I want to state, for the record, that I just used the "Search" function for the first time (to find out what Allyson was posting about), and it's abolutely wonderful in every way. I almost want now to not know what people talk about, so that I can look for stuff.

Was it the Mothers Who Think forum at Table Talk who used "duck-nibbled"? I think that's the right phrase. It's just, doctor was supposed to fax in a prescription and apparently never did, so now I'm out of Zyrtec and sneezing, and I'm trying to buy an Amtrak train ticket, but the only choice they're giving me is Express Ticket Delivery for another $12.00 and why must everything be so difficult?

Blah.

I'm going back to due South fic.

I don't know about the MWT, but my own mother (who, coincidentally, thinks) loved the saying, "Being a mother of small children is like being pecked to death, by ducks."

She's not wrong.

I'm sorry your day is like this, Dana. I hope you get your medication soon.

Nilly, you can always help me try to track down "famous" conversations so I can quote them in my paper...

How lucky is it that the search function came into being right before I was *really* going to need it?

I often found that I learned more from the professors attitudes and approaches to what they were talking about, than I did from their words themselves, if that makes any sense.

Nilly, this is so interesting. I often find myself saying that the most important thing I do as an instructor is model for my students active, critical engagment. Sure, I have skills I can teach them, but really teaching writing is mostly about giving the students the opportunity to write and explore and pushing them to get themselves invested in the assignment.

I may have to kill someone. Somehow, in the past 24 hours, someone broke something vital. And now they are being clueless about fixing it.

Stupidheads.

you can always help me try to track down "famous" conversations so I can quote them in my paper...

vw, just ask, and I'm there (also, backsent).

the most important thing I do as an instructor is model for my students active, critical engagment.

Burrell, yes, this (also, good to post with you!).

I know that when I TA I try to outline out loud not just the actions I'm taking in order to solve a certain question, but also the thoughts behind those actions, why I chose the moves I chose, how to tackle the problem, not just the steps. Also, in science, at least from what I could see, the most important skills are not the actual material you can learn by practicing stuff that's written in books, but the intuition, the way-of-thought, the "feel" for the thing, in the lack of a better word. In writing I guess it's even deeper than that, from this aspect, as well.

[Edit: oh, sara, I'm sorry. Maybe you should send them to have Dana's day instead of her?]

How lucky is it that the search function came into being right before I was *really* going to need it?

Well, even if the universe won't give you the breaks you're due, the Buffistas can at least try.

That, or ita loves you more than us.

I think they just fucked it up even worse......

Except now we have a scheduled downtime, so something else may be going on.

Congratulations VW! YAY!

Dana and sara need new days.

Last night I hate a hateful evening, followed by an almost sleepless night, and a draggy morning.

There was supposed to be only a little over a month until Passover, if it were a regular year. But it's not - it's what is called a "pregnant" year, which means it has 13 months (the lunar calendar equivalent of the 29th of February). The month before Pesakh (the month that has purim) is being doubled. It's like you have "March A" and "March B", with Purim on the B month. This is done in ordr to make sure that Pesakh will always take place on the spring (and because lunar years have fewer days than solar ones).

t looks at calendar

Yep, Passover and Easter are out of synch this year. Of course, Easter is really early (3/27), which in my world means no midwinter lazy time in choir--we came to our first January rehearsal and were handed our Ash Wednesday music--and wondering what to do about Annabel's first Easter dress (well, technically it's her second Easter, but she was less than a week old at the first one) since it's likely to still be winter weather.