Flash Cards & Followers

Jill: Why don't we have any followers? I do know 3 people who have read our blog other than us. Should we deny them access unless they validate us by becoming our Followers? I think cash bribes would work. We need followers!

Did God hear Henry's prayer? Teddy thinks he's Jewish and wonders when his bat mitzvah is going to be (never as A) we are not Jewish and B) he is not a girl) and the other two refer to Jesus as either the Baby Jeebus or the Baby Cheesus. Clearly our religious education is lacking. Must get on that. Add it to the list of things I must get to when I have a moment.

I'd just like to take a minute to plug the lowly flash card. Yes, flash cards. I enrolled in Portland Community College after I realized that my creative writing degree from Arizona basically rendered me unemployable. I am currently taking math and science courses, which I avoided at all costs in high school and college, basically because they would have interfered with all the rest of the things that were going on in my life. Now that I think of it, the only things I had going on were occasional part time jobs, babysitting, reading books, sleeping, drinking/being hungover, and eating. I am doing better in these classes now, when I have about 50 things that I need to do that involve keeping other people alive, than I ever did when I had no one but myself to take care of. My final was today. Every single word, phrase, or concept that came out of my instructor's mouth went on a flash card. Some of my classmates are my age and even older. They're working hard. But then we have the 20 somethings that have really nothing going on except part time jobs, occasional babysitting, sleeping, and eating. They MOCK my flash cards. "Really?" they say when I tell them how I study. "Flash cards? I never use those." Yet all these scholars are getting C's and D's and I am fairly certain yet not totally positive until I see it online, that I got an A. Yep. Flash cards. Next time I write in between overseeing my children's religious education ("it's JE-SUS, not JEE-BUS") and doing all the other things I swore I would do when I had free time, I will explore the wonders of the college experience in the year 2009. Online courses! e-mail! Google! It is truly a different world.

As for daily posts...today's would be: 'It's really cold and I have hat head."