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Ooo...Intendent!

I got your package. It's wonderful. I didn't even realize you had my address until a sudden remembrance that I sent you a Christmas card this year.

Thank you.:)

I'm stopping through to let you know that my internet is out and has been out since Ed McMahon died. We can't pay the bill until the 10th and let me tell you, I am dying with out my internets. I get all my news from the net so I've been so out of the loop. It's been driving me CRAZY. So bored. And I keep wanting to research stuff and I CAN'T. AUGH!!

Anyway, we'll have the bill paid by then and I'll be back on the net then. At that point in time, you will have to update me if anything important happened because after this long, I think it would take a month to go back over everything I've missed.

So many of the abortion doctor killers strike me as people who don't care about any sort of human life. They remind me of people like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. People who don't care about making the world a better place, but prefer to use a movement as a vehicle for their hate.

I find it extremely difficult to believe that Scott Roeder actually cares at all about unborn babies. I look at this individual and I see nothing in his demeanor that says "I just worry about the poor babies". There is nothing in his manner or attitude that belies an inner sensitive side that is so disturbed by the death of babies that his only response is to kill.

Instead I see a man who hates with the depth of his being. Hates anything that doesn't fall into his idea of "how the world works".

I sometimes speculate that so many of these violent anti-abortion protesters aren't necessarily protesting abortion. They are protesting the way of life they have ascribed to anyone who isn't rabidly pro-life.

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Teachers Flee Black Schools: Studies in Charlotte Show

Yes, you read that right. You really did.

Article behind the cut. Without the comments. Because the comments will make your brain bleed. Read the link at your own risk.

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Highlights in the comments:

1. White people insisting that this isn't a race issue, it's a behavior issue. Honey, the white schools around here have just as much problems as the black ones do.

2. White people insisting that black people should stop worrying about being victims and take responsibility for their actions.

3. White people insisting that the article is just plain wrong.

The positive is that there are several people there trying to explain why the commenters are racist bastards in polite and educated tones.

But overall...more fearing for humanity.

Combine this with the fact that the Super Intendent of Char-Meck seems a teacher can fix YEARS of a fucked up education in a year or two and then fires your ass if you can't and so much is wrong. Why am I the only person that realizes that if you send kids to broken schools who don't give a shit about their education and keep them in that environment their entire life, that by the time they get to high school, they can't be "fixed" by one or two teachers.

I think in this instance, the education system owes them something for failing them for so long.

I especially like how he lured all these teachers to the school district and now is firing them right and left. Because that's going to get teachers to want to run right over.

Random aside: I used to work near a high school where all the rich (white) kids go. Teachers would be recruited from across seas and prestigious areas to add "umph" to their school. The teachers would come into my work and tell me about how they were quitting next year because they couldn't take the disrespect of the students and the parents who insisted that their children never did anything wrong.

Disrespect in the classroom has zero to do with race, baby.

I have patience for many things.

I do not have patience for Christians insisting that the desire to take care of the earth comes from Satan. I have no patience for them and I wonder what sort of bible they read that either said a) the earth will never fall apart or b) said that we can treat the planet like shit.

Look, in the bible God gives us many things. He gives us animals and he gives us children. And yet, nothing in the bible says we are allowed to abuse them. They are supposed to be regarded as gifts.

Do they not recognize that the earth is a fucking gift? Yes, if you are so biblically bent, the earth belongs to man. Man was created to be ruler of the earth.

What does a proper ruler do? Well, last time I checked, it wasn't rape and pillage his people and his subjects. A ruler is supposed to take care of those that are beneath him. With great privilege comes great responsibility and all of that.

It disturbs me that so many Christian's look at wanting to preserve the earth as something akin to New Age Psycho-babble.

I is very wet. Ivan is very wet. Actually, we all are very wet.

We went to the library and had hoped to beat out the massive thunder storm headed our way. We didn't.:)

I didn't anticipate actually beating it though. It's been raining steadily forever. We get a glimpse or so of sun and then here comes the rain again.

It sounds nice and it keeps the heat under control. A benefit when you are still living A/C free.

It was 10:30 am. My make up is on, my hair is brushed, all that remains is for me to get dressed. I have to be at work at 11.

I'm getting ready to get dressed when it occurs to me that perhaps I do not work at 11. Last week they scheduled me for 12 and I showed up an hour early. (I ALWAYS work 11 to 5 on Wednesday. ALWAYS.)

I called them. Yup, I work at 12.

Damn, I would have enjoyed that extra hour of sleep.

I feel about kitties the same way some women feel about babies.

You know how some women see babies, get that squishy feeling and then Squee?

That doesn't happen to me. Unless it involves kitties.

There is probably something wrong with me.

What is sad is that Dax has decided that he prefers outside. He comes inside for the occasional nap, but he's happier outside.

I need a dedicated indoor kitty. Well, if they didn't make Sean's allergies act up.

I mean you Northern folks, not the baseball team.

Is Okie Dokie a Yankee phrase?

I ask because I had a customer at work accuse me of "being a Yankee" and wanted to know where I was from because I use "okie Dokie" when I take orders.

I'd never heard of that before. I'm not a Southerner. But I'm not a true Yankee either. My family is all Yankee (as Yankee as you can get) but I was born in Winston-Salem, NC and grew up in South Florida, which was actually more Hispanic and Jewish than anything else. So...I'm kind of a nothing.

