{"id":81,"date":"2005-03-22T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2005-03-22T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-23T03:39:00","slug":"81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/22\/81\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In the week that I have been hibernating, Rubbish A. Toddles, Nosebleed U. Ruckuses, and Litigious D. Glee sent me mail. I&#8217;m not sure if they are leprachauns or an odd sect of elves.\n<li>I save too many things for the \u201cright\u201d moment. My pile of unwatched films includes not only <i>The Return of the King<\/i> but also <i>The Two Towers<\/i>. That means that I&#8217;ve owned <i>TT<\/i> for over a year and still haven&#8217;t found the time to watch it.\n<li>My household inventory clearly indicates that too many of my things are not near where they belong. After all, no one can explain a reason for cereal to be stored in the living room.\n<li>I finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0440220297\/qid=1111551785\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/104-0213757-3495162\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Life in the Fat Lane<\/i><\/a> and am about two-thirds of the way through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0763619582\/qid=1111551488\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14\/104-0213757-3495162?v=glance&#038;s=books&amp;n=507846\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things<\/i><\/a>. I still can&rsquo;t quite like <i>Life in the Fat Lane<\/i>. How can it go to the trouble of fairly accurate info on prednisone and doxepin (I&#8217;ve taken both), and then create a completely fictional malady? It all feels a little too fake for me. The point wasn&#8217;t to deal with what a real girl might go through, but to create some kind of Twilight Zone reality that she crosses into. Maybe I&#8217;m just too unrealistic about that can and can&rsquo;t be done in a book. I liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0810948214\/qid=1111555310\/sr=2-2\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2\/104-0213757-3495162\" target=\"_blank\"><i>TTYL<\/i><\/a>; but I think I had the same problem with it. It&rsquo;s not quite real I know what it looks like when teens IM and e-mail each other. Somehow things just were&rsquo;t quite authentic. I mean what person uses u and r and ppl but spells out <i>with<\/i>. And where did we find kids who only have one msg window open at a time? Come on. I just can&rsquo;t square the things in these books that aren&rsquo;t quite genuine, that tie up in a package that&rsquo;s just a little too perfect to be real. Maybe I should go back to fantasy.\n<li>Sometimes the sirens are so loud because the fire truck is coming down your street. I am not hearing things. They really are outside.\n<li>Too frequently I have dumped full super-sized diet cokes on the floor of my car through perfectly normal driving. I am very tired of this failure to control my beverages and I mourn the loss of precious brown diet beverage.\n<li>A week can pass and I can get nothing done. No lesson plans posted. No entries. No nothing. Oh, I guess I did write an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncte.org\/about\/over\/inbox\" target=\"_blank\">Inbox<\/a> section on <a href=\"http:\/\/readwritethink.ncte.org\/nctedev\/inbox\/03-22-05.html\" target=\"_blank\">cartoons and graphic novels<\/a> yesterday. Maybe that counts as something.\n<li>I don&rsquo;t seem able to write anything. I have a million starts in this house, piles of notes, jotted ideas. But I don&rsquo;t ever <i>write<\/i>. More than anything I want to write a book, but I never do. I never do anything.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the week that I have been hibernating, Rubbish A. Toddles, Nosebleed U. Ruckuses, and Litigious D. Glee sent me mail. I&#8217;m not sure if they are leprachauns or an odd sect of elves. I save too many things for the \u201cright\u201d moment. 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