This, that, and t'other
Apr. 23rd, 2009 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grammarwomanWow. Michael Jackson really is a total crazypants.
I got a little carried away at lunch today and started railing at the complete idiocy that is NCLB. Most of the details were new to my co-workers (all of whom had kids in school). One of them chimed in that if Obama fixed it, it would be the first useful thing he'd done since he'd gotten into office. She then proceeded to scoff at the stimulus package, saying that all future children would be born into debt beyond repayment. I had to bite down really hard on responses like "Yeah, closing down Gitmo was such a waste of time!" or "It's a shame that Obama cast the country into a financial pit of despair after Bush made us all rich!" These people can drive me crazy.
But hey, the Emperor is doing marvelously in school! His teachers are happy and full of praise for him, we're not walking into to reams of incidence reports in his cubby anymore, and he continues to make us laugh on a daily basis. Of course, he'd love it if he could just sit home and play Lego Star Wars all day. *grin* I don't know if the improvements at school are necessarily related to his PS2 privileges, but I'm certainly not complaining.
Now, if the weather can deliver on the forecasters' earlier promises of warm temps and sunshine for this weekend, life would be near perfect. Here's hoping.
I got a little carried away at lunch today and started railing at the complete idiocy that is NCLB. Most of the details were new to my co-workers (all of whom had kids in school). One of them chimed in that if Obama fixed it, it would be the first useful thing he'd done since he'd gotten into office. She then proceeded to scoff at the stimulus package, saying that all future children would be born into debt beyond repayment. I had to bite down really hard on responses like "Yeah, closing down Gitmo was such a waste of time!" or "It's a shame that Obama cast the country into a financial pit of despair after Bush made us all rich!" These people can drive me crazy.
But hey, the Emperor is doing marvelously in school! His teachers are happy and full of praise for him, we're not walking into to reams of incidence reports in his cubby anymore, and he continues to make us laugh on a daily basis. Of course, he'd love it if he could just sit home and play Lego Star Wars all day. *grin* I don't know if the improvements at school are necessarily related to his PS2 privileges, but I'm certainly not complaining.
Now, if the weather can deliver on the forecasters' earlier promises of warm temps and sunshine for this weekend, life would be near perfect. Here's hoping.
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Date: 2009-04-29 06:44 pm (UTC)I'm really glad I was there to see him starting to learn that game. That was a small miracle to watch. I've been wondering how long it would take the next generation to get into things like video games and pop culture references; I'm glad to see he's picking up fast. :-)