But I'd never heard that Okie Dokie was Yankee.

That said, it would be nice if the customers stopped making fun of me for using it. Yes, I use it regularly when I talk. But I also do it when I'm taking orders because it's a hell of a lot friendlier than what most people say. My goal when I work speaker is to be as friendly and open as possible and responses that are outside the normal "yes", "thank you" "anything else" make a customer feel like I'm actually listening to them.

But I had no idea that "Okie Dokie" was as hilarious as it apparently is.

Sean has my laptop. It is driving me crazy.

He took it to work yesterday to use during a conference call. He forgot it at work. So, I can't check my email. Which drives me crazy.

I'm on his computer right now, which I don't like. He has it hooked up to the big screen television and even if I make the text huge, it's still just not as navigational. It's great for streaming movies through netflix on the computer.

Sucks for everything else.

He better remember to bring it home tonight.:)

I wish my Math teacher graded on a 10 point scale. She just posted my Final Exam score. I got a 96, which was awesome, but average that in with my other 5 test grades and it only gives me a 90. No A. *sad face* I don't like the 7 point scale at all.

It does mean I have a B, something I haven't had in Math in...oh...it's been years and years. I should be excited, but I was kind of pushing for the A.

I know I got an A in Physical Anthropology. I haven't taken my final in the Lab part of Biology, but with the grades I have now, even if I bombed it, I'll still have an A in Biology. (I got a 95 on my final exam in the Lecture class.) Plus, she uses the 10 point scale. *grin*

Creative Writing is up in the air. At this moment I've got an A. The problem is that I forgot part of the final paper. We were supposed to write a letter discussing how we've grown as writers and then include a copy of our original piece and a rewrite. I forgot the original piece. That will be a big chunk out of my final paper grade, which might pull me down to a B. Bummer, but my own fault. I didn't remember until the next morning, which wouldn't be a problem if it weren't it for the fact that I waited until the last damn minute to turn it in in the first place.:) (I can't help it. My creative juices only work under pressure.)

Either way, my grades are significantly better than they were last semester. I guess changing my work schedule to having Sunday off has made all the difference.

I'm still trying to sort out what I'm going to take in the fall. Technically the fall should be my last semester at RCCC. I've got two classes I HAVE to take to transfer. After that I can pick and choose. For me it's an issue of what I want to take at the CC level as opposed to the Uni level. It's going to take all summer to figure THAT out.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_on_re_us/us_school_dance_flap

Ha, like that's new news.

Berean Baptist School (where I went for two years) did the same thing when I went there between 1991 and 1993. When Amy Grant came in concert once, they sat us all down and told us that if we went and saw her in concert, we'd be suspended. Because she was seen drinking a beer once. (This was before her leaving her husband and stuff.)

They said the same thing about Stephen Curtis Chapman, because his music was too fast. STEPHEN CURTIS CHAPMAN! You don't GET more conservative Christian music than his.

They expelled one girl because it was discovered that she was having sex with her boyfriend. In the school? Oh no. On her own time.

So, this isn't exactly a new thing for these super conservative Baptist schools.

I just finished watching Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker with Ivan. It's on the Netflix streaming and Ivan thinks batman is the shiznit, but he's not allowed to watch "The Dark Knight". So, we watch all the streaming cartoon ones on Netflix.

And wow. It was good. REALLY good. And WOW, dark. Like original Batman dark.

Did not expect a direct to DVD cartoon to be that good.

I just made a quick run to the gas station up the street to grab some caffeine in preparation for all the stuff I have to do.

The total came to $6.66. The guy behind the counter refused to run my card for that amount. He ran my card for $6.65 instead. Said he didn't feel comfortable running it for $6.66.

I'd always heard that there were people out there that kind of freaked out at any reference to the 666 number, but up until this moment in my life I'd never met anyone who was that put off by it.

A funny video Morgan I found while organizing photos. This is from Halloween 2003. Back when I had enough time to make elaborate costumes.




Note: That baby at the bottom is ELEORA!

And a couple of cute pictures from the other day.



Sean and Ivan doing dishes.



The kids at Dan Nicholas Park this Sunday.

First attempt at home made bread. I ended up using a mix of all purpose flour and whole wheat flour. Turned out pretty good.

Did in the midst of a heat wave, so bread rose super quick.

I used a recipe out of my Betty Crocker cook book.:)

My Math class is on the third floor. Having the horrible hips that I do, I generally opt to take the elevator. (Something about having my bones rub together just isn't pleasant.)

There is a bulletin board right outside the elevator door with a poster on it. It's got a cute little moon holding a baby star and says: "Relax, It's Just a Stage."

There is finer print explaining that whatever horrid thing your child is doing at the moment will eventually end because it's something they're going through temporarily.

What that poster neglects to tell you is that once one stage is done, another one is quick to follow that is equally infuriating.

I think the poster has a bit of false advertising.:)

Homemade Bread Gurus:

Will all purpose flour be okay in a basic white bread recipe? All the recipes I have say "bread flour" and I can't find the stuff ANYWHERE.

Sometimes I love couchtiger. *grin*

This will only make sense to the members of _marriedlife_.

*Edit to add: So often I want to comment, "ah the wisdom of newlyweds that are so much more fortunate than the rest of us sad losers who have been married for longer than a manufactures warranty.

But that would be wrong.