so this will be an interesting “first”…
“Schools of Hope” – great book about one of Sears early presidents – who invested in the building of 5,000 plus African-American school buildings in the South from 1910-30 – he sponsored at least three in Shelby County – one looked to be in the Columbiana area – the book was a fascinating read – good without being preachy – the photographs alone were amazing
“Madamoiselle” – biography of Coco Chanel – the lady that gave us pretty purses and colognes:) Chanel was definitely an interesting read – she was abandoned by her father – the dad just left the kids after the mom died – Chanel had nothing to her name at 18 – and there were no options for women at that time – so what she did with her life was just amazing – that said, what she with the Nazis, collaborating during their occupation of France in WWII – that part was pretty unforgiveable to me – so forgive me if I go off on the next interlocking CC purse I see… 🙂
hope to get back to my story some time this week – first up is creating tests for the seventh grade to use across the county this year – yipee!!!
maf
First?
Yes detective first
Darn it Jason blogged before me
wow jason, early for you
yes i came fourth hopefully
Yeah yesterday my computer said the blog did not exist and would not let me on the site
Darn it i was fifth
Mine did that too…
mine did that fourth – i mean third
story time!!!
“Okay, Rhahchel and Sarah Nicole leave tomorrow for the duel,” Fred said. “This is our last night to practice, and in honor of it, because it’s such a big deal, I had the crew find a waffle recipe from an old list from some guy named Craig. So here it is, Fred’s Dino Diner’s version of waffles!!!”
The girls looked. They were not impressed.
“Okay, on your mark, get set go!”
Sarah Nicole half-heartedly picked up her fork and started eating. It was just as her binder had warned her about in a brief report to start the day: Never trust a Dinosaur Chef to create your waffles.
“I’ve been reading about famous Seconds,” Rachael said as Sarah Nicole still worked on the first bite, “and there really aren’t any.”
Great story Mayfield
I didn’t really get it…
I’m with jason on this one
well, let’s see, i have time on my hand right now as i’m locked out of my car (intelligent that i am, i ran fast, overheated, and threw my keys in my car – with the door locked automatically)
so in the story, sarah nicole has been challenged to a duel – and the detective is her second – i’m not sure yet how many sixth graders will die – thoughts???
Mayfield why not all of them
I agree with last
Finally we are all on the same page
See look even Homer Bear agrees
Ohhhhh great. I hope Binder Girl gets injured so I get to fight…
And I don’t think too many sixth graders should die. After all, I wouldn’t have my camp job without them.
Because…
1. Our bathing suits are in a hotel closet in pennsylvania
2. I raised the flag at Fort McKinley
Oh and kill all the 6th graders
billy – mckinley was rev war fort, yes???
that’s two votes for all the sixth grade – which is funny
so billy was locked out of suitwear and i was locked out of a car yesterday – today surely will be better…
I got a cool phillies hat.
Teacher man gets it
NOOOO!!!! Don’t kill the sixth graders!!! What will I do in my down-time? I’m trying to train a sixth grader to be a detective!
i presented to a group of high school teachers today how to get kids past the “blahs” of school – we had a jazzercise exercise – they didn’t do their stretches too well
as a result, i didn’t read them “cheetah can’t lose” – i didn’t think they were skilly enough:)
story update – practice eating contest before the great eat-off…
All would’ve been lost had it not been for the binder. It hopped into action, gave Sarah Nicole a big squeeze, and the contents in Sarah Nicole’s throat that were lodged became the contents all over Fred.
“Okay, so practice eating didn’t go so well,” a waffle-encrusted Fred said. “This just reminds us of the dangers of this food. Why don’t we just let the binder eat the waffles?”
“Silly Fred, binders can’t eat waffles,” the detective said.
“But they do have pockets,” Sarah Nicole said – finally.
“Waffle-sized pockets?” Morgan Elizabeth asked.
Sarah Nicole started looking at her binder. And she asked for another glass of milk.
Binders really can’t eat waffles. And anyway, wouldn’t that be cheating? Binder Girl will not be cheating while I’m watching her.
the detective springs into action…
Sarah Nicole, her binder in her lap, and the camper were set to go when the detective interrupted.
“I claim the ancient right as Second, for I am Second, to measure my opponent’s fork length!!!”
The camper’s second spoke up: “Well, we’d love for you to do that, but it doesn’t look like there’s a ruler around here and since we’re in a lawless land anyway, there wouldn’t be standard measurements to use so…”
“My champion has a binder with a ruler in it!” Rachael said.
“Well, our fork is more of a spork so you’ll have to start at…”
“Aha,” the detective said, having already jumped like a rather spritely elf across the way to the opposition’s eating table, “It seems your fork is longer. Does anyone have a pocket knife we can use to whittle the fork down to size?”
I have a pocket knife!
That’s it detective i laugh at that
Well…technically it’s my sister’s. Snatchell strikes again. But, I keep it with me all of the time (except at school).
if i was the detective’s sister, i would keep a knife with me at all times too…
Hi.
Well then…
yeah, the detective’s brilliant younger sister steps in!!!
🙂
i need to invent a new emoticon for a pocket knife…
I have knives not pocket knives Knives
well thank you for that:)
so like real plastic kitchen knives??? knice!!!
Kitchen Knives kare kvery knice.
Kunless kyou kill kpeople kwith kthe kitchen knives.
instead of the family of long knives in the story, there’s a family of long forks
i thought about punning on forks, washington – home for twilight, right??? but i figured the world could use one less twilight reference
go Team Edward!!!
I haven’t read Twilight.
Go team…Cinder.
recap of twilight: Edward wins, love wins, we all wins!!!
cinder was too clingy – her self-esteem was about as high as a sixth grade boys’ height – in other words, she was way short on self-esteem – so i was never a big fan…
Cinder was great. Scarlet was okay. Cress was awesome. I can’t wait for Winter, the conclusion!
Beat the runner that comes all the way fom georgia just to come in 2nd
Last those are my knives
I agree with Mayfield because I own all the movies and books and seen and read them. GO TEAM EDWARD! I really didn’t read cinder I was just more intrigued with breaking dawn than cinder really. I saw kill the six grade but molly she is going through a ruff time with the brain tumor and she is really sweet than Stephen and that’s saying a lot because Stephen is awesome. Austin just annoying. The best of the twilight books was really New moon but I liked them all.
Oh by the way who has read there summer reading books at all this summer cause I haven’t even touch one and now they are dusty. Mayfield will I get in trouble if I don’t read any of my books?
Oh, Sidney. For shame! Do you honestly not want to read a book? Books are wonderful! The summer reading books are awesome, all of them! (Except Crash. Stargirl was better.)
I am officially done with summer reading.
detective – congrats
i like the character penn in crash – i think a fascinating question is whether stargirl or penn could survive CMS – there have been times when i think either one of them would’ve been crushed – b/c there’s such pressure to be anyone but yourself
i’m going to ignore sid’s ridiculous post – no, even better – i’m going to take away points this fall – she’d better start looking to transfer… 🙂