Sex and Mexicans

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So today I ended up waiting a half hour for Monica to show up, because apparently her work exploits her and keeps her later than scheduled sometimes. I spent that half hour standing around the ILC staring at this huge map of the world they had covering the entirety of one wall. It was really, really big and awesome. I found Buenos Aires and Guadalajara and a bunch of other places I'd really like to go. I found Kamchatka, too. <3

After about 25 minutes, the teacher who was there was like "...she hasn't arrived yet?" and had me work with these two other people. While one was in the process of asking her first question, Monica finally showed up...but it didn't absolve me from answering, which was kind of a pain because I didn't know the answer.
So you think you know how to teach English? Try explaining in clear and certain terms the difference between "someone" and "anyone". Seriously. It's harder than you think. Eventually, after she met my several attempts at examples and vague, roundabout explanations with blank stares, I admitted that there IS a difference, I just have no idea what it is. And apparently, in Spanish, "alguien" and "cualquier persona" mean exactly the same thing. I guess I fail.

Monica had apparently done all of her homework incorrectly since the example given was "How many children does she have?", and Monica took this to mean that in that kind of a question, the "have" is always at the end. But it turns out that "how many" is the IRREGULAR question word that switches the order of the subject and the object. (For example, with any other question, fx. when, you'd say "When do you have class", not "when class do you have". Pretty crappy example.

She also asked me a few other things that I had a hard time explaining, such as the proper use of the word "whether", though I was able to explain that one a bit better. The time went pretty quick since we only had a half hour, which was good though since by that time we'd covered most everything and if you have nothing left to do at the Y there's this sort of awkward sense of "well, what now?". It's not nearly as structured as other programs so I often feel a little left in the dark about what to suggest next. Oh well. I still do enjoy working with her.

So I bought my first porn today. For myriad reasons. First off, it doesn't advertize itself as a porn...it advertizes itself as an actual movie, entitled Y Tu Mamá También, but we know better. I actually watched it for the first time yesterday, in class. I didn't know you were ALLOWED to show such explicit shit in a classroom.
Just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about...I went to go get the DVD, cause it's about 2 things: sex, and Mexicans (best combination ever)...and there were two different releases of it available for purchase. Curious as to what the difference might be, I looked over both of them, and discovered that the real version is unrated, and the other is rated R. The unrated version is 1 hour and 45 minutes long. The R rated version is around 90 minutes I think...I forget. So there's at least 15 minutes of smut in there that was not deemed appropriate for US audiences even under the rating of R. It's Mexican porn, I'm telling you.
And a wonderful porn it is. <3

Unrelated, but why the fuck do I feel so dizzy? I think I might be getting really sick, which sucks, because I've felt kind of exhausted and dizzy all day. It didn't make sense, because I got like 10 hours of sleep last night, but I figured at first it was cause I didn't have any food until like 4 hours after I got up and had run all the way to Arlington and back...but then food didn't fix it, so I figured it was the lack of GOOD food, so then I got that too, and it didn't help...and now I'm just thinking I'm sick.

Which is really, really unfortunate timing.
But hay what can you do.

Update on this: I was supposed to meet Robin tonight so we could swap views on papery things, and then go to Cheesecake Factory to celebrate Hugh's birthday, but I don't think I can go anywhere without royally passing out. So..frankly, fuck it all. I'm going to bed.