Why is it that you can never find things when you need them? My house is infested with flies today. I know I have several flyswatters. I even had one that I used regularly up until my birthday gathering two weeks ago. I haven't seen it since. They're driving me insane. The flyswatters will show up: 1) when I give in and buy another one if I can find one this late in the season or 2) when it snows and the flies are gone.
I came across an interesting site in the list of recently updated blogs at Blogger called the apotheosis of conservatism that I may add to my list of reads. Quite a change from the teenage blogs I usually come across. I'm beginning to think that instructors are assigning blogs as school projects. I guess that's a cool idea for the students, I just don't see what they're getting out of it that they wouldn't figure out on their own anyway. They're certainly not putting grammar/English skills to use. That reminds me of a story of when I was a teacher. A student asked me to read a paper that she had written for a creative writing class that was due the period after lunch. I commented on the atrocious grammar and punctuation. She told me the teacher instructed the class to just write whatever they felt, not to let things like spelling and punctuation get in the way of the writing. Was that insane or what? Sad thing was, I'd seen how this teacher wrote in memos to the staff. She shouldn't have been an English teacher. I miss the days when spelling, punctuation and grammar always counted. Even the music teacher I had in middle school cared about spelling. Oh, well.
Damn fly just tried to penetrate my ear drum.
I just spent $300 getting the heater core replaced in my poor car. There was absolutely no heat whatsoever coming out of it. I figured I'd better get that taken care of before I woke up one morning to frost covered windows and I wouldn't be able to drive until the sun was way up. The poor car passed the 200,000 mile mark a few weeks ago. She had a mere 80,000 on it when I got her three short years ago. *sigh* I wonder what is going to go wrong next....
I came across an interesting site in the list of recently updated blogs at Blogger called the apotheosis of conservatism that I may add to my list of reads. Quite a change from the teenage blogs I usually come across. I'm beginning to think that instructors are assigning blogs as school projects. I guess that's a cool idea for the students, I just don't see what they're getting out of it that they wouldn't figure out on their own anyway. They're certainly not putting grammar/English skills to use. That reminds me of a story of when I was a teacher. A student asked me to read a paper that she had written for a creative writing class that was due the period after lunch. I commented on the atrocious grammar and punctuation. She told me the teacher instructed the class to just write whatever they felt, not to let things like spelling and punctuation get in the way of the writing. Was that insane or what? Sad thing was, I'd seen how this teacher wrote in memos to the staff. She shouldn't have been an English teacher. I miss the days when spelling, punctuation and grammar always counted. Even the music teacher I had in middle school cared about spelling. Oh, well.
Damn fly just tried to penetrate my ear drum.
I just spent $300 getting the heater core replaced in my poor car. There was absolutely no heat whatsoever coming out of it. I figured I'd better get that taken care of before I woke up one morning to frost covered windows and I wouldn't be able to drive until the sun was way up. The poor car passed the 200,000 mile mark a few weeks ago. She had a mere 80,000 on it when I got her three short years ago. *sigh* I wonder what is going to go wrong next....
Name: LaDonna
