Seven Quick Takes: It's September 18th!

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Shhh.  I am actually writing this on Thursday night.  At 11:30.  Because I'm still up.  We are so cute right now.  I'm over here on the desktop and K is on his laptop.  Earlier, he tried to get on the Internet and couldn't.  He asked me if I was on the Internet.  I said yes.  He said, but it tells me that there are no networks, so how are you on the Internet.  I told him that I didn't know what was going on with HIS computer, but that *I* was on the Internet.  Then I considered sticking my tongue out at him and saying "so there", but I didn't, because I'm mature and all that.  

He had accidentally turned off his wireless card or something like that.  So there.

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I am still up because I am overtired.  We had to go to High School tonight.  And my feet hurt.  I had to go from the girls' gym (where my son does not have class, but his 1st period class is actually out at the track and all the coaches who are normally at the track were at the girls' gym instead so we didn't have to walk out to the stadium and back... longest run on sentence ever in this blog entry.) all the way to the band room, which is way on the other side of the building, and then I, make that WE because I was with K, WE had to go all the way BACK to the other side of the building to Civics class.  Which is pretty much the farthest point away from the band room but still be in the main building.  

End of long sentence.  Followed by sentence fragments.  I am having bad memories from my AP English class, where students would get an automatic ZERO for grammar in an essay if you had even one run-on sentence or a sentence fragment.  Guess I get a zero for this blog entry's grammar.  Good thing I'm no longer in high school!

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We did have fun at the Open House though.  We got to see all of our son's teachers, and all of his friends' parents, and some of our own friends too.  This made it hard to make it to class on time because we kept stopping to talk with someone.  And we almost got in trouble for talking in class too!

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We got recess during one period, because the teacher was sick and wasn't there.  I really did want to meet her too.  Maybe some other time.

I went and bought him a school sweatshirt and joined the PTA and bought his yearbook instead during that time.  High school is expensive.

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I really liked his English teacher.  There are only 10 students in his English class too, which is unusually small, and incredibly ideal.  I loved her approach to the students - trying to encourage them to like the literature that they are being forced to read for school.  They're going to read The Tempest next.  They will also read Julius Caeser this year, but she wanted their first exposure to Shakespeare this year to be a play in which people are still alive at the end of the play.  She says that she never read any of his comedies in high school and thought that everyone always dies in his plays.  I laughed, because I remember thinking that too in high school.  

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It will be nice for them to read a comedy.  The last novel was Lord of the Flies.  I'd forgotten how dismally horrid that book is.  Though perhaps it's horrid because we don't like peering at that side of the human psyche.  <-- now there is a deep sentence for 7 quick takes?

But first they have to finish um, I can't remember the title.  Something about a Masque.  Anyway, they've been assigned a multimedia project - any way they want to do it, as long as it's about Masks, literal and figurative.  Mac's going to do a video project.  

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However, we discovered that our movie editing program didn't work with the videos from our camera.  He's doing a bunch of short videos and putting them together, and our digital camera has a nice short video capability, but it results in .mov files.  And the editing program didn't work with that.

And I have saved the day, with a converter that changes the .mov file to an .avi file and now it WORKS!  I am so happy that I made this work for him!  

And that's all I have today.  It's late at night. and I'm going to go ahead and publish this.  Happy quick takes Friday Thursday!

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Comments

[theRosyGardener]

*shudder* to Lord of the Flies! I hated that book in high school and was so glad when the book was NOT required at the school my younger sibs have attended/are attending. The Tempest should be a nice pick me up after that one, footnotes and all! (moseyed over from CD for QuickTakes).