Sentences with phrase «reading over lunch»

You've seen these bookworms buying armfuls of books and reading over their lunch breaks.

This is fantastic if you like to listen to books in the car and then read them over lunch.

Not exact matches

When you take the time to read the latest article or, even better, spend some time casually catching up with a team member over a cup of coffee or lunch, you may not be scratching something off the to - do list, but you're building relationships, learning something interesting, discovering something you likely would not have found out otherwise... and, most important, helping to build the foundation for long - term success.»

Spend 15 to 20 minutes over a lunch break reading nonfiction such as Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive While Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, or Whiplash: How to Survive our Faster Future, by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe.»

I spent a few minutes over my lunch break reading and laughing.

When I read Bettina's blog over at The Lunch Tray about picky eaters, I appreciated her bottom line: kids change, and may -LSB-...]

A few weeks ago, the Internet was buzzing over news reports that an elementary school in Richmond, VA — allegedly in accordance with federal law — is requiring parents to obtain a doctor's note if they want to send a home - packed lunch to school... [Continue reading]

Sometimes a blogger bites off more than she can chew: I promised to review Kate Adamick's book Lunch Money over the summer but it's taken me longer than expected to get through my reading pile!

Lawyering Up Over Lunch My friend Mara pointed me to this blog post about a two parents who so hated packing lunch that... [Continue reaLunch My friend Mara pointed me to this blog post about a two parents who so hated packing lunch that... [Continue realunch that... [Continue reading]

Lunch Tray readers come from all over the U.S. (and the world), so I don't want to get too deep into a... [Continue reading]

Students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet as we gear up for the fight over healthier school meal standards in Congress this fall, the voices of these critical stakeholders can easily be drowned out... [Continue reading]

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

To close out the week on an encouraging note, head over to the Huffington Post and read «It Takes a Village to Transform School Lunches.»

Somehow reading this article and looking over and over at the graphics of the neediest States using the free or reduced lunch program slightly eased my own shame and / or guilt; because I still hardly believe this is our reality.

Great article, but I feel that as a working mom we need to just also be represented... SAHMism is always so glorified, most of us who work feel like we are failing our kids in some way... So I work a full day, I ferry the kids, once home I bathe them, cook for them, pack their lunches, sing - read stories - do homework, put them to sleep, clean the house, do the budgeting, catch up with my family and friends online, have a coffe, run back to the kiddo moaning, whip out a boob to sush him back to sleep, fall asleep exhausted and do it all over again the next day.

The northeast Dallas school offered breakfast and lunch - along with coloring and reading activities - for three days over Thanksgiving break.

It's a full - time position with a miniature boss who seems to have skipped over all the parts in the employee handbook that allow for lunch hours, private bathroom breaks, logical schedules or anything resembling a sane... [Read more...]

I've just read your story over at The Slow Cook and on Fed Up With Lunch and would like to do a post about you here as well.

Funnily enough, over lunch I was reading a piece on Ronald Dworkin in the NYRB.

«I'd read the question, hear the person next to me breathing, think about the sandwich I was going to eat at lunch, agonize over the answer, think about the sandwich, then reread the question yet again,» she says.

If you don't have a big appetite in the morning, a slice might tide you over until lunch, but I prefer something more substantial (read: more fiber and protein, less sugar and flour).

One of the interesting concepts I learned from reading Melissa Hartwig's Whole30 books is, instead of eating breakfast, lunch and dinner she prefers to look at her daily meals as Meal 1, Meal 2 and Meal 3 and it got me thinking... Why can't we have left over dinner from last night (stew, soup, stir fry, shepards pie etc) for breakfast?

I had a hair appointment over the weekend and then went over to Reading Terminal Market for lunch.

If we admit a 16 - year - old who qualifies for free lunch and is reading at the 5th - grade level, we need to know what his growth should be over the course of the year.

The students, almost all African American, more than 80 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, came with skill levels all over the map; a majority read at a 5th - grade level or below.

Meanwhile 17 percent of middle - class and wealthier students not eligible for school lunch read Below Basic in 2015, unchanged from 2013, but a six point decline over levels 13 years ago.

We have all passed by the classroom of a teacher during her lunch period and glanced inside to see the teacher working at her desk while one or two students read, write, or bend over a poster completing a project.

Fifty percent of D.C.'s fourth graders read Below Basic, a six percentage point decline over 2011 and a 19 percentage point decline from levels in 2002; 60 percent of fourth - graders on free - and reduced - priced lunch plans read Below Basic, a six percentage point decline from 2011 and a 15 percentage point decline from 2002.

I won't reveal too many details from the conversation (for that, you'll have to wait for our January feature on BookPage.com), but I will give this teaser: In our hour - long conversation, I somehow managed to seriously crack up over Paulsen's jokes; be incredibly inspired by his love of reading and writing; and feel compelled to buy a used copy of Hatchet on my lunch hour since my own copy is on the shelf in the house where I grew up.

To be honest, I've stopped reading this collection of poems by Ada Limón because my wife absconded with it — took it with her to work so she could read more of it on her breaks and over lunch, which, if that isn't a testament to the power of a collection of poetry, I'm not sure what is.

Michael Cader founded Publishers Lunch in 2000 and it has grown to be the most widely - read trade book publishing communication in the world, mailed to over 45,000 daily.

What I really wanted to do was read them on the way to and from work, over lunch, over coffee, basically everything that could really damage his comics.

He gave a wonderful presentation over lunch where he told us a person should read a short story, a poem and an essay every day.

They want to read something quick over lunch or on their commute.

A place to get out of the cold, a place to kill some time over lunch, a place to get a coffee and hang out and read.

A few minutes into lunch my friends came over and they wanted me to read my story to them.

Here are some highlights from his time at the conference: Barry attended the Introduction to Passive House course on Wednesday, and had the pleasure of discussions over lunch with Wolfgang Feist regarding the development of the North American market, Read More

According to Yale's numbers, to bill 1800 hours per year you would have to «work» over 2400 hours, which includes your commute, taking lunch, and 1.5 hours for coffee breaks, meetings, and what Yale terms «reading legal updates and reviewing general correspondence.»

The Vaporstream website at one point read that «[u] sing Vaporstream would be no different than talking face - to - face over lunch or at the water cooler.»

While I always enjoy reading the enthusiastic PR put out by law firms in the «Student» editions of The Lawyer or Legal Week, brimming with adverts from law firms; I sat down over lunch today at my local pub, a glass of burgundy to my right and a fag to my left (I was sitting outside in the winter sun) and read Student Law in Times 2.

In reality, he or she is likely reading on the way to somewhere else, or multitasking on a phone or tablet over lunch.

Other jobs I am able to do consist of restraining, drawing blood, assisting with appointments, taking histories, smoothing over complaints, running blood work, setting up and reading fecals, cleaning of the office, making technician and front desk schedules, scheduling lunch and learns with vendors and reps, and scheduling staff meetings.

We all enjoyed a close reading of Ferenczi's «Confusion of Tongues Between the Adults and the Child» and a chance to catch up with old friends and make new ones over our lovely lunch.

Thanks so much for all the nice comments you've left us over the past couple of days!We get together for breakfast, lunch and supper and take turns reading through them while we dine.

So I promised to have her over to lunch (Jackie, if you're reading this, I've had a bit of a setback with the whole turkey business).

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.