June 27, 2005
do you remember your school librarian?
or any librarian for that matter? I sure as hell do not. It's so bizarre to me that I wouldn't remember at least one librarian from all the multitude f schools I went to growing up. Shouldn't one of them stand out in my mind? I remember my favorite janitor, yard duty lady, teacher, sports coach, student teacher, teacher's aide, and my favorite principal. I guess what surprises me the most about this is that I spent a lot of time in the library.
In junior high I was a total dork. I went to a computer/science school called Edison Computech in Fresno. Pretty much everyone there was already a nerd. Some of the kids at least tried to pretend to be cool. In fact I think some of them gave up there smartness for coolness. I was on the golf team, in drama, on the Odyssey of the Mind team. I hung out in the library at lunch and played Marvel Super Heroes role playing games.
In high school when I got fed up with all the bullshit girls that wanted to fight me and all the lame guys that wanted to date/obsess over me, I hung out either in the library reading, in front of the library reading, or ditched school to go sit in a cafe and read.
In elementary school I was on the spelling team and participated in the spelling bee. I thought card catalogues were cool. I would fake sick so that I could stay home to read my new books.
I find it so bizarre that in all those years of hanging out in the library I don't know who any of my librarians were. I think it's sad, I don't know why. Do they want to be remembered? Would they say, I don't do it for the glory; I do it for my love of knowledge. I don't want to stand out. I want the books to be remembered. That's noble and all, but I want to be remembered. I want some kid to grow up thinking, I want to be a librarian, just like Ms. Davis. She was so cool.
Posted by meloknee at 08:54 PM | Comments (2)
May 27, 2005
Frito Boat Follow-up
As for the frito boats, i have figured out the mystery. After doing a lttle googling and polling i have discovered why i thought everyone in the world had heard of frito boats. I'm pretty sure that they were invented by the California school districts as a school lunch. I sent an e-mail to all of my friends from various places throughout California and they all knew what frito boats are, they all (except one) assumed everyone in the united states knows what they are, and most of them said they LOVED them (and that wasn't one of my questions).
Do a google search for frito boats and you find blogs that talk about them (written by people from central cali), school lunch menus, and various bars and snack bars that serve them on the menu. There are various descriptions on how to make them but I must say, I have NEVER cut open a bag of fritos and pured the chili directly in.
So, for those of you whom have yet to discover what a frito boat is, it's fritos with chili poured over them, topped with cheese and onions. I personally prefer green onions, cheddar cheese & tapatio.
Next Sunday dinner it's all about the frito boat. You don't like it, you don't come.
Posted by meloknee at 09:19 PM | Comments (0)
May 25, 2005
An apology may be needed
As Alex and I were having dinner last night I was telling him how good Frito Boats are when you add hot dogs. He then told me he didn't know what a "Frito Boat" was. I was in total shock, I just couldn't believe it. I thought everyone had heard of them.
Apparently, I was wrong. I just asked two of my coworkers and they didn't know either.
So, who knows what a Frito Boat is? Did you grow up eating them? Am I the only one that does?
Posted by meloknee at 07:17 PM | Comments (7)
March 31, 2005
fill in the blank
Joking around with my coworker when I got my paycheck I said, Thank God because I'm as broke as a...
and then I couldn't think of anything to say until...
I'm as broke as a hooker in Salt Lake City.
so...what say you?
Posted by meloknee at 07:42 PM | Comments (1)
February 18, 2005
cheese
how do they make string cheese stringy?
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November 01, 2004
help
can someone explain what all these things mean??
i know, i know, i'm the lamest blogger ever...i'll get better though.
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October 29, 2004
blogs
hip or not?
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