except one co-worker who is notorious for errands on her daughter's behalf that take hours longer than promised and has not yet returned. Excellent excuse to play hooky?

yes. and added bonus of coworker returning to office and no one being there. ah, the confusion.

Well, Allyson, K is picking up N after 5:00 so she won't be there until then. Then she's home for the rest of the night.

I have a job interview tomorrow. I'm super nervous about it. Sigh....

Kat, do you mean specifically at my current school, or in general?

If it's any consolation, it wasn't all that great. I do not understand the urge to put lettuce in soup. All greens are not the same, Chinese restaurant people!

A friend of mine with a Chinese Mother and an American Father says that the great lettuce cooking debate was a recurring theme in her childhood.

Traditionally, 12th grade was Brit Lit, though I'm seeing more and more of a shift to broaden that scope.

Some of the common texts I've seen across schools are some Shakespeare (King Lear/Hamlet/Twelfth Night), some kind of Austen (P&P or S&S are common), Jane Eyre, 18th/19th century British poetry, Candide, The Heart of Darkness, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Beloved, Things Fall Apart, and Beowulf. There are tons more, of course, but those are the ones that immediately came to mind.

A friend of mine with a Chinese Mother and an American Father says that the great lettuce cooking debate was a recurring theme in her childhood.

Yeah, I dunno. Is lettuce even eaten in China? I don't mind cabbage or bok choy or spinach, but plain lettuce? Just seems wrong to me.

Kat, do you mean specifically at my current school, or in general?

I meant in general. I've also seen a mix of Brit Lit with World Lit added on. I also know that some 12th English is Senior Composition and not a lit class at all. I was just trying to get a handle on it. Interestingly, the standards don't address what texts to focus on. But it does say what type of analysis to do (socio-political analysis rather than historical).

Barack Obama just robo-called me. It's so weird for NC to be actually in play.

Barack Obama just robo-called me.

I'm still voting for him, but this makes me really glad I don't have a real (=listed, landline) phone number. Likewise, I reliably vote for our (congressional) House rep, have met him multiple times, blather at him about every damned lefty issue in email, but every robo-call I ever got when I had a landline, I was like, Dave, Dude, DON'T FUCKING CALL ME WITH YOUR CREEPY RECORDED MESSAGE.

It's so weird for NC to be actually in play.

I know?! There were some Pennsylvania ladies on the NPR this morning who were all "I know the DNC says this needs to end, but nobody's ever given a shit about our vote before" and I so got that.