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[usullusa]

Ahhhh.
Today I went to a reading by Jaida Jones and Dani Bennett and it was full of awesome and win. And poor Stephanie had to drive half an hour to my house to drop my book off so I could bring it with me and get it signed.

And by today. I mean yesterday. Because it is now 1am and the train ride from Grand Central to New Haven is sooooo long. I'm so glad I'm actually moving to New York in August and then I won't have to make these ridiculously expensive, long trips whenever I want to do something awesome. Because nothing awesome happens in Connecticut. EVER.

But the reading rocked and I spent the entire trip there quietly keening "Clara Clara Clara, we're going to meet Jaida and Dani. Clara Clara Clara." And then Clara would laugh and pat me on the shoulder with a sort of worried look on her face. And then when we got there Clara and I waved our hands around a bit from sheer glee and I kind of made this sound. It was a combination of a high pitched giggle and a croak.
And then they read bits of their book out loud and answered questions and let fans come near them, though god knows I wouldn't have, because you could tell most of the fans were shoeboxers, and as I said to Clara: "Fandom is a deep, dark, scary place."

So basically it went well.

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[usullusa.livejournal.com]

I know! She really was what made Worthington Hooker [haha, yea I never got the joke either when I was a kid] great. Seriously. May Day? Awesome. I left two months into third grade so I never got to braid the maypole. It was the most depressing thing ever.
I still remember singing the continent song. (North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Don't forget Australia, Don't forget Antarctica)
And we used to have that diversity day thing where kids from every part of the world would get up and say hello in their language. It was just awesome.

I had a really hard time at Beecher (i.e. nobody liked me) because I came from that kind of diverse background and Beecher consisted almost entirely of the children of privileged white families whose sole exposure to people different from them was the token asian kid in every class. (Can you tell I don't like Beecher? << )

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[alpestars.livejournal.com]

Haha, I think I *became* that token asian kid when I entered Beecher in 5th grade. I know... whereas Worthington Hooker was all excitement and music and extra recess and a lot of school-wide integration and fun, Beecher was definitely more structured. Hooker was about the entire classroom eagerly raising their hands to answer a question; Beecher was about calmly taking turns and being somewhat intimidated by the huge campus (even though it was a very well ordered/nice school. I mean, srsly, the swimming pool. :P).

Do you remember what teachers you had at Hooker? And do you ever visit the library?

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[usullusa.livejournal.com]

I don't remember kindergarten, but I had Ms. Wilson in first grade, Ms. Brown in 2nd, and a new teacher whose name I don't remember in third grade. Worthington Hooker had a library? What? I never went to the upper elementary school, so I dunno if they had one there.

And yea, Beecher had this massive campus. But they put a lot of money into it and yo could tell, everything was clean and spacious and well ordered. And the pool... somebody told me this ridiculous lie that if you peed in the pool a red circle would appear around you and I spent the next two years looking for red circles around people whenever I used that pool.

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[alpestars.livejournal.com]

I had Wilson too. I remember she showed us the original Narnia TV series (or maybe only The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe).

I was talking about the town library. :)

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[usullusa.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to the New Haven town library in about... forever. Not since I was a tiny kid. I don't even remember what I checked out there, which I almost always do.

I am so jealous that you got to watch Narnia in class! I only remember her teaching us evolution and how whales were actually land animals that evolved to live in water again and I thought it was the most brilliant thing ever. And also the reading corner and she gave you stars for reading books out loud, and the harder the book the more stars you got. Oh Worthington Hooker... did you ever go to the girl's bathroom to talk to your friends and did you find out that you could climb behind the stalls and stand on the pipe back there so you could reach the ceiling. I remember thinking it was great fun.