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Flogging Molly

  • Yesterday
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I just bought two tickets to see Flogging Molly at the Tabernacle in Atlanta for Valentine's. There's nothing that says, "I love you, honey!" quite like an awesome celtic band!


Flogging Molly - The Worst Day Since Yesterday

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The 7-Year-Old Sadist

  • 3 days ago
  • 5 comments

When I walked into Madelyn's school yesterday, she was sitting in the office looking rather unhappy. When I asked the teacher what was up, she insisted that Mad tell me what she'd done.


Maddy: Well, mom, Cooper called me a pinhead, so I called him an asshole.
Me: You did what?
Maddy: I called him an asshole.

I quickly gathered up her things, along with Evie's, and shoved her out the door. In the car, we continued our conversation.

Me: Mad, you can't call Cooper an asshole.
Maddy: But he is one, mom. He's one of the meanest kids I know. I couldn't think of another word to describe him.

This goes on for a while, until her dad gets home and I tell him what she did. After some arguing about the proper form of punishment, we both explain to Madelyn why she can't go around calling kids "bad" names and explain what will happen next time she does it.

Today, when we all got home from school, I'm sitting with Madelyn at the kitchen table, helping her with homework. She's in a rotten mood.

Me: What's up kid? What's with the attitude?
Maddy: I had a bad day.
Me: Why?
Maddy: I couldn't be myself.
Me: Why couldn't you?
Maddy: Because you told me I couldn't be mean to anybody.

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Beam me up, stupid.

  • 5 days ago
  • 4 comments

While watching Star Trek the other day:


Maddy: Mom, can we watch something good? Like Star Wars?
Me: This is good. It's just different than Star Wars.
Maddy: Yeah, stupid different.


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And done.

  • Nov 12, 2009
  • 3 comments

After 34 years of marriage, my parents got divorced today. It took them a year and a half to get to the point where they could stand in front of a judge to tell them their marriage was over. Furniture has been divided. The house is being sold. And signatures are on the dotted line. It seems silly to me that these are the things to fight over. Furniture. A couch. An end table. That picture hanging in the hallway. After 34 years, these are the things worth arguing over, worth fighting furiously for. 


I'd like to think that after 34 years I'd fight for things like that hour of sleep I lost in year 4 when I had to hold a wet compress to the back of his neck while he was vomiting. Or the time I wasted in year 17 when he ran over that whatever on the interstate and tore all the tires to shreds, making me have to wait for over 2 hours in the car with him on a tow truck. Or that 10 pounds I gained in year 28 when we traveled Europe for several weeks, eating only the best food we could find and strolling happily through museums and churches.

These are the things I would fight for. These are the things that defined the last 34 years. Who gives a shit about an ottoman.
 

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This Year's Wish List

  • Nov 10, 2009
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I think it's reasonable...well, except for maybe the Underwood.


Wish List
Wish List
1. ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS DVD $40, 2. Run the line..., 3. The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency-- the belief that the here and now is all there is., 4. Underwood 1

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Sitting in class today...

  • Nov 9, 2009
  • 6 comments

...watching my students work on their final group projects, I heard a loud sort of bang just outside our building. As a teacher on a largish campus, I now find myself worrying about school violence. I actually sat there and planned our classroom emergency procedure should a gunman ever enter our building. It included the shutting of doors, the turning off of lights, the straightening of desks, and the quick movement of students against walls hidden from view of the little window in the door.


This is not something we should have to be concerned with. Yet it is. And that's unfortunate.

I'm not sure if my line of thought today makes me self-aware or ridiculously paranoid.

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I know my neighborhood on Vox can help!

  • Nov 6, 2009
  • 1 comment
Donate to St Jude Children's Hospital!
Donate to St Jude Children's Hospital!
http://www.myuptildawn.org/nmahaff
Welcome to my home page. I am participating in Up ‘til Dawn to raise money to help St. Jude Children's Research Hospital find new treatments for cancer, sickle cell disease and other catastrophic childhood diseases. You too can help St. Jude continue its lifesaving work against pediatric illness with your donation. Check back often and see my progress. Thanks for helping me reach my goal for the kids of St. Jude!
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Because they're vicious!

  • Nov 5, 2009
  • 1 comment
Madelyn's Fortune
Madelyn's Fortune

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Halloween

  • Oct 31, 2009
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Halloween Mosaic
Halloween Mosaic

This is almost the extent of what the kids in Clemson are able to do for Halloween this year because there's a football game today, which means the entire town has shut down for it. All of the festivities were scheduled for Thursday and yesterday. And guess what? It rained.

My children made this year extremely easy as far as costumes go. Evie wanted to be a black cat. Maddy wanted to be a rock star. Two cheapest costumes ever.

Happy Halloween.
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I want you.

  • Oct 30, 2009
  • 1 comment
I Want You
I Want You
The Beatles
...because The Beatles are always awesome...
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Natalie

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And now on to scene 24. A smashing scene with some lovely acting...

Photos

  • Wish List
  • Madelyn's Fortune
  • Halloween Mosaic
  • Me
  • Rainbow banner
  • Blues Traveler in Death Valley
  • all that was left
  • Enjoying the end of the warmth
  • the amphitheater, refection pond, and library

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Videos

  • Flogging Molly - The Worst Day Since Yesterday
  • Andy McKee: Drifting
  • Zombies in Plain English
  • FIX YOUR FACE
  • Red Bull Energy Douche with Mandy Moore
  • Go, Bitch, Go
  • Sylvia Plath Reads Lady Lazarus
  • Die Hard: The Ballad of John McClane

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Books

  • The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Myths)
  • The Descent of Alette (Poets, Penguin)
  • American Pastoral
  • The Dream Songs
  • The Best American Short Stories 2005 (The Best American Series)
  • The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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