That Last Post? Forget I Said Anything.

Posted by on Apr 17, 2008 in dish | 3 comments So last night we’re at church for the kids’ program. Fine. DS (also known as Frick, as opposed to his sister, Frack) brings a friend. Also fine. I’m cleaning up after dinner when Friend comes in the dining room. “Um…mimi? Frick bit through his lip? And we need some ice?”Not so fine. The words “bit through his lip” don’t sound promising. I get...
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That Figures.

Posted by on Mar 28, 2008 in dish | 3 comments Spring Break’s starting.It’s gorgeous outside.I have a temperature of 102 and have to go to the doctor.Is it just me, or do the karma gods save up this stuff and laugh their metaphysical asses off at us?
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Banks Suck

Posted by on Mar 19, 2008 in dish | 4 comments One of my stock classroom jokes is “God put me on this earth for a reason, but it was not to teach math.” I tend to screw up simple math, even though I can write out geometry proofs. Go figure. I got the vocabulary, but my sister got my grandmother’s steel-trap mind for numbers.That steel-trap mind would have come in handy tonight. I just spent the last hour on the phone...
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Rode Hard, Put Up Wet

Posted by on Mar 12, 2008 in dish | 4 comments Ever have one of those days where you’ve worked pretty much the whole time, but then you turn around to see what you’ve accomplished, and realize you can’t really tell? Yep. I’ve had a day like that.Evil FCAT testing is upon us in the Sunshine State, so that means room changes, strange schedules, missing kids, stress, bureaucracy, you name it. Grades go in in about two...
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$700 V-8 Moment

Posted by on Jan 28, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Remember those commercials for V-8? The ones where the characters realize the folly of their ways and whack themselves in the forehead, saying “Wow! I could have had a V-8”? That was me earlier today. ‘Cept my moment didn’t have anything to do with the USDA Food Pyramid.Today I got the call from the nice man at the data recovery service that has my dead hard drive. Dead...
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