Being a Trekkie, the Cardboard Dancer, and Guess who got asked to Homecoming?

Being a Trekkie, the Cardboard Dancer, and Guess who got asked to Homecoming?

The Cardboard Dancer

Alayna has an obsession with cardboard lately. She made a cardboard costume and ran around dancing through the house. It was pretty hilarious. She still has her cardboard home set up.

Being a Trekkie

This week at the school I work, it was Homecoming week. On Thursday, it was “nerd day” and all of us teachers dressed up like Trekkies. I got the staff picture (but I wasn’t there). We looked pretty cool! I wore red and we were told that the red guys are always the ones that die. Oh well.

Red and Black Track Attack

Alayna ran in the track attack this week and got a bracelet for every lap she did. She did 12!! So proud! The school is raising money to put in a new track.

Guess who got asked to Homecoming this week?

Nope, not Marisa. Guess again! Nope, not Kayla, try again! Me! Bwaahaahaa! There is the student at school that thinks he is a charmer. He kept showing me this note across the library asking me to homecoming and begging me to go. Dork! When I came back from lunch this sign and his drink cap was on my desk. I bet he was dared to make an old lady’s day…lol!

The girls are planning to go to homecoming next week with a group of friends which should be fun. They started altering dresses for it yesterday.

Stupid Cold

We are still fighting this bad cold and Bob ended up with a respiratory infection which has knocked him flat for a few days. Hope the antibiotics start working faster.

Banned Book Week

Hopefully I will get pics of our display this week, but I thought you all might be interested to know what the 10 most frequently challenged books of 2010 were:

Below is a list of the 10 books that were challenged most often in 2010. Fortunately, few of these books have been removed from schools or libraries, due to the efforts of First Amendment advocates. (Source: ALA Web Site)

1. And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
Reasons: homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group

2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: offensive language, racism, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence

1. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
   Reasons: insensitivity, offensive language, racism, and sexually explicit
2. Crank, by Ellen Hopkins
   Reasons: drugs, offensive language, and sexually explicit
3. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
   Reasons: sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence
4. Lush, by Natasha Friend
   Reasons: drugs, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group
5. What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
   Reasons: sexism, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group
6. Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich
   Reasons: drugs, inaccurate, offensive language, political viewpoint, and religious viewpoint
7. Revolutionary Voices, edited by Amy Sonnie
   Reasons:  homosexuality and sexually explicit
8. Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
   Reasons: religious viewpoint and violence