I continue to be sick. This is highly annoying. At first I had what the local doctors are calling "The hundred-day cough," because it resembles pertussis, but lots of people who have been recently vaccinated, like me, seem to be catching this variant of whatever it is. I'm about thirty days into that, and now I have a really nasty headcold, the ( Read more... )

Today was the last day of school for Kouryou-chan. This is true in more ways than one: she's been at this school, in the Montessori program, for seven years, and has never known anything else as a matter of schooling. She's had three of the most amazing teachers she could ever encounter, has had a life full of adventure and learning and fun, and ( Read more... )

The other night Omaha and I did the very 19th century thing of attending a good, old-fashioned lecture by Steve Hughes, Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. The crux of his talk, entitled "School 2.0," was how, when he became a parent, long after he'd gotten his degree, he did a survey of all the ( Read more... )

I had to go to the school district headquarters to get fingerprinted ( Read more... )

This morning, the house line rang. It's very rarely used, so when a call does come in that way we tend to pay attention-- although half the time it's still spam, even though we're on the "do not call" list.

I picked it up and heard: Female voice: This is an automated phone message from your public school district. Please stay on the line for an ( Read more... )

One of the things that I've found recently, in my job search, and for no reason I can fathom, is School Lunch Talk, a website about, well, school lunches. One of the things they've been discussing recently is school lunch programs in other countries. Here's Japan: Japanese schoolchildren eat lunch in the classroom, and students take turns serving ( Read more... )

Omaha and I went down to Yamaarashi-chan's school today to attend the PTSA ribbon cutting (now that the school has opened), at which some local political types showed up to actually do the cutting. The school is rather nice, although it has the most inoffensive oatmeal color to the walls, some intersection between institutional color theory and ( Read more... )