Monthly Archives: October 2014
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“Mom, you know that psych test I told you I failed? Well guess what, I actually got an “A-“ on it. Apparently her ADD can also have an effect on her perceived outcomes on tests. This is the same kid who thinks she is “bad” at running track, but won a varsity letter in track and field her sophomore year, on a team that has won back to back “big” school state championships. There is a position of being your own worse critic, and then there is the perception of a kid going to school in a wealthy, white suburb where she is surrounded by a student body that averages 26.3 on the ACT, with the top 400 students achieving a 29. A respectable 21 on same exam can make a person feel “stupid”. She doesn’t even factor in that her ADD is a 50 pound anchor around her neck when trying to perform on four hour tests that are comprised of filling in little ovals with a number 2 pencil. In a competitive world
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Posted: October 09, 2014
Read more »There are days when writing a blog post are easy, and then there are days you wake up wanting to spend the day in baggy sweats listening to John Denver on Spotify and crying because all your children are leaving home and Mr. PQ told you last night’s roast was a little dry. You’d be dry too if you’d spent two days cooking in a crockpot. Whoever is squelching the patent on the cure for PMS should really spend eternity in Dante’s fourth ring of hell. Seriously, if we can engineer a smart phone that slides the screen content up and down with a subtle tap on the home button, (Yea iPhone 6, my fun size fingers thank you!) I’d think we could come up with a countermeasure aimed at reducing the monthly pseudo psychosis and histrionics of half the world’s population.
I’m not holding my breath, because while the aforementioned iPhone doesn’t bend, it does consistently send out random voice texts to people on my contact list.
