Sure, McCain and Obama are running for President, but the most important election just happened this week on the campus of Jackson Academy in Jackson, MS. Will Brown ran for President of the 7th Grade. It was a hard fought race (seven students battled it out), and unfortunately, Brown was not the winner. His remarks following the results of the election proved to me he is handling his defeat just fine: "Mom, none of my friends won their races either so I would not of had the staff I wanted," and "Mrs. Keenan (faculty adviser to the 7th grade) said after the results were announced that she wanted to see all new student council members in her classroom during break on Monday morning because quote "We have a lot of work to do." Maybe it is good I didn't win." Words of wisdom if I have ever heard any (whoever loses on the first Tuesday in Nov. may not be as upset about it as we may think because the winner is going to have a lot of work to do and the loser can just kick back and have break!
On the reading front: I had stalled out as I attempted to read Skinny Bitch and The Duchess. Both were unreadable for me: The Duchess was a dissertation in a pretty cover (sleeper!) and the bad language in Skinny Bitch, which is its distinguishing trademark, is simply gratuitous. Both were terrible. So I moved on Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road, a beautifully written novel about a marriage in the 1950s and I am currently rereading Pride & Prejudice because I am teaching it and it never gets old!
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