To: Liz Temple
From: Marianne Carr
Subject: The screamin' mimis return...

Yo, LZ:

Here's that article I told you about. When are you leaving for Houston?

I thought you'd get a kick out of this...for the first time in weeks we had sunshine today, so of course I had a classroom full of screamin' mimis. You know the drill — flying pencils, rolling eyeballs, daydreaming out the window, nobody paying attention. (We're working on the animal extinction module, wooly mammoth edition.)

At one point I actually asked when puppies went extinct, just to see if anyone was listening, and this one kid raised his hand and hollered out, “Harry Potter?”

At least there was some comic relief.

Give me a call from the road…

Love, MA