That is also a valuable lesson - how to dig out of a hole.

Hells yeah. Would that I'd learned as much about how to avoid the hole in the first place, but that's a good second line of defense.

Yes- I am very good at digging out of holes!

Not so much (still) at avoiding them.

Hec, I hope you think I was saying that youshouldn't help-- I was just mostly surprised that they give homework which presupposes so much investment from the parents to do a good job.

I am also highly influenced by my mom, who basically felt that helping on a project was "cheating" and that all the other parents should stop. She also felt that way about talking to teachers on my behalf or ever getting a job because you knew someone. She is anti-networking-- I think she would call it cheating.

My current workplace pet peeve is extra grading on top of all the grading.

sigh.

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]

Heh. You say that as if I didn't already download it.

And, uh, make it my desktop.

Hint: Running around in circles while panicking generally does not help.

Unless you flap your arms like a muppet.

I am also highly influenced by my mom, who basically felt that helping on a project was "cheating" and that all the other parents should stop.

Well, my help will mostly be (a) typing (everything has to be typed now and he doesn't know anything but two-finger poking); (b) keeping him on task; (c) helping him organize it. Plus some copyediting.

I'm not writing it or anything but he's never done anything like this before. Despite the in-class focus and project support from the teacher, he doesn't really know what it takes to do something like this.

I am also highly influenced by my mom, who basically felt that helping on a project was "cheating" and that all the other parents should

We have a similar attitude in our district. Less cheating and more like, "My kid has more education than I have" so I never have presupposes parental involvement.

My current work pet peeve is that our corporate network is being wonky, making working from home today an exciting game of am I still connected? Can I check in this file?

My non-work pet peeve is OH MY GOD SINUS MIGRAINE. Remind me again why drilling a hole in my head is not a good idea?

Oh, and for those of you not on LJ, here is the post with some of the photos from the fancy gothy event I went to on Saturday night: [link]

My current work pet peeve is that I'm not there. I'm working from home, but I still don't like it.

I can't think of any pet peeves at work. I could complain about when I do a bunch of work and the client decides not to use what I did, but we still get paid so it's not a big deal to me. So my biggest work complaint would have to be lack of restaurants at our location.

Pet Peeve at Work:

My biggest one right now is I Don't Have A Job.

Though I'm also reminded of Matt Groening's work complaint, "They make me do stuff I don't particularly want to do."