Dr. Seuss makes me sick.

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OK, Dr. Seuss doesn't personally make me sick, but the very delicious and completely packed-with-sugar cake I ate at school yesterday after celebrating a month of reading that was topped off with the entire K-12 playing relay games in the gym -- the cake made me sick later.

Darn sugar.

I simply cannot resist cake.

I love cake.

The cake was to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday and cap off National Reading Month.

The last time I did anything remotely celebratory of Dr. Seuss and National Reading Month was a few years back when I was at the state capitol, covering some meetings for the newspaper. I was hanging around my friend Naomi and her dad (a representative) and his cronies¹. The legislators were wary of me taking a photo of them in their Dr. Seuss hats, which they had to wear all at once for a few brief moments while a woman went to the podium and read some reading stuff. Most took them off right away, but a few kept them on for a bit.

"This better not get in the paper, heh heh nervous-chuckle kind-of threat please don't publish it."

I didn't publish the photos, though I did get a photo of a legislator sleeping on the job. The use of that photo is single-handedly keeping my bills paid...um... anyway, back to present day stuff.

This past week had been a lot of fun subbing and then, watching all the kids from preschool on up have such a great time doing relay races together...very cool. Made me want to go straight home from school and get to reading, though I instead got a delicious piece of cake with gobs of frosting which made my lips blue from the frosting and then rode with dad to Devils Lake to pick up a vehicle that was in the shop and then met Michael and Colleen for coffee and various discussion².

Side note: I have a pair of socks that I wear periodically that feature Seuss' poetic "one fish two fish red fish blue fish." I know this is incredibly non-age appropriate gear. I don't know how it features into National Reading Month, though, at this point, you've suffered through reading some incredibly dismal writing.


¹ The word "cronies" makes me giggle inside. I want some cronies.

² Oddly, part of the "various discussion" involved a book we'd gotten recently and our hopes of using it to teach from for Sunday school. It also involved a computer question in which Michael stated that he "wished he knew more about computers" to which I replied that I, too, wished he knew more about computers. But the book part of the discussion? That relates to the topic at hand.

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