Monday, January 16, 2006

Things I Learned This Week (Chapter 2)

Things I learned this week (ok, actually last week, since this is Monday):

1. If you're supposed to wake your daughter up at 6:15am, and you forget until 6:32am, if you act really annoyed when you call up the stairs she'll think she slept through your first two calls and won't be mad at you.

2. The definition of "oddment" (a leftover piece of cloth, or something unusual).

3. It's ok to listen to Alice's Restaurant on Thanksgiving, because afterwards you'll have all kinds of conversation/arguments/awkward moments with relatives to take your mind off it. If, however, you read about a similar situation on Tink's blog, and your daughter doesn't get it, so you download the song on iTunes and make her listen to the whole 18+ minutes so she can see the similarities and "get the joke", you will have it stuck in your head for at least 3 days. So will your daughter.

4. The Board of Education in my town just passed a new graduation requirement in literacy. Starting with the class of 2009, all students will need to be able to read in order to graduate. Since they informed me of this by letter, I was tempted to call the principal and ask him to please explain himself because I graduated in 1989 and therefore have no idea what all these symbols on this piece of paper he sent me mean. Fortunately for my daughter, I refrained from making the call.

5. How to change a blog template.

6. How to add photos to a blog template.

7. How to change the colors on a blog template.

8. How to change the colors on a blog template again.

9. If you repeat #5-8 more than twelve times in two days, calling your family in to get their opinion on the results each time, not only will your butt start to take on the shape of the computer chair, but your family will eventually threaten to stage an intervention and/or committment to a psyciatric ward.

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