first day of school

August 19th, 2008 at 2:07 am (daphne)

Daphne had her very first day of Kindergarten today. She was a wee bit excited.

Excited for kindergarten?

She’s carrying a lunchbox (exciting!) shaped like Hello Kitty (double exciting!!) and has a backpack stuffed with school supplies (excitement overload!!!)

lets get movin'

Of course, nothing stomps on a 5-year-old’s enthusiasm like being asked to wait in line.

in line

Seriously, she had a great time. Her best neighborhood friend is in her class (not sure if that’s good or bad as they are hellions together) and we’re told that she turned off the “shy” routine as soon as she was out of visual range of her parents.

She told us afterward that it was “way better than my stupid preschool” but that her teacher “has a problem listening to me”. Holly tried to explain that the teacher has lots of other kids to pay attention to, but Daphne couldn’t really wrap her mind around that argument.

After school, Daphne and a friend were so excited that they decided they just had to throw a party. And a party should have lots of people, right? So how to get lots of people to come?

Advertise!

party house

The text reads, “Daphne and Annika’s Party House for Fun!” Unfortunately the “Daphne” has been decorated and curlicued past all legibility, and the rest is written in mirror-text. But it’s the thought that counts, right?

Even if the thought (that a poster taped to a light pole in the suburbs at 7:45 P.M. would draw a crowd of children from an unspecified location, and that said children would be welcomed by the parents of the organizers) was somewhat half-baked.

They actually had the good sense to realize, not 30 seconds after they hung the poster, that it would have been more effective if it contained the house number. I chose this time to put my foot down and remind both girls that it was bedtime. And much whining did commence. But no more than we expected at the end of a day full of new.

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do svidaniya, millennium

August 15th, 2008 at 1:34 pm (politics)

Dig that hot Russian-on-Georgian action!

Cold warriors all over the country are wetting themselves with glee over this opportunity to wax moralistic over The Great Bear, cuz’ man, if we’re going to warp domestic and foreign policy by framing everything in terms of a grand conflict, those cold, white people with the funny alphabet are just so much more credible than a bunch of turbaned beardos in caves!

Seriously, blowhards on the right and the left are so excited to replay history from 1949 to 1989 all over again. They are rubbing Ben-Gay into their pontificatin’ muscles. They are blowing the dust off their Tom Clancy paperbacks and rewinding their VHS copies of Red Dawn.

Will the Cold War 2.0 be as, like, totally rad as the first one? Let’s find out!

Afghaniwhaa? Iraqistan, you say? Who cares? Taking off your shoes at the airport to foil The Terrists is way not as cool as mutually assured destruction!

Let’s ship our boys home from the front so they can start shipping our Star Wars tech to Poland!

WHEEEEEE


Update: huzzah, the stupid has begun.

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