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Monthly Archives: October 2008

I’m doing an online course

And I want to shoot myself in the foot – actually I’d like to shoot the professor in the foot since the professor is friggin clueless.
The minute I read the first sentence “find 3 URLS of interest and list them……” URLs, I know what a url is, you know what a url is, but the majority of people don’t – ie, my principal being one of them, and she’s the type of person this class was geared toward.

“Using Web-Base Technology to Support Parent Involvement in Homework and Schoolwork for Literacy, Mathematics and Science”

SNOOZEFEST!

The instructions are so obscure 2 college grads were scratching thier head and wrinkling their respective noses, and my principal just said ‘hmmmm’ let me take this home and read it again’

Seriously, you can read it a hundred times and still not be clear as to what’s expected.

In a nutshell I have to come up with a lesson plan and show 3 websites I used -  just not sure if I can use the websites I normal use for that lesson or the ‘sample ones’ el pro listed on the sheet, which quite frankly suck, they’re not research sites – still waiting for a response from email #1

Not sure if it’s in lesson plan form or essay form, still waiting for a respons from email #2

And no one is sure how in hell one links a lesson plan to parent involvment, and of course still waiting on a response from email #3

I’m guessing the 61yr old proffessor is still trying to figure out how to get to her friggin webmail.

I’m not up-to-date in my blog reading, hell I’ve still got unread emails sitting in my inbox – bear with me, I’m reading over the instructions for the millionth time trying to figure out what this prof. is expecting from me.

Oh my

Today I am 45 yrs young, and I’ve been married 18yrs. Do you think there’s a way, ya know, like finding a rift in space that I could walk through which would make me 18 and married 45 yrs minus the wrinkles and aching bones?

Dear manufacturers

Please, spare me the easy open containers and packages – it doesn’t matter how easy you think you’ve made it to open, 9 times out of 10 I will need to use a survival knife, scissor and/or sledgehammer.

Who the hell do you have testing these things, Hercules?

“Tear Here” is a non favorite, because it never friggin tears! “Peel Here” is another annoying one. When was the last time you opened a bottle of ketchup in one swift easy peel of the silver foil? And lets not forget flip tops, which can only be flipped after you’ve torn that industrial piece of plasic attatched just under the cap .

Flip this

Regis and their Riff Raff parents

Remember last year? Well they have a higher caliber of shouters and screamers this year. If the parents are an example, I can’t imagine the boys they’re churning out of that school.

Not so much diving in the box this time around, but dirty players – man they were desperate. It was an awesome game, 4-4 at the whistle so we had 10 minutes overtime each side at the end, and we beat them 6-4

The game wasn’t without it’s black side, one kid from regis in frustration at the final whistle punched one of our boys in his delicate parts and everything went haywire.

Then, one of the girls in the stands (sister of a Regis player) jumps the fence and heads for the melee, closely followed by an embarrassed dad who had to pretty much drag her off the field – how embarrassing. Luckily I was there with my camera to catch it all :)

The Xbox again

Did I mention M’s xbox was sent back for the … oh Lord I don’t know, how many times has it been returned now 4, 5? Seriously I don’t remember.

Anyway, the disc drive has been playing up, 9 times out of 10 I can’t get a disc in or out, and within 20 minutes of play I usually get the ‘disc unreadable, please remove the dics and clean with a soft cloth” . Now there is absolutely nothing wrong with any of my discs since I can play the same one in my xbox (yes we have 2 now, did I mention that?) for hours with no problem.

Sent it back last Saturday I was quite surprised to see it’s actually on it’s way back to me and I should receive it sometime in the week. Wonders will never cease. I guess they have to repair so many, practice makes perfect.