With interest? And when (the paying back, not the pizza)?

I especially hate how I want to do other, more fun stuff, but then it all goes down the drain because of writing.

Kids learning to right is completely optional, write?

Oh, and Celery was of course just through with everything by then as well, so I told him to go take a shower, and instead he's been in the bathtub for I don't know, way over an hour. Oh, and I've been getting depressed lately, which doesn't help with *anything*.

I can't teach writing. Celery was supposed to make an outline, and spent 2 hours doodling instead, and I don't know. Eventually I made him sit with me, and he went into a meltdown that he was almost done, and I asked him how much longer, and he said 5 min, so I set a timer for 5 min. Then he wasn't done yet, of course, but he was almost done, and I made him sit with me and we finished it together. I don't know... I struggle with how to keep him on task, since on the one hand, it ticks me off that he just doodles instead of even trying, and he's in 5th grade... I shouldn't have to hold his hand all the time (to be clear, it's not always this bad... sometimes he gets his writing done in a reasonable time, sometimes he spends too much time doodling in between writing, but still gets it done without it being too ridiculous, and then like today, it's just off-the-charts not-even-trying getting-nothing-done-but-refusing-help-until-I-absolutely-force-him-against-his-will...). And then by the end of it I'm exhausted (doesn't help that I've got a cold). Oh, at some point I told him that he could play with the helicopters when he's done with his writing... but he ended up deciding he didn't want to play with the helicopters.

bullying...

I didn't mean anyone has to spend a year on ancient lit. Just that I don't think it'd be hard to do. I think we also still have some (all?) of Sima Qian's histories, right? One time, we saw a sign outside a store that said "we sharpen everything", so I turned to DW and asked "do you think they can sharpen my wit?". My parents are having their 40th wedding anniversary in Sept, and I'm thinking of taking them to the place where they had their honeymoon (mostly because I was thinking of taking them and the kids there, and then later realized they were going to have their anniversary, lol). So, I've spent the evening researching cost, etc, and also whether the people who ran the B&B when I was a kid/teen are still the same people running it etc. Apparently not... the woman died in '08, and her husband in '10. He was 59 (I don't know how old she was... I found this on a "light a candle" website). So, one of their kids is running the place (and another one running a place nearby). I'm not super surprised that they died... I thought they were older than my parents, which, well, at least the man was, but he was only 3 years older than my mom... and he died 7 years ago (and I don't think his wife was significantly older than him or anything). So, now I'm like, feeling weird about telling my parents (I'd talked to my mom about this recently, and she also thought they were significantly older, like at least 10 years older or so). Like, "hey, let's go to the place where you had your honeymoon for your 40th anniversary, and where we occasionally went on vacation when I was a kid/teen, and btw, those people who ran it, who were barely any older than you, died when they were younger than you are now... just wanted to make sure you feel nice and old and mortal and stuff". Like I said, just feeling weird. And my parents are still young (well, middle-aged, but not old)... they're 61 and 63.

That's not actually what I wrote. But w/e.

Buy SOTW in Canada Why? I can buy it in the US just fine, and it's easier than driving across the border.

I think it depends on what you want to cover. Between the bible, buddhist and hindu scriptures, ancient greek and roman writings, etc, you could fill many years. (and yes, I know that some people wouldn't count all of those as 'lit'... like I said, it depends)

N/m.

My experience is that at the counseling center, they ask if one of their (post?)grad students can do the counseling. They might be useful for some things... I don't know - I think it took only one session for us to mutually agree that I needed someone more qualified. IIRC, the head of the counseling department at A&M Corpus Christi was great, the head of the counseling department at UTD was good, and some experienced counselor at UNT was pretty good too (but they had a pretty crappy max number of counseling sessions per year). Wrt the psychiatry department, I think all of them were doing their residencies, with no option to get an experienced psychiatrist. Some of them were better than others, and one was downright awful (diagnosed me with something everyone before and since then doesn't believe I have (and it's been over 6 years now, I guess), and called CPS on me as well, which CPS found to be unfounded because her story wasn't even possible in reality). Also, in case this makes it sound like a LOT of psychiatrists... residents tend to do only one year of residency on campus, so, yeah, that adds up, and leads to a whole lot of inconsistency in care (I saw the awful one for only a couple of months iirc, then after the CPS thing asked to be switched to someone else, so one month of that one, and then the year was up, so, next batch). Also, if there's a crisis, the residents tend to only work 1-2 days a week, so the other days would have you ending up with someone else. Long story short: if you can afford it at all, pay a private psychiatrist for consistency of care (and experience). Also, help your kid with the required paperwork for medical withdrawals if necessary, so that they don't lose their scholarship or end up on probation or w/e - if you're at the point of needing to withdraw for mental health reasons, you're almost certainly incapable of dealing with the paperwork yourself, and the university is not going to do it for you nor offer helpful help. And from some other people I've heard that there are things like tuition insurance that can cover medical withdrawals (including for mental health reasons), but I have no clue about that personally, I just thought I'd mention it in case it's helpful to someone.

