Things I Would Like To Know

Something I would like to know: Why does anyone care about anyone else's religion? Who cares what anyone else believes? I don't understand why some loser would spend millions of dollars making a movie portraying Islam and the prophet Mohammad in a negative light. I don't understand why anyone would want to stand out front of the Brigham City temple or the LDS Conference center in Salt Lake handing out fliers telling people why their religion is wrong. I don't understand why anyone would picket the funerals of soldiers and gay people. Why not spend your time in Christlike endevours? I mean, if someone wants to educate someone else about their religion, fine, if the person is interested in having the discussion. But the insane need some people have to tell everyone else why their religion (or lack thereof) is wrong is beyond me.


Something else I would like to know: How come every. single. time. our new assistant pricipal comes walking by, I'm doing something I'm not supposed to be? Gah! Nothing scandalous or anything, but walking down the daycare to give insulin, leaving a classroom full of kids to their own devices for a few minutes. Or taking a phone call out in the hall.

Another thing I would like to know: Mitt Romney went to Hong Kong for a fundraiser Thursday. How? Wha? Why is anyone OK with this? Apparently I wasn't paying close attention, because I didn't realize that he had already held fundraisers in Jerusalem and London this summer. I knew he was over there pissing people off, but I didn't know for what purpose. Is this something common for candidates to do, and I just never noticed before? I mean, I realize that there are U.S. citizens in those countries, but it's ridiculous to me for a presidential candidate to be having fundraisers IN OTHER COUNTRIES!!! Am I the only one?? I was curious if this is common, so I did a quick search and found out that President Obama's campaign has sent people to Europe for fundraisers. Again, I realize they are raising money from American citizens abroad, but it still just seems wrong!

I went to an advanced pump class last Monday afternoon. I feel like I need to be back in the basic pump class. Well, not really, I mean I know how to use the thing. It's just I don't have need of the advanced functions at this point. I hate classes like that, because you get all of those people who are all, "So, my daughter wakes up high, and then she eats breakfast and two hours later she's low, but if we dose her she's high by lunch, and then last week when we were in Disneyland she was high at 2, 5, and 7, so we dosed her every 3 hours at night...." and on and on and I'm contemplating whether I should take my pen and stab myself in the face so I have an excuse to leave, or stab her in the face for being a pain in my butt.

Parent-teacher conferences tomorrow. Blech. I don't have any papers to grade, so I will have some time to plan and maybe read in between parents. Or maybe just sit and goof with the teachers that sit by me. I need to read Ender's Game but don't really want to. I just finished A Countess Below Stairs and A Great and Terrible Beauty. Liked them both. Perfect for silent reading books for my students, but much more likely to appeal to the female contingent. Need something for the boys.

We went up to East Canyon camping this weekend. It was really pretty with all of the fall leaves, and the weather was nice. We went for a hike and did some fishing and lots of relaxing. Courtney and Brittney had to work all weekend, as usual, so they stayed behind.