Thursday
Jun032004
post-ten and waiting for frodo
Thursday, June 3, 2004 at 11:24AM 
My last physiotherapy session was yesterday! This is the
front of a card I made for my physiotherapist, who laughed
and gave me a good-bye hug. I'm supposed to continue physiotherapy
exercises on my own.
Enjoyed reading the feedback to my When I Was Ten posting yesterday, and also enjoyed seeing the discussion it prompted. Allison has even written an entire journal entry about it...not surprising, since she teaches a whole class of ten-year-olds! She's invited people to post a Grade 5 memory in her LJ. In my LJ message board yesterday, she posted the following: "Last year I caught one of my students reading Harry Potter under his desk during my math lesson. After a second of annoyance I immediately flashed on a memory of me reading Tolkien under my desk during the occasional math lesson in high school :). And my teacher instincts were caught between 'Hey, kid, you're supposed to be listening to this math lesson, you may -need- decimals someday.' and 'Ya know, if choosing between Harry Potter and this decimal lesson, I'd go with Rowling, too.' and 'Ya gotta love a kid who loves to read this much.'. And then I gently took the book away from him and made him learn decimals. Hogwarts wasn't going anywhere." What a cool teacher. :-) I also enjoyed reading Teddy's response to my confession that I used to read books while walking to and from school: "When I was eleven and twelve, I read while cycling to and from school. After being stopped by the police a couple of times (my route took me past the local cop shop) for having both hands up in front of me holding the book and neither hand on the handle-bars steering the bike, I saved up and bought a basket to fit on the handlebars and would have the book propped open in there where the policemen couldn't see it when I rode past. I remember I had to ride crouched forward towards the handle-bars so I could see the book properly. I remember The Mouse and his Child as the last book I read before getting the basket fitted. It's a wonder I didn't end up under the wheels of a car. There's no way I can have been paying much attention to the other traffic on the roads." From Sherman: "From Acres at Strands: Each morning I pass through Penn Station Reading and walking my way. I don't even know where I work, though I seem to get there every day. Yep, I've tried to read and walk at the same time. My sister Eileen somehow convinced my parents to let her read at most dinners when she was 10. But the worstóthe absolute worst of bad-reading behavioróis the acquaintance in college who apparently, without being given massive numbers of tickets by cops and without being in an accident that makes him eligible for the Darwin Awards, still drives to work with a book propped on the steering wheel."  I'm also still getting a kick out of checking my Waiting For Frodo Farewell Guestbook every so often. A frequent poster who enjoyed the off-topic WFF message boards has created a blog in hopes of keeping the community alive. In the sidebar of the blog: "Welcome to the continuation of the Waiting for Frodo comic strip message boards! Show your appreciation to the writer by going to: www.waitingforfrodo.com" And I was very tickled to find that one of the participants in the above blog and a frequent poster in the WFF boards, nicknamed "Aragon_Strider", had written lyrics about Waiting For Frodo: "OF ALL THE COMICS Of all the comics that ever I see WFF is the fairest in its degree for all the day long Sam waits for a movie, And when the King comes away go-oes he, Te whit! Te whoo! To who waits now? Sir fan do you? Peter Jackson:This vow I shall make, This movie I shall do, 'The Hobbit' that I read I will bring to you!! Rose! Rose! Rosi-ie Rose! Who gave thee that jolly red face? Petey Jackson, And the rest of We-ta! And that gave Rosie a jolly red face... If you want to listen to it, Of all the Birds (sung by someone with a bit off key voice, nonetheless still a tune)" :-)
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