No, that wasn't sarcasm. That was sincerity. I do not understand why Kat was offended, but I recognize that she is. I do not maintain that posters don't need to apologize for an unintended offense. I recognized that my comment might easily have been found offensive. So I apologized.

No, that wasn't sarcasm. That was sincerity

I'm sorry I read that wrong. (Just a tad sensitive right now.)

I am leaving. Goodbye.

Wow. I'm not sure what to say. I feel I shouldn't ignore what happened last night, but I also feel like we need to move on.

So, this morning I'm offering somber timelies. I'm really sad to see Susan go, but I understand why she felt she needed to.

ION, I can't believe Thanksgiving is next week. I can't believe this week is almost over. I made it! Well, assuming that I make it through today, which it seems I will. Yay! Take that, asthma!

Temperatures have dropped 60 degrees here in 60 hours. I'm still trying to thaw out over a cup of tea.

You'll make it through today, vw, so YAY!

We've already got our plans for Thanksgiving (made with relatively little pain) and the dog sitter is all lined up so I don't have to worry about that.

Today is a friday which is actually a friday for me! WooHoo! I don't have to work on Saturday, and I only have to work four hours on Sunday.

Happy Friday to all!

YAY vw!

ah, I love the smell of kerfuffle in the morning. Smells like.... celery.

I am not surprised it went down like this. The abusive outburst of a few weeks ago has had everyone on tenterhooks; it required resolution.

FTR, I am a product of a nurse mom, a community college professor dad (also the recipient of low edumacational respect) and they were both huge public school boosters, and I probably learned more hard academics in my public high school than I did in college.

I was actually thinking of all the teachers here at b.org last weekend, when I was writing my paper and I opened up a thesaurus I got for my righteous excellence in the subject of English in 8th grade and it was inscribed by all my favorite teachers. I thought it was cool that their work really influenced the kind of person and student that I am today.

It's finally cold enough for me to wear my new wool tights. Sad that this makes me excited for the day.

The kerfuffle may be dying, but I just wanted to make a point that private school does not a guarantee of quality education make. My nephew's private school kicked major ass when he started, but administration wackiness drove out the really good teachers until Amy was forced to pull Kenny out and put the finishing touches on his education herself. The private school administrator saw no need for a computer curriculum because he had no interest in computers. He preferred theatre--which is perfectly wonderful, if what you're running is a theatre-focused school, which is not what he was supposed to be doing.

I'm sorry to see that. Honestly, and snark-free. But this is a community, not a womb. I left a support group because they didn't see the difference. And, hey, even a womb has a mom above it, you know?