My Son Writing

My Son's Kindergarten Class

First Day of School for Both Kids

kindergarten and 4th grade for the son and daughter.

Daughter Dressed for "Apple Valley Days" for School

School Open House 5

School Open House 4

School Open House 3

School Open House 2

Kids at School Open House 1

A C'mon!

I cannot believe what a whimpish sort you all are. I see EXACTLY who goes to my blog and EXACTLY who clicks what. You all can't help ONE student out with clicking on the below? There are three days left. Please do so. When I attempted to be a student, either I had time or I had money. I do not wish this curse on anyone else. Help Amanda out, ok? Click! Click for your lives!

What's Your Favorite Toy? Brickfish

3k Clicks to Catch Up

Amanda's trying for that scholarship still and she has 3k clicks to catchup to the lead. So c'mon, folks. Just a few more!

What's Your Favorite Toy? Brickfish

New Mexico Better Than Most States for Good Teachers!?!

Which states are which is just... bizarre.

Just. Not. Right.

A college class based entirely around Blizzard's real-time strategy game StarCraft has opened at UC Berkeley, according to a course listing found by StarCraft Wire.

The class will begin with a lecture on topics "from the viewpoint of pure theory to the more computational aspects of how exactly battles are conducted." Following the lecture, replays of students' battles will be "analyzed," and "homework" will be assigned.

(o.O)

While fun, ummm, does this really need to be a class?

Amanda Needs You Again!

What's Your Favorite Toy? Brickfish

Amanda is seeking a scholarship via brickfish! She wants to go to school full time and sorely needs the money. She doesn't want you to give her money, but rather simply click on the vote for her favourite toy. She's fallen from second to fourth place and she needs some mad clicking help. Since clicking is pretty cheap even in this economy, please do so!

Amanda Seeks a Scholarship

Amanda of Self-Designed Student is seeking to go to school full time. She needs scholarships and you can help her get one by clicking vote below.

What's Your Favorite Toy? Brickfish

Vote early! Vote often!

VOTE BRIAN!

There's a scholarship of $10k for science bloggers. The internet folks get to decide who gets it based on a vote. Brian Switek of Laelaps has become a candidate and I would strongly suggest that people go vote for him. Please, go vote for him. Brian's a good guy and an excellent sci-blogger. It will only take a couple seconds of your time.

Thanx, folks.

All Done

For this semester at least.

I finished my finals today and Lyuda finished hers yesterday.

We. Are. Relieved.

Excitement and Headaches

I've been trying to get my wife registered for her next semester. We worked out the schedule, but stumbled upon how to fit in her first chem class. If she has to take it in the fall, it's gonna cause issues by pushing out her transfer date. Making it worse is that we need to fit something in that's 'interesting' for her. She took two math classes this semester along with english and a couple 'fun' classes, but they were not intellectually stimulating much. Hence she got bored. There are a few possibilities replacement classes, but she has another 6 classes that are contingent on this first chem. oy.

I'm starting classes again to try to get that procrastinated degree in the spring. I went and took the placement test since I've been out of school for so long. I was concerned that I might have forgotten too much or that my english is not no goot these thar days. I whizzed through the test in far less than half the time necessary. I was a little concerned because in my experience if it is too easy you probably screwed up. Turned out I was wrong: I placed as high as they allow. Even so, I am going to see the department heads about what I can register for/test/skip ahead in (klep is what my folks used to call it).

We're off in 3 hours to catch a flight to Hawaii! We'll be in Honolulu for a week, but we'll do some island hopping at the same time. Blogging is going to be pretty nonexistent for the next week. I'm splitting work early to help finish the packing.

Happy TDay everyone. See you in a week!