Quick (or slow)! To the Stop-Every-Five-Seconds-Mobile!

It's hard to get a ride these days. It wasn't always that way, though. When my sister and I started high school, we struck a deal with our neighbors. We would take Katherine to school, and Katherine's mom would take us home from school. It certainly beat riding the bus. And that's the way it's been almost every school day for over three years. Then, last week, Katherine's mom said that Katherine would be driving herself to school soon, and because Katherine was no longer riding home with us these days, we really weren't necessary and would be dumped. She said that in so many words, anyway.

So since then there's been a frenzy to find a new ride lest we have to take the school bus. (I won't stand for it. There are too few hours in the day as it is; I don't need to go home from school everyday in a big, clunkety-clunk stop-every-five-seconds-mobile that high-schoolers my age shouldn't have to ride because high-schoolers my age should be driving themselves to and from school, and those who don't are often rejected by their peers.) A lot of people we know that live in the neighborhood have other commitments or are already always driving us places (thanks, Kevin). Luckily, my sister happened to discover that Yamilée lived nearby and that she really hates having to ride the bus to and/or from school. Sounds like a match! Starting next week, we have a new ride... except on Wednesdays. And next Tuesday and Thursday are exam days, so we get out early, and the schedule is all out of whack. Perhaps it's more suitable to say that we have a new ride on Monday. I don't know how the rest of next week is going to work out.

Yesterday I got my ACT results in the mail. Score: 32. Not bad if you consider that it's out of a possible 36. Time for a pat on the back.

Let's answer some Ask Jordon.

Rena: Have you completely given up on wheresgeorge now? :)

Sort of. I haven't sworn the site off, but I haven't really found much interest in it lately, either. I think it started when they switched from old-school WWWBoard message boards to complex, newfangled PHPbb-like boards. Also, I started to spend a lot of time on my own site, and besides that, it just kind of got old after five years. I may get back into full swing sometime, though.

Sydney: Do you know anything that i could demonstrate in front of my class?Like something to bake?

There's always chili. But seriously, I don't really know of anything that would be quick to bake and particularly interesting to a class. I guess it depends on what kind of class it is. What are you teaching? I assume it's a home ec class (or maybe science), but you never know. Send me an e-mail or another Ask Jordon question; I'd be interested in helping you out.

The Washington Post reports on the death of cursive, brought about by the need to study "more important" things and hastened by the onset of the personal computer. It's really a shame. I think handwriting is really nice, if you haven't noticed by looking at this site's header. I hope it sticks around for a while.

Nineteenth-century philosopher + unfunny comic strip = The Neitzsche Family Circus.

One year ago: "Symbolism and I don't get along very well."
Two years ago: "As I sang and played, the class either ignored me or just watched with amusement."