I would not put lotion on it. If your skin is too irritated, lotion can make it itch/burn more, ime. In reality, I'd put clobetasol on it, but that's not OTC. OTC, I'd go for hydrocortisone ointment, or, alternatively, the hydrocortisone cream you've been using and just plain ointment (petroleum jelly). And avoid soap of any kind (including dish soap, etc), as well as extreme water temps (i.e. use lukewarm water). And obviously make other people do the dishes etc.

Hey, there's a page about how the (presumably British) readers reacted to it too: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22025272 Some of them are pretty funny and/or on point. "Emergent service workers is basically code for 'urban keyboard slave', isn't it?" - @WillardFoxton So, yeah... we're somewhere in between "urban keyboard slave" and "technical middle class" (still leaning towards being in the latter, especially since DW's recent promotion).

Right... if you just look at house price, you're mostly just using a second way to measure income level. Though I guess it would catch those people whose income is low but who have an expensive house (e.g. some retired people, or some people who inherited a bunch of money).

Or, for something else tech-related, there's ham radio. Your local club might offer a course, or you could self-study with the book.

My 10yo just started this today (so I can't say a whole lot about realities of the book yet): https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Program-Scratch-Introduction-Programming/dp/1593275439/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 The reason I chose that book is that it actually covers a fair bit of standard programming knowledge - it even teaches you how to do a bubble sort on pages 229-231 (something that I doubt many other books about Scratch cover, but that's standard kind of stuff in an introductory programming course). I've glanced at Kano before, but I didn't see the point, or at least not for that kind of money. But it's been a while since I've looked at it, so I don't really recall much. You could also do something like Snap Circuits but with the guide that actually explains the stuff (the kits don't do much explaining): https://www.amazon.com/Student-Electronic-Circuits-Electricity-Electronics/dp/B005JJ9VK2/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Or, since he's 11, you could also do something like Arduino, but I don't really know anything about that, other than that it's really popular. Basically, he's old enough that you could do electronics stuff involving soldering, albeit under supervision until you're confident that he's careful enough (not entirely sure if Arduino requires soldering). If he's reasonably competent at typing, there are also a number of programming books for Python for kids, or how to program Python games, etc. But since he could probably still learn a lot more from Scratch, you might want to just get an in-depth book about that. ETA: and yes, Raspberry Pi is also very popular, but I also know nothing about that, other than that I'd probably pick that over Kano.

Hm... some digging got me the study that it's based on: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0038038513481128 On page 228-229 they mention "house price" and "property value", the former makes me think market value, the latter I'm less sure of, but that combined with "house price" and the numbers in the table with the mean and standard deviation would make me say market value (unless British houses are way more expensive than I imagine).

Also, we're renting, which might be a big difference as well (unless you're renting too, of course).

Huh. I said those same things, but did not get that. Maybe it's the people we know or something.

Though I have a hard time seeing people in the US referring to themselves as the "precariat". :lol:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22000973 Easy for UK boardies, but for the others there's the small downside that translating US and other income after taxes into UK income after taxes is not necessarily all that accurate because of the variable exchange rate and the different tax structure, different COL etc. For example, my estimate put us in "emergent service workers", but with a bit more income we'd be "technical middle class", which is probably a bit more accurate (though I could see us being something in between). But hey, who doesn't love a poll, and it's interesting to consider these alternatives to working/middle/upper class or w/e.

If it helps, I don't think anybody's ever counted it wrong when I've left stuff as 2/sin(t) instead of 2csc(t). Whereas points do sometimes get subtracted for leaving it as a convoluted jumble.

I don't know. My list of potential reasons would be for "history of science" (since things were discovered using actual dissections, not virtual dissections, and doing a real one can make it much more clear how these things are not obvious and clear-cut at first glance - that it's pretty amazing that people over the centuries figured out the purpose of the mess under animals' skins), and for learning to overcome squeamishness. "They might have to do one in high school" would not be on my list of reasons to make them do one or more in 8th grade - they're unlikely to be the only kids who've never done one before, nor to be the only squeamish kids. Plus, they might not even have to do one in high school - some schools allow kids with ethical objections or excessive squeamishness to do something else, or might not do a real life dissection at all.

If you can visualize the graph of csc(t) (because you've seen it many times or w/e), then 2csc(t) would be the better choice, because you'd easily be able to visualize what 2csc(t) would be. I don't remember what that graph looks like anyway, so I'd have to draw it based on my knowledge of the graph of the sine, at which point it doesn't matter if someone wrote 2csc(t) or 2/sin(t) (that said, presumably anyone who's memorized the graph of csc(t) can easily mentally convert 2/sin(t) into 2csc(t)).