A little over a week ago, my daughter had a 24 hour EEG. The results were very good. Not a single seizure was recorded in that 24 hour period. Now we deal with ADD.
Fuzzy's Dad won this weeks punch line. He won with this joke.
What you get if you cross Hillary Clinton with a poodle?
Or, for the few Democrats who read my blog:
What do you get if you cross John McCain with a bulldog?
You get charged with animal cruelty.
Please check in Monday to see next weeks “What’s my punch line!”
Most of you know that I work in a school cafeteria while going to school to get my teaching certificate. This job has provided many wonderful opportunities. I have had plenty of support from the principal and many teachers while going to school. They have provided helpful advice and guidance through my journey. I was even given the opportunity to work in the afternoons as a paraprofessional in the resource room. I love being with the children and I have gained lost of experience by being in many different classrooms and by working with the children. This leads me to my dilemma. I am about half way through my methods class. In order to pass this class I need twenty hours in a classroom, ten for observation, six for tutoring, and four hours in teaching a lesson to the whole class. I tried to compromise with my supervising teacher by working my schedule so I could be in a third grade class for about 30 minutes a day during their social studies class. This meant that she would need to supervise my language student while she did her independent work for about 15 minutes and then I would take over. It would be tight but I thought I would be able to complete my hours for my practicum by the end of the school year this way. Yesterday my supervising teacher told me that she was changing my schedule. I was trading place with another aid who was doing inclusion work. I said, “Ok.” because that is how I am. I then asked her was I still going to be able to be with my practicum teacher. Her response was only if my inclusion teachers did not need me. This is where I pull my hair out. That won’t work I have two month to get in about 17 hours and going in when they don’t need me will not come anywhere close to getting me the time I need to finish my class.
How do I solve this problem? On one hand, I love being with the children in the resource room, on the other hand I have to complete the practicum to pass the course. On one hand, my resource teacher is already short staffed and she really needs me as she is getting six more students. One the other hand I have already paid my tuition and bought my textbook and it is too late for a refund. It seems to me that my only option may be to quite my afternoon job. I hate doing that because I know what a bind that will put her in and I am afraid it would jeopardize my chances of ever working at that school again. Nevertheless, I really need to do my practicum. Where’s my duct tape my head is about to explode!
Quandary
quan·da·ry
Pronounced: kwŏn'də-rē, -drē
Definition: to be in a situation where it is very difficult to get.
I am in a quandary about who to get out of my resource job so I can complete my practicum for school.
I am continuing to show case women poets. I wanted to explore women poets whom I am unfamiliar with and I found a very interesting poem by Laura Riding Jackson. I found the following information about the poet.
Laura (Riding) Jackson was born Laura Reichenthal in New York City in 1901. Her first published poem appeared in The Fugitive in 1923. The next year she was awarded the magazine's "Nashville Prize" and invited to become a member of the Fugitive Group. In 1925 she sailed for England and, during thirteen years abroad (primarily in England and Majorca), wrote some twenty books of poetry, criticism, and story.
To read more about Laura Riding Jackson click on the link below. http://www.unc.edu/~ottotwo/LRJbiography.html
The poem I found is
Yes And No by Laura Riding Jackson
Across a continent imaginary
Because it cannot be discovered now
Upon this fully apprehended planet—
No more applicants considered,
Alas, alas—
Ran an animal unzoological,
Without a fate, without a fact,
Its private history intact
Against the travesty
Of an anatomy.
Not visible not invisible,
Removed by dayless night,
Did it ever fly its ground
Out of fancy into light,
Into space to replace
Its unwritable decease?
Ah, the minutes twinkle in and out
And in and out come and go
One by one, none by none,
What we know, what we don't know.
To read more poems by Laura Riding Jackson follow this link http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/laura_riding_jackson
Bamboozled
bam·boo·zled
Pronounced: bam-boo-zuh led
Definition: To dupe or trick. To get the better of someone by the use of trickery.
Wyatt Earp really bamboozled all of us when he told us he was quitting his blog. Bad, bad Wyatt.
While surfing the internet when I should have been studying I came across two very interesting articles that I wanted to share with the readers of my blog. Here is the first one.
