A Reaction to A Reaction to A Post

Ok… so what happened here? 

I have this nice (at least I hope it’s nice), quiet little blog where I post things that interest me and hope those posts might interest others and provide some kind of encouragement.  I’ve made some acquaintances and am enjoying chatting with others in cyberspace – by the way, thanks to those of you who comment.

Anyway, last night I mentioned (Miss Sister 2008 – A New Habit) a little article I noticed running across the top of my screen and immediately started getting visits… lots of visits (at least for me).  I generally get visited by 30 to 50 people per day, but suddenly received nearly 2,000 visits from this one post (not at all normal) - in one day.  Weird.  And all those visits yielded only a few comments.  Again, weird.

So I’m thinking… why?  Why was this so interesting to so many people?  I really didn’t comment on anything, I just mentioned the article.  Then it hit me – ewwww (can a guy say that?)… the title may sound like some kind of Porno thing.  I hope this isn’t true, but still… ewwww.  I feel like I might need Trish’s Goof Off  to clean up my notebook.

Am I hallucinating?  Has this happened to anyone else?

I don't remember where I found this. If I stole it from you...sorry

What is Lake Titicaca? – It still makes me laugh.

My son (12 years old) took me to see the new Star Wars (Clone Wars) movie tonight.  We were actually supposed to see The Mummy, but he misread the newspaper and thought it started at 6:30pm instead of the actual 7:30pm.  So we settled on Star Wars at 6:50, bought our popcorn and cokes (I know, I’m supposed to stop drinking Coke – according to my New School Year Resolutions - but it’s not September 1 yet) and settled into an empty theater.

Since we had thirty minutes to kill and were in an empty theater, we thought nothing of sitting and talking.  We noticed the screen was looping through about six movie quotes, and after the third time through we started calling out the answers just before they were revealed.  I was reminded of a scene from my favorite movie, Groundhog Day, when Bill Murray is sitting in the B&B living room eating snacks and calling out the answers (actually, questions) during Jeopardy (“What is Lake Titicaca?” still cracks me up – Junior High potty humor still makes me laugh).  Anyway, my son seemed to like the movie.

I found it interesting that only four other people entered the theater to watch the movie with us – and they were all adults - until I realized that school started today (I guess good parents don’t take their kid to a movie on a school night), there was a baseball game going on across the way, and some other big event was going in another stadium down the street.

I guess there wasn’t that much to report.  We just had a great time together.  Again.  (He’s not a teenager, yet).

Teachers Packing Heat – Guns in School

It’s Monday.  Kids are heading back to school.  And I watched this headline scroll across my screen, “Texas Students Pack Bookbags; Teachers Pack Heat,” I remembered hearing something about this a few weeks ago, yet for some reason I was still surprised.

The first student quote was interesting, “It was kind of awkward knowing that some teachers were carrying guns” (something I guess I didn’t expect to hear in the USA during my lifetime).  The student went on to say, “I don’t feel like they should be, ’cause we already have locked doors and cameras.  But I didn’t feel threatened by it.”

This isn’t particularly new (the decision by the Harrold, Texas school board was made last fall) it just hadn’t been publicized until now.

I’m a teacher and a parent.  While I certainly understand both sides of an argument regarding guns in school (could Columbine have been diverted by a teacher?, will an unstable teacher carry a weapon on campus, could a student access a teacher’s weapon, etc.), I don’t think this is the greatest idea.

What do you think?

Up To Me – I Can’t Get It out of My Head

It’s been a busy day, but even a busy day needs music – particularly music featuring some rockin’ bagpipes.  I responded to a post by a friend earlier today and now have a song stuck in my head (fortunately it replaced the ABBA songs that were stuck in there by Sanity Found and Persistent Illusion - by the way…thanks).

Here’s a Seven Nations video (Up To Me) – enjoy: