I gotta take wut? Will it make me smaller? Will it make me taller? Dunno. Gimme yers.

I'm sposed to minimise them - strap them down.
Not have them "jiggling and joggling", "bobbling about" or "really in my face". Yes, direct quotes.

At the football the other week she commented on the fact that as I was jogging my foot up and down it was making my boobs jig too.

Me - "Oh Mum, no-one's watching!"
Mum - "You're just like your father! So defensive!"
Me - "It's just because you comment on my boobs all the time!"
End of convo.

I felt bad afterwards, that I had over-reacted. But it was true, damnit. If she'd just commented on my foot instead I would have quipped back about burning calories or something.

I admit - am overly sensitive when it comes to Mum's comments.

Ha Haa! This is a frustrated posting in Craigslist job ads. I responded to it as it not only amused me, I empathized.

"I'V BEEN LOOKING FOR A JOB AND SENDING MY RESUME TO THE POSTING AND NO ONE CALLS!!!!!!! I HAVE EXPERIANCE IN CUSTOMER SERVICE, MANAGEMENT, AND SALES I DON'T UNDERSTAND"

The ad posting was similar. In caps. Loved it.

let it go SG - Thats what Mums are for.

LOL AT CICERO! ! ! !
HA HAH AHAHAHAAAAA

Just had portfolio evaluations. The weight is off, the kids be'd edumacated .

Good job. That must have been a bit nerve racking.

It is.
It always goes well - but I always obsess that if it doesn't, we're screwed, the year is over.

Are they pretty hard core about it? I would imagine that keeping really good records would be the key, other than your end of year testing, that really counts.

Keeping, and organizing, everything is key. You have to show a full year's work to the evaluator (in about a 1/2 hour), who is currently licensed to teach the grades being evaluated. PA only requires standardized testing in grades 3,5, and 8 - so we skipped it this year.
The home schooled neighbor kid was held back a year based on an evaluators recommendation to the school district - it's not just a rubber stamp thing for sure.

We (the school I volunteer for) had an OFSTED inspection a couple of months back (an Orwellian abbreviation to do with office and education I think)

It's not enough to teach the children; evidence has to be available to check. I spent a whole morning today glueing worksheets into science books. Not because of this year's inspection, just because that's the way education works now. Of the three topics I was glueing in, one a "mini-beasts" hunt. In other words we went looking for insects. It was numeracy and identifying and drawing and writing. But it only counted if it was written up with a heading and a date and the objective was clearly stated and achieved and the work is shown and is marked and a comment made by the teacher. A thirty minute session in school time and an added thirty minutes out of school time for a teacher/ TA/ Parent Helper.

I understand that the need for evidence can be used to judge sub-standard schools. But I'm lucky enough to work in a superb school and I still know they could not function as well as they do without parent commitment. That seems terrible to me. If a good school needs 4-5 parents (and me, a non-parent) a week to meet the targets of reading and recording and practice and art, what about the schools that don't have that?

Well, I know what happens to those schools. Or local estate school is failing. Our Councillor blames the parents for not being engaged. He's probably right, but it seems like a double bind for the children involved. One of the issues is how to motivate parents from different cultural backgrounds, especially when English is not spoken at home. He's appealed to the community to take more interest in education, and I hope he succeeds - we don't need ghetto education in a town this size.

Sorry, wandered off subject. But I was being a post whore so I forgive myself. St Cherry, patron saint of thread-drift-non-drift.

From what you say it seems to me that the power to pass or fail a single family is left up to one person. How do you know that person is qualified to make that kind of judgement? Hell, people we trust with our kids in public school often don't seem qualified to evaluate, teach, or test.

I saw the most horrific thing in a parking lot this afternoon.

It was an IKEA delivery truck--small as far as those things go, more like the size of a U-Haul truck--and one entire side of the trailer was a huge flatscreen TV screen, looping an IKEA infomercial, including loud audio. Holy fucking road hazard, Batman.

Now, it was idling, and I came in and left again before it moved, so maybe, just maybe, this video does not actually play while the truck is driving down the highway. But I'm inclined to think it does, because one of the sound effects in the infomercial was a very startling truck horn honking. It actually honks at you to make sure you're watching the 10-foot-tall television instead of driving.

See, that is why Americans need enormous cars.

'cause sometimes, there's some things that just need to be run off the road.

Okay, this is fairly amazing; a crocheted representation of Terry Pratchet's Discworld:

http://www.planetjune.com/blog/amigurumi-discworld/

The girl acquired a right distal radius buckle fracture about 5 minutes after we arrived at the gym today. Cast on tuesday.
The new ER at Paoli is pretty impressive. There was an illegal alien wanting to get stitched up in the next room but refusing to answer any questions.