What is your current stupid pet peeve about your job?

At the moment, the fact that I have to go back to it tomorrow if I want them to keep paying me. Seriously, I have gotten so much done over this 4-day weekend. But not getting paychecks would interfere with my future plans, so back I go.

So. Emmett won't even be going to school tomorrow. He's staying home with me and working on it all day. He's missing a baseball game on Tuesday night too.

My thinking is that this needs to ruin Emmett's good times a bit longer than just missing one baseball game? Otherwise you're maybe setting him up for a bit of "my lack of planning becomes your emergency and it's fine."

My goodness, that sounds awful, Hec.

I am also amazed that a) I swear my mother never checked with me about my homework (except band, because she had to sign that I practiced)and b) I always turned everything in on time and c) that seems like a HUGE project for 8th grade. The biggest thing I did for eighth grade was a 10 page handwritten paper on Rabies!

Basically I will be spending the week working with him on this paper, typing it up and keeping him on task.

School is so much more work from the parent side of things than it ever was for me when I was in school.

c) that seems like a HUGE project for 8th grade.

Yes, this. My kids haven't had any projects this involved, including my HS senior.

I remember the odd paradox when I was in high school. People a generation older would lament about how the public education system had really gone downhill since they were in school, but what I was doing in high school they had done in college. It seems like that now too, the education system is supposedly terrible, but kids do such sophisticated things in school. Maybe the education system is just more uneven than ever.

Hey, Teppy! You remember that marked-up version of a speech that Obama was looking at? You can download a high-resolution copy of the photo here: [link]

That sounds like a crazy project, Hec. Was he supposed to be doing stuff throughout the year that contributes to it?

Why is it, in an org full of people who escalate via cc when it's completely unnecessary, the one time someone gives me a critial piece of information that she's the expert on, she doesn't reply all??

Cereal: Obama looking at awesome things.

CJ is in the middle of a huge project and I am having to keep checking his progress because there is so much to do. They have been reading about Utipia's in his Language Arts class - Brave New World, 1984...

For their project, they have to create their own Utopia and create a wiki page online with the constitution, mission statement, flag, social structure, government structure and so on. I think there were at least 16 things. And the wiki tool they are using is a PAIN. Not intuitive at all.

Then, once they get the wiki pages set-up, the teacher will present each one, anonymously, to the class. If the class votes that your Utopia isn't viable, you have to start over.