Fuck these midterm elections.

[ericadawn16]

Every time I thought it couldn't get worse, it did. Now all of my life, except for Bill Nelson and Barack Obama, are controlled by Republicans. The only silver lining is that the Pro-Environment Amendment passed and everything was SUPER close so Florida has more progressives than they give us credit for, but...

Fuck.

Frodo : I can't do this, Sam.

Sam : I know.
It's all wrong
By rights we shouldn't even be here.
But we are.
It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo.
The ones that really mattered.
Full of darkness and danger they were,
and sometimes you didn't want to know the end.
Because how could the end be happy.
How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened.
But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow.
Even darkness must pass.
A new day will come.
And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
Those were the stories that stayed with you.
That meant something.
Even if you were too small to understand why.
But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand.
I know now.
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t.
Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo : What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

Comments

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

My high school did have a vocational track when I attended.

I learned sewing from a sort of Home Ec course in middle school.

I learned cooking for a "Nutrition and Wellness" course which was Home Ec in high school...although I feel cooking at restaurants for work taught me more, hehe.

I took "Principles of Construction" and loved it. I learned all the construction tools, but I never had room in my schedule after that.

I did seriously consider the Auto Shop class but several trusted teachers told me that the females were coddled and not actually taught anything in it so I didn't.

I never took Calculus, hehe. There is a movement to try and making Computer Coding satisfy one of the Math requirements which would be awesome.

Due to budget cuts, I'm not sure how much of the vocational track has survived. The state and federal governments had so much money tied to STEM classes. Plus, now, in order to hire less teachers, all the students are required to have a certain amount of classes online.

That's a very good point about the problems of parents teaching kids. I know I had a problem when I was first learning to drive because I couldn't stand my mom being in the care with me. It made me too nervous.

[dm12.livejournal.com]

I won't even say how long I lasted in the car when my first child started learning to drive, OK, so it was probably less than a second before I told him to pull over. With the second child, I wouldn't subject him to that, same will come with the third.

I took a Home Ec cooking & nutrition course. Because of kosher issues, I couldn't cook much of the stuff, and I certainly couldn't eat any of it.

I did take calculus (and differential equations, for the fun of it). As to how much of it I use today, well, none of it.