Just got this from Rachel Maddow on Twitter: seriously, Michigan?. I mean, I'm a thrift store aficionado, but I don't buy all my shoes and socks and underwear there ever! Or bras, or swimsuits, or...

I painted the door a second time and filled 4 pots with flowers. I'm filthy, so will shower and then clean the house. If the weather still holds, I'll go for a walk.

Mister Kitty had an episode today. He came downstairs all wet like he'd tripped in his waterdish and was staggery and floppy. Stuffed some corn syrup in him (thank god I kept the syringes from when last I had to liquid medicate the cats) and half a can of food. He's perky enough to rouse himself to go back upstairs. Not fun. If it persists, will need to take him to the vet, though not much they can do except maybe adjust his insulin. Plus, have a conference next week which is going to play havoc with my schedule.

Anyway.

Need to motivate. Now.

Oh, ita, that`s not good.
 
We had scrambled spheres with thyme this morning. And bacon, because what says thank you Jesus for your sacrifice more than salty fatty pork products? It was pretty good.

There's a school in Seattle where high school kid from a private school wanted to give out Easter eggs to the public school third-graders as a community service project, and the third grade teacher said she could only do it if she called them Spring Spheres. Various news outlets and blogs have been reporting this as if the entire Seattle school district said that kids aren't allowed to say the phrase "Easter eggs" at school at all.

The spring spheres thing is cracking me up. I am totally for respecting of all religious beliefs/non-beliefs in school, but sometimes, the attempt is HIGH-larious.

I think they should be called "Spring fertility-symbol ovoids" personally.

ita, I am sorry you've had no relief two weeks in a row. :(

The spring spheres thing is cracking me up. I am totally for respecting of all religious beliefs/non-beliefs in school, but sometimes, the attempt is HIGH-larious.

Stuff like "Spring Spheres" and "Holiday Trees" just annoys me -- either celebrate the holiday, or don't. Don't try to make it seem like you're being inclusive by just changing the names of things.

I sort of wonder what kids do in grammar school nowadays, because I swear all we did in the first 2 years was learn about holidays. I jhust figured now they learn about more holidays

At a school I taught at (99% Hispanic, almost all Catholic) the slightly nutso superintendent wanted to ban all mention of Halloween as it was a "Satanic" holiday... but we openly celebrated Day of the Dead and Cinco de Mayo.

I sweetly reminded him that we were a federally-funded, non-denominational school, and if a holiday was being banned on religious grounds, it was a violation. And that basically, if a kid WAS a Satanist (of which there were none, of course; they just wanted the Halloween party and costume day we'd been planning for weeks, and that the principal had approved for kids and teachers), he could do jack-shit about it. And participation was NOT mandatory.

So...we couldn't call it Halloween, but we did have the dress-up day the kids really wanted. It was "Costume Day" and a "Costume Party." Dia de los Muertos was still celebrated, but I had no problems with that,as it's a huge cultural thing (and fun) and participation was totally not mandatory. You picks your battles...

high school kid from a private school wanted to give out Easter eggs to the public school third-graders as a community service project, and the third grade teacher said she could only do it if she called them Spring Spheres.

Actually this was reported on a very conservative religious web site, and no one has been able to prove whether the teenager, the teacher, or the class actually exist.

I don't remember my elementary school doing much of anything for Easter. The winter concert was always a source of some tension, with various parents counting how many songs there were about Christmas and Chanukah and winter and various other things, and debates about whether "Light One Candle" is a religious song or not, and all sorts of stuff like that. The spring concert was just songs. Sometimes there would be a theme of some sort, but the theme never had anything to do with any holiday.