Lipstick @ MindSay

                Today started out with this strange game of ‘Pass the Grumpiness’; but it was thankfully pretty much gone by 1^st cash-in.  A did PHENOMENAL during reading instruction today.  OH MAN.  He’s getting so much better, both actual reading as well as his reading attitude.  We read a story about a kid who wanted cookies and did crazy things to get them, and then he was even willing to do a story map on it.  Not just ‘I’ll dictate to you, you write it down’…he wanted to do some of the writing, too! And (for him), it was done really neatly!  I was kvelling!

                I then realized around 10 that even though it’s testing week for the 5^th graders, I DID have somewhere to be at 9.  OOPS.  I stayed with AB from 10 – 11:30 to make up for missing my first half hour.  He did awesome, too.  Kinda silly at some points (he was also CRAZY fixated on Wyoming’s state bird while we were working on his research project), but even though he was kinda unfocused and some of the work was hard, he was able to get it all done before lunch so he didn’t have to miss recess.  That made him feel excellent, and I did, too.

                Lunch I sat w/ A, until I saw D and E with trays leaving the room.  I reminded them they needed a grownup with them, so they asked me to go and I said I would, but that before they could go to recess, they had to bring the trays back.  Had some good lunch talk, and then at the start of recess, E asked if they could wait and I said no, and he took it.  D was much more grumbly. 

                Group was okay; they were rude when Jerry started out w/ his usual ‘who am i?  Why am I here?’ stuff, but eventually, E settled in and started to work on the scenario he picked out for us.  D took longer, but FINALLY, all 4 of us were trying to pick which 7 items we’d want to take with us to survive a 5 day hike up a mountain.    Took some bargaining, but we were able to get things done

So now we have faux outrage over these remarks. Honestly I am getting so tired of this election, 55 days seems like such a long way to go and coverage continue to get dumber and dumber. Look, I don't think that Obama was insulting Sarah Palin with his "lipstick on a pig" remark but it was a misstep that should have been avoided. All this does is play into the meme that exists to a certain section of the voting public who think Obama is a bit of a sexist. This gaffe also created the opening for the McCain camp to use this against Obama as well as being just the moronic bullshit that makes the embarressing excuse of a American news media salivate. We are now going to be fed a steady diet of this nonsense as if it is an important topic of debate.
And worst of all it is yet another thing that does nothing but help Sarah Palin. it continues to keep her as the #1 story in the media and it makes it look like she is being attacked yet again by the mean old Democrats.
It is amazing how sloppily the formerly well oiled Obama machine has become over the last few weeks. But it does make me chuckle a bit to see every word from the Obama side getting parsed for hidden meanings like what was done to the Hillary camp during the primaries. Ah, sweet irony.

I was trying to cut around the face of my picture and post it on to the chick Gregori Derangere was in a movie with:


Cause that pic is way too sexy, and besides, Andreux said I should do that.

Finally, I gave up, because my program wouldn't let me.  So I was just going to post my nose on top of hers. Then my lips.  Then I got a brilliant idea.  A Lip Collage:

 

This guy I liked told me he liked my mouth. And you know what? I got to thinking, what if all of me were my mouth, then he'd really like me, right?