look at me still talking when there's science to do

link from the lovely reannon, who also thinks this is a horrifyingly bad idea: four day school week proposed.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO FUCK NO.

(this is the podmommies. i just know it. this was proposed by some freaky mother who waits on tenterhooks for their little darlings to come home so they can live life again.)

oh god no no no. such a horrifyingly BAD IDEA.

every time something like this happens - when they talk about making these wonderful changes to the school week or year or what have you - I have to fight down terror that this means i'll never manage to get actual work done because some parent somewhere with no reason for living unless their little angel is stapled to their hip starts pulling this kind of crap.

(yes, it is an irrational fear. i know that. as much as i still don't want to go to therapy tomorrow, i'll probably go, and eventually it'll get around to this stuff. that's going to be fun. i keep telling myself that they're not going to use the same immersion therapy they do on things like spider phobias.

probably.

i hope.)

(god, standard cognitive behavioral therapy doesn't work on me. i've tried. and failed. many times. augh.)

also, here's an awesome link about the success of the international polar year which was 2008. there's some great sidebar links about antarctica. i'll be here with my heating pad and my intensely sore joints quietly panicking over this four day school week crap.