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... and call it 'the fibia'.
There is no such bone as the 'fibia'. There's a Tibia, the big bone in your lower leg, and then its counterpart, the FIBULA, but the fibia is not real. Rhymes really nicely with tibia, and would be a nice hybrid of 'tibia + fibula = fibia', but wrong is still wrong.
And there are less-educated teachers out there who didn't have AP Bio and 3 amazing bio teachers in their career to teach them fact. And these same people are going to go out and buy the book I just spent my money on, not make the correction, and teach class after class of students misinformation. Why this is such a big deal to me I can't fully vocalize, but I am saddened by this. To the point I may actually call or write Scholastic and ask them to fix this.
I'm looking at my order form, and there's a little sticker that comes and says '60 years of trust'. Up until this point, I did; I trusted them to publish correct information. Maybe I'll just keep buying their fiction books since who cares if fiction is published correctly...but I LOVE non-fiction books, and I want to build a giant non-fic library for my students to enjoy. I konw the company is amazing, and maybe this is the first mistake they've ever made ever....but considering we live in an age where according to a commercial, '1 in 4 women willl misread a traditional pregnancy test'...how many 2nd graders are going to learn from their 'educated' teacher that they can fall from a height and break their skinny fibia bones?
(Is this just the epitome of my dorkdom, or am I slightly justified in being upset a non-fiction book was not proofread?)
is actually kind of cool! All the girls in my Biology class were all grossed out and going "EWWW EWWW OH MY GOD EWWWWWWW!!!!"
And theres me ripping flesh away and breaking its jaw:P:D
This tells me i might be able to handle being a surgin(yes, i spelled that wrong.:P)...
-Kristal
Take the argument put forth by one of the justices who dissented in the Connecticut Supreme Court decision. Justice Peter T. Zarella claims that the real purpose of marriage laws is to regulate "procreative conduct." Therefore, same-sex couples differ from people in traditional marriages.
He went on to say, "The ancient definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman has its basis in biology, not bigotry. If the state no longer has an interest in the regulation of procreation, then that is a decision for the legislature or the people of the state and not this court."
I'm sorry... "the regulation of procreation"??? Is this guy even listening to himself? Since when has the government regulated procreation? You don't have to be married to procreate, for one thing, as is patently obvious. But further, if this were to be the case, we should have been, all these years, denying marriage licenses to any hetero couple who were either unable or unwilling to have children. Further, extending this inane view to its "logical" conclusion, the government should nullify any marriages that don't produce children within a set amount of time.
But even if this ludicrous assertion that the "one man, one woman" definition of marriage is based on procreation were true, don't we have enough people on the planet, now? Shouldn't, if anything, procreation be curtailed, like they're sensibly doing in China? (I can't say many things the Chinese government does make sense, but this is one.)
Nope... this "biology-based" argument is bullshit. You can pretend it's not bigotry... but it is.
The sad thing is that, like California has done, Connecticut will probably put an initiative on their ballot to have the state's Constitution changed, defining marriage as being a hetero-only thing. In California, it's on the current ballot. Proposition 8. My vote against Proposition Prejudice will be mailed tomorrow. I urge my California readers to do the same... don't promote legalized bigotry.
Hey all
Its been a while since i sat down and actually wrote an actual blog that was more than a few sentences (since like, july :|) Ive wanted to for a while to write an update blog, so, here it goes...
Grade 11 started a few weeks ago. Its been pretty hectic. This semester goes: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Grade 10 math. Easiest classes right now are grade 10 math (were basically doing grade 9 review right now(and in case anyones wondering why im taking grade 10 math when im in grade 11, its because i slacked off severly last year) and physics. Hardest is Biology (chapter we are finishing up is about different kinds of sugars (glucose, glycogen, etc) and their structures..its just not sinking in with me....however, my teacher assured us its going to get easier) Chemistry is somewhere in the middle. We are basically doing mostly what we did in the grade 10 chem unit right now, so its fairly easy.
Besides classes and everything though, my attitude is alot better towards homework, and I'm doing most of it:) Basically i just make sure i understand whats going on, and if i dont do all tyhe homework beyond that point, it doesnt matter to me. So im really happy about that:)
In more personal news, Mikko and I are doing great. Our 9 month was on the 17th:) My longest relationship before him was 6 weeks :|
Also, I am still on prozac, and it has been about 9 months of that to. It helps alot with mood swings and the such, but i still have my days. The one thing VERY noticible its doing is that everynight for the last, 4 months or so, i have weird and random dreams. Examples: One night i had a dream one of my guy friends was in my math class and we were putting on lime-green mascara:P Then the teacher took my glasses away because i was lying on my desk on my stomack :|:P:P LOL. Another time i had a dream where i was in a concentration camp and I was pregnant so they tried cutting open my stomach (i was awake, not medicated) to get the baby out. Outside of the dream i forced my eyes open (not with my hands, just with well...my eyelids) because i didnt want myself to dream that because it was terrifying. This isnt lying either. It was probably the most horrifying dream I ever had :|:|:|
And in just in case your wondering, i DO check mindsay pretty much everyday, its just i havent blogged in forever.
anyways, thats all for now. till later,
-:PKristal:|
Hey guys!
So. 15 days til prom!!
Ah! I can't wait.
Prom date tom and I have everything worked out.
I AM SO EXCITED!!!
Today was docudrama...
It is really cool...they have a big fake car crash, and bring in Life Flight, and a bunch of ambulances and fire trucks and cops! It was cool. It is sweet.
And recently in biology, we got to cut up clams, and earthworms becasue our chapter is dealing with mollusks and annelids.
Wahaha!
I love cutting up stuff. Maybe I just should be a biology teacher?
IDK what I want to do.
Ummm...
What else?
Madison is having boy troubles.(Don't worry dear, he will get an awful disease, and his penis will shrivel up and fall off!)
Group for prom is extremely unorganized...Angela and Michael don't have anything figured out.
And since prom date tom will be getting back from Columbus for State Convention for FFA, he probably will just come to my house to get ready, and then we might not even go eat for prom. IDK yet. But we do have everything else worked out.
Yay!
So...
I am going to go do something else. Maybe my homework.
: D
Ciao,
Mariah
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