Saturday, June 19, 2010

GET WELL SOON... In the Dumpster?

First off, I am extremely tired, since I have not had a good night's sleep thanks to this weird sound I keep hearing outside of my house, a sort of whistling that wakes me up at all hours of the night.  Then this morning, all I had were dreams-- interrupted by the sound-- where I explained this sound and my lack of sleep to people over and over again.  What am I going to do?  I needed to tell you this because I am not my chipper self at the moment, but I did want to post this blog.  While searching for "get well soon" "halpern" (I do that to see if there are any new posts about the recent challenge), I found THIS.  It's a very thorough account of GET WELL SOON being challenged, but not only in Fond du Lac.  The more thorough piece of the post is a horrid story about how GWS was removed from a public library in Indiana by ONE PARENT while the teen librarian was out of town.  And it was thrown out.  Into the trash.  Not given to someone who could use it or sold to earn money for the library.  Tossed away.  Makes me want to toss my cookies.  Once I wake up a bit more, I am going to try and get in touch with the blogger to see if I can get the actual identity of the teen librarian, so I can write to her.  What will I say?  Not sure yet.  But this is really gross.  People are out of their minds.  Delusional.  Like those people out there who think we don't need any reform to our insurance system.  I'm going through that right now, so that I can take my year off from work.  Will I have to pay $23,000 for my COBRA?  Will I get insurance in time, with all of the hoop jumping and form-filling?  And will I ever get a good night's sleep again.  Stay tuned...

3 comments:

Rebecca & Maia Cohen said...

Im sorry, just so you know My kid loves that book ..lends to all her friends and we read it for a book group. Your book is really good. I don't know why someone would do this because its a perfectly appropriate book for TEENAGERS. My daughter is nearly 13 and she said there was nothing wrong about it. I've also read it and I struggle to see why people are making such a fuss.
My daughter and I cant wait for you to release new books :) (btw we both LOVED "Into the Wild Nerd Yonder")
**this comment was written by mother and daughter

Kelley said...

If it makes you feel any better I requested that our library order your book and they did.

Julie H said...

Love the Mother/Daughter comment! Thank you for that! And thank you, Kelley! Let's hope the book STAYS in your library :)