Go Maitland!!

Posted by mimi on Aug 19, 2005 in dish | 0 comments The Little League team from Maitland, FL just won its first game in the Little League World Series. They beat the Midwest Regional Champions from Davenport, Iowa 7-3. Woo hoo!!It’s fun to watch this batch of kids, especially since I know some of them. We go to church with Tanner Stanley and his family, and I went to high school with Trent Richardi’s dad.The whole town will probably...
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Author’s Nightmare

Posted by mimi on Aug 19, 2005 in dish | 1 comment I wake up from a dream about holding my first published book and breathe a huge sigh of relief. Thank goodness it was just a dream! My subconscious is completely weird. For one thing, I’m holding the book and making all kinds of edits to it–needed edits–then realize I’m screwed because this is the real thing, the published book. The cover gives me a co-author. Now, I...
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What Bug Did I Kill in a Previous Life? or, Why I Still Don’t Have Hot Water

Posted by mimi on Aug 18, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Today, DH and I get cranky with the Home Depot install crew that was supposed to install our new hot water heater “same day” yesterday. They claim they called yesterday before lunch to apprise us of some City code-upgrade requirements, blah blah blah. Whatever, doofuses. Explain to me how calling the manager of our local Home Depot store qualifies as contacting us?So this morning I...
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Insult Added to Injury

Posted by mimi on Aug 16, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Day 2 of workshop. Same as Day 1, different presenter. I have now heard the same information FOUR TIMES. I think I get it. I do have a college degree. Two, in fact.Grr.Our hot water heater is peeing all over our laundry room floor. It’s been like this for a while, and we can’t do much about it, since teachers have NO money at the end of the summer. So we slog through wet, do lots of...
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I Suck Redux

Posted by mimi on Aug 15, 2005 in dish | 4 comments Today I spent yet another day out of the classroom at a State workshop on how to do my job better. According to the official line, if I don’t have student achievement at 98% on our state test or higher for every kid in every class, I am ineffective.I would rant about the overall injustice of such an approach–I am, after all, human, as are the children in my classroom–but doing...
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