THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Looks like we’ve actually managed to layout most of the scenes in the show before deadline.  There are only six scenes left to finish.  There are so few scenes left that there isn’t enough work to go around.  Two of my fellow crew members took the day off today and tomorrow.  There wasn’t anything for them to do.  They were happy to do it.  I’m one of the few people to still have a scene left to finish, but it will be done by the end of the day.  I hope I don’t have to take the day off Friday, I rather not use up a vacation day.

FAMILY

Dante got baptized this weekend (finally).  The ceremony was very nice.  We didn’t invite very many people to come, mostly because there wasn’t going to be a party afterward.  Our house is too small to host one.  We were planning on having it at my mom’s house but she’s out of town visiting my sister and my little niece in Pennsylvania.  We’ll be having the baptism party when she gets back.

The baptism itself went very well.  The only hiccup was how late Dante’s Godmother showed up.  Her car was overheating and she had to drive real slow.  The ceremony began before she even got there but she got there in time for the more important parts.

We were asked to not dress Dante in his nice clothes until after the water was poured on him.  He was in his “underwear” for half the ceremony.   Poor baby had no idea what was going on.  He wasn’t very bothered by it though. He didn’t cry or anything but by the end, he started getting fussy because he was getting sleepy.

A few people came over to the house afterward and stayed for about an hour or two.  The rest of the day was spent recovering from all the fuss.  It was a good day.

FAMILY

Sunday, we went out to an outdoor shopping mall with the kids.  It was a very nice time and it was fun to just do something like that, just the four of us.  The mall has a little kid train ride that goes around a small part of the mall.  The train is not really a train on a track, it’s just a train shaped car that has two small “passenger” carts that it pulls.  The rides cost two bucks and Munchkin and I went on it.  I don’t think Munchkin understood what we were going to do up until the moment we actually got in the train.  Even though she saw the train would stop and let kids out to allow other kids to get in while we waited in line. She was just waiting in line with me because I asked her to.

Once in the train, she wouldn’t stop smiling.  It was really a bumpy and uncomfortable ride but Munchkin was loving it.  She turned up and looked at me smiling like crazy.  I tried to get her to look out the window and I even tried to get her to wave at people, which she did, for about fifteen seconds only to turn back to look at me and smile.  It left such an impression on me that whenever I think about it I still get the mental picture of it.  It’s something like this:

Later, after we told mommy what we did,  she saw the train pass by.  She started running after it yelling, “Wait! Wait!”  She would have chased it all over it’s route if Alesha hadn’t stopped her in her tracks by asking her if she wanted ice cream.

FAMILY

At work, Alesha proposed a “Great Books” class.  She really wanted to teach it.  She knew that it would be a great class for the Seniors and Juniors in her school. They gave her permission to teach it.  She was so excited.  The class is an elective and many Seniors and Juniors told her that they had signed up for it.  Alesha prepared and the syllabus for the class and she showed it to me.  She explained why she had picked certain books for the first semester and we talked about what other books she might want to put in for the second.  I could tell she was happily anticipating teaching the class.

There were a few problems the first two weeks of school with schedules and she had to wait until the third week before actually being able to start teaching any of her classes.  When she finally started teaching the class this week (the class she had proposed for Seniors and Juniors), she discovered, to her great dismay, that the class was all six graders.  There had been a huge mix up with the class schedules.  Many of the kids didn’t even know what the class was or what it was about.

One of the books they are going to read is The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis. The only time she got any kind of reaction from the class about the books they were going to read was when they discovered he was the same author who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia series.  Then everyone cheered.

Needless to say, Alesha is horribly disappointed and she hopes that she could at least get some of the students the class was designed for, in the class.

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