Ok, it’s late April, and it’s 48* F outside. That’s 9* C for my foreign friends. And that’s INCONCEIVABLE for Texas. We should be enjoying high 80’s, if not downright scorching next to the Sun mid-90’s. Those of you up north, you have my pity.
Nothing like being told at the last minute that I need to make graduation announcements. Thank goodness I know how to make cards, have stamps, and a printer. Now to spend days doing the same thing over and over. Isn’t that insanity? Or being a mom? Or are they interchangeable?
My youngest is testing this week, and she was instructed to mark “A” on her ethic background. Upon calling the school, I was told “H” is not an option because it isn’t an ethnicity. No one could explain why she was told to mark Asian. To the best of my knowledge, Genghis Khan never set foot on Puerto Rico. I said as much, and was asked, “Who?” I cried.
I think I need to eat a lot of chocolate today. That’s the best cure 😉
April 24th, 2013 at 10:51 AM
Hey, before you take on the race-classifiers in the “educational” establishment, you might want to check into whether there are any good scholarships for Asian kids. If Elizabeth Warren can become an American Indian to get a job, I don’t see why your kids can’t become Burmese to get a free education. 😉
April 24th, 2013 at 12:05 PM
HAHAHA!!! I’m on it! 😀
April 24th, 2013 at 10:53 AM
Didnt Genghis Kahn start that Mongolian grill restaurant?
There are days where the best defense is mass quantities of chocolate. For the rest, there’s super glue. Just sayin’.
April 24th, 2013 at 11:48 AM
I’m so old fashion, was thinking airplane glue.
April 24th, 2013 at 12:06 PM
Whatever gets you through the idiocy 😉
April 24th, 2013 at 9:24 PM
Me, I sniff markers to get through the day. It looks like you are absentmindedly pondering so it is more socially acceptable.
April 24th, 2013 at 5:45 PM
Aim High!
April 24th, 2013 at 12:06 PM
Genghis Grill?? HAHAHAHA!!!
April 24th, 2013 at 10:59 AM
and wine…chocolate and wine…
April 24th, 2013 at 12:07 PM
I draw the line at Chocowine™, though 😀
April 24th, 2013 at 7:13 PM
Lawd. You do need chocolate.
April 24th, 2013 at 9:52 PM
I sure ’nuff do 😀
April 24th, 2013 at 8:36 PM
Mark “A”? Your child is of Aardvarki descent?
April 24th, 2013 at 9:53 PM
HA! She’s pretty picky about her food, so maybe 🙂
April 24th, 2013 at 9:25 PM
Yes, it snowed today in Michigan. But it was 30-something so we stuck to shorts and t-shirts.
April 24th, 2013 at 9:54 PM
😯
Does not compute….
April 25th, 2013 at 9:00 AM
On my next to last census form, on the race question, I marked “other” and wrote “Human”.
On my last census form, I marked “other” and wrote “Irrelevant”.
On all of my census forms I ignored the questions that had nothing to do with counting the people to apportion representation. They only called me once to try to get me to answer the nosy questions. They got zero cooperation.
April 28th, 2013 at 12:26 PM
I also write ‘other’… or ‘homo sapiens’…… well, today I think I might be….. you never know, I might be a penguin tomorrow…. x
April 28th, 2013 at 3:58 PM
HAHAHA!!! 😀
April 30th, 2013 at 2:19 PM
Or a rabbit….. depends how many carrots are about 😉