The things which keep me up at night.

I've spent the evening scouring my iTunes library for suitable pop songs to teach my 3rd year students relative clauses. This however is fast becoming a fool's errand. For while there are plenty of relative clauses in pop songs, they are almost always concerning love. Love with it's metaphors and secondary meanings and questionable grammatical constructions that I really don't want anything to do with. It's unteachable: why complicate their minds with new vocabulary that they'll likely never use. It's all hoggledy-poggledy and I may end the project here.

But for giggles, below you'll see the fruits of my labors. (Not all of them are relative clauses, exactly, but it looks like we'll be covering all flavors of clauses soon enough. Also not all of them are concerning love, but that's because I've chucked most of those already....) Anyone care to take guess at the names of the songs?

• "No you don't know the one who dreams of you at night."
• "And it don't[sic] matter who you are."
  
• "And I -- I want to be someone who believes."
• "Baby show me what it's all about. You're the [only] one that I['ve] ever needed..."
• "I want a girl who gets up early. I want a girl who stays up late."
• "Suddenly I see why the hell it means so much to me. Suddenly I see this is what I want to be."
  

I must continue to thunk upon it. Suggestions welcome.

But that's not what compelled me to delay my bed time and post here. I had just decided to take a break from the (swelling and power hungry) part of my brain that deals in grammar and semantics (i.e. sees English for the true imposter it is), when I read this on Drudge:

Temps in most areas of the country below average in '08...

My immediate reaction: "Not the Temp Agencies, too! Gosh I hope my friends have no troubles finding jobs!" I guess that means it's bedtime....