I remember when I had my wisdom teeth yanked the Monday after Christmas break while I was in high school. I didn't go to school that day (general anasthesia will do that for you), but Mom made me go on Tuesday and wouldn't give me anything more than some Tylenol before I left for the day. It wore off by lunchtime and I was in real pain, begging just about everyone for some aspirin or something. Finally, a teacher made me swear not to tell anyone and gave me some which at least got me through the rest of the day.

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I knew that I needed it, and the nurse, who knew my medical history, would have agreed that I needed it, but the teacher who had to give me the hall pass to go to the nurse said that I looked fine and didn't need it.

I'm of the school of thought that says, better safe than sorry -- send the kid to the nurse already! But of course there are kids who fake, and also there's the issue that you might have an entire school district with all of one nurse, and... it gets messy. Me, I figure my job is teaching, not diagnosing, so I send the kid.

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::sigh::

Why did I check the news?

I think a guy I went to elementary school with was killed today in Gaza. Not sure 100%, but it's the same name and from the same place, and it's one of the "small towns" in here.

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Skippity skipping to offer ~ma to brenda and a huge dose of the OH NOES to Erin.

Also, Shir, sweetheart. Why the hell did you check the news? That way lies badness. Lighting a candle that it wasn't your former classmate.

NOW GO TO BED.

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{{{Shir}}}

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I'm sorry, Shir. The news here is such that one time you check there are truce rumors, the next time new rockets. I can't imagine how stressful it is for you and yours.

~ma for Brenda

Ick, Erin. I must have hair that the lice don't like because I never picked it up during the times when our schools had infestations. Brendon got them, but Bobby was spared. Lousy is considered a bad word to my mother, not curse level, but like 'shut up' level. We weren't allowed to use it.

eta: duh - the ~ma was not for Brendon but my fingers type that pretty often

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Oy. Just got an email from my synagogue, telling us what to do in the VERY UNLIKELY event that there are protesters at the synagogue this Shabbat. (The VERY UNLIKELY caps are theirs.) Basically, the instructions are that, if someone is outside, just walk past them and don't engage; if someone comes inside, ignore them and let the gabbaim (the lay people who run the service) deal with them. I wonder if there have been any threats or anything that made them decide this email was necessary, even with all the VERY UNLIKELY warnings. I've been a member of this synagogue for a few years, and it's the first time I can remember getting an email like this.

(They also specifically say that the "do not engage" policy is to avoid creating a hilul hashem, which basically means when a Jewish person does something wrong and creates the impression that G-d has mandated or approved this wrong action, it's a desecration of G-d's name.)

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Why did I check the news?

{{{{ Shir }}}}

I hope it wasn't your classmate.

2. omnis rocks. So hard. I came back home, and a HUGE box with cookies waited for me on my bed in my parents home. I love you, man.

Did the brownies make it? Or did they get eaten somewhere along the way? Enjoy!

I think I know what might be causing my recent excessive case of insomnia. I think I have a cold. My nose will suddenly clog... then drain out and be clear... then suddenly clog... etc. I could see the clogging waking me up constantly, thus a bad nights sleep.

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In one case here, an honor student got a fairly lengthy suspension because her mother packed two identical lunches, except that she put a knife to cut up the apple in hers. The daughter accidentally picked up her mother's lunch, and the moment she realized it, she took the knife to her teacher. In another one, a girl gave two Midol to another girl.

When DH was in high school, a girl got her backpack strap stuck in a locker and they couldn't get it open to free it. she was late for class so a young man whipped out his pocket knife and cut it loose for her. This was a very small school in a rural community. The boy was a farm kid who always carried a pocket knife around the farm. He had never been in trouble before but he got expelled for having a weapon in school.

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I've been carrying a pocket knife since Webelos. Which is most of middle school, all of high school, college, grad school. Oh, how the times have changed.

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