I finished my hat last night. Yes, I may have started it on a circular needle, but I finished it on double pointed needles. See, I'm not a cheater. :P
The house issue being up in the air is stressing me out. We've basically looked at everything in Little Rock in our price range. The only house we were both in love with, we can't have, because the owner won't come down on the price (may he have boils on his butt). There's a house that I really like, but Neale is concerned about the traffic. I can understand his concern, but the house is pretty much the only one that has everything else we want and is big enough to house the library with room for expansion. Yeah, it's a busier street than I'd like, too, but compared to Shackleford, Cantrell, and Markham, all of which have residential areas with houses whose occupants have to back out onto said streets, this is nothing. Hopefully, we'll figure something out soon.
This is kind of off-topic, but it's been bugging me. My school serves a hot lunch once a week. Last year, it was done by a health-nut parent who made homemade casseroles with vegetables and whole grain pasta with lots of cheese, and made brownies with pureed veggies in them. I swear, the broccoli brownies were good. The kids weren't necessarily big fans. Now, the lunch is whatever frozen crap from Sam's, heated up by the upper el. class. There are a fair number of Muslim and Hindu kids in the primary classes. The do not eat pork. I understand this. I'm sorry that they do not know the delights of bacon, but I respect their choice. In fact, when we get pizza on Friday, I am careful not to serve them cheese pizza off of the half-cheese-half-pepperoni pizza. This Tuesday, they were supposed to have vegetable fried rice. What we got had chicken and bacon in it. One of the other teachers, discovered this, and asked if there were chicken nuggets, or something else, to give those children, and we got them. The one Hindu student of mine was quite happy with his veggie egg roll and chicken nuggets. When I brought up that some of the children can't have pork, the response I got was "there wasn't that much bacon in there, you could have scooped around it." Um, no. If it's cooked with pork, it's essentially dirty, there is no "scooping around" the pork. If I had done that, the parents would, quite justifiably, have been pissed. I would have been, if it had been my child. Yeah, they probably wouldn't have known, the kids wouldn't have told them, but this is so disrespectful, on so many levels, it just makes me sad. In ten years of the school operating, with the number of Muslim and Hindu children who have attended, it baffles me that so many of my coworkers have no understanding and little real respect for non-Christian faiths. It isn't as though there haven't been ample opportunities to learn. Sure, they go through the motions of respecting other faiths, but scratch the surface, and it's clear that they really don't. Not all. One, in particular, surprisingly, seems to get it. The others.....make me wonder if my job would be secure if I converted to another faith.
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