Changing topics briefly...

Have you all seen the Daily Twists ads for Oreo in celebration of their 100th? I read about it in the NYT yesterday. It's amazingly fun. I love that there is one for the beginning of Project Runway: [link] as well as one honoring Nora Ephron [link] There's also higher brow fare, like commemorating Galileo and the telescope [link] So fun.

That is an adorable little house! I can't believe how much living in Rochester has effected my house price index in my head, because that is SO EXPENSIVE IT SHOULD BE A MANSION ON A 12 ACRE COMPOUND!

It's significantly larger than your current place?

Our current place is 980 sq/ft above ground + finished basement, and this one is about 1300 sq/ft above ground + finished basement.

my bungalow-loving heart

WROD.

Sue: I'd be happy to take a look, also, as an academic librarian.

Thanks Sparky!

It's your current place, but even better!

Work. Uhg.

Work ugh indeed.

Also, my hot water heater broke.

And the job is not posted.

And I have a confrontation with a certain NW state agency pending. I actually get to use the Supremacy Clause, and my confrontation-hating heart is very unhappy about it.

I got home after school drop-off and half an hour volunteering in the school library to find the math test, grade 57%, which we just worked very hard to write corrections to, left on the table. It's raining.

I feel like a good mother would walk the test back to school, in the rain, maybe. But maybe the better mother would let the consequences happen to the child who was not paying attention as she packed her backpack. The lazy mother is sure as heck not putting her shoes back on.

The Saint Teacher idea seems perfectly reasonable to me. It's a job that has historically been done by women, and women, as you know, are naturally inclined to do anything for children, at any time, with no expectation of reward. Therefore agitating for higher pay, and refusing to feed, supply, and (when necessary) house the wee darlings isn't just greedy and selfish--it's unnatural. Probably the result of feminism and Obama. If only women would learn their place. They could spend 16 or so hours per day teaching their students, which will keep them out of trouble--no time to agitate for rights, go to bars, or run for office. Then when they get married (to the husbands they'll meet in church, since heaven knows they don't need time for a social life) they can leave teaching to be wives and mothers, as is right and proper. Except for the teachers who are nuns. But they've taken vows of poverty anyway, so this'll just keep them from spending time getting all radicalized and fighting for nonsense like women in the priesthood.

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Sparky, I missed the link. I need to reset my mental image of you and your environs. Congrats!

Work this morning is odd. Now that I have passed along the two big deliverables I'm kind of at odds and ends on what to do. I really expected e-mails telling me to start over or make big changes or something and so far...nada.

congras! sparky

I was going to say more, but I am still asleep