Just how old is that textbook?

Last night I was helping Critter study for his social studies BA (benchmark assessment – I guess test is a word that causes too much stress).  One of the questions on the study sheet was “What does the First Lady do?” (Yup, you guessed it, the test is on government).  The answer, supplied by the [...]

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The world gone mad

This week has seen the world turn upside down in a way I could hardly have imagined.  It started Monday morning when my boss’ daughter, called.  She was the first to inform us of the Virginia Tech shootings as her daughter (and my boss’ grandaughter) is currently a student there.  As it turns out, the daughter [...]

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Burned out

Last week was a “week from Hell” at work.  The department was short a staff member (vacation), which in and of itself would not have been bad except that we got almost as many literature search requests during that week than we did for the first three weeks of March.  All I did at work [...]

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