( Aze rhymes with blase )

 Yes, I'm a gossip.  Shhh ( Read more... )

 I don't like the person I am this week.  (not the name -- they're kind of just a joke)

( Ace... )

( May hai ave a toilet, please? )

 Pretty spectacular weekend ( Read more... )

 So we split the kids by "families".  And this week it was grouped by Shrek characters - so we had the Shrek family, the Fiona family, the Donkey family, and the Puss-in-Boots family - and the kids sat at assigned family dinner tables, and we hammered home "May I have some...".  Perhaps too much, as our campers kept asking "May I have a toilet, ( Read more... )

Adventures at LaB:  First there was the question that needed answering:  how many people can I fit into a 5-seat car at 1 am coming back to Swat?  Naomi, Ashley and I (3) drove up together.  Greg and his girlfriend met us there; 2 Bryn Mawr girls did likewise.  Both had the option of taking the train back; Greg decided that he and his girlfriend ( Read more... )

So... yeah.  I'm obsessed.

I did decide on my camp name, though.  I was going to go with Griffin, because they're such pretty mythical beasties, and that's one of the things I actually have a substantial knowledge base in.  BUT I realized this morning that I could go by Lindy instead, and that I would be amused anytime someone called me "Lindy", ( Read more... )

Saturday afternoon I spent longer than a train ride discussing the merits and tropes of YA literature ( Read more... )

 I want to go back to elementary school, guys.  Permanently.  I spend a good two-and-a-half hours there today, just helping out with Helen (an art teacher who's pretty similar to my Aunt Bobbe - think good thoughts, she's one of my biggest teacher-role-models - but add 10 or 15 years) and her 3rd, 1st, and 4th graders.  I want to go back to the ( Read more... )