Kevin's Watch

I'm going camping with my daddy and family.

The guy I've been seeing has been away all week and that makes Waddley a sad girl

I will be studying algebra, and writing.

I will be doing as little as humanly possible.

--A

Avatar wrote:I will be doing as little as humanly possible.

--A

Apathy and Avatar are spending the weekend together.

Only if apathy lets itself in. Better not expectme to get up for it.

--A

I've got nothing planned this weekend.

We are hoping to take the kids camping... that is if doesn't rain all freaking weekend.

I think Bloodguard Bob and Julie are cooking up some sort of dinner and movie night with the film "Tampopo" and a menu of Udon. Other than that it's lounging and laundry for me!

Cameraman Jenn wrote:I think Bloodguard Bob and Julie are cooking up some sort of dinner and movie night with the film "Tampopo" and a menu of Udon. Other than that it's lounging and laundry for me!

Make ramen.

I love Tampopo. I have it on my netflix queue right now, but they don't have it in stock so its in my saved movies. Jerks.

the menu will be: garlic and spring vegetable udon with roast pork(cept for the vegoes) and bgb's special tofu. (recipe in the gally)

veg and tilapia yakimono with yakitori sauce

sashimi and vegetable tempura

Tampopo was supposed to arrive in the mail today so if we can't rent it we may have to postpone.

Cameraman Jenn wrote:Tampopo and a menu of Udon.

I swear someone has to write a fantasy novel with that as the title.

I decided last night to go have dinner at the restaurant where my friend is a bartender. I had two pork chops with a Jack Daniels sauce and sweet potato fries.

I was spotted, by my laugh, (funny that) by a fellow who grew up next door to me. I had my dinner and a couple of drinks with him and his wife. His wife always gets a kick out me calling him Robby. I'm one of two or three people who do so. But then, to me he was the snot nosed kid always trying to hang out with the big kids.

I went home afterwards to get beat in Literati. I got off to a flying start, clearing the tiles with my first two plays, but the wheels fell off the wagon when I got a set of I's O's and a Z. I wound up third, after Luci and Creator.

I'm in Green Bay this weekend...visiting the In-Laws. This is good, because for a change,...I get to be the most comparativley sane person in a given room.

Heh.

no "Tampopo"

no udon

went fishing instead. landed two big bat rays. cuties they are, threw em back, but kept one perch for tomorrow's lunch.

I took a four-hour long standardized exam. Great.

Lord Mhoram wrote:I took a four-hour long standardized exam. Great.

SAT?

I'm sure you did better than most. Now let your mind decompress and enjoy the rest of the weekend.

It was actually the ACT, but I did take the SAT a few months ago.

Ah...

I should have had Beorn do the ACT instead of the SAT last year for the 7th grade TIP program. He did well enough as a 7th grader to qualify for the highest level of the program, but I think he would have done better on the ACT, from what I have learned about it.

Did you do the writing option? Or is the writing section no longer optional?

Yes, the writing is still optional. I opted for it.

I myself preferred the ACT. I took a pre-ACT exam my freshman year (I just finished my junior year) that I did very well on. Better than on the PSAT. I wasn't satisfied with my initial SAT scores, so I will be taking them again (like most people!). But I'll hopefully do very well on the ACT the first time around. They are pretty different exams. The SAT has a math free response section - no multi choice. It's a small section, but an important one. The ACT does not have that, and its math section seemed to have more trigonometry, planar geometry and advanced algebra that I've actually learned in school, whereas the SAT had a lot of what I'd call "creative" mathematic - i.e., you really have to think on your feet, not something you learn in class. The ACT also has a science section - but it's mostly graph interpretation and reading comprehension - but it was friggin' hard. It was especially brutal because it was the last test, but before the essay.

To be honest I really resent taking all of these exams for college - pre-ACT, PSAT, ACT, SAT, APs, SAT II. It's ridiculous.

Lord Mhoram wrote:To be honest I really resent taking all of these exams for college - pre-ACT, PSAT, ACT, SAT, APs, SAT II. It's ridiculous.

I despise standardized tests.

Unfortunately, here in Florida, thanks to NCLB and the "devious plans" of our former governor, it's pretty much all we have here on which to base our children's educations and the "quality" of our school choices. Obviously, the "education" our children get is now all geared towards the tests.

Fortunately, Beorn seems able to rise above the test based curriculum, and makes each subject that interests him his own. But, even if we were to homeschool, the law here states the school boards must have a record of a students progress, and that is determined by these standardized tests. Again fortunately, Beorn seems to test well. He got a better score on the SAT as a 7th grader than I ever did as a junior and senior in high school. So, we don't stress too much about these tests, but we do have to deal with them.

:::sorry to highjack the thread, I'll stop now:::