Well, I am punking out on the free outdoor movie down the block. I love the idea, but just walking around in shorts this evening left me hot and sweaty, and I'd have to carry a beach chair and any drinks/snacks I wanted about a half mile in this heat while wearing mosquito-proof long pants.
Now You See Me
just isn't appealing enough to get me out of the air conditioning again.
I figure wandering around the downtown farmers' market to say hi to people and buy produce, plus eating out at the pizzeria one block over on Trivia Night takes care of my socializing for the evening. And I spent hours last night enjoying the district fair.
I'm over here chuckling at the idea of billboard equality.
I told Grace's nurse this morning that I was coming home early because I really just wanted to sit on the couch and wander the internet.
What's awesome (many things are awesome) about the new nurse is that she does Grace's homework with her. She's super patient and she doesn't let Grace Tom Sawyer her work. The other nurse used to give Grace a bath but we were in charge of homework. This deal is better.
What do you do when kids dress up for Talk Like a Pirate Day? Flipping out and putting the local middle and high school on lockdown would be a crazy over-reaction, right? Ummmmm... Happened at CJ's school today.
Oh dear god. So dumb! But a fake cutlass might be a threat? Was that the reasoning?
Having bolted through nearly a hundred Natter posts, I am slack-jawed at CJ's school, job-vibing hard for Dana and Hil, and cheering for Lee's awesome boobs and Tom's awesome teeth. But I have no opinions on TV show billboards.
Also, a Table Talker's spawn whom I used to babysit as a fretful toddler just changed his FB status to "In a relationship," or at least he would have if such a thing was possible BUT I DENY IT.
Whoever wrote the news article had fun at least.
I'll take news about over-reactions anyday, while I wish that things like that didn't require reactions at all.
When I was in highschool, and my lil'bro was in sixth or seventh grade, he decided a little show and tell would be cool. This involved a bb gun. Kids on the bus reported him, he and Dad had a wonderful bonding experience at the gun range as part of the community service and gun safety. I don't know what that would have looked like today, but it wouldn't have been pretty.
There's dumb kids doing harmless shit, and dumb kids doing harmful things. I don't know what the answer is.
When I was in highschool, and my lil'bro was in sixth or seventh grade, he decided a little show and tell would be cool. This involved a bb gun. Kids on the bus reported him, he and Dad had a wonderful bonding experience at the gun range as part of the community service and gun safety. I don't know what that would have looked like today, but it wouldn't have been pretty.
I once brought a hunting knife to school as a prop in my mafioso-styled interpretation of the Roman Dictator Sulla. The teacher was a bit alarmed when I produced it, but nothing went any further.
CJ took his grandfather's Vietnam era Bowie knife to school earlier this year. He talked to his teacher about it before hand. Took it straight to the school office for them to keep until the class where he was sharing it and returned it to the office directly after. Wasn't an issue at all. Kinda surprised me actually.
