My sister in educational woe!

I can't believe that you don't even know for sure what you're teaching. WTF??

Daniel, your cousin's photographs make me smile like few things have done recently. The YouTube thing is awesome. Thank you for sharing it.

Daniel, I concur with Beverly. Made me tear up, actually.

My sister in educational woe!

Can I join this club, too?

I am so tired. And I failed to grade this weekend although I did get some other stuff done. I feel like I started the semester already behind the 8 ball and I'm just gonna flail the whole 15 weeks.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one feeling this woe. The 'plan' this weekend was to do a bunch of paperwork and get ahead. Instead I got lots of rest, read a great deal of 2 books, watched movies, spent time with DH, did some stuff around the house and did a little paperwork. This teaching 2 English 3 and 2 "all level" Drama classes without a planning period is killing me!

Guess I'll be doing some extra all week. Mid-quarter reports come out in 2 weeks.

I can't believe that you don't even know for sure what you're teaching. WTF??

This year, I didn't know my schedule until Wednesday before school started. It was a really bad day. Then they changed my schedule mid-week the first week of school. While it was a semi-good thing (splitting my 1 huge Drama class in two) it was still chaos.

tommyrot -- technically speaking, humans (and all vertebrates) are topographical donuts, because the alimentary canal runs all the way from the mouth to the, er, hiney hole.

I hope a lot of questions get asked about statements praising Bristol and the Palins for keeping the baby, such as, "Do you think she shouldn't have had the choice to keep the baby?" and "Do you think the law should be changed such that she could be charged with murder if she took steps to abort the fetus?"

I hope a lot of questions get asked

I don't. At least, not using the Palins as an example. Policy-wise, I'm happy to have the discussion.

I'm surprised that no one has dredged up the father. I hope he's not 25 (as Bristol was apparently 16 when this baby was conceived) and I wonder how he and his parents (assuming he's a teen) are feeling about all this.

Also, I feel as if John McCain, by choosing a woman who has so many issues as fodder for the press and Internet surrounding her womb and her daughter's womb and Why A Woman Who Has a Working Womb Should Not Be at Work But Home Watching Out for Her Daughter's Womb, has just guaranteed no woman will be President for a very long time.

sigh

Also, I feel as if John McCain, by choosing a woman who has so many issues as fodder for the press and Internet surrounding her womb and her daughter's womb and Why A Woman Who Has a Working Womb Should Not Be at Work But Home Watching Out for Her Daughter's Womb, has just guaranteed no woman will be President for a very long time.

So much this.

You know, if the marriage does happen, they're going to have to disclose the impregnator's identity ANYWAY. So if he isn't stepping up to the news podium now, he's either seriously a juvenile or else he's going to be the 25yo bodyguard assigned to protect Bristol or something worse.

Also, I feel as if John McCain, by choosing a woman who has so many issues as fodder for the press and Internet surrounding her womb and her daughter's womb and Why A Woman Who Has a Working Womb Should Not Be at Work But Home Watching Out for Her Daughter's Womb, has just guaranteed no woman will be President for a very long time.

Not just this, but the cynic in me can't help but wonder if this wasn't exactly what they'd hoped for. I mean, McCain's camp is saying that they knew about Bristol Palin's pregnancy when they asked Sarah to run as the VP candidate. And they had to know that her pregnancy would be revealed one way or the other, before the election-- especially what with the Trotting Out of the Families that happens during the convention. I mean, what were they going to have her do-- carry Trig for the entirety of the campaign in order to shield her belly?

Thing is, with the revelation happening just prior to the RNC, plus the added bonus (as I'm sure they're seeing it) of Gustav, diverting attention from the convention-- the real issues with respect to the Republican Party and the utter chaos it's in, and the havoc the current administration has wreaked on the country as a whole, are being glossed over. At least, as the convention gets underway.

I just read a quote from one of the delegates who was talking about how all of the cocktail party talk was of Bristol Palin-- he said something to the effect of, "It's as if there was a script of how things were supposed to go this week and now, the script has been completely altered."

I wonder if that wasn't the plan-- at least in part.

::adjusts tin foil hat::

I don't. At least, not using the Palins as an example. Policy-wise, I'm happy to have the discussion.

Yeah, I'm really not comfortable dragging anyone's 17 year-old daughter's private life into the spotlight to make a point about abortion rights (especially since we have no reason to believe she might have wanted one). Basically I just want the left-wing blogosphere to imagine they're writing about Chelsea Clinton, and then see how much dirt they're comfortable flinging around.

has just guaranteed no woman will be President for a very long time.

Or at least, no mother.