I have no words.

Ok, that was fun. Next door made burgers, people brought wine and beer and salads and fruit and I got to meet a whole bunch of teachers and K-street environment and health lobbyists (ok, 3) who are all my neighbors and it was not stressful or anything. And strawberry shortcake was a hit.

I like my neighbors.

Yay, Sara! And I bet they like you, too.

The Drunkest Nation

A map showing world drinking habits. No Irishmen were punched in the face in the compiling of this survey.

African tribe populated rest of the world

The entire human race outside Africa owes its existence to the survival of a single tribe of around 200 people who crossed the Red Sea 70,000 years ago, scientists have discovered.

Oh, and for msbelle, neighbor with kid was married briefly, apparently.

Oh, and I was the first non-work physics person one of my new neighbors had met. She teaches HS physics and was 99% sure she'd never met someone with a physics background outside of work.

Someone tell me it's wrong to want to strangle my kid.

He's had a Language Arts project called Genre Bingo where they have a grid layout of various different genres of reading material from newspapers to books and magazines-- he finishes two rows and he gets a one hundred test grade equivalent; finish all five and he gets extra credit. Because it's an easy sort of grade for him, he's been working towards completing the whole thing because he needs the grades and as such, he's been working on it since his Spring Break (first week of April).

Found out tonight that he's lost the sheet. Quite possibly was thrown out when he had to clean out his binder recently. He dumped a bunch of paper without actually, you know, checking it.

Which wouldn't be so bad-- but what's got me wanting to strangle him is that I asked him about this assignment several times today-- he discovered earlier today that the sheet was missing and never once thought to mention it. He didn't 'fess up until I asked to see it a little bit ago so I could help him plan out how he was going to finish up.

I am SO mad I could just spit nails.

Don't worry Barb, I'm pretty sure if you don't actually strangle him, the desire will pass.

Possibly the most disturbing family picture I've ever seen.

I think it's totally funny. I am actually more disturbed by the guy who is worried that it might be considered child pornography.

I saw that quite a while ago when my brother and I were hunting for the worst knitting examples to send each other. I, unsurprisingly, am horrified by it. why the hell would anyone?

Don't worry Barb, I'm pretty sure if you don't actually strangle him, the desire will pass.

It has. After I chewed him out from here to next week, I realized, y'know, it's just a piece of paper. He's going to be able to recreate most of it once he gets a new copy of the grid from his teacher.

Of course, there will be punishment doled out because of the lack of responsibility, but all things considered, everyone will live.