Wasn't a push for some sort of national childcare thingie a part of the liberal agenda of the late '70s?
We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2009 5:41:17 am PDT #4834 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2009 5:44:19 am PDT #4835 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That sounds like some kind of Nazi agenda!
Childcare is always hard.
Sparky1 - Aug 21, 2009 5:44:31 am PDT #4836 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Wasn't a push for some sort of national childcare thingie a part of the liberal agenda of the late '70s?
Right up there with maternity leave. Which my employer does not offer.
JZ - Aug 21, 2009 5:46:13 am PDT #4837 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, ugh, Jess. It sucks, doesn't it? And the hunting down/interviewing/talking with references process is somewhere on the fun scale between taxes and preventive dentistry.
Hec has already moved on to emotionally bracing himself against the trauma of transitioning Matilda from the warm, loving environment she's been in since she was 4 months old to something completely new and strange, but I can't even think about that. I'm too busy stressing about the whole finding-a-place-to-begin-with thing.
Gudanov - Aug 21, 2009 5:46:44 am PDT #4838 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I think there was a push for the metric system too. Thank god we fought back against the tyranny of easily convertible units of measurement.
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2009 5:51:29 am PDT #4839 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think there was a push for the metric system too. Thank god we fought back against the tyranny of easily convertible units of measurement.
Yeah. It'd be funny if Democrats were pushing for the metric system now - I'd love to see the right-wing campaign against that.
"The metric system - invented by Hitler and Stalin!"
"The metric system - part of a liberal plot to make construction of concentration camps easier!"
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2009 5:52:32 am PDT #4840 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
"Obama and his jack-booted thugs will come into your house and take your yardsticks!"
Vortex - Aug 21, 2009 5:52:51 am PDT #4841 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Some judge has to give a speech and his message just said he would like "everything."
@@ times a thousand.
Right up there with maternity leave. Which my employer does not offer.
mine either. And it pisses me off that faculty just get to "take the semester off" with no penalty.
Jessica - Aug 21, 2009 5:54:48 am PDT #4842 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Wasn't a push for some sort of national childcare thingie a part of the liberal agenda of the late '70s?
Head Start and Universal Pre-K, yep. In theory, they still exist (at least UPK does), but they're so underfunded that they're almost impossible to take advantage of. (And even if you do get in, most UPK programs are only half-day, so basically useless for working parents.)
Oh, ugh, Jess. It sucks, doesn't it? And the hunting down/interviewing/talking with references process is somewhere on the fun scale between taxes and preventive dentistry.
The silver lining for us is that he LOVES his new place and we already know we won't find anything cheaper in our neighborhood. (Even with the rate increase coming up in September, it's still $100-200 cheaper than where he was before, and $200-400/month cheaper than the other preschools we considered.) So we're still hemmoraging money, but at least we're out of the searching phase.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Aug 21, 2009 5:55:06 am PDT #4843 of 30001
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Right up there with maternity leave. Which my employer does not offer.
mine either.
Is that legal??
*boggles*