left work and went by the post office to mail the truth
\n to my mom. she doesn’t understand that her poodle, cooki, is a bad girl
\n dog. i mean, the dog is a demon creature with red devil eyes way scarier
\n than any goat. so with the truth in the mail, i accomplished one of my
\n remaining to-do’s for the week—no doubt the change of the week! (note
\n that you have to have changes if you’re creating a changelog)<\/p>\n
this will sound dumb to anyone with a real life, but today, this very
\n evening, all by myself, i got a library card! i am now a card-holding
\n patron of the champaign public library. ok, it’s true that as a fun-filled
\n employee of NCTE, an affiliate organization of the University of Illinois,
\n that i can use the u of i library whenever i want. but who the hell wants
\n to figure out parking on campus to get some picture books?<\/p>\n
so public library you are my goal, but, wow, have things changed in libraries
\n since i was a page at chesterfield county public library back in high
\n school. then again, that was twenty-thr, er, a few years ago. there was
\n a wild game of chase going on in the picture books. all computer terminals
\n were being hogged for video games. and there was a group of teens supposedly
\n playing candyland, but making so much noise that the security badge guy
\n had to come over and ask them to hushinate. <\/p>\n
what a darned shame eric wasn’t around! he could have just sauntered over oh well. i minded my own business and fetched books and stuff. i scooped then i got four books on monsters! for another lesson plan. i own sendak’s
\n and glowered with that Dwight
\n D. Eisenhower Statuary Stance<\/a> (TM) and the hush that would have fallen
\n over the room would have been adequate for papal mumblings to be loud
\n as a foghorn. <\/p>\n
\n up three cds (Aladdin and the Magic Lamp<\/i> with John Hurt and Mickey
\n Hart, Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby<\/i> with Danny Glover
\n and Taj Mahal, and Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion<\/i> with Danny Glover
\n and Dr. John). plan to listen to them while walking. then i meandered
\n over to the picture books. got June 29, 1999<\/i>, which i want to create
\n a lesson for that we’ll hook up to the calendar<\/a>
\n on the site. besides Wiesner’s books are always so lovely to look at.
\n got Jumanji<\/i> for a tech writing lesson plan we have in the works,
\n by Erin Crisp. she has students writing the instructions for a game, and
\n after all, in Jumanji<\/i> it’s so-o-o-o important to "read instructions
\n carefully" : ) <\/p>\n
\n wild things, so i didn’t get that. with the librarian’s help, we found
\n Nothing Scares Us<\/i>, Go Away, Big Green Monster<\/i>, It’s Bedtime<\/i>,
\n and Five Ugly Monsters <\/i>(which is strangely like Five Little
\n Monkeys<\/i>). we have a lesson proposed on using monsters to teach about
\n writing detailed descriptions.<\/p>\n