Posts by Jolisa
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Tom said it more eloquently. But yes; Victorian paternalism redux.
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Between this and the policy of kicking out pregnant women on student visas, this is shaping up to be the most anti-women government we've seen in a while...
And Danielle, I don't think you need to apologise for the gender aspect of the Sarah Palin analogy (or was that on the other thread?). Because I think a huge part of the appeal of the Palins and Bennetts of the world is their exceptionalism. If they can do it on a benefit/with five kids/without actually being demonstrably good at the job in the first place, then why can't everyone else? Sorta thing.
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Commiserations, Emma -- that's the definition of a crappy day. I trust things will be manageable from here on, with your great good humour and rhetorical ju-jutsu and the best of medical science. Plus, cute doctors.
And/but congratulations for not getting a more horrible diagnosis. The other person I know whose singular, puzzling symptom was loss of part of their visual field in one eye drew a much shorter straw... and it's really not going very well right now :-(
(PSA bit for PAS bods: trust what your eyes are telling you, and don't be shy about taking them to a doctor asap if they're not behaving properly).
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When are you next back, Jolisa? A get together we shall have
Not for a wee while, I hope (see other thread, re optimism). But I shall look forward to this.
And I seriously mean no disrespect to your work: pre-school teachers are as gods to me (and my littler guy). The word "kindy" leapt to my lips straight from my 4-year-old self, still in there somewhere sniffing the playdough and gazing up proudly at paintings pegged up to dry. Same way "varsity" still springs unbidden when I'm feeling nostalgic for studenthood, even though it doesn't translate over here.
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<perplexed> What, they changed the language while I was away too? </perplexed>
'Twas meant with respect and masses of nostalgia...
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Jackie, yes, me! (Next time I'm back, obviously.) I want to hear more of your tales from the kindy front-lines.
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Amen, Emma.
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It's not been a good week for old fellers: also Walter Cronkite, and the world's oldest (and possibly coolest) man, Henry Allingham.
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Urban redesign by way of cataclysm is really the only form of progress that Italy can hope for at present.
Nice! I have to say, it feels a bit that way in Aotearoa, too...
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