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I Don't Need Anything But You

[ANNIE]
Yesterday was plain awful

[WARBUCKS]
You can say that again

[ANNIE]
Yesterday was plain awful

[WARBUCKS]
But that's

[ANNIE]
Not now

[WARBUCKS AND ANNIE]
That's then

just plain bad

small children are likely to fidget in church

fiddle, jerk, squirm, toss, twitch, wiggle, wriggle, writhe

flit, flutter, twitter; quake, quiver, shake, shiver, tremble; pace

relax, rest, unwind

there's the place where I left my umbrella

when I order a pizza, I expect it to be delivered in a timely manner

sadly she told us how her dog died

a gross mistake that somebody should have caught

stealing is just plain bad

the witness intentionally gave misleading answers to the questions

Don't Forget to Dream

Last night I dreampt of graduation day. I was working at the Office of Information Technology in a big school. As I stood in the hall, Elliott brought me a surprise. It was my cap and gown. The rest of the dream is a blurr, but I remember having to stand outside on the bleachers, in front of the crowd, with my graduating class. My cap fell off, but I got on the bleachers anyway, leaving it behind.

My class sang our graduating song. I wondered why they chose a song as sad as this for such a happy occasion.

It must have been that my alarm clock was set to radio. Doesn't it just figure, that at one moment an event can seem so meaningful but turn out to be completely random.

Why do you have to be a heartbreaker,
When I was bein' what you want me to be ?
Suddenly everything I ever wanted has passed me by.

The List

One morning Toad sat in bed.

"I have many things to do," he said. "I will write them all down on a list so that I can remember them."

Toad wrote on a piece of paper: A List of things to do today.

Then he wrote: Wake up.

"I have done that," said Toad, and he crossed out: Wake up.

Then Toad wrote other things on the paper.

Eat breakfast | Get dressed | Go to Frog's house | Take walk with frog | Eat lunch | Take nap | Play games with Frog | Eat supper | Go to sleep

"There," said Toad. "Now my day is all written down."

He got out of bed and had something to eat. Then Toad crossed out: Eat breakfast.

Toad took his clothes out of the closet and put them on.

Then he crossed out: Get dressed.

Toad put the list in his pocket. He opened the door and walked out into the morning. Soon Toad was at Frog?s front door. He took the list from his pocket and crossed out: Go to Frog?s house.

Toad knocked at the door.

"Hello," said Frog.

"Look at my list of things to do," said Toad.

"Oh," said Frog, "that is very nice."

Toad said, "My list tells me that we will go for a walk."

"All right," said Frog. "I am ready."

Frog and Toad went on a long walk. Then Toad took the list from his pocket again. He crossed out: Take walk with Frog.

Just then there was a strong wind. It blew the list out of Frog?s hand. The list blew high up into the air.

"Help!" cried Toad. "My list is blowing away. What will I do without my list?"

"Hurry!" said Frog. "We will run and catch it."

"No!" shouted Toad. "I cannot do that."

"Why not?"asked Frog.

"Because," wailed Toad, "running after my list is not one of the things that I wrote on my list of things to do!"

Frog ran after the list. He ran over hills and swamps, but the list blew on and on. At last Frog came back to Toad.

"I am sorry," gasped Frog, "but I could not catch your list."

"Blah," said Toad. "I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing," said Toad.

Toad sat and did nothing. Frog sat with him.

After a long time Frog said, "Toad, it is getting dark. We should be going to sleep now."

"Go to sleep!" shouted Toad. "That was the last thing on my list!"

Toad wrote on the ground with a stick: Go to sleep. The he crossed out: Go to sleep.

"There," said Toad. "Now my day is all crossed out!"

"I am glad," said Frog.

Then Frog and Toad went right to sleep.

- "The List" from Arnold Lobel's Frog And Toad Together