2010 May — Scheiss Weekly

No Stopping or Blocking

May 31, 2010 – 4:54 am

Mamacita says: I love grammar. I love the logic of it. I love how there is a name and purpose for each word in a sentence. I love how it takes a little intellect to put a good sentence together. I love the almost mathematical precision of a good sentence, coupled with the brilliance of [...]

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Mamacita (The Real One) Rants About Wiggly Kids and Recess and Stuff

May 29, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: Some of this was first posted on June 30, 2007, but my opinion hasn’t changed since then, and I’ve added a few more opinionated Mamacita-isms. Are you surprised? I didn’t think you would be. “No two people are alike, and both of them are damn glad of it.” That’s a quotation; that’s not [...]

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Oxymoron.

May 27, 2010 – 6:24 pm

What do the words “school system” make me think of? Heh.

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Because.

May 23, 2010 – 10:39 pm

Rerun. November, 2004. Before some of you were born, yes? == Mamacita says: Remember that anecdote about the young bride whose husband asked her why she cut the beef roast* in half before she put it in the pan? She told him she did it that way, because her mother always did it that way. [...]

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Facts Are The Enemy of Truth

May 22, 2010 – 6:12 pm

Repost from May 19, 2006. Because it was on my mind. It’s always on my mind. This is the irrational season When love blooms bright and wild, Had Mary been filled with reason, There’d have been no room for the child. –by Madeleine L’Engle Madeleine has been one of my idols for many years. I [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Rain

May 22, 2010 – 1:29 am

We’ve had nothing but torrential rain for over two weeks. Our grass is so high it can’t be mown with a regular mower; we’ll have to use the tractor and the bush hog. I’ve seen other people who’ve tried to keep their grass mown, but their yards look like a weird combination of nice short [...]

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A Good Principal’s Qualities

May 20, 2010 – 3:06 am

The Education Wonks did me the honor of posting my opinion of what makes a good principal on his blog several years ago, and speaking of the Wonks, I really hope he comes back soon. Most schools are in their last couple of weeks now, so I thought maybe it was time to post this [...]

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It Is A Terrible Thing Not To Become An Adult When One Ceases To Be A Child

May 16, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: Oh, there will be people who won’t like this post. Fair warning: some people will be hit below the belt. Perhaps it’s high time somebody aimed at these people below the belt. There’s been far too much rationalizing about this behavior, and there are way too many euphemisms for it. Each family deals [...]

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Professors Are Mean. Here’s Why.

May 3, 2010 – 11:02 am

Mamacita says: Today is the first day of the rest of your life the last week of the semester – every student’s favorite week, naturally. I predict that several students will come to class NEXT week, and be all astounded and sputtery that the semester is over and they can’t take the final. But then, [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Stars. . . in your multitudes, scarce to be counted, filling the darkness with order and light. . . .

May 1, 2010 – 1:42 am

Mamacita: I know that the rest of this song is about being inflexible, but these few lines are, indeed, about the stars. (Javert meant well, but was too inflexible about human nature.) Lately there have been a myriad – a veritable constellation, if you will – of pictures of stars, including our own, sent back [...]