I grew up in the country, so it guess it would be different than a sub/urban setting.

And in New York, UPK is just three hours (or something -- it's like a half-day kindergarten time), so if you're sending your four-year-old to daycare all day, the UPK subsidy doesn't cover much.

Geez tommy. How awful for the people in the pool.

Wearing goggles is slightly uncomfortable when you got into a fight with a mop that morning. at least the makeup hides it.

My TiVo recording of last week's was precisely short--I got all the way up to "I..." in the final sentence revelation of...whatever. And then forgot about the tension. Sign of detachment from the narrative.

Re Royal Pains, ita !, do you want to know what Divya's revelation was? It will be the last time I can help you with that, because I am officially done with the show.

CJ and I went to an information meeting tonight for the online public school program. You can go full time or just take a couple of e-classes and the rest at the high school. We were curious based on his summer school success. It turns out that the program is different from the summer school program and isn't something he is interest in.

But, the other attendees HAD to be the people upon which stereotypes are based. There were a couple of home school moms who want their kids to get more socialization by going to the online school. Then there was a Chinese couple who were wanting to enroll their 8th grader so she could take extra classes and get ahead of the regular sequence of classes for high school. But they were worried that in an online class their child wouldn't have the "incentive" of knowing the other kids grades and striving for that A+.

One of the options for a young high school graduate could be a CC for a year. I know oa few kids around here that have done it - -and I saw them grow up and they took college and future with more focus and determination

We still have a question mark over how he handles frustrations and opposition

Hmm, if that's the issue, I think school would be a good thing, especially if he's responsive to his teachers now. I have a little boy who is oppositional and doesn't tolerate frustration well, and I found he quickly learned the social expectations at school.

A recent Jägermeister pool party in Mexico turned to panic after organizers poured four buckets of liquid nitrogen into the water, sending eight to hospital and leaving one partygoer in a coma.

Things that do not go together:

• Drinking and liquid nitrogen
• Bare flesh and liquid nitrogen
• Stupidity and liquid nitrogen

I almost hyperventilated watching that video, oh the badness. Just the fact that I couldn't see the people in the water was freaking me out. Drinking, water, and no one with eyes on you, let alone liquid nitrogen.

Oh beautiful lakehouse that's within budget in a quiet neighborhood, why are you an hour away?

I'm still kinda hoping my soon-to-be-former-boss-lady decides she'd like to rent her house to me . . . although her bathroom sucks.