Merry Christmas!

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2010-12-26 01:35 (分类:daily life)

天气预报说今天下午，明天都会下雪，趁着还没下雪路好走开车去超市备些吃的吧。冬天来了，吃火锅不错。
圣诞学校基本没什么人，对着空荡荡的校园，真想遇见个人就大声说：Merry Christmas!
广播里到处是圣诞节的歌，气氛像国内过年一样。
看到网上很多老美推荐best christmas movie：It's a wonderful life. 上网一查，那么老的电影。。。算了，还是去看场新电影吧。想去看Tangled。
过 节了，大家都好忙啊。想着去给车换下机油，第一次去说要等很久，于是预约了第二天再去。第二天去结果还是忙啊，说好2点半取车，结果拖到3点多才弄好。本 来想抱怨让我错过了3点钟的电影，那的工作人员却说抱歉让我等，免费换机油了。 真是让我生气不起来啊，可爱的老美啊！
24号早上去送人去火车站，还真冷。大家都多多注意保暖，尤其是在北方的同学们呐。
每到冬天，在学校都经常看见鹿。晚上去停车场开车，看到5只鹿在学校的草坪上吃草，开车出来又看到3只鹿过了马路跑进树林。宛若这里是它们的天地，而我绝对是个过客。
昨天竟然又听见了大雁的叫声，看到还有一群大雁在往南飞。难道它们迷路了？怎么这么晚还在路上？
喜欢空荡荡的校园，喜欢到学校的湖边走一走，感觉整个湖都变成自己的。
去逛街看电影也不错。不看最新的电影的话，就去1.5$的电影院，一个人自得其乐。
也喜欢一个人在家，窝在被子里，听听音乐， 看看书。
自娱自乐的假期。

今天很happy

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2011-01-16 01:15

其实从昨天晚上就很happy。
周五白天真是辛苦，又要和老板meeting (还好没被骂)，还要听seminar，超长的seminar，痛苦的煎熬啊！
终于一切都完了，看到预约的书到了就去图书馆取了一下。
回家等到6点钟和Amy一起出去吃饭。边等边看刚刚借的书 "Dear Dr. Henshaw".
书很有趣，一拿起来就舍不得放下了。正好Amy说路上有点堵车，多读了会儿书。
6点多Amy来接上我，一起去 Greek Fiesta 吃饭，点了一个鸡肉卷样的东西，还不错。
边 吃边聊，倒也不觉得没有话说。Amy是基督徒，我正好看美国历史的时候看到了几个关于圣经的问题，赶紧拿来问问Amy。哈哈。现在觉得challenge 圣经里面的故事还挺有意思的，可以看别人如何为自己的观点辩护。Amy 超级nice，我们下周应该还会一起吃饭 :)
9点多回家，给家打电话，老妈不在家，和老爸聊了一个多小时. 大多数时候老妈在家, 都是和老妈一顿聊，今天终于得到机会和老爸神聊！
10点多挂了电话，去把牛肉炖上。顺便把其他的青菜做了，可以留着带饭。
快到12点了，躺在床上读了会书，然后睡觉。
今天早上多睡了会，惬意的吃了早饭，开车来学校。 外面阳光明媚！
来学校后，发现竟然收到了 Successfu English的 Warren Ediger的回信！受某人的鼓励，昨天给他写了一封信，今天收到来信，真happy啊！
最 最happy的是，我不再担心为什么英语总是不能提高！现在是知道自己还需要提高，但是因为相信自己有了正确的方法，相信英语好的那天总会来到。而且我可 以预感到那一天很快就会来了！不知道是自己的英语真的有了提高，还是因为有了英语比我差的人对比，总之感觉自己英语忽然就好了很多！Happy啊！

Proud to hear good words about North Carolina

VOA Special English: The making of a nation- Slavery Arrives as Colonial Expansion Heads South
http://www.manythings.org/voa/history/7.html
"History experts say that the area that became North Carolina may have been the most democratic of all the colonies.  The people generally did not get involved in each other’s lives.  They permitted each other to live in peace. They faced danger together from pirates who made the North Carolina coast their headquarters."
"Experts say the people in northern Carolina were independent thinkers.  In 1677, some of them rebelled against England.  They did not like England's Navigation Acts. These laws forced people in Carolina to pay taxes to England on goods sold to other colonies.  Some northern Carolina settlers refused to pay this tax.  They even set up their own government and tried to break free of England.  But the English soldiers in the colonies stopped the rebellion by arresting its leader."
"The differences between the people of northern Carolina and southern Carolina became too great.  The owners of the colony divided Carolina into two parts in 1612."

The infinite house

Interesting! :)

An Excerpt from Joseph Mitchell's "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon"

This paragraph is so interesting that I kept reading it several times. It makes me want to visit this place.
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Throughout his life Bill's Principal concern was to keep McSorley's exactly as it had been in his father's time. When anything had to be changed or repaired, it appeared to pain him physically. For twenty years the bar had a deepening sag. A carpenter warned him repeatedly that it was about to collapse; finally, in 1933, he told the carpenter to go ahead and prop it up. While the work was in progress he sat at a table in the back room with his head in his hands and got so upset he could not eat for several days. In the same year the smoke- and cobweb-encrusted paint on the ceiling began to flake off and float to the floor. After customers complained that they were afraid the flakes they found in their ale might strangle them to death, he grudgingly had the ceiling repainted. In 1925 he had to switch to earthenware mugs; most of the pewter ones had been stolen by souvenir hunters. In the same year a coin-box telephone, which he would never answer himself, was installed in the back room. These were about the only major changes he ever allowed. Occasionally one of the pictures his father had hung would fall off the wall and the glass would break, and he would fill in the gap. His contributions include a set of portraits of the wives of Presidents through the first Mrs. Woodrew Wilson, a poster of Barney Oldfield in a red racing car, and a poem called "The Man Behind the Bar." He knew this poem by heart and particularly liked the last verse:
When St. Peter sees him coming he will leave the gates ajar,
For he knows he's had his hell on earth, has the man behind the bar.
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The 300-Word Challenge

The 300-Word Challenge

Common Errors in English Usage

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors