Summer hours start today, which

Summer hours start today, which means no more work for me on Friday afternoons. That feels like such a luxury. When we used to have half days in grade school, they would give us milk and cookies as a mid-morning snack in lieu of lunch. You had to give your milk orders to the teacher the day before (white, chocolate, strawberry) and then some lunch lady would come around with the milk cart and deliver the goods, along with peanut butter cookies in wax paper pockets. You had to remember what milk you ordered and the teacher would distribute them. Once a kid grabbed a white milk and was in the process of chugging it when another kid realized there was only a strawberry milk left and he’d ordered white. I have this very clear picture of the poor kid with a white milk mustache, looking really guilty, and getting reprimanded for not taking what he’d ordered. I also remember thinking: who likes white milk better than strawberry milk, anyway?

So far the UPS, Fed-Ex, and some messengers have stopped by, but no milk cart yet.

Oh oh oh, we saw Mad Hot Ballroom last night (this year’s Spellbound). Lots of grade school kids enrolled in school-sponsored ballroom dance classes that culminate in the schools vying for a championship trophy. If there’s anything cuter than kids spelling things, it’s kids doing the tango. There’s this one scene where the camera’s focused in on a couple that consists of a sort of nerdy, chubby boy and a girl. The teacher yells, “Switch partners!” and the girl untangles herself from the boy quickly and moves along. The boy, however, is left flummoxed and tries unsuccessfully to find a single girl. He approaches the one next to him, who turns towards him, and seeing who he is, continues turning until she’s facing the other direction. It’s sort of awful, but of course the teacher comes to his rescue and pairs off the remaining single people. A lot of personality shines through at 11 years old.

Fox morning news anchor conversation:

Jodi: Well, I bet everyone’s watching waiting to hear what the weather will be like for this holiday weekend. [to anchor on right] Jim?
Jim: [reading newspaper] Some of us are looking at Lindsay Lohan!
Jodi: [uncomfortable] ha ha. What?
Jim: Well, it seems she has a new skinny body. [holds up picture in paper of Lindsay in bikini looking sickly. ]
Jodi: Oh?
Jim: Yeah! She used to be, uh, used to be a little, she was a chubbette awhile ago. And now she’s thin! How 'bout that.

Last, but not least, you should all drop in on Willow and give her a little lovin’ after being booted off the internet in the latest Ultimate Blogger competition. I thought she served up some fine entries, and I’m sorry to see her go.

Off to Great Barrington for the long weekend for some barbequing and catching up with friends. Have a lovely Memorial Day!

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