What? No update since this morning???

[susandennis]

It's really only because I got no content.  I mean, really, nothing going on.  Work is semi busy.  And bits of it are not making me smile but I am taking Thursday and Friday off and so stuff's going to really need to go South to piss me off this week.

I did get a fair number of chores done today.  Hauling stuff down to the dumpster and then delivering a backseat full of goodies to the Goodwill.  Oh and I got gas in the car. 

See?  The thrills are not exactly poppin' 'round here but things are good. 

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I remember so little from school.  I hated it so much.  But I do remember one geography teacher who stood with his pointer in front of the map poking at Africa and saying that most all of those countries had recently changed their names but that the whole name changing thing was over for countries because it was too expensive. "Making new maps costs money." I think I remember it because I couldn't believe a teacher could stay anything so stupid.  I'm sure countries like Burma, Ceylon and Siam all wonder where the yellow went.  And that's not even starting on all the 'stans.

These days when I hear about the monks in Myanmar, I think of that jackass.

Comments

[currawong.livejournal.com]

Speaking as an ex-teacher, I would say that although teachers don't have a monopoly on intellectual arrogance and smug attitudes, many of them contribute more than their fair share.

[steve98052.livejournal.com]

If he was whining about school budgets, he'd have a fair point. If he was just complaining about having to learn new names, and pointing the blame at the maps, shame on him. I have some old atlases I got from my grandmother because she doesn't have much use for them, and it's cool to compare names then with names now. It's also nice to have atlases that are up-to-date enough to have Yugoslavia split into six pieces, and show East Timor and Asmara as separate entities from Indonesia and Ethiopia. And by the time Iraq goes that way, I'll probably be ready to buy yet another atlas.