Guestlist: iPhone Apps That Christa Needs

By Christa's niece Camille, age 8

1. Cube runner

2. Cupcake maker

3. Cake maker

4. Cookie maker

5. sundae maker

6. doode jump (should be "doodle" according to Parker)

7. impossable game

8. applets*

9. angry birds*

*Added by Parker, age 12

Potluck Sign-Up Sheet

Dishes on the Sign-Up Sheet as of Friday Afternoon for Next Friday's Potluck:

• strawberry cake
• Chick Fil A chicken minis
• orange juice
• TBD

Guestlist: Schwag I Got at a Work Conference

by Heather

• 16 pens
• 2 hand sanitzers
• 1 cookbook
• 2 totes
• 1 hat
• 1 mousepad
• 1 umbrella
• 1 laptop case
• 1 backpack
• 2 tumblers
• 1 ice cream scoop
• 1 cup holder
• 2 luggage tags
• 1 notebook
• 2 envelope openers
• 1 note card set
• 1 tin of mints
• 1 team building book
• 1 TN tour book
• 1 set multi colored highlighters
• 2 thumb drives
• 1 pedometer
• 1 sewing kit
• 1 mobile phone stand
• 1 stress ball
• 1 smiling stress ball that laughs when you squeeze it
• 1 magnetic clip
• 3 post it pads
• 2 chapsticks
• 1 mini sewing kit
• 1 pair sunglasses
• some candy

Guestlist: Trend Proctoring

Trends in Seventh Grade Footwear, Noticed While Proctoring the TCAP
by Stephanie Chockleyblog

1. For girls: All sandals are a thong/t-strap like this one. Every last pair.







2. For everyone: Chuck Taylor All-Stars!
3. For boys: Big, huge man-sized feet and shoes on little, scrawny 13-year-old boys who have yet to grow into them. So cute!

Covered in Birds

I hear birds are the new black, but I went a bit overboard when I accidentally wore the following things covered in birds one day last week:

1. earrings
2. t-shirt
3. purse

Guestlist: Top Ten Ways to Improve NBA Basketball

by T. Christopher Long

10. Shorten the games to 5 minutes since it's only the last 5 minutes of a basketball game that matters. Reduce the shot clock to 12 seconds.

9. Eliminate dribbling. It sounds silly. It looks silly.

8. Raise the goal to 15 feet.

7. Eliminate the playoffs or eliminate the regular season. It doesn't matter which, but one of them has to go.

6. Unicycles.

5. No blood, no foul. With fewer fouls, free throws now count for 10 points. No fouling out.

4. In fact, revamp scoring completely. Shots in the paint count for 2. Shots inside the three-point line but not in the paint count for 3. Field goals count for 5. Backcourt shots count for 10.

3. Contract the league to the Lakers, Celtics, Bulls since those are historically the only relevant teams. I guess you can throw in Miami to balance things out mathematically and geographically. Now that I think about it, even the best teams typically have only two good players. Let's cut teams down to 3 players each.

2. One member of each team must be blindfolded at all times.

1. Change the channel to a baseball game.

Things Students Were Carrying Around at the Critique I Just Attended

1. a carafe of coffee
2. a large stapler
3. a small dog
   

Why You Should Take My Sketching Class

1. You will get your own sketchbook.
2. We will do fun exercises to loosen you up.
3. You get to sketch and hang out with people who sketch.

Sketching from Life

INSTRUCTOR: Elizabeth Alley
DATE: 3 Sessions - Thursdays April 14-28

TIME: 6:00-9:00pm

COST: $135 - Materials included

This class will help you to get in the habit of quickly drawing in your sketchbook from life to document a subject while capturing the a feeling of the moment. We will focus on shapes, mark-making and shading, while experimenting with a variety of materials.

EMAIL: flickerstreet@gmail.com
PHONE: (901) 767-2999
ONLINE: class schedule

Epic List: Every Book We've Read in Bookclub

This list of all the books we have read in the almost 10 years we've been a bookclub was put together with the help of Goodreads and my very own brain. I sure hope this is really all of them. I remembered to put one book that I straight up did not read, but it's possible there was more than one in 10 years. This was already too big of a list to include authors, and inclusion on this list does not necessarily equal a recommendation, but if you have questions about either of those things feel free to ask!

1. Ladies Auxiliary (currently reading)


2. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II


3. At Home: A Short History of Private Life


4. An Object of Beauty


5. Freedom


6. Of Bees & Mist


7. The Pickup


8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


9. Wild Ginger


10. Code of the Woosters


11. The Recipe Club


12. The Elegance of the Hedgehog


13. The Mysterious Benedict Society


14. Julie & Julia


15. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid


16. Midnight’s Children


17. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union


18. Suite Francais


19. Waiter Rant


20. Sharp Teeth


21. A Wild Sheep Chase


22. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto


23. Franny & Zooey


24. The Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency


25. The Odyssey


26. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius


27. Nowhere Else on Earth


28. Gilead


29. The Great Gatsby


30. The Year of Magical Thinking


31. Olive Kitteridge


32. The Pleasure of My Company


33. Without Reservations


34. Water for Elephants


35. Chronicle of a Death Foretold


36. Unbearable Lightness of Being


37. Myth of You and Me


38. Lady Chatterly’s Lover


39. God is Not Great


40. Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay


41. Wild at Heart


42. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler


43. Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude


44. The Namesake


45. Under the Banner of Heaven


46. The Optimist’s Daughter


47. To Kill a Mockingbird


48. The Book Thief


49. Cat’s Cradle


50. Lucky Jim


51. The Awakening


52. The Little Friend


53. The Time Traveler’s Wife


54. Reservation Blues


55. Wicked


56. I Know This Much is True


57. Consuming Passions


58. Paula


59. Confederacy of Dunces


60. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close


61. Mrs. Dalloway


62. One Hundred Years of Solitude


63. The Eyre Affair


64. Ella Minnow Pea


65. The Red Tent


66. Choke


67. The Godfather


68. Oryx & Crake


69. Breath: Poems


70. Caramelo


71. Breakfast at Tiffany’s


72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time


73. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy


74. Who Do You Love


75. Primate’s Memoir


76. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao


77. The Known World


78. Ishmael


79. Freakonomics


80. The Sacred and Profane Love Machine


81. The Corrections


82. Hold the Enlightenment


83. The Soccer War


84. Empire Falls


85. The Secret Life of Bees


86. Three Junes


87. Hummingbird’s Daughter


88. Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque


89. Sin in the Second City


90. The Lord and the General Din of the World


91. About a Boy


92. White Oleander


93. Losing Battles


94. Memoirs of a Geisha


95. Bee Season