May 2012
10 posts
First Day of Summer!
…when your 11-yo’s alarm is beeping at 5:30am, and suddenly nobody cares about showering.
When someone offers to get a vasectomy so you can get rid of your IUD, the correct answer is not tears.
My Heart. →
Lawrence, Kansas. Where amazing kids get to do awesome shit.
“If you practice it slowly, you can perform...
Lazy Teachers Suck.
So, yesterday my 4th grader told me that his teacher threatened one of his classmates with the punishment room (she calls it the Blue Room, we call it Solitary), and the child simply took himself there after lunch. Two Hours Later, teacher of the year notices he’s not in class and sends another kid to go get him. Lucky for her he was in the building and not ditching school at the arcade. Or...
April 2012
5 posts
March 2012
10 posts
Hahahahaha!
Pretty in Pink is on tv and I am laughing at everything*, and Andrew McCarthy looks cross-eyed in this movie.
*Except for Harry Dean Stanton, whom I adore.
WatchLawrence, Kansas tonight—let me show you it.
WatchTournament watching (in Missouri, as it happens), in a bar with these dudes.
Rock Chalk.
Edan’s wild Saturday night.
Last night the boys had one of their “let’s see how far we can push each other until one of us loses his shit and sticks his Hobbit feet into the other’s face just to piss him off” things, and Eli (he of the feet) came to my room with me.
“I hate Edan’s hormones. Hormones are stupid. AND HE SMELLS.”
“He does smell. You’ll have hormones,...
February 2012
6 posts
Rose Brooks Center benefit. Kristin Chenoweth...
WatchThis week, I was the little David beetle. Just plugging away at the Goliath cockroach job.
#workplaceinsects
Huh.
Last Friday, right before leaving work, I got a text from a college friend who’s a history teacher at one of the high schools here. She was all, like, “x (age 15) and I were talking today, and she said you’re her idol.”
“Why? What’d I do?”
“She thinks you are beautiful, strong and amazing, and she is right.”
Which was a really nice thing...
January 2012
17 posts
My kid needs no publicist. →
Jeez.
Just saw this, posted (and not ironically) on FB:
“What do you think of GMO foods? (Trying to gather some ‘unofficial’ research!)”
Um. Seriously? Your ‘quotes’ belong around the word “foods.”
“Friend.”
Pretty sure I’m taking drugs and going to bed. 3:30 comes early here.
Maybe it won’t, with the drugs.
Fffffffffuuuuujjjjjjkj
Had the feeling all week that something wasn’t right. Called my kids’ dad and asked him, point-blank, if he and his wife were ok.
Aaand, nope.
I can’t even tell you how upsetting this is.
Lawrence Effing Kansas is Awesome
Because tonight, at my favorite restaurant, with my favorite guy, I ran into two of my favorite musicians. Who don’t even live here.
December 2011
9 posts
