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same_skyI can't believe how productive I've been today. Along with confusing most of my LJ friends (sorry, ya'll, I didn't know I was being so vague about the salt bowl. See? I didn't call it anything with a long dorky name this time!), I've done a heap of other stuff. I've paid the bills and deposited two salary checks in the bank, mailed the bills, mopped the kitchen and the bathroom--since ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
paradisecowgirl never showed up to clean my kitchen, I had to do it myself, cleaned the bathroom, downloaded two thingies for Magnus, fixed his start page (offline list of links that we use as browser start pages) and uploaded it so he could get it at work, scanned a picture of me as a kid that Magnus particularly likes and we borrowed from the parents, repotted my basil and parsley and sat them out in the sun for a while, done two loads of laundry, transferred the pictures in the camera and formatted the card (I'm really bad at remembering to do that), filed a bunch of papers and had lunch with my parents, planned and defrosted dinner ingredients, gotten the pictures ready to update my tatting blog (the internet connection is being extremely screwy, though, hence I'm writing here while I wait for it to stop.. multitasking!). It's only 4 pm, this getting up at 8:30 thing is for the birds!
Oh, right, did I mention that I'm getting up early now? I decided that it might help me with my boredom if I started getting up earlier. I'm not entirely sure how I came to that conclusion, since it really means that there are more hours in the day in which to be bored, but I've been doing it for a week now (including the weekend, which was scary) and it seems to be working. But this way, I'm up, showered and dressed and checked mail (not in that order, I must say) with a couple hours to spare before lunchtime, which means I can actually start working on stuff before lunch.
Speaking of working on stuff, I have a Plan now. I have three major things I want to work on in the coming weeks. I want to spend more time working on my Swedish. Possibly up to an hour a day, although that might vary. I'm going to learn PHP (hopefully this won't be too hard. I do have programming experience.) I want to work on writing a book. Haven't decided what this book will consist of, but I'm warming to the idea again. I always wanted to be a writer, right up until high school. Why did I stop in high school, you might wonder? Because the state of Kentucky decided that they were tired (understandably so) of being ranked 48th in education, and so they would implement this huge system called KERA. All the administrators were tremendously excited about it. All the teachers and students were pissed off in a major way. No one talked about the fact that this system was apparently tried in two other states. I could go on about this for ages. Anyway, the point is that we were forced to write in every single subject, especially math classes.
So what they've ended up with was a group of students with writing skills that shocked our college professors, apparently used to kids who can't string a coherent sentence together, when we got to college, but not a single one who still enjoyed it. Isn't that sad? Sometimes I honestly think that the purpose of public school is to kill out any possible love of learning that might remain in a child. I'm seriously considering homeschooling our kids, though I don't think M is too into the idea. It's been almost six years since I've been out of high school, and the enjoyment I used to find in writing is only now returning. I don't think that's a system that works, regardless of how it turns out with test scores.
paradisecowgirl never showed up to clean my kitchen, I had to do it myself, cleaned the bathroom, downloaded two thingies for Magnus, fixed his start page (offline list of links that we use as browser start pages) and uploaded it so he could get it at work, scanned a picture of me as a kid that Magnus particularly likes and we borrowed from the parents, repotted my basil and parsley and sat them out in the sun for a while, done two loads of laundry, transferred the pictures in the camera and formatted the card (I'm really bad at remembering to do that), filed a bunch of papers and had lunch with my parents, planned and defrosted dinner ingredients, gotten the pictures ready to update my tatting blog (the internet connection is being extremely screwy, though, hence I'm writing here while I wait for it to stop.. multitasking!). It's only 4 pm, this getting up at 8:30 thing is for the birds!Oh, right, did I mention that I'm getting up early now? I decided that it might help me with my boredom if I started getting up earlier. I'm not entirely sure how I came to that conclusion, since it really means that there are more hours in the day in which to be bored, but I've been doing it for a week now (including the weekend, which was scary) and it seems to be working. But this way, I'm up, showered and dressed and checked mail (not in that order, I must say) with a couple hours to spare before lunchtime, which means I can actually start working on stuff before lunch.
Speaking of working on stuff, I have a Plan now. I have three major things I want to work on in the coming weeks. I want to spend more time working on my Swedish. Possibly up to an hour a day, although that might vary. I'm going to learn PHP (hopefully this won't be too hard. I do have programming experience.) I want to work on writing a book. Haven't decided what this book will consist of, but I'm warming to the idea again. I always wanted to be a writer, right up until high school. Why did I stop in high school, you might wonder? Because the state of Kentucky decided that they were tired (understandably so) of being ranked 48th in education, and so they would implement this huge system called KERA. All the administrators were tremendously excited about it. All the teachers and students were pissed off in a major way. No one talked about the fact that this system was apparently tried in two other states. I could go on about this for ages. Anyway, the point is that we were forced to write in every single subject, especially math classes.
So what they've ended up with was a group of students with writing skills that shocked our college professors, apparently used to kids who can't string a coherent sentence together, when we got to college, but not a single one who still enjoyed it. Isn't that sad? Sometimes I honestly think that the purpose of public school is to kill out any possible love of learning that might remain in a child. I'm seriously considering homeschooling our kids, though I don't think M is too into the idea. It's been almost six years since I've been out of high school, and the enjoyment I used to find in writing is only now returning. I don't think that's a system that works, regardless of how it turns out with test scores.
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Date: 2003-04-03 07:02 am (UTC)I go back and forth about homeschooling. I think I could do an excellent job of it, if I don't get tired of having my kids around 24 hours a day. :) I'm so unimpressed with how schools teach kids, and it's not all their fault, of course, but now that it's not even completely safe to send them off to school.. I don't know. It's a sad, scary world.
I'll work on the reply mail in a little bit. I have never exposed my bare, unproofread skills to anyone but Magnus, so I'm a little nervous. *giggle* :)
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Date: 2003-04-03 07:12 am (UTC)I know what you mean :-) I only asked for help twice when I got completely stuck and didn't want to sound like a two-year old ;-) I sent a copy to Peter after I sent it to you and have a corrected version now -- you'll probably spot a few grammatical goofs yourself :)