Yay for time zone diversity!

Yes, what is being described is anorexia but not necessarily anorexia nervosa.

Huh. Let me check. Thanks for the idea.

I pm'ed you. We have a big city library which I could visit if necessary. Thank you so much for your help!

I am in California. I am needing the exact wording of a regulation from the business code as it was in 1997. Is there a way to look this up online? TIA

Yes. I served as the only professional reference for a robotics cocoach reentering the workforce. It was fine. I would think through how the reference could best speak to your credentials, and make sure he will do that. No need to explain on the application.

My advice to anyone seeking a midlife career change: Get thee to the career counselor at your local community college or university. Treat it with the same seriousness as you would helping your own child find a career. Then, expect there to be a 1-3 year ramp up time before you make a decent salary. In that time period you will either be working entry level jobs or retraining. Don't expect much autonomy or decent pay. This is not some conspiracy, but rather how the job market works. My other piece of advice: Network, network, network. Join professional organizations. Look for women's business associations. Anything that will connect you with people who hire or might become potential customers or clients.

What in the world? We need a movie version. Lol

Listened to The Crossover by Kwame Alexander, 2015 Newberry winner, with the kids. Two thumbs up. The kids loved the basketball story, I enjoyed the language and the rhyme.

I am tall but have had excellent luck with reasonably priced professional clothes at Christopher & Banks.

This made me laugh. I am drowning in work related projects and readings, so my own pleasure reading has ground to a halt. My homeschool read alouds are not grabbing me at the moment, and I find my mouth moving while my brain composes grocery lists. I am excited to read what other people have going on, though. It gives hope.

So fun reading an Inspector Singh review. I received the first book in the series for Christmas and enjoyed it despite not being much of a mystery fan. This is making me want to continue in the series...

Shhhh. Don't tell the homeschooling curriculum police, but I cancelled all classic children's literature and nonfiction of consequence in favor of a Fudge fest. For the last 10 days we have gorged on Judy Blume: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Fudge, Double Fudge. And it has been a wonderful pick-me-up out of the homeschool blahs.

RE Finding testing sites for AP and CLEP. Our local high school is very accommodating for AP whereas the closest CLEP testing site for high school students is a 45 minute drive. It varies widely depending on where you live.

Another random thought. Some people who end up in the "not enough" space do better with the exact opposite tactic of expanding mindfulness practice: meditation, yoga, etc. Basically retrain the brain to look internally. I hate it when people tell me that. :-D

I get plenty if intellectual stimulation at home. What I don't get is novelty and the occasional adrenaline rush. If I were in your shoes I would probably train for a hike on the Appalachian trail and learn to sky dive.

Apocalypse Now: Redux. Yes, I accidentally got a longer version of the movie than the 1979 release. Go me. There was an absolutely hilarious scene in Part I where the men steal Kilgore's surfboard before taking off in the boat. My son and I rolled with laughter. But Part II as pretty much a gore fest. I closed my eyes through much of it. What I did see struck my as heavily drug influenced. Or maybe it was just the 1970's? My verdict, idnib, is that it had some educational merit but I will likely not watch again.

Popcorn and Apocalypse Now. Is there a homeschooling merit badge for this? We are still towards the beginning of the movie, and thus far it is worse than the mummified chicken and better than the counselor's letter. :-P

"Nuthin' like it." So funny and so wrong. ETA What he should have said: Smells like....birth defects.

Laughing at the "loving the smell of napalm" comment. I agree that pairing HoD with Things Fall Apart is a great way to approach the material. I have decided to watch Apocalypse Now with ds, though we don't have a specific time picked and this one won't happen if not scheduled. Y'all can cover me when I go in.

I went with Extreme Exposure (I-Team #1), figuring it was best to start with the first in the series. I enjoyed the 6 hours of audio when I was driving--it made the traffic bearable and I came to care about the characters. However, it was tougher to stick with it thereafter since I typically listen while driving with kids in the car and her series is not kid friendly. Also, the last third of the book is heavy on suspense and felt over the top to me. But maybe it's because I wasn't in traffic. LOL. I would read another, especially if parked on a beach somewhere.

Thank you for the heads up. I think I will watch it with teen son (since he read HoD as part of homeschooling) and walk away if it is too much.

I think it is dang near exploitation to include minor children in these reality TV shows. At least in Hollywood they would have a measure of protection under California's much stricter labor laws. In Arkansas? Not so much.

Oh goodness. Adding this to my to-read list.. I found her Gifts from Sea to be very moving and would probably love this one. As far as female adventurer books, one of my favorites is Beryl Markham's West with the Night. There is some controversy over it--as in, did she even write it--but the prose is lyrical and the story fantastic. (I read it to my kids, and my then 11 or 12 year old daughter decided to research and write a biographical essay about Markham and present to a very conservative homeschool group. The fact that she had a gajillion lovers and husbands did not go over well. Oops.)

I just finished HoD with my son. The Achebe essay (speech) is well worth it because of the different perspective. I ordered Apocalypse Now from Netflix but have put off watching it because I have recollections of gore and I am a gore wimp these days. Should I? Shouldn't I? ETA Oh wait. A day late and a dollar short. That's what happens when I get behind on a thread. :lol: