I really enjoyed my high school mathematics classes and got straight As in Algebra 1, Geometry and Algebra 2. Alas, they didn't offer a senior calculus class, only one called Computer Math where you got to take turns programming Snoopy posters printed out on wide printer paper (programmed by very low baud modem over a telephone line). And the teacher was notoriously sexist, and this was in the 70s, so all the girls I know who'd taken it were very bitter about how they were treated.
I took an extra art class instead.
You would think, with that much enjoyment of math and also science, some high school counselor might have recommended I look into engineering or programming or any hard sciences. Instead I wifted off to take English literature, and it was only years later that I blundered into programming on my own....
Mind you, I don't actually remember algebra II and never took pre-calc -- what did you do in those classes?
I don't remember the methods we used, just that every single problem was accompanied by the teacher saying, "Now, next year, in calculus, you'll learn an easier way to do this..." Maybe if I hadn't been constantly told that, yes, we were deliberately doing things the long boring way, I wouldn't have noticed or minded so much.
Trig was its own half-term in 8th grade (the rest of the year was geometry). Like all the math I took, I don't remember any of it, but I think I liked it at the time.
Was that the first GA you saw?!
Second. The first one was where
McDreamy's unexpected wife came back.
But then I never ran into it again. Which is strange because it's not up against anything I would be watching instead. At least my tv knows to watch it now.
We have almost all of them still on the Tivo and, if only we could find a network connector, we would be able to burn them to DVD.
You could burn two...
t bats eyes fetchingly
t finds blank dvds
Right. In red chenille.
psst, Kat's fierce!
Maybe if I hadn't been constantly told that, yes, we were deliberately doing things the long boring way, I wouldn't have noticed or minded so much.
Yeah, this is the thing -- you can't tell the students everything, because most of the time they don't care and won't understand, but sometimes, it'd be good to keep them in the loop. Like, as to why on earth you think they should learn this stuff.
Well, Cass, if we can get it to work, you'll get one.
Whee!
It's nice just knowing that episodes are out there. Somewhere.
on my tivo! not just out there!
Talked to my brother. Went well. We're on the same page. That being
WhatEVER.
I got a good laugh at my SIL thinking I was rude because I wrote in an email that I'd tell her to her face to get over it. Which I would. And have. She just reads it as Drama, where it is more...whatever. Mild. And let's not even touch the whole she was reading someone else's email. I don't get people.
In other people acting badly news, the kids next door's mother has made a reappearance in recent weeks. She's...unstable. Of seven kids she's had, only one wasn't a drug baby (N wasn't, S was, but luckily it was softer stuff, so he doesn't have issues in that sense.) But anyway, she's been...bribing them, basically. Buying them stuff, taking them places. More than likely after their SS/welfare check. Anyway, there was some chafing over rules and the kids being teenagers with mom issues, moved out to live with mom. The boy has been back several times because he misses his great-grandmother and aunt AND because mom prefers N so is basically ignoring S. But there's a court date now. I'm kinda beside myself. Teared up when Miss Laine told me. These are, at the core, good KIDS. They are bright, but they need limits. Mom can't do that. The situation is fucked. Miss Louise is probably too frail healthwise to effectively enforce rules right now. But they are so close to breaking the pattern and now, at this crucial point.... God, I hope they have a good social worker.
I've told Miss Laine to tell them to visit me. And I've got some research to do. I've watched them grow up, damnit. I don't want to see them fall.
I mean, god. Even after they'd moved in with mom, they came over here with Miss Louise everyday to visit Devi, my unsocial cat. S turns into a total little boy over Mister Kitty.
AHHHHHRG.
The stupidity needs to stop already.
you forgot the two basic tenents of my manifesto:
1. people are stupid.
2. the diversity of humanity is astonishing
