1. Yesterday I apparently greatly offended at least three people without meaning to. I need to install a filter on my mouth - and on the fingers that type my blog.
2. At church on Sunday, I was sitting by one of my very favorite four-year-old girls ever. I was explaining to her that an eel kind of looks like a snake except it's fatter. She said, "Oh, Sister Peters, we don't say fat. We say big."
3. Someone at work I barely know asked me to proof read a paper they'd written for school the other day. Those of you who know me well will find this hysterical. Mostly because I'm an excessive comma user. Anyway, I read the paper and it didn't even make sense to me. Like the sentences weren't intelligible. This person is in COLLEGE. When they came to ask me how it looked, I wanted to yell at them, "How on earth did you ever make it past third grade?? Do you know how to make something plural or possessive? And are you aware that there is more than one form of the verb "to be"? Don't even get me started on spelling. How is it possible to spell that badly when there's spellcheck??"
4. And speaking of education, I got hopping mad yesterday morning when they were talking about education funding on the CNN morning news. They had the Secretary of Education on the program - he kept saying, "There's no way we can lower the drop-out rate without billions of dollars in extra funding." I know schools are underfunded. I know teachers are underpaid. But the thing is, even if the schools had more money and the teachers were paid more, I still don't think the drop-out rate would fall. You think money is the only thing that can save the American school system?? Someone at home has to care if their kids are going to school or misbehaving. Someone at home has to make sure the kids are doing their homework. Teachers, schools, and the American tax payer can't be held totally responsible for education.
5. I couldn't help but be jealous of Husband this morning - slumbering peacefully in our bed while I was forced, on bended knee, to pay homage to the porcelain god for the 130th day in a row. Then I stayed up for an extra 90 minutes because my mind decided that as long as I was awake I might as well worry a little bit about things I have absolutely no control over.
6. I really am going to write to my senator about getting rid of Daylight Savings Time.
2 comments:
We have an intern right now, who has worked for DCFS for years, who CAN'T FORM A SENTENCE. We don't understand.
erin you have married into the right family if you offend people! how about my chopped liver joke/comment?!
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