It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a tired Buffista in possession of a reading comprehension difficulty must be in want of a coffee.

Heh.

Aw. Wear a Sweater Day. Zipper not required.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a tired Buffista in possession of a reading comprehension difficulty must be in want of a coffee.

Oh my I love this sentence. We should put it on a t-shirt.

And thank you!

Charming puppy

Happy Birthday Fone Bone!

Interestingly (to me anyway) the Obama speach story on the front page of the Sun was not as big as the verdict delivered in juvenile court on a group of black kids who beat up a white woman on a bus in my neighborhood (and both were smaller than almighty college basketball). [link]

A woman in my friend's sociology class claimed that the story the prosecuteres were telling couldn't possibly be true because children could never be that vicious.

One of the prosecuting attorneys was the state's attorney on the stupid, stupid drug case on which I was an alternate jury member last year. Baltimore, it's a small town. (I also recently overheard a conversation about the woman who was beaten up: [link]

Happy Birthday Fone Bone!

Also, what a cuuuuuuuute puppy!

Does pork count as red meat? (I'm supposed to not have red meat for three days for a stool sample....)

pork is the OTHER white meat.

Oh, and I hate my hair this morning too.

Hi all! This is my strident-teaching-related post of the day, so skip at will:

Okay, so Education Week is reporting on a study that shows that the more days a teacher is absent, the poorer the students do (well, at least on test). Okay, that makes sense. I hate that it's used to make teachers feel guilty about needed days off (I may have mentioned that we have one guy who's responsible for calling substitutes and we're constantly getting "this day is closed for subs because we already have too many teachers absent" emails), but it makes sense. This is my favorite part.

That study also linked "schools with high proportions of poor children" to a greater number of teacher absences. "In addition, the Harvard study found that teachers in schools with larger enrollments tended to take more sick and personal days than those in smaller schools."

Uh-huh. I can't come up with a more erudite reaction than DUH. Who could imagine that a) higher-stress jobs result in less healthy employees or b) larger populations result in more illnesses? By this point last year, I'd taken at least one sick day a month (sometimes because I was about to break down at work and possibly jump out the window). This year, I've taken two sick days all year.

pork is the OTHER white meat.

That's what I thought.

What is red meat, then? Besides cow, I mean. Dark meat on a chicken or other fowl? I suppose buffalo would be red meat. Goat? Or is it just the cow-ish animals?

(Just curious - I don't suppose I'll be considering goat in the next three days.)