End of the week venting

First of all, how about that Verizon Wireless? When does Daylight Savings time end guys? From wha I read in the news, what Verizon is best at at the moment is eavesdropping on their customers without a warrant, but that's another story.

All I have to say specifically about today is that it's part of the basic functionality of a school to have classes flow one into the next smoothly. Bells? Don't really need them. What you need is an agreed on way to mark the end of one period and the beginning of the next. If bells are they way you do that, fine, but then make sure it happens. No bells? Fine, clocks work too.

Regarding my recent post about postage, I heard that about 20 college recommendations got returned for insufficient postage, so I guess I wasn't the only one (I guess this is my post-postage post). I don't envy the kids and how much work it is doing the applications. I applied to 19 colleges, which was unheard of and probably still is (it wasn't nearly as expensive back then, even in constant dollars), and it was just a ridiculous amount of work, especially since there were no word processors or printers or common applications or anything. My Mom and I typed everything. Of course, I ended up hating the college I picked, but that was a well-intentioned mistake and I don't fault myself for making it, though I wish in retrospect that I'd transferred once I knew I hated it. But then, of course, I wouldn't have ended up here. Unless I did. It's like Yogi Berra says, if you come to a fork in the road, take it.