Drat, the guy I was going out on a date with tonight had to cancel due to later-running meeting. On the plus side, he let me know he'd need to cancel well in advance, and was apologetic. Either of which by itself would put him WAY ahead of most of the available guys in Memphis. I think he's gonna be a keeper.
'Potential'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I vote for JZ's letter.
I vote for JZ's letter, too. Attached to a copy of the Actual Book which can then be riffled through to prove that you're not just an awesome letter-writer should be a slam-dunk then.
In random news, I bought some of that Greek yogurt that people are always on about, and I wasn't that psyched with the yogurt, but I got the one with the side of honey, and I forgot how awesome honey is! So now I need to go get regular old yogurt and a thing of honey.
Dear Jon,
You give me bees.
Love,
Allyson
I think the dork dumptrucks sentence is hard to understand. The rest of the letter is rocking.
I did finally hear back from Mom. Glen's going to be in the ICU for a few days, and then they'll be coming back here a few weeks earlier than planned so he can recuperate. Mom's worried about him, as am I. The appendix completely ruptured, so all sorts of nasty stuff wound up in the abdominal cavity and so they're trying to get the infection under control.
Pretty much what I assumed from the (brief) earlier conversation.
Allyson, I hope you get on. Of course I'll be So Damn Jealous. Oh! What about "Countdown"? KO cannot live by Musto alone(even though I *like* Michael Musto getting his bitchy queen on.) Of course that will push my jealousy up to 11.
Oh, Anne, I hope it all gets cleared up!
Spent another hour tutoring. OK, so her teachers have not introduced, or at least she didn't understand: the concept of units, cancelling or really explained the relation of fractions to division. And we're having places issues with decimals. I'm really not the best to teach this, having not had though about it since I grasped it years and years ago so will have to do some internetting.
I think I've got the places thing sorted out for her. I make her draw columns.
Oy.
Allyson, I'm sure you're coming up with a great letter. You writes good.
And, um, dur, I just was reminded there are math teachers among us. If there's any good site out there for explaining 5th gradish intro to algebra and those skills, lemme know. I mean, I can't download your brains, but maybe just having examples of explanations that don't involve me going "ok, so if I cut off my finger, what am I doing? Adding, subtracting, dividing, multiplying? What if I chopped it into many pieces?"
As soon as that came out of my mouth, I knew I needed help. And T probably did too...