Preludes And Nocturnes

I’m trying to very quickly put together my second term reading list for this summer.  It is a narratives course and I can have any variety of the following:

anecdotes

autobiography

biography

diary

film

history

myth

narrative poems

song

novels

I *must* have at least three of the above.  So far I’m throwing around Dr. Horrible, Gilgamesh (a verse narrative), myth, song, Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay, Lord of the Rings.

The secret is to pick things that are good to teach, that I know, and that will work well together.  I love having a theme - I was wondering about either doing “Heroes” or “Love”.  The love one could be an examination of different kinds of love - love between couples, between friends (gilgamesh, LoTR).  I also need it to work well when my higher-ups look at my book list.

Any ideas?  Any songs to throw in the mix?

Malcolm went to daycare on Thursday; it was just fine :)  To balance everything out I did fifty million things and now am having a wonderful weekend.

Yesterday we picked M up from mom and dad’s as they watched him while Jim and I got groceries for the easter brunch we’re hosting tomorrow.  We said hi, got the little dude, went out and he ran about in the yard for a few minutes.  Jim and I turned at the same time and saw the same thing too late… M had been picking up the garden gnome to hold up and show to grandma and grandpa in the window.  He then turned, evaded me like a hockey player on a break-away, ran to the drive-way, hoisted the gnome above his head and threw him with all force possilbe onto the cement.  The gnome shattered into a kabillion pieces.  M stood there, shocked, and then cried “oh no!” thus leading us to think he probably expected the gnome to bounce or something more fun (less crumbly).

We lol’d (once we found out mom and dad were not too upset about said gnome).

Here’s monkey-butt in our backyard.  Everything - EVERYTHING - goes into the flinstone car.

And, for Easter,