Because apparently, Mrs. Cruise was in town yesterday, according to a friendly-with-champagne FBvian. Why? Perhaps it has something to do with the new collection from fashion line. Or maybe not. I don’t really know, and it’s kind of slow here. So anyone spot her?
This report on I Don’t Like You In That Way is just ugly rumormongering. You shouldn’t read it. You’re better than that.
I’m so angry I could spit. Plano ISD is a total disaster. I mean, a $14 million budget deficit? This thing is so mismanaged that every member of the school board ought to quit. I don’t know who the superintendent is, but he is clearly incompetent. Okay, I just looked it up. Dr. Doug Otto is the superintendent. Unbelievable. And he’s white! Where’s the outrage from the black community?!
Okay, okay. But you get my point, right? It ain’t just Dallas ISD.
On a more serious note, the wife of one of my co-working FrontBurnervians is a librarian with the Plano ISD — the very group of workers who will take the brunt of the “reduction in force.” This is going to be tough on them and on everyone involved, both the people losing their jobs and those who have to make the determination about who goes and who stays. May everyone handle their roles as gracefully as possible. Good luck.
I know it’s not Friday, but a FrontBurnervian just sent me The Bailout Game. I figure it’s too timely – and too fun – to wait for Adam to post on Friday. Plus, if you’re iced in at home (or the office), what else are you going to do?
I picked the wrong day to leave my camera at the office–there are 350 Red-Winged Blackbirds in my backyard at this very moment. I have a drip running in my bird bath so it isn’t frozen. Remember to break the ice in your bath and feed your birds.
My children are restless. The immense pressure of the ice — sheets of it, far as the eye can see — is bearing down upon our well-made ship, determined to bring her under. In the forecastle, I can hear the ice tearing at the ship’s hull. All that remains is to give the order to let down our fires and abandon ship.
Sorry. Channeling Shackleton again.
But here’s the thing: it doesn’t really matter much what condition the roads are in. Fact is, DISD (rightly, it seems) shut ‘er down today. So those of us with publicly educated ankle biters are stuck home, too. My kids have augmented their jammies with hats and gloves. They’re in the driveway eating ice. What’s your scene?
1. Ice on the roads, everything’s closed, DART is delayed, the Storm Troopers say stay home until 10, … and we’re on deadline. Awesome.
2. Mayor Leppert’s aggressive deadline for completing the Trinity tollway by 2014 will probably be busted because, well, a lot of stuff can happen in the next five years, you know? Which is why you never give in to the tyranny of the deadline. You say, “We’ll finish the magazine by Friday-ish,” or, “Be home by 9-ish,” or, “We’ll have that road done by next decade-ish.”
3. In sportsy news: The News reports that the Cowboys are talking to Dan Reeves about being a team consultant, which confirms ESPN’s report of two days ago, and Mark Cuban says the Mavs would consider adding Stephon Marbury if the Knicks released him, which confirms what my sources have been telling me about how Zac Crain is about to put his head through a wall.