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Post by Taita Collins on Jul 15, 2007 10:41:31 GMT -5
... Possibly. XD;
It was highly amusing, however.
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Post by Katie on Jul 15, 2007 10:45:14 GMT -5
Hehe.
Well, I'm off to finish packing, eat lunch, and then leave. Bye everyone. I'll reconnect with ya'll later, probably Friday or Saturday.
I'd better not come back and find a smoking crater where KU used to be. -eyes Nex and Jiro in particular-
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Post by Katie on Jul 20, 2007 15:25:57 GMT -5
I RETURN. XD
I shall be playing catch-up on posts later on tonight, tomorrow at the latest.
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Post by Taita Collins on Jul 20, 2007 15:45:56 GMT -5
Yaaay, welcome back. ^_^
And how was your week?
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Post by Katie on Jul 20, 2007 15:49:33 GMT -5
Beware the radioactive sheep. >D
And it was great. I feel like someone has just dumped a truck load of information on top of me, so I'm still trying to process everything.
And Dad sent me e-mails and a care package. That really meant a lot to me.
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Post by Taita Collins on Jul 20, 2007 15:55:44 GMT -5
Aww. That's nice. ^^ Glad to hear you had a nice time.
Radioactive sheep? D: Did they eat the carrots >3
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Post by mathoni on Jul 20, 2007 15:56:02 GMT -5
Welcome back, you were much missed. Your absence partially explains why things have been quiter around here lately.
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Post by Katie on Jul 20, 2007 16:02:03 GMT -5
It's a bit of an inside joke really. The director conducted orientation on Sunday night, and he said:
To the north is a radioactive waste dump haunted by radioactive sheep.
To the west is the edge of the world. Don't fall off.
To the east is a fate worse than death -- the state headquarters for the Democratic party. (Lots of conservative Republicans present in the room. xD )
But to the point: Tthe entire week, jokes had a "sheep" theme. xD
I'm glad to be back Keeper. Hopefully things will pick up some.
EDIT: RADIOACTIVE CARROT CAKE! I just remembered that! xD
I need to whip up a few. I think I have some radioactive waste from the nuclear reactor in my basement. Or I can always check the one on my submarine, or the aircraft carrier...
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Post by mathoni on Jul 20, 2007 16:54:36 GMT -5
Power to the conservative Republican's :-) Someday I plan to run for senate. Any of the rest of you old enough and plan on voting in the next election. The presidential election is a fun topic to me, but most of my friends care less, so I end up talking it a lot with my dad, but the only thing we dont agree on is that McCain would be my second choice and my dad wont vote for him at all, (well maybe if it came down to McCain v Clinton he would, but he refuses to vote in the primaries for McCain.) So if anyone cares about this let me know :-)
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Post by Katie on Jul 20, 2007 17:01:04 GMT -5
Clinton does not need a third term in the White House.
And yes, I will be voting in the next election.
I haven't been paying much attention to the candidates, and none of them really stand out to me. But I do know that this election promises to be... well, to the say the least, interesting.
EDIT: Who would be your first choice Keeper?
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Post by mathoni on Jul 20, 2007 17:16:33 GMT -5
Mitt Romney is my first choice. If you want to read about him go to mittromney.com He's very quilified and I like his social views as well as military views. And having run a number of multi billion dollar companies and saved them from financial disaster I think he could do wonders with our economy, at least as much good as the president can do for it.
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Post by Katie on Jul 20, 2007 20:14:35 GMT -5
I definitely agree that our economy has issues that need to be resolved -- our ridiculous trade deficit for one. We also need to do something about the amount of oil we are importing, and consuming.
And education? Don't get me started. I have been in the public school system my entire life, and I live in a state where high school graduation is 50% (last time I heard) and SAT scores are the among the lowest in the country. I am very blessed to have been zoned to excellent schools and given excellent teachers. And one of the major problems? Too much bureaucracy. If Romney can streamline the educational system -- it's to the point where the tail is wagging the dog -- then he would have my vote (and my deep gratitude if he actually pulls it off).
But that's probably asking too much. The President has a country to run.
But whoever wins, God help him. People seem to have this idea about leadership -- that leaders can just consume, and dictate, and serve their own interests -- when in fact, the greatest among us are those who would be servants, who would be the least.
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Post by mathoni on Jul 20, 2007 23:49:11 GMT -5
I'm impressed Katie, if I remember right you're probably just going to be old enough to vote in the 08 elections, but you have well thought out points. Something certainly does need to be done about our public school system. Thirty years ago it was the finest system in the world, but they've really gotten their priorties screwed up. For example, I have a little sister in elementary school, which is on a year round system, which in many ways I think is a good idea. But they are required to have so many days of school per year. So because they have to have some many school days my little sister is supposed to go back to school this Monday, but Tuesday is a state holiday so Monday is only a half day and they are out on Tuesday. What good does your first day back to school do if its only a half day followed by a day off, the kids are not going to get anything out of it. Just take the day off and start back on Wednesday, if you need some extra time, add it in somewhere where it will still be a usuful day of learning.
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Post by Taita Collins on Jul 21, 2007 6:15:55 GMT -5
He has good points economically speaking.
He is against gay marriage.
My point is made. o.x
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Post by Katie on Jul 21, 2007 6:43:45 GMT -5
Thank you Keeper.
Agreed. There is too much paperwork, politics, and wastefulness. For example: My district has borrowed a lot of money to build a lot of new schools in an attempt to keep up with the rapid population growth in our area. Now, I don't know anything about most of these schools, but I do know some of the shenanigans that has been going on with the construction of one local high school:
The plans were drawn up in the early '90s. Construction does not start until after the year 2000. It took that long to get authorization.
Now the new building is finished. It's a nice building. It's definitely better than the old building. (For example, we now have 17 toilets to serve six hundred females instead of only 7, likewise for males.) but it will not be able to keep up with projected growth. In two years, there will be portables, and parking spaces will be a precious commodity (we shall have to beg permission to use the parking lot of the Baptist church down the street).
So yes, it is a nice building. But our district spent millions of dollars on this project (taxpayer dollars might I add), and they couldn't be bothered to make sure that it was built to meet the needs of the teachers and students, who will have to use it. In the '90s, when the plans were being drawn up, the teachers sat down for hours and wrote out specifications for what they wanted and handed them in.
The programming teacher wanted stadium computer labs -- that is how computer labs have been built for the past few years, and it's the best way to build them. Didn't happen. Now we have cables all over the place. The science teachers wanted a movable partition between the classroom and the lab. They got a solid wall. And there were other things as well, but those are the two I remember most clearly.
So it's a poorly designed building, and the people are just going to have to make do with it for (probably) another thirty years, because there won't be money to do anything about it for a long, long, long time.
My point: The education system is no longer about education. It's a "Let's see how much money and resources we can waste and how difficult we can make the work of our teachers" exercise.
And yes, I do agree that the whole thing about the first day of school being a half-day and the next a holiday. That is nonsense. I imagine that is going to drive teachers up the wall.
I agree with him.
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