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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that's seeking treatment for exhaustion.
What does that mean, exactly? We hear this term a lot with rock stars and Hollywood types, and we're not sure if it means they really are exhausted or if it's code for “strung out on drugs” or something. The most recent person suffering from “exhaustion” is Demi Moore, and since we can't recall seeing her in a whole lot of movies lately, we're not sure what her true state is. We have to guess, though, that the average Summit County worker who's got three jobs and a bunch of other stuff going on is probably just as justified in claiming “exhaustion” as, say, Demi Moore.
We're also just pretty sure we wouldn't get very far with that excuse. And what does treatment for exhaustion look like? It shouldn't cost much — we should think a comfy chair in a quiet room and perhaps a good book or two would be all you'd need therapeutically. Alternatively, a couple of days on the hill here in good ol' Summit County would go a long way toward curing our exhaustion.
Ach! — We're exhausted just thinking about it! But we do hope Demi Moore feels better.
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What's next? We bet you're dying for some more haiku. Well listen:
Hi Summit Up!
My name is Heather Johnston. I am an eighth-grade student at Colorado Learning Connections in Frisco. Since November, I have been writing one haiku per day on a sticky note. Above is a picture of the cork board above my desk, each sticky note carrying a haiku. I haven't written any on the specific topics you mentioned, but here are some of my favorites:
How to Find a Chinchilla
Be very quiet
Leave a raisin on the floor
Grab him by the tail
Snow
It keeps on snowing
But I want to ride my bike
So I'm stuck ‘til spring
Landlords
Eas'ly said “no heat”
We'll just suffer through today
You don't work in here
(by Rebekah)
The Daily's joining
Me in a haiku frenzy!
Productive Pastimes!
Good stuff, Heather, thanks! We like the one about the chinchilla particularly, and we'd like to ask you compose us one haiku per day for the next week featuring a different strange animal. Use the following schedule:
Day 1: The sugar glider
Day 2: Pygmy marmoset
Day 3: Tapir
Day 4: Armadillo
Day 5: Bandicoot
Day 6: Frill-neck lizard
Day 7: Narwhal
Bonus points: Leafy seadragon
Google away!
***
OK, here's a Smarty Pants Alert! Smarty Pants Alert! coming from what is arguably the most beautiful college campus in the whole world — Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. Here goes:
“Pepperdine University student Nicole Mcmanis has been named to the Seaver College Dean's List for the Fall 2011 semester. In order to earn Dean's List honors, students must be in the upper 10% of their class and maintain a 3.5 or better grade point average. This year, Nicole Mcmanis, a native of Frisco, is one of only 284 students to receive the honor.”
Good work, Nicole! Go Waves!
***
Well folks, here it is Thursday again and another International Snow Sculpture Championship staring us in the face. As our photographer noted, it seems like only yesterday we were looking at them in 2011! But it's good stuff, so go check it out in Breck at the Riverwalk.
That's it for now.
We out.
What does that mean, exactly? We hear this term a lot with rock stars and Hollywood types, and we're not sure if it means they really are exhausted or if it's code for “strung out on drugs” or something. The most recent person suffering from “exhaustion” is Demi Moore, and since we can't recall seeing her in a whole lot of movies lately, we're not sure what her true state is. We have to guess, though, that the average Summit County worker who's got three jobs and a bunch of other stuff going on is probably just as justified in claiming “exhaustion” as, say, Demi Moore.
We're also just pretty sure we wouldn't get very far with that excuse. And what does treatment for exhaustion look like? It shouldn't cost much — we should think a comfy chair in a quiet room and perhaps a good book or two would be all you'd need therapeutically. Alternatively, a couple of days on the hill here in good ol' Summit County would go a long way toward curing our exhaustion.
Ach! — We're exhausted just thinking about it! But we do hope Demi Moore feels better.
***
What's next? We bet you're dying for some more haiku. Well listen:
Hi Summit Up!
My name is Heather Johnston. I am an eighth-grade student at Colorado Learning Connections in Frisco. Since November, I have been writing one haiku per day on a sticky note. Above is a picture of the cork board above my desk, each sticky note carrying a haiku. I haven't written any on the specific topics you mentioned, but here are some of my favorites:
How to Find a Chinchilla
Be very quiet
Leave a raisin on the floor
Grab him by the tail
Snow
It keeps on snowing
But I want to ride my bike
So I'm stuck ‘til spring
Landlords
Eas'ly said “no heat”
We'll just suffer through today
You don't work in here
(by Rebekah)
The Daily's joining
Me in a haiku frenzy!
Productive Pastimes!
Good stuff, Heather, thanks! We like the one about the chinchilla particularly, and we'd like to ask you compose us one haiku per day for the next week featuring a different strange animal. Use the following schedule:
Day 1: The sugar glider
Day 2: Pygmy marmoset
Day 3: Tapir
Day 4: Armadillo
Day 5: Bandicoot
Day 6: Frill-neck lizard
Day 7: Narwhal
Bonus points: Leafy seadragon
Google away!
***
OK, here's a Smarty Pants Alert! Smarty Pants Alert! coming from what is arguably the most beautiful college campus in the whole world — Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. Here goes:
“Pepperdine University student Nicole Mcmanis has been named to the Seaver College Dean's List for the Fall 2011 semester. In order to earn Dean's List honors, students must be in the upper 10% of their class and maintain a 3.5 or better grade point average. This year, Nicole Mcmanis, a native of Frisco, is one of only 284 students to receive the honor.”
Good work, Nicole! Go Waves!
***
Well folks, here it is Thursday again and another International Snow Sculpture Championship staring us in the face. As our photographer noted, it seems like only yesterday we were looking at them in 2011! But it's good stuff, so go check it out in Breck at the Riverwalk.
That's it for now.
We out.
