Summer's coming! We can smell it! Over there, look! Look! Look!
(Yeah, Sammy has on two types of collars in this photo. This is the doggy equivalent of a man wearing a belt and suspenders.)
Some misk linkage to round out your week ...
Just in time for summer reading: Metafilter's short story recommendations.
Then there's Read At Work. It looks like a typical Windows desktop, and the books are formatted in very wordy PowerPoint presentations. Ironically, I couldn't open it on IE at work, but my home computer (on Firefox) makes it work perfectly. Experiment and enjoy. But don't read at work. That's what Solitaire is for.
Eight medical terms your doctor uses to insult you. Mom, we definitely heard a few of these this month.
And finally ... the WTF Secretary is an example of bureaucracy at its finest. (via Daisy)
Bunny and I are having a semantics dispute. Thursday was the last day of sixth grade. She says she is now a seventh grader. I say this is the summer before her seventh grade year. Which is it? We need you to weigh in here, blogfolk. Thanks!
She wins.
Since she is post-6, she must be 7.
Also, summer camps, etc. all refer to the year you are entering when they say "for grades ____ to ____."
P.S. Bunny, you owe me for this.
Posted by: 'mouse | May 30, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Umm, no.
It's like the difference between being president-elect and beiong president. You might become president-elect on November 5 (or longer if you're Bush Baked Beans) but until you put your hand on that bible on January 21st and swear to not keep a single promise you made during your candidacy you are not president and can't call yourself anything but an intermediary figure.
School grades are exactly the same: a lot can happen between graduating from 6 and officially moving on to 7.
Posted by: Anthony | May 30, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Interesting. The score is now 2:2. We need a tie-breaker, people.
Posted by: pam | May 30, 2008 at 11:04 AM
Bunny wins. As soon as you finish one grade, you belong to the next grade. Actually, what I figure is that as soon as the kindergarteners in Bunny's school district had their little graduation ceremony, everyone else moved up a grade. See, the teachers at my old school would tell the kindergarteners every June after their "graduation": "Congratulations! Now you're first graders!" So it always seemed obvious to me that all the previous first graders became second graders at that moment, and everyone else also got bumped up accordingly.
If there's no cute little kindergarten graduation ceremony, then everyone bumps up when the school year is over. But in either case, it happens before the start of the next school year.
Posted by: elswhere | May 31, 2008 at 04:22 PM
I think that settles it. So I went to Bunny and said, "We're both right. This is the summer before 7th grade, but you are an actual seventh grader." She gave me a withering look that seemed to ask what took me so long ...
Posted by: pam | May 31, 2008 at 10:37 PM