Posted by wendy b. on April 27, 2003, at 12:19:27
In reply to Re: sometimes the day's ok » wendy b., posted by leeran on April 26, 2003, at 23:38:38
Lee,
> I have another post in the hopper to you in response to your great post on Pax's thread, but it doesn't feel finished (it needs to be edited by about 90%).
Well, you know what I meant about editing. And since you are an editor yourself (or a wordsmith of some sort), like me, I understand the impulse! But that would be nice, to get a response (god, sometimes you spill your guts on here, and NO reaction feels kinda bad... >>sniff, sniff<<)
> I just wanted to say "this d*mn economy!" I'm sorry to hear about both of these situations. I've basically lost two jobs that were concurrent in the last year - one publication went out of business (economy) and the other one had to cut down on the outside sales staff (economy again).Oh god! ouch! It feels like we're just going to have to get used to the fact that budgets are shrinking, and get out some old skills and start polishing them up. And I hate polishing...
> The public school my son attends has a deficit of over a million dollars and is laying off office staff, teachers, a couple of guidance counselors, etc. They've asked for $600 per student to help make it through the first part of next year . . . (of course, you would think our unbelievably high property taxes out here, the same ones that make my heart palpatate, would be enough, but apparently not).
This just makes me so angry. A public school asking for a subsidy from its taxpayers? I haven't heard of that trick yet! NY state cannot even get a budget in on time, it's still not passed yet! And the schools have to carry on like they have the money already, which they don't. So it's a whole circle of events that's screwed up royally. And I mean, I as a parent, never mind the teacher, work a lot of volunteer hours for our school already, field trip chaperone, school fairs, supporting kids selling candy so they can take trips that the district should pay for, book fairs, can drives, etc. etc. etc.
> Reading your post and writing the above paragraph has momentarily produced a need in me to complain about something I heard on the news last week.
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> The woman being interviewed owns an educational company of some type that's just been awarded a government contract (U.S.) for rewriting the curriculum in the Iraqi school system . . .!!!!
Like: what? I can just see it... (Saturday Night Live, where are you? take the ball and run with it!)"In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two,
Columbus sailed the ocean blue..." ???
> Now, I understand that we upset the apple cart over there - but schools in our country suffer from overcrowding, security issues, and countless other problems that need attending to.... but that's why none of the teachers I know were supportive of the war, we see this every day. Why should the children here go without, in order to pay for violence abroad? Why are you being asked to cough up $600 that you undoubtedly do not have? Or any working family?
> It's good to hear that your day was filled with enjoyable moments, music and merriment (alliteration always).
Excellent work, Lady Poet. I can always deal with the pre-teens better with a glass of Pinot Noir in my hand...
> And it's also good to hear that you have a game plan!!!
Always! I'm good at it, too... The BF calls me, alternately, "Trouble Maker," or "Pain in the Ass"! Lovingly, of course...
>Hey, speaking of rabble rousing . . . why don't you borrow that neighbor's truck (the one that revs the old motor repeatedly) and load up everyone and park outside the human resources office?
Brill! The guy next door would finally have a use for it! Transporting masses of angry workers...
>Of course, that would be perceived as being vindictive . . . Can you tell that I initially had you filed in my memory bank as "Wendy with the hilarious way of telling the neighbor with the truck story"?
I am honored you thought of me that way! Now it can be: "Wendy, who has joined the ranks of unemployed teachers..."
> Here's to an even happier Sunday -
We're workin' on it... ("Where's the opium pipe?")
bless you,
W.
poster:wendy b.
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