Spike ,'Smile Time'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
That's what got me into pre-K private school early. They had me answer a few questions to see if I could go (born in Nov.).
Teacher asked, "In which direction does the sun set?" I rolled my eyes and explained very very patiently that the sun doesn't really set, the earth revolves around the sun and also completes a turn itself, so the sun hasn't gone anywhere, we're just not where we can see it.
They pretty readily agreed to let me in.
explained very very patiently
I'm picturing an exasperated tiny person rolling her eyes and thinking the grownups are very, very stupid.
I'm glad they managed to save the exterior, aurelia.
Children's Hospital of Oakland managed to save the exterior of the old Mission High School. Beautiful building but it was abandoned to vandals for years and was a "beautiful eyesore". As soon as someone cleaned it up and preserved it, it VASTLY improved that neighborhood. I don't think a new building would have had the same effect.
Hell, you can't afford the materials and quality of work of a lot of 100 year old buildings. It sucks that workers were paid so poorly for high craftsmanship but as long as they were, why throw away what was built with it?
Yeah, if elected officials spent twice the money to make a new school pretty, I imagine they would be hell to pay.
I want many of these shoes. How rocking are they?
Snipers? Really? Or is that poor NPR-speak for "guns in schools"?
I'm going to start worrying about snipers more, just in my daily life.
Actually, when I lived in DC and had people come stay, it was fun showing them snipers. I didn't worry about those snipers, though...
There was that DC sniper guy... Edit: him: [link]
I never saw him! Just the ones on the White House, mostly.
Hivemind, can anyone recommend some resources - books or websites or I dunno, techniques, for making decisions collaboratively? We have a hard time finding time to even sit down and discuss things (like, possibly changing our health insurance plan, or where we will go for Christmas this year) and even when we talk about stuff, it is nearly impossible to actually decide to do something and DO it. (Note: I don't have this trouble at work at all, oddly.)