pemakhador

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:39:44 GMT

It was a long night in the Emergency room last night. Joe wrecked on his bike at around 7 PM just down the road ... hobbled home bleeding. The good news ... and there is only good news ... is that he is going to be fine. Scraped up badly - a mangled foot - and severly injured pride.
Otherwise, my boy is okay. He's in a lot of pain this morning - but they also gave him good drugs. Another life lesson!

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:21:11 GMT

What a great day! I am NOT AT WORK! Okay, I went in for an hour this morning before school to rehearse my Shakespeare kids ... but after that I left. Took care of some business - and now Andy and I are headed to KC to see the daughter and (hopefully, it won't rain) go out to Gaia and do some work on the trail for the Vision Quest. I am so happy to be getting out of town - I feel like I am running away and leaving all of my STRESS behind me! I think I am ready for this particular school year to end :)

This is so cool!

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:25:21 GMT

panic attack

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:28:04 GMT

Oh, my! What a surreal day it has been. If you catch the local news tonight, you will see that Windsor High School was subject to a police exercise today
on dealing with an intruder/terrorist. That means that we had a three and a half hour lock-down with a fake intruder, swat teams, and a hostage negotiator.
It was really bizarre! There were armed policeman rushing down the halls, evacuating classrooms, yelling "up against the wall," and other surreal crap.
The intruder took over John Leech's room just down the hall (Couldn't happen to a better guy.) It was just so paranoid. And, now I guess we must consider ourselves terrorist ready because I ran out to my car for something 7th hour and came back to find that most of the building doors were UNLOCKED!

Book List

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:05:48 GMT

Okay, Sarah. Here is my list. I look forward to checking out some of the books I haven't read.
Any idea why this book list is considered representative of being well read?
I see a lot of books assigned in high school and some best sellers. (A lot of favorites!)
Also, what books would you add to it?

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [on my list of books to read, has come highly recommended]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller [will read it eventually]
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
(The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
(One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
(The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini)
Slaughterhouse 5
Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
Fight Club – Chuck Palahniu
(Neuromancer - William Gibson)
(Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson )
(The Secret History – Donna Tartt)
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
(Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell)
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
(Atonement - Ian McEwan)
(The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
(The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood)
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert

Welcome

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:10:22 GMT

Welcome to my livejournal. This is the first post.