I confess.
Ever since I saw the movie "Oh God" with the dearly departed John Denver and George Burns, (when I was no more than a wee mite, yay high to a grasshopper), I have developed, cherished, nurtured and protected a very skewed and decidedly non traditional belief system about the universe and the power(s) that created it.
My belief system got a big ROFLMAO epiphany today when BamBam brought home, at my request, his "Everyday Math" textbook.
To really appreciate the irony of this request you have to understand that I, during the course of my "formal" education, could in no way be classified as a math geek.
Language geek....YES! My mother taught English and Literature at my junior and then followed me to high school.
I do love me some puhrty words!!! And conjugation....swoon!
Heh...typing that is just...FUN! My mother would laugh, roll her eyes and then correct me, in that EXACT order.
Anyway, moving back to the topic at hand.
I SUCKED royally at anything remotely related to math. My mother attributes it to a colleague at said high school who thought it was a GRAND idea to do all of her lesson plans on an overhead..............after lunch.
Hello??? Knock, knock...anyone home? Full tummy...dark room....SIESTA!!! Seriously, a full two-thirds of the class was asleep 10 minutes into the "lesson".
Which brings me back to my point. I do have one. Really I do. Just stick with me. It's good. Really. No really. I'm just channeling my inner Wendy/Joshilyn free associative thought process.
Are you having fun? I'm having fun!
So the big cosmic irony in it all is that, to help my son learn algebra/geometry/exponents/partial sum equations...blah...blah...blah....I must actually, finally, really.....
learn it myself!!!!!
Hahahahahahhahahahhahahaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaa
I'm telling you...the universe is one freakin hilarious he/she/whose name must not be spoken stand up comedian of the first order.
That is all. It is now time for me to go read the textbook cover to cover.
Stop laughing. I hear you laughing. ALRIGHT...GO! Go ahead and laugh.
I'm there with you.
1 comment:
I'm laughing, but I promise I'm laughing with you - not at you. Uh, huh. I am. Really.
I didn't learn math until I taught it to second graders. Then, slam! all the lights started going off inside my head and it all began to make sense. A beautiful (and very neccessary, due to the fact that I was The Teacher) thing.
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