'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Heh. I don't think that's allowed, Cindy. Besides, I don't think you'll pass disguised as a small boy....
I can't remember ever learning how to read maps -- I wonder if that's why so many people are map-illiterate, they never had it explained to them.
He does look a lot like me. All I'd have to do is lose 50-60 pounds and a foot of height, bind my breasts, and I'm good to go. I won't even need make-up, except for these pesky crow's feet and smile lines, which he brought out in the first place!!! I might even be able to cram my feet into his shoes. My hair's a little darker, though.
Poor guy has the same glitch re longitude and latitude that I had. And I eventually got it, but it still hurts my brain in a funny way, trying to help him get past the glitch.
Longitude lines (meridians) are the vertical lines. So in his head (and once, in mine) it was very confusing to remember that they actually give you the degrees East or West, because it totally feels like it ought to be a north/south thing. And ditto (in a reverso sort of way) for latitude lines (parallels).
He'd then blank out, finding a spot on the map, using the latitude/longitude coordinates. I'd give him the latitude point, and he'd stop there, even when I'd say, okay, you know it's along that line, and longitude will help you figure out where.
Finally, I had him trace the lines in the text book (and erased the heck out of them, later), to find where they intersect. I hope this teacher doesn't care if his test paper ends up looking like a doodle pad.
Most of the information was otherwise easy for him, but there's a ton of vocabulary. It's largely his fault that he is having a hard time. He should have started taking home the Social Studies book, last week. I'm 90% convinced he remembered to do so last night, only because I was in the school yesterday, and so taped a reminder note in his locker.
It's not hard stuff--it's just a lot. Last year, was heavy on math and reading. Both come naturally to him, so he could generally hear something once and get it. He's a little surprised by the concept of actually studying. Fourth grade is so different from third. We don't have a good read on this teacher's testing style yet, either. So it's not like we can look at the information, and know what we'll see on the test.
Ooof. Sorry, Natter. That was a lot of me-blurt for the morning. I guess this stuff has been on my mind all night.
No, no -- it's keeping me entertained this AM. And that is important! Big Eyes
Kat, I totally thought that Meredith was drunk and Christina was suffering from morning sickness. Christina kept going on about estrogen and Meredith about tequila.
ETA: Could the country singer's baby thing be a hoax, a hack?
I'm not sure -- am I violating his privacy by reposting this?
I'd say no. If he announces it on a publicly available Web page, he can't care too much about secrecy.
Ha! Thanks, Sue. My main reaction to the mistake is not really caring if I catch the show next week. Ooops.
Sue-- Are you still around?
I seem to be getting an atlantic canadian station called "global" which plays the Gilmore Girls, but it seems to play Monday AND Tuesday nights. Do you know if there is a regular schedule of some sort, and which ones are new?
This is very exciting to me, because I was going to get cable to get Gilmroe Girls, but here it is!