Read For a BMX Stunt Guy (Among Other Things)

Fans, as you know, Our Hero has started kindergarten.  That's right: a journey of at least 13 years of learning and enrichment, and--fundraising.  But as the Susan Lindgren Read-a-Thon Co-Chairs would have you know, "We don't want your children (or you!) to sell wrapping paper or magazines."  Oh no, no! "We just want your kids to read like crazy for two weeks and ask friends, family and the community to support their reading with tax-deductible donations to our school."

This year's Susan Lindgren's Read-a-Thon theme is Read to the X-treme.  (Extreme things are always way more extreme when they are not extreme, but X-treme.)  The school-wide goal is 123,000 minutes of reading (and oh yeah--$31,000).  If every student meets the challenge of reading 140 minutes over the course of two weeks (10 minutes a day), then they are bringing in a BMX stunt guy.  (Presumably, he will be X-treme.)

So Fans, should you feel so inclined to pledge a flat amount, or an amount per minute, to Our Hero, please e-mail or text Julie what you're good for and we'll write your name down on the front of this envelope we've got that's due by October 11, and let you know what you owe us after that date when we will be fronting the money Joe raises because the co-chairs apparently assume that all of the pledges will be collected by the final day of the read-a-thon based on a pledge of planned minutes spent reading rather than actual minutes spent reading (which is not X-tremly great planning in our humble opinion).

Should you wish to consider your pledge, we can share that, three days in, Joe has read for 75 minutes (an hour and 15 minutes)--!!!!!  You can see two minutes of that reading right here.