DIFFICULT.)

Anne, I'm so sorry for you and your family's loss. It's such a gift when a relative-by-chance comes to mean so much to the extended family.

The asbestos abatement people are already working away -- they showed up like 15 minutes early, too, and got right into it. I can hear them scraping already -- it's impressive how they set up the tenting and airflow machine and airlock. Now it's all banging and scraping noises down there

(I'm not allowed to go down, BY LAW. Otherwise I'd grab a respirator and watch up close inside the tent, because, cool!)

I am substituting an ESL class today. I speak four languages to varying degrees of proficiency, and of course the only one that would help me is the one that, technically, I read very well but can't quite speak or understand.

I need to learn Vietnamese and Haitian Creole right now, basically. Who would think that speaking almost fluent Spanish and Mandarin would be of absolutely no help in an ESL classroom?

You can always try mime, right? Or maybe make them see how high they can count in English?

2 laptops and 3 cats= not enough real estate for this.

Mime could be fun. Most of them seem to speak English at at least a basic level, but it's no fun for me to be sitting in front of an entire room of kids who are talking and not have a clue what they are saying! I want to eavesdrop, basically.

I'm pretty sure that the ESL teacher at my elementary school didn't speak Japanese, which was the language most of her students spoke.

Oh ow ow ow ow ow. I.... for lack of a proper explanation, there is something wrong with my ears. Very, very wrong. Sounds that really shouldn't be bothersome in any way cause physical pain and a lot of mental anguish... so I'm probably crazy or something, but there's that.

And someone just gave lollipops to the entire class and the sucking noises make me want to die. I just told them all no food in class but they've chosen this moment, apparently, to all forget how to speak English. And the Haitian kids are calling me crazy. I understand enough French to know that much.

Sorry for the whining!

Where was elementary school for you, Hil? Okinawa, Hawaii, Manzanar?

Where was elementary school for you, Hil? Okinawa, Hawaii, Manzanar?

New Jersey. NYC suburbs. Some agency in Japan published a list of towns with good school systems, and our town was on the list, so a lot of Japanese businessmen who relocated to NY with their families for a few years lived in our town.