Oh, Friday night.

Today was interesting because I made plans with several people, and then cancelled them all so that I could stay home with Mr. Kitty and watch nothing good on non-cable tv. By the way, what are we calling that these days? Jordo and I used to call it Poverty TV, but now I think that I generally refer to it as broadcast tv. I just want to make sure that we are on the same page here. My version of the FoodNetwork and Travel Channel is WYBE, with its "Simply Ming," "America's Test Kitchen," and "Globe Trekker." Anyway, I am not even watching this, I am watching the sequel to "Legally Blonde" on FOX. I'm a winner.

I am just exhausted! I fell asleep last night before eleven. Before Sex [and the City]! Last night at ESL, I taught how to form a yes or no question with the helping verb, "do."

Ex.
Q: Do you eat three meals each day? A: Yes, I do eat three meals each day.
Q: Does he walk to school? A: No, he doesn't walk to school.

Today, [at school in third grade] Miss Dayzha asked me in reference to Mike, "Don't he have 2 more pages to do?"
To which I responded, in question, "Doesn't he have 2 more pages to do?"
"Yeah."
"Yeah, what?"
"Don't he have 2 more pages to do?"
"Doesn't he?"
"Yeah."
"That's not what you said. I don't understand what you said."
"Do he have... do he... doesn't he have 2 more pages to do?"
"Oh, doesn't he have 2 more pages to do? Well, that's not really your business, why don't you ask him yourself and see if he wants to answer you."
I am teaching English to people who are labeled as non-English Speakers, while the Native English Speakers sound AWFUL.

This construction is like nails on a chalkboard to me:
"Are you done your homework?"
"Yes, I been done my homework." "I'm done my homework, too."

NO!
"Are you done with your homework?"
"Yes, I finished my homework so long ago." "I'm done with my homework, too."

I'm sure I have blogged on my fear of the extinction of the preposition, "with," but this is tiring me today. This, and the fact that I have swimming at 9am tomorrow, followed by a wedding at 1pm, and it is likely to rain. Fab.

Anyway, I'm going to go wallow in my sorrows over the state of public education and watch me some good ole' PBS (well, some smutty FOX/NBC followed by PBS).