The Geek Who Understands You
We got Katie’s California Achievement Test results yesterday. Math: grade equivalent is 13 (beyond 12th grade). I can’t remember the percentile at the moment, but it’s really high. Language Arts: same on the grade equivalent. 99% percentile. Spoken vocabulary and…
I woke up with the non-pregnancy version of morning sickness this morning, for no obvious reason. Gah. The family kindly let me sleep it off. Now I’m taking shadowkatt to do her yearly standardized testing. We’ll have dinner after that…
Note to self: Talk to pain management doc about drugs for breakthrough pain. I’m very close to tears from the pain today. Let’s say it’s a 8.9 on the Mankowski scale. I’m really wishing I had someone else to get…
Check out Amazing Paper Airplanes and Flight 2.0. I’ve never made one myself, but they look cool.
Legs are still lovely and smooth. Maybe the waxing will be a regular thing. I had a lovely, lazy day yesterday. I’ve been urged by my family to schedule at least one such day a week, in order to recover…
I was awakened this morning by a collections call—from a company that I paid on time! Their system is screwed up, as they admitted to me when I called them yesterday—but they STILL sent it to a damned collections agency…
Linguists boycott Kansas hearings on intelligent design of English The state board of education in Kansas plans to hold hearings in May on the “intelligent design” theory of the origin of English, which claims that the language was constructed in…
I’m officially a CSI junkie. I’ve started turning on the TV in hopes of finding it on some channel. I’ll watch Law & Order if I can’t get CSI, but it’s a poor second. Next thing you know, I’ll actually…
The topic of mental literacy came up in comments on veryty‘s journal recently. Mental literacy refers to knowing how your brain works, specifically how you learn and how to learn. I’m reading The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant…
curiousmay9 and I were recently discussing how much certain habits, like smoking or heavy drinking, cost. Both of us have family histories of families that won’t pay for things like college for their kids, but one of the parents is…
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