Experts now recommend hands-only CPR By STEPHANIE NANO, Associated Press Writer - Tue Apr 1, 2:09 PM PDT
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NEW YORK - You can skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing and just press on the chest to save a life. In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that hands-only CPR — rapid, deep presses on the victim's chest until help arrives — works just as well as standard CPR for sudden cardiac arrest in adults.
Experts hope bystanders will now be more willing to jump in and help if they see someone suddenly collapse. Hands-only CPR is simpler and easier to remember and removes a big barrier for people skittish about the mouth-to-mouth breathing.
"You only have to do two things. Call 911 and push hard and fast on the middle of the person's chest," said Dr. Michael Sayre, an emergency medicine professor at Ohio State University who headed the committee that made the recommendation.
Hands-only CPR calls for uninterrupted chest presses — 100 a minute — until paramedics take over or an automated external defibrillator is available to restore a normal heart rhythm.
This action should be taken only for adults who unexpectedly collapse, stop breathing and are unresponsive. The odds are that the person is having cardiac arrest — the heart suddenly stops — which can occur after a heart attack or be caused by other heart problems. In such a case, the victim still has ample air in the lungs and blood and compressions keep blood flowing to the brain, heart and other organs.
A child who collapses is more likely to primarily have breathing problems — and in that case, mouth-to-mouth breathing should be used. That also applies to adults who suffer lack of oxygen from a near-drowning, drug overdose, or carbon monoxide poisoning. In these cases, people need mouth-to-mouth to get air into their lungs and bloodstream.
But in either case, "Something is better than nothing," Sayre said.
Goodall, a 49-year-old construction contractor, said he had been healthy and fit before the collapse, and there'd been no hint that he had clogged heart arteries.
"I was lucky," he said. Had the situation been reversed, "I wouldn't have known what to do."
"It's a second lease on life," he added.
For the rest of the article go to http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/hands_only_cpr.html.
I am relieved because I do not like to kiss anyone on the mouth except for my husband.
The second article I found is about a group of third graders out to get their teacher. Its stories like this that make me wonder about our future.
By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press Writer Tue Apr 1, 7:07 PM ET
WAYCROSS, Ga. - A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday.
The plot by as many as nine boys and girls at Center Elementary School in south Georgia was a serious threat, Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner said.
"We did not hear anybody say they intended to kill her, but could they have accidentally killed her? Absolutely," Tanner said. "We feel like if they weren't interrupted, there would have been an attempt. Would they have been successful? We don't know."
The children, ages 8 and 9, were apparently mad at the teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, Tanner said. A prosecutor said they are too young to be charged with a crime under Georgia law.
School officials alerted police Friday after a pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl had brought a weapon to school, Tanner said.
Police seized a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape, electrical and transparent tape, ribbons and a crystal paperweight from the students, who apparently intended to use them against the teacher, Tanner said.
Nine children have been given discipline up to and including long-term suspension, said Theresa Martin, spokeswoman for the Ware County school system. She would not be more specific but said none of the children had been back to school since the case came to light.
The purported target is a veteran educator who teaches third-grade students with learning disabilities including attention deficit disorder, delayed development and hyperactivity, friends and parents said.
The scheme involved a division of roles, Tanner said. One child's job was to cover windows so no one could see outside, he said. Another was supposed to clean up after the attack.
"We're not sure at this point in the investigation how many of the students actually knew the intent was to hurt the teacher," Tanner said.
For the rest of this article go to this link http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080401/ap_on_re_us/children_s_plot
I love ghost stories. I watch Ghost Whisperer, and anything about ghosts and hauntings on the Discovery Channel or the Travel channel. So when I saw this commercila I knew I just had to share it with the readers of my blog. Check it out you will be amzed.
Lucubrate
lu·cu·brate
Pronounced: loo-kyoo-breyt
Definition: To study very hard, especially at night.
Posting will be light for the next few days; I need to lucubrate for my mid-term.
I really should be studying right now instead of posting, but my brain is full and I need a break. Now that I have been formally accepted into the teaching certification program, I am now taking my methods classes. The first class is Social Studies Methods. It has been very interesting so far. 
