http://www.misskitten.org It's not always easy being me. Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:30:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of my former English-teaching jobs involved working with small children. They were very little, most under the age of five, so the job mainly consisted of playing games and singing songs in English. Like any job there were good and bad things about it. The kids were mostly very ... http://www.misskitten.org/?p=760 I just read about this over on Gawker and it's pretty cool. This website analyzes your writing and lets you know which famous writer you write like. Apparently one of my recent blog updates reads just like the writing of Chuck Palahnuik. Sweet, huh? I write like Chuck Palahniuk I Write Like by ... http://www.misskitten.org/?p=754 Despite its humble Amish origins, the town named Intercourse, in the great state of Pennsylvania, is infamous for having the most suggestive town name in America. However, American city names ridden with innuendo and weirdness certainly aren't rare. Here's a few of what I consider to be the best/worst/weirdest town ... http://www.misskitten.org/?p=750 I've become more sentimentally patriotic since I've been living abroad, but not in an ostentatious way. For some reason I can't seem to keep myself from weeping whenever I hear to the song America the Beautiful. It never affected me like that before I left the United States. There's just ... http://www.misskitten.org/?p=745 The most traumatic thing that happened to me recently was being without my suitcase for a whole week when I was visiting family in California for Christmas. Yeah I know, this says something about how decidedly untraumatic my life really is. Being without one's suitcase is not as bad as, ... http://www.misskitten.org/?p=737 It's been snowing here in Gothenburg pretty much non-stop since November, more than making up for the snowless winters of previous years. I woke up this morning to discover that my balcony was nearly filled up with snow, and this left me wondering if I should be worried about a ... http://www.misskitten.org/?p=733 The Teacher's Lament You have some time today, I see. Your teacher’s canceled Chemistry. My class won’t start till three-thirty. And would it okay with me, Since there’s some place you’d rather be, You ask, I hope, facetiously, Whether I would mind terribly, If you skipped my class and left early. I try not to take it personally, But it’s ... http://www.misskitten.org/?p=731 I keep hearing from my American friends and family how much it sucks to live in America right now and how horrible President Obama is, but I just wanted to make it clear that it's so much worse over here. Tomorrow I'll have to go and see my neurologist and it ... http://www.misskitten.org/?p=728 At the moment I'm lying in bed with a box of lotion Kleenex and my laptop toplap. Under normal circumstances I'd be at work, but I'm taking a few days off due to an annoyingly bad headcold. My sinuses are all congested, making both breathing and thinking somewhat difficult and ... http://www.misskitten.org/?p=724 As explained by Professor Stretchy Cat: http://www.misskitten.org/?p=721