One of my coworkers is so upset with her 15 year old daughter that she ended up coming in to work an hour earlier than scheduled just to get away from her. Apparently the issue is, the girl is not doing her homework for her science class. She's getting high enough marks on tests and projects that she's got a C in the class overall. The girl does her homework in all her other classes. When I told coworker that I'd bet next week's pay that the homework is stupid, meaningless busy-work to the girl, and that it might do more good to negotiate with the teacher for more interesting, challenging projects to do instead of the busy-work, she said, "Well she just has to do it, that's all."
I am so glad my dad had been the kind of student who never took a book home, and never had to take a final. My parents told us we had to maintain a B average, and any class we got a D in, we had to study every night for an hour whether or not there was homework, until the grade came up. I was given a pass on that policy for the mandated remedial reading class that I could not get out of, in spite of having undergraduate reading skills in the 9th grade. Also, the typing class I took my senior year, got a D in that, but they didn't care, because I learned enough to not have to pay anyone else to type papers for me. But my folks were willing to let us have a choice about how to marshal our efforts, so long as we kept up a reasonable level.
I have to say, if this were my kid, and she only had one class that she was taking the easy way out, I'd let it go.
Today I almost passed out, I think.
That's a little disturbing. Consciousness~ma to you, Erika.
Today I almost passed out, I think.
I'm sorry, I must have skimmed past that. Hope you are ok, erika.
{{{Erika}}} Please take care of you.
I think I'm going to attempt my first solo shower since my surgery (my lady is quite the nurse made). I have to make sure my incision doesn't get wet, but we have a hand-held in the shower that should be easy enough. I can abort if it starts going south, right? Yeah, I'm a tad nervous, but feeling much better today (I'm even sitting cross-legged on the couch right now!).
I am now.
Not the way I like to start the day, though.
I'm not dehydrated or running a temperature...although it could be a hormone thing.
Freaky feeling, though.
Take care of yourself, erika!
Now, I have, but not when it happened.
Maybe I (unexpectedly) woke up with an appetite this morning...wanting breakfast is literally so unaccustomed in me that I might not have recognized it and thought it was cramps.
So glad I didn't see Dr. House today.
"Eat a muffin, you white crippled moron."
Shir, what gave me the impression that my posts bother you was where you said that "what bothers me about your posts". OK I take it you meant what you disagreed with rather than that they disturbed you. So sorry for the misunderstanding.
And in terms of the right path, talking is good, avoiding war crimes is good stopping collective punishment is good, in general avoid creating ten armed opponents for every one your nation defeats. Beyond that, I think that negotiations for a two state solution could be more successful than most people think. The reason for pessimism is that the usual story is that the Palestinians spat on a generous proposal. But there is a lot of evidence that the failure of Oslo was a joint Israeli/Palestinian screwup. It is a lot harder with Hamas than Arafat of course, but there is evidence of some openess even there. Note that saying it was a joint screwup is optimisic, not pessimistic. If it was all or mostly the fault of the Palestians and that would be an almost impossible situtation to remedy. If there were big Israeli screwups then that means there are things Israel can fix.
Israeli policy for a long time has been all sticks and no carrots. And punishing Arafat got Israel Hamas. Continuing not to deal with Hamas may result in the leadership of the Palestinians in a few years being Islamic Jihad.
