I’m usually not a fan of frivolous lawsuits, but I have to sympathize with this student and his family (and agree with them in principle, if not in practice). The workload put on students in the public schools these days is unreasonable, and constantly getting worse.
Poetry Reorganization Status Update
Well, I have been working on tackling the poetry reorganization according to my plan. I have made a lot of progress.
I decided that, as is usually best practice in a major reorganization of anything, the first step was to organize and get a handle on what I had. So I brought up the old OSB website, my Website 12 poetry page, and my most recent poetry page. Armed with those three websites, I dove in and started accounting for everything in my poetry folder.
VDOT Drops the Ball
Today, it snowed. We’ve known for at least four days that it was supposed to snow today, and things went almost exactly the way they’d been predicted The only thing that didn’t go exactly as guessed was that the snow started falling around 9:00 a.m., rather than 1:00 p.m., but even that was predicted as of late last night.
Gail Berman’s American Idol Delusion
According to Gail Berman, head of Fox’s entertainment division, ratings for American Idol are expected to be lower this season (Reuters via Yahoo! News [no longer available]).
Berman says this is a natural consequence of the show’s age—it being in the fourth season and all. I say, bull.
Wedding Planning; Unplanned Early Departure from SoVA
As you may have read in Melissa’s LiveJournal, the weekend didn’t exactly go as planned. You can read many of the details over there.
Melissa and I met with my family in Bedford on Friday night and had a nice big discussion about the wedding and what was done and what still needs to be done and so on, which both helped me maintain my sanity about it and figure out where to go from here. It was a good, productive meeting.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.