Scary-Crayon explores a day in the life of everyone's (least) favorite singing Tyrannosaur with this review and commentary on A Day With Barney -- which was actually my final purchase at the bookstore. Oh, the horror...

In other news, work continues to be hectic and exhausting. I actually got a little pissed at a staff meeting today. In discussing all of the programs and activities they want to plan at the community college, it was noted with great interest and praise that in another department a presentation was being held in which several students are supposed to "educate" the staff and faculty about the HipHop culture. This, supposedly, would help to bridge the gap between the students and the faculty. And the whole time I was sitting there rolling my eyes and thinking, "What the FUCK," because it just struck me as ridiculous that someone thought this would be a good idea. Yes, the campus is predominately peopled with walking yo-yo-yo-wassup baggy-FUBU-clothes-wearing thug-wannabe stereotypes, but is that the kind of thing that should be encouraged to the point that the staff should be "educated" about it? I wanted to slam something down and then walk out just to show my contempt for that project and whoever thought it was worth a green light. Fuck that.

There was also apparently a spelling bee at the college today (the winning word being "blasphemy", which fucking floored me because that shit is EASY to spell). One of the work study girls was a participant in said spelling bee, and after being eliminated in the first round, came into the office raving about how the bee was unfair and culturally biased. Her reasoning? She got booted on the word "zealot" and was upset because they pronounced the word "zehl-uht", which, shocker of shockers, IS ACTUALLY THE FUCKING PRONUNCIATION OF THE WORD. But she claimed this was unfair, and that she would've gotten the spelling correct if they had pronounced the word the way she pronounces it -- "zeel-awt". The cultural bias claim came from her being Jamaican and her insistence that they pronounce words differently in Jamaica. So in spelling bees here, they're supposed to mispronounce words -- or even offer multiple mispronunciations of words, spoken in different accents -- in order to help contestants spell them correctly? Should "blasphemy" have been pronounced "blas-p'-hehmee" to accommodate participants from countries in which they don't bother to observe the digraph "ph"? Fuck that.

Oh, and thanks to Caren and TAB for saying some nice things about me. Off to bed now. Ja.