hope holidays are good for everyone…
“interventions” – this is the book i should’ve reviewed last week – by the former UN president – it makes the case for the UN to be the leader in the world in political interventions – the honesty from annan was a strong suit – he was obviously not a fan of W Bush – but he perhaps didn’t address fully the limitations of the UN as well as he should’ve – that said, he argued persuasively for a strong UN
“the song machine” – as a fan of pop music, i LOVED this book – the story behind the current songs – most of which are made from former swedish metal guys:) i’m curious to see how many of 1D’s songs are written by euro guys – very informative book most of ya’ll would actually enjoy reading too
“the death of cancer” – very good book – doctor, through his daughter, tells of his 50 year fight as a doctor/patient in the war on cancer – there’s a lot that’s being done that people don’t know fully about – there’s a lot of hope – reasons to be optimistic – the book was an encouraging read
j
I guess I can talk, no one else comments anymore… Am I allowed to have the rest of the Thompson Tournament recap? #nomorebilly
The high school’s rendition of The Wizard of Oz should be interesting. I get to be the scary voice, which… That’s all I do, scare little kids
wow, i just realized i never finished that one:)
i blame the recap loss on tyler morris dropping by that week – things were just too busy:) that or something:)
thompson… my contention was that the scoring was so low that we were playing with jv questions – the winning team’s average was under 250 – we had rounds – against good teams – where four or five toss ups would go unanswered – which is really unusual
so i think we were 2-4 – but two of those losses could’ve been flipped – and we would’ve broken – the worse loss was by 100-ish to oak park – so i think the harder questions probably helped b/c we had tighter rounds – but it was painful to go through b/c there was just a lot that was wrong
it was probably my last year taking a group to thompson though…
i think district is jan 23 – i’ll be curious if we play oak mountain – i think the questions there will be tough too – and then county will be whatever
i was asked last week to speak at the writing connection – the high school write in the middle – so i’ve got to figure out what high school kids want to hear:)
thanks for checking in – keep me posted – hope santa was good to the fryers
j