And you don't say much, but I know you're probably there, so it's separate in my mind from all those faceless nameless lurkers out there.

Awww. thanks!

I something think about going back to school (okay, a lot, because when I did go back to finish my degree I lurved it a lot!) but lack of time and money prevent me, alas. Also, laziness.

Also, laziness.

This is the key to a scary number of my decisions in life.

Women who follow this life script based upon biology rather than a PC way of living articulated by Lesbians are more likely to have a successful family and a happy husband.

note that the _woman's_ happiness doesn't seem to be relevant.

Huh. So we have Tropical Storm Epsilon now. Won't bother any place but maybe Bermuda. My son asked what we do when we run out of Greek letters. One day left in the hurricane season. I think that means we won't get any more.

tommyrot, DH and I were just discussing that book over dinner.

I married an actuary so I wouldn't have to do math. But the book with Galois in it sound interesting. DH has a poster of all the great mathematicians and there is a teeny portrait of all of them with a blurb/bio.

Boss is late for my review which means I get to sit here and let my stomach eat itself.

My obligatory math rant, though, is about alg2/trig/pre-calc.

Ugh, pre-calc/alg2. Most worthless math year of my life. There's just no freaking point to spending a year learning needlessly complicated ways of almost solving problems that calculus, a mere school year later, will solve in three or four beautifully elegant steps. No point, I say!

Good luck, Aimee. Sorry about the stomach eating.

And unless you're one of the ones who's wired to go on with it (in which case you're going to endure all the crap anyway), it falls at just the time where they say "you're done with your high school requirements, so you don't really need to do this any more (and we'll just do you a huge disservice by ignoring the fact that it's gonna really suck to try to pick this up again when you have to do it in college when you're a year or two out of practice, for the math, she is like a muscle that can atrophy), and, well, I guess you're just not a math person."

Thissssss....

There's just no freaking point to spending a year learning needlessly complicated ways of almost solving problems that calculus, a mere school year later, will solve in three or four beautifully elegant steps.

There's probably some point -- not that that makes any difference if they don't ever explain what the point is. Mind you, I don't actually remember algebra II and never took pre-calc -- what did you do in those classes?

This is actually somewhat important, as I have an interview tomorrow to teach trig, pre-calc, and calculus. And I'm totally panicking.

So Algebra II is the same all the way across the country? Weird, yet cool.