First, I want to say, Happy Birthday, Laura! Welcome to the downside of your twenties. Just remember that growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

Yesterday was spent having quality time with my parents. First, I helped me mother organize her Chatty Cathy & other dolls collection. By the way, I really need to update that site. We spent about 4 hours working on cleaning, dressing, and placing the dolls on shelves.

After completing that project and accompanying my mother to get dinner, I came home and watched the rest of the Coca-Cola 600 with my father. The race had 7 cautions when I started watching. It had 22 by the time it ended. Seems like every time either one of us comment about not having a caution, a caution would occur. I'm not a racing fan but I don't mind watching races with my father. I consider it bonding time with him.

I forgot that today was a holiday. The brilliant school system in Chatham County scheduled school today. So while my dad has a vacation day, Beth does not. At the moment, my parents and Beth are at the high school. Seems Beth's teachers have given my sister problems and some of them have not given her makeup work as she has asked for. Well, Beth fought back today when she turned in the makeup work one of her teachers gave her. The only problem was that it wasn't all the work she was to be given. He blurted out to her in front of the class that he wasn't going to take it and she was going to fail his class. Beth called home and now my parents are at the school letting the teachers have it. Beth is the third kid to attend this school and this is the third kid my parents had to battle for because a majority of the teachers at the school do not want to do their jobs.

If I stay in Savannah and have kids, they will not attend public school if I can make sure of that. If they do, well, I'm going to be like my parents and pressure the school to do its job. It's pathetic what my sisters and I had to go through at our high school. Of all the schools my siblings and I have attended, my parents have had the most problem with the Savannah-Chatham County school system. Poor Beth was just in kindergarten when we moved here, so she's a product of the system.

Wednesday, school starts for me for the summer. :thumbsup: I'm ready for school, now. Tomorrow, I have to do some things related to school, like get my UNIX/PHP books.

Well, that's it for now.

[♪ Listening to: "Cheap And Alive" - The Sally Zito Project]

Posted by Shawn at May 30, 2005 11:24 AM in General.