School starts tomorrow. This makes me happy – my brood have had way too much time on their hands.
Some technologically-forward school districts have forms you can fill out online and submit. Our school district isn’t one of them. Fortunately, my clan is now old enough they can fill out their own. Their handwriting is much better than mine.
In the whole debate about whether cursive should or shouldn’t be taught in schools, I fall firmly in the ‘shouldn’t’ camp. It’s a complete and utter waste of time. This time would be better used gluing your fingers together – at least that is what I did when they tried to teach it to me in second grade. For the record, yes, my handwriting is all print and it completely sucks.
My father made me take Personal Typing when I was in high school – I thought that was a complete and utter waste of time. Twentysome years later, I’ve only had two jobs that haven’t required some sort of typing – dishwasher and bus boy. I haven’t done either of those in twenty five years. I guess I need to admit he was right.
Yes, I did use algebra today. In fact, I used calculus as well. I will neither confirm nor deny that I found those useless as well when I was young, although I drew fake album covers during that portion of my life instead of slathering on the Elmer’s.
I hated – h a t e d – my junior English teacher. It took me years to discover she was the best teacher I ever had. Any great piece of writing that comes out of this blog is as much her doing as it is mine. I’m very sorry, Mrs. Carmichael, wherever you are.
I get insanely jealous in June when the kids head into summer break, same with snow days. Back to school is a bit of a schadenfreude moment for me.
From the Fan Mail Department:
In my view, if alll site owners and bloggers maade good content as you did, the internet will be much more useful than ever before.(sic)
See, there you have it: C.L. Boss – making the Internet more useful than ever before. I guess my next move is to click on the link about how he can grow my Internet traffic.
Speaking of good blogging on the Internet, this blog would probably be much better if I actually, well, you know, blogged – something other than a list of random thoughts every couple of weeks. I guess we could always ask for suggestions from the audience… if there actually is one.
Time for bed – for the first time in months, it’s actually a school night.