Cass, the groupon deal is a better deal because it's a 4 to 1 match.

Kat, have you ever read a book called Ball Don't Lie?

Nope. It looks good though. I can definitely think of at least one kid who would like it.

My principal is trying to get my kids to participate in this anti-bullying program called My Life My Power. So I checked out the website and it's a trainwreck. BUT also fantastic for a minilesson on (1) parallel structure, (2) the power of editing and revising, and (3) the importance of ethos and establishing credibility. Check it out: [link] (I don't know if the video autoplays, so beware).

Oh, this is the being bullying we talked about. OK, wading in. (BTW, does autoplay.)

My principal is trying to get my kids to participate in this anti-bullying program called My Life My Power. So I checked out the website and it's a trainwreck. BUT also fantastic for a minilesson on (1) parallel structure, (2) the power of editing and revising, and (3) the importance of ethos and establishing credibility. Check it out: [link] (I don't know if the video autoplays, so beware).

Wow. That's horrible.

Watching Monday Night Football is making it clear to me that everyone in the world gives their loved ones cars for Christmas, and I am obviously just not loved enough.

OWOWOW. That site. OW.

I think the big bows on cars is probably one of the single most obnoxious things about Christmas. It is more obnoxious than bad fruitcake, more obnoxious than "War on Christmas", more obnoxious than women's orgasm jewelry faces.

Are you not being taught Financial Illiteracy

Favorite line on the website!

Sigh.

Is this sentence funny, or overwrought?

I wondered how often it is the case that these sorts of Professional Development classes are compared to the infamous Jim Jones cult. There must be some Godwinesque rule that the closer one gets to a Briggs Meyer test, the odds of drinking cyanide-laced grape drink approach 1:1.

Also, will a general reader get what I mean by Godwinesque?

I wondered how often it is the case that these sorts of Professional Development classes are compared to the infamous Jim Jones cult.

I would take out "it is the case that."

Also, will a general reader get what I mean by Godwinesque?

I suspect no, but is the book aimed at people who are Internetty? Because they ought to.

Thanks, Steph. It felt clunky. I'm so punchy I am not sure I am writing in English.

I always assume my audience is internetty, or generationXy, or someone else who understands the cut of my jib.