Miscellaneous Ramblings

*The high school is currently undergoing a major renovation. This is the second time my kids have had the privilege of their school being torn up. During the end of their elementary years there was an addition being put on that school, and they had the joy of no electricity, broken water pipes, white haze throughout the building, etc. Now as they are both in the high school, they again are having to live through the nightmare! As the renovations began in the high school, they had to remove the portables in the back of the building. This in turn, lessened the amount of classroom space. As a result, they put classrooms in the basement and also divided the gym into several classrooms. The gym classrooms are a different story for another day!! There have been parents complaining that their kids who have classes in the basement have been sick since the beginning of school and are blaming it on mold, etc. Alyssa came home last week and said all the classes in the basement are being moved out; I'm not sure if it's because there is indeed a health issue or not down there. Two of her classes have just been moved up to the first floor, but her honors psych class will now be held in the middle school. Now, I don't have anything against the middle school...it's a lovely place (Dave...LOL)...but it's a bit of a hike from the high school. And it's not an indoor hike...she has to go out in the elements (wind, rain, snow, cold, heat, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc....) to get there. One would assume the high school would protect these kids from the elements, but I have been told by reliable sources that there are no intentions of doing that. One would then assume that these kids would be given extra time to get to class, in order to be able to get their coats from their lockers if they so choose, plus allow them enough time to get down to the middle school and back. My reliable sources tell me they are being given an extra 60 seconds...whoa...so now they have 5 minutes instead of 4 minutes...how generous can they be?!?!?!?!?

*Kurt is in Denmark this week. I can't decide if that is a good thing or a bad thing this particular week! It has been absolutely nuts with mom in the hospital and trying to coordinate all the running, working, halloween parades, meals, boy scouts, etc by myself. It would have been nice to have some help. But then again, as I thought about it, I also decided it was nice to not have to worry about him coming home from work and expecting a meal in front of him. We could come and go as we pleased. Anyone who knows me, knows that when Kurt's away, we eat out. And thank goodness Alyssa is driving now; that has been a HUGE help!