Done yesterday (20120430 Mo)

[mdlbear]

I started the day with a walk after breakfast -- the weather was glorious. Have to do more of that. I took it a little easy after somewhat overdoing it on Sunday.

Main job-search-related stuff for the day involved more work on my resume and LinkedIn profiles, and replying to three headhunters. One's a total wash-out -- the job's in Los Gatos. The other two are pending. Plus a plain text version of the resume, for including in email.

We have a concert at Westercon! It'll be half an hour; don't know which day yet.

I picked up Colleen's new scooter at Bischoff's. It's a Go-Go Elite Traveller Plus HD -- basically the heavy-duty version of the old one, which is in pretty sorry shape after three years of hard use. It's noticably more powerful, and the rear motor/transaxle assembly is correspondingly heavier and a little wider. The platform is wider, too, with a couple more inches on each side in front for her feet. Maybe an inch or two longer. Made of win.

As for links, What If A Collapse Happened And Nobody Noticed? is pretty chilling. But Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85% is hopeful, if you ignore how wrong everyplace else is doing it.

0430 Mo
  * up 6:45; W=196.4; d, n, t; dishes
  @ Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school
    discipline — suspensions drop 85% Scary. Got Your ACE Score? 
    (ACE = These adverse childhood experience)
    ->Children;s Resilience Initiative
      CDC - ACE Study - Adverse Childhood Experiences
  * now have access to drive.google.com.  5GB free storage.  No Linux client
    yet, but you can get to it from the web.  Now used for Google Docs, too.
  * 9am: walk:  d=1.7, c=169, s=3.2, t=0:33: Parkmoor to Bascom
    : glorious weather; starting to get hot by the time I got back.  Or I was.
  * spelling-correction in resume; manual cleanup on the html version, made text
    version using html2text
  @ What If A Collapse Happened And Nobody Noticed? Not with a bang...
    Chilling analysis of what's happening with "austerity".
  * Pick up Colleen's new scooter at Bischoff's.  Only slightly bigger and
    heavier than the old one, but it makes a huge difference in power and
    stability.  Go-Go Elite Traveller Plus HD 
  * replied to 3 headhunters' messages on linkedin
  * RSVP for Al's wedding -- ask if we can bring the kids.
  * Heard from JenK -- we have a concert at Westercon.  Will need to bring PA
  * Heard from one of the recruiters; the position is in Los Gatos,
    unfortunately. 

Comments

gut-punch

[cflute]

When I saw you had a link about a(nother) high school in the town where I grew up, I had to check it out. At the time I lived there, the only choices were the public high school, or the private (and expensive) Catholic one, and that was it. My dad was strongly opposed to private religious schools, and we couldn't have afforded it anyway. Options like Lincoln simply did not exist, not anywhere.

The scenario in the write-up? I knew better than to "mouth off" to the teachers, but otherwise, that kid could've been me, a quarter century ago. What sucker-punched me was this: nobody, EVER, asked what was going on. If they had I'm sure I would have broken down in tears, so in a way I'm glad they didn't, but ...

Sporleder is right. The brain physiologist is right. Thank ghod that the information is "going mainstream". It has probably already saved lives, and likely will save many more.

Re: gut-punch

[mdlbear]

My sympathy. Breaking down in tears is uncomfortable as hell, and embarrassing as hell, but sometimes it's the right response.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

The ACE concept is very thought-provoking. But they completely overlook the fact that children aren't only treated badly by their immediate family. What about kids whose family life is okay, but who are humiliated, devalued, threatened, and subjected to bodily harm by other kids, and/or by the adults in the schools and other institutions where children are required to spend so much of their time?

[mdlbear]

Good point. I just went through the questionnaires; there's nothing there about anything happening outside the home.