Book Report Alternative: A Character’s Letter to the Editor is now live! The fun part about this lesson for me was working up the examples. Carl Hiaasen's novel
Hoot is coming out as a
movie; so I used the situations in the novel for my examples. It's a natural for the lesson, since Roy (the protagonist) is on a crusade to save the burrowing owls on a plot of land destined to become Mother Paula's All-American House of Pancakes.
I also (finally) gave in and brought the new microwave into the kitchen. I bought this thing two summers ago, but I was going to keep using the existing microwave till it died. It's still going, but it's very slow. Takes longer to get things done than it should. When I moved it, I also found that it's much bigger than the new one and it's heavy as lead. I'm not at all sure how I'm going to get it out of the kitchen without hurting my back. I need a boyfriend long enough to tote things. Sigh. The positive side: wow is a well-working microwave useful. For instance, I'm used to microwave popcorn popping maybe, on a lucky day, 1/2 of the kernels. Enter the new microwave! There wasn't one unpopped kernel! Now I just need to finish cleaning and rearranging stuff. I want to get the toaster oven out there.
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Posted Friday, 24-Aug-2007 17:09:34 PDT
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