Words And Movies Are My Passion
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: "Accidentally In Love"
Hi all! This morning I want to give my predictions for tonight's Oscars! Watching the Oscars is a family tradition on Mama's side, and the fervor will probably die with me. As silly as the academy can be in it's choices, I do hope the ever increasingly popular Golden Globes don't take over the highest honors in the future!

Best supporting actor (male):Alan Alda ("The Aviator)-the old folks always win due to nostalgia!
Best supporting actor (female): Virginia Madsen ("Sideways")
Best actor(male):Jamie Foxx("Ray")
Best actor (female):Annette Benning ("Being Julia")
Best Director: Clint Eastwood ("Million Dollar Baby")
Best Song: "Learn to be Lonely" ("Phantom of the Opera")
Best foreign language film :"Yesterday" (South Africa)
Best Documentary: "The Story of the Weeping Camel"
Best Picture: "The Aviator"

Of course that's who I think will win. I have to admit that I haven't seen most of the films up this year, but I'll give my personal picks anyway.

Best supporting actor (male):Morgan Freeman ("Million Dollar Baby")
Best supporting actor (female):I really think Natalie Portman is really cool, but something about her sweetness did not convince me totally of her stripper role in "Closer", so I'm going to choose Kate Blanchett in "The Aviator" this year
Best actor(male):Jamie Foxx("Ray")
Best actor (female):Catalina Soreno ("Maria Full of Grace") It took guts to play that part-plus I have to give props to my people, as they still haven't won an Oscar that I can recall
Best Director: Martin Scorsese ("The Aviator")Just because, even though Eastwood is probably an excellent director, he for some reason gets on my nerves.
Best song: "Accidentally in Love" (Shrek)-this is catchy and so pop, but I can't help but sway to the beat and enjoy its lightheartedness
Best foreign language film :"As It is in Heaven" (Sweden)
Best Documentary: "Super Size Me"-this exposed some truths that everyone has a right to know-even if not everyone's body responds the same way. I hope more truths come out about our self-indulgent, self-serving, and self-destructive American ways
Best Picture: "Finding Neverland" --Duh! (and that one's for you, too, Michael!*insert high pitched "OOOOw!"*

Take care,
The Pan

A Way With Words
Words are cool. Here's a brainteaser. I haven't tried it yet! I will take it to work and put it up for the residents. They like those sorts of things.

I'm Bursting Through My Jeans
Mood:  hug me
Now Playing: "Do I Do"
Okay-I was good for like eight months. Then late November came, and I ate anything and everything, at anytime--especially at night! My exercise routines, which I held up from Jan. 2004 to Jan. 2005, went to pot and now I have a pot belly! I'm sitting here with not only my jeans unbuttoned but also my zip down! I am no longer just blogging-I'm blobbing! How am I ever going to show myself at Sisa's wedding next October? Guess I'll decide over some sour gummy worms and Valentine's Dairy Box of chocolates from my sweet and with my sweet.

Hi! I'm dropping a quick one before work. Work report: The pre-GED is late this month. My thugs are doing okay-but a few are ducking class, and I am not energetic enough to chase them. In fact, I'm having a good ol' time focusing on the ones who really want the material and they are sure to take the test. It's all good. If certain ones don't want to make the effort, why push it? A teacher's dilemma always lies in, how much should I motivate my students? When must I give them the nudge, and when must I back off? Any thoughts? Please comment below.

Love from,

"Ms. P."

To All the Guys I've loved Before
Mood:  lyrical
Now Playing: "As" By Stevie Wonder
*In my best Willie Nelson voice* To all the guy's I've loved before It's Valentine's and you're no more But wait now- I have more in store For all the guys I've loved before. To Brian-you were fresh as gold Too bad that we were five years old You moved and didn't tell me where Looked for ya for the next five years

To Daddy-you were a charmer and fun Best handlebar cabby under the sun A playmate and loved one 'til the tragic end Man-I despise that liquid friend!

To Greg-- you got the brunt of my fears My high school boyfriend of two years So gentle-In the end the fear was yours-'cause I took off for college, and unending world tours

To Eric--who enjoyed worlds all his own long ago a handsome grail searcher, but unfaithful--from a shed he was thrown This life his legs are crooked, but his morals aren't shot--still--What I really wanted, he gave not

Then there's you, Eric "Sunshine", For whom the sun would rarely shine You've conquered poverty and gay pioneering times Cynical and full of logic, you and I never agreed but in the nightmare of my life, you were right there beside me And when the time came to leave univerisity-you snuck a note on the fridge that proclaimed (platonically) "E loves D"

To Michael-who may never know his own worth a being from a technological planet who was classified as "special" since birth We met on a computer he built-but when it comes to our harsh world he can't stand it He was sweeter than the Pepsi he guzzled When it comes to his heart-I hope I didn't slam it

To Mike- wish I could forget your sorry "mass" Two years! Why'd I have to end up in that Clawson class? Entertained my affections for a measly few days then watched me suffer for eight hundred thirty-eight. You were lost, right? That's what the universe tells me-Hope I can let go-or I'll never feel free

To Papa P.-Please may you rest in peace quiet, fun-loving and proud-your guilt refused to release I speak for every daughter and your every grandson Our lease on love for you will never be done

And Papa-your love kept you here twenty years past a heart "attacked" The love you didn't grow up with-you still managed to give back- Faithful to Grandma Marge and all thirty-three of us Quizzical as a wise professor, yet practical and generous and To Tuck-a robber of the shrewdest kind Is there one ounce of heart in that extraordinary mind? All different flavors of women in your sex memory collection But the one law you respected was my willful rejection And in my heart, mind and soul seven men have come and stayed- For certain I know they'll be with me 'til the end of days. First my beloved cousin and in front of all my English cake-plus I'll acknowledge Daddy's spirit 'cause love never betrays. Then came my Sifu, Dan and Dad-By circumstance?-Of course! But now they've made their mark as elders - Couldn't let them go without remorse. The guy most new is my step-nephew- I know that leaves yet one more... In all the guys I've loved before When it comes to Earthly love there's more So just know- you're all good in my eternal book But the ones who've endured are the guys at whom I now continually look. So let's play again in lives galore To all the guys I've loved before

OOPS!
I thought I erased all my entires! Luckily they came back! I messed up the hangman codes below, so no word games for now! I'm just happy my other words didn't disappear! Phew!

If you want to play hangman, click on "her blog" below. Thanks for stopping by.

I love Games!
Mood:  bright
Here's a bit of word fun.