Despite all of the partisan bickering that's gone on during Barack Obama's term, thus far, I think he finally made good on all of those hopes that he would be a great uniter...by calling Kanye West a jackass.
Folks, that's a belief that spans political lines, race, and religious affiliation.
Yes, it was off the record, and yes, the hapless reporter who Tweeted it deleted it quickly...but not quickly enough, thank goodness.
In a related aside...how is it that medical technology has not yet found a way to diagnose urinary tract infections in quicker than two days? (If your lab/doctor does it in less time, please...don't tell me.)
Seriously, a woman comes to you, pale and trembling, gives you her urine and says, "For the love of all that is dark and chocolate...GIVE ME SOMETHING TO MAKE THIS GO AWAY!"
And you say..."Well, we'll know in two days if this is a UTI or not."
Um...okay. Do you have a hammer that you could hit me in the head with, then? Could you inject me with something that will put me into a twilight state (and I don't mean twilight with a capital "T"...although that might help) until you figure it out?!
So then you go home, pound cranberry juice and water, take butt loads of vitamin C (I'm using that phrase as a descriptive term...that's not a new method of ingestion or anything), and then, two days later...you feel fine.
And they call you. "Hey, looks like you have a UTI!"
Duh.
Speaking of Twilight, imagine my surprise when, on our walk today, "Peep" #5, a four-year-old boy, pipes up while we're discussing the smaller kids' day at co-op yesterday (I'll post a definition down below, for you non-homeschooling types who wonder what that is), and says...
"Yeah, my teacher read us a book called Twilight!"
I kept my cool and replied, "Oh, really? What was it about?" knowing in my head that he couldn't possibly respond, "Sparkly vampires and true love!!", but yet wondering, all the same.
"It was about...it was between day time and night time!"
Mommy breathes a sigh of relief.
"And I told my teacher that there's a movie about Twilight!"
Did you, now.
*(Co-op: A co-operative effort between homeschoolers, usually academic, where teaching and other responsibilities are shared. The younger "Peeps" refer to it as "Co-Hop", however, and I think that works, too. We all sort of hop along in the same general direction.)
