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September 27, 2006

Deep thoughts

I was reading "nick is cute!" on the bathroom wall here and it occurred to me that maybe bathroom stalls were the first blogs.

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September 26, 2006

Our baby



Originally uploaded by xenophod.
Tessie's birthday is today.

I'm so glad we've had her a whole year, even if she did puke allover me last night.

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September 11, 2006

Sweet adieu

I guess if you're gonna get memorialized, Sept 11's a good day to do it. Janie, my softball coach, oranist at my church and very dear family friend, died last week and today's her memorial service.

I have so many memories of Janie. Her sugar cookie recipe is the only one I've used since I was 12 years old. Around that same time she used to say "Kryssy, you run like you're pulling a cart girl, get the lead out". Once she realized I wasn't a real jock, she taught me to hit the ball really hard so I could haul my butt to first base.

There were many times when Jane would just be the voice of reason in a highly emotional time. She was just like that, reasonable, calm and kind.

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September 7, 2006

Lunch Lady Land

On my first day at work I explained to the principal that I want to be integrated with the rest of the folks there and work as part of their team. I told her that I expect to pull my share of hall duties, lunch monitoring etc. To this she replied, "I think we have it covered, but thank you so much!". I was sort of relieved because, let's face it, I don't give a fat frog's ass about helping out with housework crap. I just want to work on the puters and dwell on the fact that I'm underpaid.

So the first week of school goes great and then on the second week she comes to me saying "you're going to wish you hadn't offered to help..." This is the part where I find myself spending 2.5 hours each day in the cafateria. I am filling in for the lunch monitor for THREE WEEKS. Her job is to send the kids up to the lunch line, scream at them for not sitting down and then wash off the tables. I have 7 more days of this and then, if I ever find myself not working for the school system (for almost minimum wage) I'll begin telling my sad tales of my tour in lunch lady land. For now, I will let you know that I take back anything I've ever said about Jake and Trevor being bad. They are ANGELS. I have faced the demons, I've given them my best "i'll mess you up" faces and they just stare blankly at me and defy my orders. I won't be broken though. Mark my words.

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