"above all things
peace is the greatest thing that can happen in this world..." ~ djm 3.19.03

less than 36 hours. maybe i should have a 'say goodbye' marathon on my cd player today...(i have 2 solely say goodbye cds. i'm a dork)...at this point, i may not be as crazy about it as i was a few years back but now that it's been so many shows without one...*sigh*

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the second graders that were here a few weeks ago wrote letters to us here at the center. the teacher gave us some of them. they are too cute. so funny to see the it through a second grader's eyes...and spelling. :)

'my favorite class was eqautecs (aquatics) 2 but falling in was the werst part. even werster then the rain' (apparently he ended up falling in the lake)

'thank you kevin for teliing me a littil about dinaosors and let me dig for dinosaur bones to. a barey humungis bone to. and to the staff, remember the gye hoo played the king it was funy....got to go. bye for now.' (we have a fossils class where we bury bones in a 'fossil pit' [giant sandbox]; and we did a skit at the campfire where a coworker played a king.)

and these are nice to read...makes it all feel even more worthwhile...

'betsy jeff (betsy jeff penn 4h educational center - where i work) is the best palce to go on a feald trip. and it was fun raising the flag and being a table waiter was cool. all of the classos are the best. you gies are realy fun.' (awwww...)

'i absalotly absalotly love your camp! my favrite (i never realized how many ways 'favorite' could be spelled!) part was the reptile house. when you got to hold the snake's and turtle's. (oh no, the dreaded misplaced apostrophe. but she's only in second grade - hopefully she learns it by high school. why is that so hard for people? no " 's " unless it's possessive.)

my other faverite part was when you tought us song. i memerise them! i sing them all the time! (oh, his poor poor parents) 1 more faverite part ... everything! "got to go" "bye" (w/ quotes! where did they learn 'got to go bye?' makes me think of an IM exchange...wonder if that's where it came from. imagining a kid typing with all the misspelled/misinterpreted words strikes me as funny - it's one thing when it's scrawled in elementary penmenship in pencil...but to see it on a screen in a font? weird)

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picked up my dave and tim ticket at the fed ex place in greensboro. :) i was too worried it wouldn't make it. i think it's because i've had a couple 'worst case scenarios' occur that i'm paranoid - i missed the beginning of my first dmb show because of traffic, and i've had a ticket misdelivered - one that i was sending to a friend. never got there. :(

i woke up with 'disneyland feeling' - so excited i couldn't sleep, and woke up all happy and stuff. :)