dust and leave

So we should clean you off and then abandon you?

Does she still have Sushi, the fish?

Yep! He wound up on a plate last night, though.

Gronklies. Still sick.

I hate low-grade fevers like this. My temp's been wandering up and down between 99 and 101 for the past two days. Not quite sick enough for wanting to do nothing but lie in bed and sleep, but not quite well enough for getting out of the apartment and doing anything, either. And certainly not well enough for going to synagogue, where there would be lots of little kids around, even though there was a talk today (about the role of women in Jewish ritual and ceremony) that I really wanted to hear. (Maybe I'll email the rabbi and see if he's going to put the text of the talk online. He sometimes does.)

So I've been reading How Children Fail today, and recognizing a lot of the behaviors he describes in elementary school kids in the fifties as exactly the same things I see a whole lot of my undergrad students doing. (In particular, the inability or unwillingness or whatever to look to see whether answers make sense. He describes it in terms of arithmetic problems, where, say, a student will add two fractions and write down an answer that's less than either of the two summands, or multiply 7 times 21 and get an answer that's greater than 400. It doesn't matter whether these answers are right or wrong -- the kids should at least be able to realize that they're not sensible. When I was grading homeworks this week, there was one problem about interest on a bank account, and several students said something like, if you put $100 in a bank account that's compounded continuously at an annual rate of 4.9%, you'll have $94.39 (or something like that) at the end of the year.)

So we should clean you off and then abandon you?

Hee. Yes.

Maybe I'll email the rabbi and see if he's going to put the text of the talk online. He sometimes does.

If he does, could you point me towards it? One of my big interests these days.

Sorry for everyone that's feeling bad. General get-well glitter for all. I think I might take my temperature, if only to verify that I don't really have a fever...

Eta: Nice tiara, vw! And I love Serious Face Lily - my dad to this day will preface a posed picture with "everyone look serious now"

If he does, could you point me towards it? One of my big interests these days.

Sure. I'm looking through the talks that he has posted online, though, and it looks like he hasn't put anything online in quite a while.

TCG and my worlds' are colliding tonight. We're having dinner with my mom, stepdad, and grandfather and his dad and stepmom. They've never met before. I think things are going to go fine, but I won't turn down any everyone-get-along~ma.

Everyone-get-along~ma!!! I'm sure everyone will play nice and be polite and entertaining, though. Just don't forget to let us know how it went.

General get-well glitter for all.

Good call. ::adds more glitter to the pile::

He wound up on a plate last night, though.

Scond paper of the day done. Now to responding to discussion questions.

I need a break though. I'm taking two courses right now. A performing arts review course and managerial finance. Bouncing between the two is making my brain ache. Luckily the first ends on Monday.

No one wants to meet me in Boise? Awwww, come on.

You can propose Boise for the F2F next year, Suzi.