Yesterday morning Savanna (the ten-year-old I have been “babysitting” this week) and I performed our usual morning routine, which is: to lie on the big couch at her house with stupified expressions on our faces that clearly say “we have not yet fully engaged with the world of the living.”
Yesterday in particular, Savanna used this semi-awake time to read Manga, while I (attempted to) read CSS Mastery.
At one point, after we had both been sprawled there staring blankly at our books for a good half-hour, Savanna said: “I’m soooooo tired.”
“You know,” I pointed out, “You don’t have to be up yet. You could go back to sleep for a while if you wanted.”
“No,” she pronounced solemnly, as she prepared to dispense her invaluable Savanna wisdom, “Sleep is not in the dictionary of my tired today.”
Leave it to Savanna to solve all of our problems with a single phrase. I’m sure you can immediately see the possibilities for this gem.
“I’m sorry, waiter, but croutons are not in the dictionary of my salad today.”
Suddenly, the world is a better place.
July 15th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
I like that! Sounds like a very interesting kid that Savanna. By the way, CSS Mastery is a really good book! CSS to me is the greatest and worst thing to ever happen to web design. I love it cause of the possibilites, but I also hate it cause it acts so differently in each browser. Of course this isn’t the fault of CSS, it is a standard after all, but regardless it is the designers problem and it bugs me to no end. I wish I could just force all users to use one single browser=D
Hope you have a good weekend Erin!
Jesse,
July 16th, 2006 at 10:46 pm
Methinks I’m going to have to steal that expression. It’s genius.
July 17th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
I wouldn’t be suprised Erin, if I heard you say something like “Meta tags are not in the dictionary of my web page today.”
Anyway, I hope you learn something from that book.
–Ryan