Sometime You Need a Bimbo

Attendance: The Fantastic Four (Wendy, Mandy, Robin, Jerry)
Weather: A beautiful, cold, clear late October day.
Drinks Consumed: Well, Mandy and Wendy started with Margaritas at Bimbos BEFORE 5 o’clock and continued with Margarita’s at the Capitol Club, Robin had her fancy drink and Jerry had 2 Salty Dogs thinking the salt and grapefruit juice would be good for a sore throat – damn better than tea and lemon.
Why drinks before 5 o’clock?: Mandy and Wendy were stuck at an all day staff development day away from their building with all the teachers in their Learn Community. Although surprisingly impressed with the early morning speech by our new superintendent, that was over by about 8:30 and they had many, many, many more hours to endure. Wendy had to spend most of the day instructing. Only a Bimbo could make them feel happy again – you know how that goes, right?
Question of the week: What costs $500 an hour? Answer: An insane plumber at Robin’s house giving her a $700 price tag to change her kitchen faucet! Well she bounced him – off the balcony if I’m not mistaken – and luckily had her friend Chris do it in less than a hour on Saturday. The cost? - some cookies.
Send Happy Wishes: Wendy was not at the Capitol Club last week because she and Dan were on one of the islands celebrating their 2nd wedding anniversary.
Cool project Sarah would be intereted in: Mandy is having her students go one weekend without cell phones, ipods, lap tops etc. They will then write about their experience. We will keep you updated.
Vanessa, quick, follow this link!: The New York Public Library just received a treasure- trove of Katherine Hepburn’s personal letters. They will be on display by February. (Now you have to eventually come back to The States.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/theater/30kate.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Wouldn't You Want 3 Drinks?

Attendance: Robin, Jerry, Sean
Weather: Oh so bad . . . cold, rain, wind - and this is day five of this crap.
Drinks Consumed: 1 fancy drink for Robin, 2 bourbon and club soda for Jerry, and 3 Jack Daniels on the rocks for Sean.
Why Sean was drinking so much: He may be an expectant father within the month of November. The doctors are drugging his and Matt’s two women and trying to find the perfect time to suck 15 eggs out of one, mix them up with his ‘boys’, and implant the embryos in the other. It may happen in the first week of November. Wouldn’t that make you want three drinks?
Gossip: The surrogate and her husband came to Seattle to visit Sean and Matt last week. Things were going fine until it was announced that their 11 year-old daughter just got her first shot gun for her birthday – it’s pink. Wouldn’t that make you want 3 drinks?
Out of Character: Robin not only had to go to a football game in the pouring rain late Friday night, she had to go down ONTO THE FIELD for senior parent night. Even more surprising, she picked off a pass and ran it in for a touch down. You should have seen the end zone dance!

(I was sending out invitations to Robin's birthday party and very sad not to send one to you.)

"You mean she sucked her teeth at you !?"

Attendance: Mandy, Wendy and Jerry
Weather: Wow, it was sunny and warm enough at 5 to sit out on the deck one more time! By the second drink (Jerry’s of course), we had to move inside.
Drinks Consumed: GandT for Mandy, Greyhound for Wendy, 2 (count 'em) GandTs for Jerry.
Food Consumed: Some good local cow for Wendy.
Bitching: We did a good amount of bitching about bad classes and bad workshops and those perky go-getters/brown-nosers who tisk, tisk you for disagreeing, interjecting reality or daring to point out that you have a life beyond the school day. As Mandy phrased it, someone “sucked their teeth” at Wendy during a training when she brought up a point within the realm of teaching’s reality. (Vanessa must be glad to have missed this teacher bitch session.)
Gossip: Dan’s stint as an Olympic sailing coach (all expenses paid in Newport, RI) is going very well, Mandy’s hilarious friend from her Brooklyn school is coming for the weekend and the hilarious friend’s sister is interviewing for a job in Sequim, Wa. Yes, I said a job in Sequim, WA.

"It's OK if they keep their hands down their own pants."

Attendance: Wendy, Mandy, Ann, Robin and Jerry
Weather: Another partly-sunny, cool autumn Friday. Quite nice.
Drinks Consumed: ?? Wendy (what did you have Wendy?), Gin and Tonic for Mandy, 2 Bourbons and Soda for Jerry, Robin and Ann had 1 fancy drink and Ann added a Vodka/Tonic
Notable Topics: kindergarteners with their hands down their pants, kindergarteners with their hands down other kids’ pants, Angelo’s touch-down at last weeks home coming game!, Wendy’s new work (which she likes), how we love musicals (and we compared stage productions and movie versions) and what we would sing if we had to do karaoke.
What We Learned: Wendy likes filling out forms, kindergarteners like having hands down the pants, Ann did karaoke once (but doesn’t quite remember it), Mandy is a gay man trapped in a women’s body and Jerry is a gay man trapped in straight man’s body. (These last 2 revelations are related to our ‘love of musicals’ discussion.)
This Week's Question for S and V: So what song are you doing for karaoke?

Political Note for Sarah: The big news this week is Hillary is now deemed the inevitable nominee. She raised the most 3rd quarter cash, she is ahead in national poles by an ever increasing margin and is ahead in Iowa for the first time. The Dems way out raised the Republicans in cash this quarter. Bush had his lowest pole numbers ever. The Christian Right wacko leaders said they would support a 3rd party if Rudy wins the nominations. Let’s go Rudy!