He's promised me if they won't change his seat when he gets to the airport, he will refuse to fly and come right home. I just hope he will actually do so.
Eek. I hope it goes OK, either way.
Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'War Stories'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
meara - Oct 29, 2014 3:49:44 pm PDT #14145 of 30002
Dana - Oct 29, 2014 4:13:37 pm PDT #14146 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I got a migraine Sunday night, and I think I managed to get rid of it today by going to the chiropractor. I really need to remember this next time I get a multi-day migraine.
Laura - Oct 29, 2014 5:19:32 pm PDT #14147 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
But I am really sorry. It's so stressful and humiliating. And I just felt so fucking stupid. But we're not stupid. It's OK. We're still people who have love in our lives and that's the most important thing (my mantra for several years of house owning awfulness).
What Nora said so well. I'm so sorry that you have to go through this. May it be history soon.
Yay chiropractor! Love when things work.
Ginger - Oct 29, 2014 5:40:35 pm PDT #14148 of 30002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Both of y'all, along with tens of thousands of other people, made reasonable decisions based on the information you had. The only thing you should beat yourselves up for is your failure to build a time machine.
tommyrot - Oct 29, 2014 5:40:57 pm PDT #14149 of 30002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When I was in high school, a teacher told us there's two types of math students--those who memorize everything and those who develop a real understanding of what's being taught. He said as math classes get more difficult in college, there's a point where the "memorize everything" technique just stops working and those students who use it can advance no further.
Hil R. - Oct 29, 2014 5:55:07 pm PDT #14150 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
When I was in high school, a teacher told us there's two types of math students--those who memorize everything and those who develop a real understanding of what's being taught. He said as math classes get more difficult in college, there's a point where the "memorize everything" technique just stops working and those students who use it can advance no further.
Yeah. At the point where I'm teaching, "memorize everything" will still get them a B if they're really good at memorizing stuff.
Scrappy - Oct 29, 2014 6:41:15 pm PDT #14151 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Jason got an aisle seat and he is off to faraway lands. Whew!
Burrell - Oct 29, 2014 8:52:53 pm PDT #14152 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I totally freaked out my students today by saying, "There isn't any rule or set of steps to follow here. You just have to look at each individual problem and figure out what's happening."
As far as I can tell, this is now also true of the math my daughter is being taught. Concepts are implied, but no formulas are given. Children are expected to intuit and/or reason out mathematical concepts and are not given formulas beforehand to plug into the problems and figure out the answer.
DebetEsse - Oct 29, 2014 9:22:29 pm PDT #14153 of 30002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
not given formulas beforehand
I think this is a really good thing. Understanding WHY something works makes you not only more able to figure out when to use it, but also to figure out if you answer makes sense and trouble-shoot if it doesn't.
DavidS - Oct 29, 2014 9:31:08 pm PDT #14154 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think this is a really good thing.
This is the whole issue with Common Core, and indeed every attempt at reforming math education in the USA. The problem is that this method of teaching hasn't been taught and supported to the educators and so (I can vouch) it's very stressful on the students (aka, Matilda).
Theoretically this is how you want to teach math. In reality, the teachers get thrown out with poorly designed materials and little support and the kids FLIP OUT. (cf., Louis CK's rant on this subject.)