Today is Parent Teacher Conference Day.

I wish I was smarter or braver or preferably both.

I have to deal with a biased teacher, who is personally biased against my son. She is a piece of work. I have butted heads with her before. And complained to the Vice Principal. Which may have been a mistake but God, really? Who makes it their mission in life ( Read more... )

38351 and I'm done today. Slowing way down as we hit new uncharted territory. Lots of wordage spent at a diner, I'm not sure why. Of course other planets have diners. Don't judge me ( Read more... )

36773. Which is totally awesome and what's more, I filled in the gap! We're onto uncharted territory now (well, a very basic outline exists, large parts of which are doomed to be dropped) and I'm fighting the impulse to re-write bits of the climax scene (#1) to fit with what I wrote in the gap. Climax scene(#2) remains to be written.

Mind the gap! ( Read more... )

Just dropping a note to say hi I am so far behind.

Got my project submitted, adding things until I had to STOP myself or this would be the presentation that never ends. I had to do a web presentation using a site called Trackk. It was awesome fun. It was on Asperger's DIsorder, a subject I found fascinating and I am putting all sorts of stuff about ( Read more... )

The word is 16227 and things are moving along. The gap is almost filled now. But it's been a wicked long day and I'm tired and giving up. Tomorrow won't be much better, sigh. I hope to do the two session thing again. Waiting until 9 or 10 at night to start is not working out for me. But my project for my education class is done, except for proof- ( Read more... )

So November.

b5_rewatch

online acclerated class with one quiz a week and two major projects

second interview for Memphis job, possible on-site interview to follow

book club

visit old friend

help set up some equipment for another friend

write-ins once a week at local library

7th grade science fair project

THANKSGIVING

NANOWRIMO

I am a crazy person. This entry ( Read more... )

 
Telepath World

2008. Still in the throes of B5 mania I wanted to think about the world Lyta suggested, a homeworld for telepaths, and what that would be like. In terms of governance and economics, of community and family, of settlement and immigration; how the very existence of psi ability would fracture all those structures and how to put them ( Read more... )

When I get around parents I find that I have little to say. My (elder) son is average. Grades, SATs, work-to-play ratio. Average.

He is intuitive, empathetic, rational (even analytical) in thought, and unfailingly kind. He's amazing with young children. He's a great listener and a good communicator. All he wants out of life is a home and a family ( Read more... )

Is there anything worse than having little to do at work, trying to listen to distracting relaxing music and plan out future experiments while worrying yourself silly over your lack of projects and sick over your son's not-as-bad-as-you-thought-but-not-great academic record, and two women park themselves at the end of your bay to discuss the ( Read more... )

 It's a sunny day in the border state, but a messy ice and snow storm is apparently on its way. I'm sitting at home burning through comp time waiting for a call from the school counselor. #1 son is in a bit of a mess academically and getting at his counselor is like trying to corner a drop of quicksilver. Phone calls, emails, requests for meetings ( Read more... )