Sick Days

At a time when I am reminded "use it if you got it" while simultaneously hoping that certain lower-back-upper-hamstring pains would just take a sick day of their own...I come across the story of this local girl who never missed school, EVER! Some people need to relax. I then find out its no big deal, cause some other girl did it in Terra Haute, IN. But I did check the math 13 years x 180 day = 2,340 straight days (geek...me, not her).

I think to myself: "Self, is it worth making a big deal about staying in school?"

Self: "Its that, or let every kid aspire to be Kanye West!"

And we all know how that turned out....
But he lives to write about it, and I'd like to share a few quotes from the book published by a dropout:

I hate the word hate
Life is 5% what happens and 95% how you react
My mom taught me to believe in my flyness and conquer my shyness

Mom, why couldn't I have learned flyness instead of piano? Or is that not a learned skill?

I guess you either dropout, or go ALL-out and become like the never-been-sick club, or the spelling bee kids. Learning to spell words like (screw you, spellcheck):

fackeltanz
sardoodledom
schizaffin
maecenas
isagoge
sophrosyne

The lesson for today kids: don't settle for mediocrity...go straight for public embarrassment!

Jury Duty

I know the implications of this post are not safe or ethical to admit publicly, but I'm so glad I have a civic obligation to possibly serve on a jury. I thought Memorial Day would help push me to the end of the year with a bit of good sister-visitation time, but apparently this stress isn't going to let up. Mandatory government day off, for the win.

The best part is, that missing tomorrow means, that there are only one and a half Mondays left in the school year (don't even get me started on the half-day-last-day on a Monday). And next Monday is Six Flags Episode Two: Revenge of the Phone Stealers. I just have to give them some horrible test and make sure that they retained some information from this year. Maybe I'll write them a ridiculous test while waiting for jury selections tomorrow. Or maybe I'll just blog (not tweet) and contemplate deleting my Facebook account. Wish me luck!