I just had to read way too much material on the NY State math curriculum.

I feel your pain.

After looking through it, it actually seems like a more coherent curriculum than the standard one

I have some pretty big issues with it, actually, though those honestly basically come down to "If you were going to throw the traditional curriculum order out the window, thereby making it nigh impossible for students to easily switch states, couldn't you have taken the opprtunity to improve it SIGNIFICANTLY?" As it is, they learn basically the same material but they do it in an order that confuses both teachers and students looking elsewhere for help.

By 2008, New York should have switched back to a more standard Algebra->Geometry->Algebra II curriculum. At my school, since we're brand new, we're hoping to be allowed to start that immediately.

I'm trying to decide whether or not to take my dose of Predinsone tonight. My PCP is out, and I don't know the person covering for her, so I'm not sure that person would be overly helpful if I had him/her paged.

The other option I have is to page the doctor on call at the clinic. I'm pretty sure that the doctor who stopped in to listen to my lungs on Friday said she was on call all weekend if I needed anything. But, I've never seen her before, and she may not even remember me, because I wasn't her patient...she was just called in as a second opinion for the NP.

But, this rash is definitely a side effect of the prednisone. And, I'm pretty sure that the other symptoms I've been experiencing the last 30 hour, or so, are also side effects of the steroids.

Why does my body hate me so?

I'm so happy Nicole is having a good time, and that she's still as much of an glorious eccentric as she was when I got the chance to meet her.

You know who Nicole has been reminding me of? Tales of Teenage Ple. Pretty and twisted and smart and talented and alienated and full wroth where Michael Jackson impersonating = Rocky Horror performances.

I took Nicole and Emmett into Golden Gate Park this afternoon. It was gorgeous today, and AIDS Walk so it was crowded and carnivalesque on top of the usual Sunday stuff. The carousel was free and so was the face painting so we indulged them both. There were belly dancers out, and the regular swing dancers and roller disco, and at Stow Lake an entire troupe of Jane Austen Society Members in full Regency costume boating on the lake.

And honestly? That's not a particularly unusual July Sunday for San Francisco. Except that it wasn't foggy today.

argh, vw. Those damn steroids! Damn them! Damn those damn steroids! Page the doctor at the clinic. It'll be a long night otherwise.

Just ate grilled tuna and grill roasted beets from the farm, and I am once again happy in my healthy eating. Just in time for the craptastic eat on the run week ahead! Well, tomorrow we're going to try some sort of improvised curry tilapia naan "taco" with raita thing. But the rest of the week is food on the go. Le sigh. Glad this class is over quickly!

Tomorrow kicks off week 2 of the new job. I signed up for lunchtime yoga at work, and it starts tomorrow. So, I'm pretty excited about it.

Oh, now I'm furious. The answering service just gave me shit and wouldn't page the doctor.

Nora always has teh best meals, man...

Though mine was yummy, I just ate too much. I'm in Cleveland, and last week when I was going to San Antonio, there was an article in the airline magazine about good restaurants here, so I went to one. Had salad, and then scallops with asparagus risotto and these weird crispy fried carrots (they were like the fried onions in a can that you put in greenbean casserole!).

Then I stopped at a frozen custard place right by it, and had a "baby cone", which was a teeny tiny little cone for 75 cents. So perfect!

Sadly, the hotel room is set up so I can't watch TV and be on the internet at the same time. BOO.

edit: Damn, VW, that is not cool!

Ok...got through a different way. I'm so sneaky and know the system well!

I'm stopping the Prednisone. We can always start it up again tomorrow if my PCP feels it is necessary, but I won't be hurting myself by stopping it. So, that's good.

What a PIA vw.

I was a vegitable for most of the day. I did some weeding and basically not much else. Mom got home while I was taking a nap and DH/kids got home about 30 minutes ago.

K-Bug's team took 2nd in the tournament. They were playing up a level and ended up in the championship game against an 18 gold team (some of these girls play college ball). So - a good tournament overall. The 2nd place plaques the girls got are UGLY. Seriously UGLY. Oh well.

I may have found some Disneyland passes through Craigslist and it looks like we will be hitting the park on the 23rd. If any locals wanna come play with us, it would be fun.

meara, Frankie's in North Olmsted for pizza and other italian food (house salad is groovy if you are on the west side of Cleveland. Boy do I miss eating there. Malley's is great for ice cream and candy indulgence. But not for teeny tiny soft-serve cones.

I have some pretty big issues with it, actually, though those honestly basically come down to "If you were going to throw the traditional curriculum order out the window, thereby making it nigh impossible for students to easily switch states, couldn't you have taken the opprtunity to improve it SIGNIFICANTLY?"

Very true. What I like about it, from what I saw, is that it integrates proofs into everything, not just as a thing you do in Geometry and nowhere else. One of the biggest problems I have when I'm teaching college students is trying to convince them that their argument is as important as their answer -- it's not just "You have to show your work" but "Your work IS the answer -- the actual answer is just the last step of that." I really don't have enough experience with the NY curriculum to have a real opinion on how well it alleviates that problem, though.

Also, things like learning about the slope of lines around the same time you learn about angles in geometry seems good, plus things like learning about inequalities in algebra and in geometry around the same time. I also like the learning about probability and set theory in Math A, since those seem like fairly important things.