The Bed List/The Dinner List

Posted by on May 25, 2007 in dish | 0 comments Ah, summer break. Fun, sun, and handsome men with their shirts off. An apropos time to revive our Bed List/Dinner List choices, no?BED LIST: DAVID BECKHAMThat Posh Spice character, aside from being a stick insect with big breasts on whom clothes hang divinely, gets to come home to Becks every night. Yeah, we hate her.DINNER LIST: DANNY ELFMANAnyone who’ll name a group Oingo Boingo has got...
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Books and Cooks: The Glass Castle

Posted by on May 23, 2007 in dish | 0 comments WE’RE READING: I’M ORDERING: STUFFED CHICKEN TOLLAIt’s the last Books and Cooks for the year, so we met at Tolla’s, a cute bistro in Winter Park. On the one hand, I object since Tolla’s is just one more instance of creeping gentrification, but on the other hand, the weather is gorgeous, and we get to eat outside. This time, temporal pleasure wins out over...
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Here a Chick, There a Chick

Posted by on May 12, 2007 in dish | 1 comment One of my email loops tipped me off to this interesting post on chick lit by Jacquelyn Mitchard, of The Deep End of the Ocean and Oprah’s Book Club fame. Brava, Ms. Mitchard, for getting the point.In precis, more and more people, writers and pundits included, are beginning to refer to books written by women about female characters “chick lit.” As a writer of chick lit of the...
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Gone, Baby, Gone!

Posted by on May 10, 2007 in dish | 0 comments La, la, la, last day for seniors!Tomorrow will be such a relief compared to the beginning of this week. Seniors up my nose. Seniors whining about paying dues (not like they’ve known about senior dues since last August or anything). Seniors wanting to know if I’ve graded their final exams 15.2 minutes after completing them. I know they’re ready to fly out of the nest, and...
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Back From the Beyond…

Posted by on May 6, 2007 in dish | 0 comments It’s graduation season, and that means that my brain has been co-opted by the evil minions of the Class of 2007–aka all of my seniors. They are driving. me. CRAZY. Thankfully, senior exams are this week (guess I’d better get mine down to the copy room, huh?), so their last day is in sight. Yay!Only a few more days. That, and about 80 research papers to grade. Ugh.
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Loserville!

Posted by on Apr 21, 2007 in dish | 1 comment You can tell it’s near the end of the school year. The teachers have spring fever as bad as the kids. Hence, no blog posts for quite some time. Not even about hot men on Fridays. Yikes.Fear not, there’s something going on in the cortex. It’s just not coming out. And since we took the kids to Disney’s Grad Nite last night and I’m working on about 3 hours of sleep...
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