Courtney's Cauldron

If you know me at all, you know that vegetables don’t exist. Okay, broccoli exists. Stop being a smart… aleck.  But the term “vegetables” came from market owners back in the “ancient” times. They just wanted a way to better sort out their produce. So “vegetable” is not a scientific term and really is just made up of leafs and roots and whatnot.

But what really annoys me are tomatoes. I mean, if you’re going to relabel a bunch of food, do it consistently. Tomatoes look and act like vegetables, yet we all consider them fruit. They even go in the vegetable section at the store! What’s more, if a tomato is a fruit then ketchup is a smoothie! I don’t know about you but tomato smoothies on hamburgers just sound nasty.

~Courtney

Okay, I know that sounds weird but stick with me for a minute.

Most of my subs (for class) talk about how they got the job. Those who do also tend to have a life story to share. Those who don’t are usually asleep.

As it turns out, there is a website that Douglas County Substitutes can log onto and accept/request jobs, and teachers can do the same for finding subs. On this website they can plan and post pictures and comment and IM and email and all this other stuff.

Now the first thought in my head was Facebook! It’s not Facebook, just for the record, but from the sounds of it, these substitutes spend their afternoons and weekends scrolling through their fellow subs’ class stories and how funny Thunder Ridge High School students are and how neat Rock Canyon is and how big Legend is and what not. And then they can post their own stories about their day and how great it was or how horrible their 2nd class was or how mean the teacher seemed or whatever.

What can I say? It’s a sub’s life.

~Courtney

Almost 3,000 people died on September 11, 2001. For those of you who can’t read the little date under the subject, that’s today (or at least when I’m typing this it is.)

In case you didn’t know, there’s a new memorial building going up in the site where the World Trade Center fell. It’s going to be over 1000 feet tall (1775, also the year our country was founded) and will be the tallest building in lower Manhattan.  It will have all the names of all the people who died there and will have trees surrounding it and be gorgeous.

What’s freaky is living today and being alive and experiencing that day, while knowing that for any child born today, Ground Zero will be history, like any other event in our outdated textbooks. Won’t it be weird in twenty years when you’re talking to your grand kids and you will be able to tell them where you were on 9/11?

Also, I think it should be a national holiday. We should get off school and work and they should play the national anthem in time square or something and it should be a tradition to put a flag on your door or something. The only problem with this is what we would call this holiday. Ground Zero Day? World Trade Center Day? The-Day-Airports-Became-Security-Nazis? Yeah, I don’t think that’d really work…

We will always remember this day and all those who lost their lives and their loved ones. God bless America 🙂

~Courtney