Driving my kids to school. Heard it on the radio, Bob and Tom. sm

• What were you doing when the WTC was attacked 5 yrs ago? - nm
  • flying BACK to Manhattan where I lived - - mag
  • sitting in my computer room, typing away when my boyfriend at the time, called me from work. nm - typing4dollars
  • I was on my way to pick up tapes. nm - mtathome
  • WTC - ginny
  • I am a midwife and i was attempting to deliver a baby, face presentation, and transferred to hopsita - mwmt
  • my 17-year-old son woke me up - Mary
  • It was my very first day home as an MT SM - Chickadee
  • Driving my kids to school. Heard it on the radio, Bob and Tom. sm - IllinoisMT
  • evacuated from Newark Airport 9 a.m. - and continental airlines.....sm
  • In the kitchen having breakfast. Turned on the TV and Charlie Gibson was on - Misha
  • In an internet chat room - Lori
  • Dad was in the hospital an hour away from NYC having a stent put in. Heard the news on the way - there & rushed back home to my kids at school. nm
  • Driving to Children's Hospital with my mom - sm - Laura E.
  • In remembrance of 9/11 - csmr-mt
  • Amazingly... - mac
  • sitting here working, oblivious - sm
    • Exact same thing, transcribing and oblivious - sm
  • Taking my car in for service & heard it on the radio... - PAMT~MDM
  • On my way to a Bible study. When I arrived, the other gals there had no idea what had happened. sm - MQer
  • Five Years Ago - LinK
    • I worry for those with health problems from breathing in - (SM)
    • LinK, I feel you. I was transcribing & had my little TV on tuned to FoxNews when all of a sudden - nm

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call her by her first name.  The little neighbor girl next door from the time she could speak called her Aggie (my mom's first name), and they were great buddies until the day my mom pased away. 

I don't think there really is much in a name, but more in the respect you are given and the way you are treated.   Personally, I kind of cringe inside when someone calls me Ms. Anything or God forbid, "maam" (makes me feel like Methuselah!) ... I'm always just plain Merrie.  :-)

But, as someone pointed out, to each his own.  If you want to be addressed a certain way, you have that right, and people should respect that.  I'm glad you corrected the child ... hope it "sticks."    

When I worked in-house my manager and a coworker were having a conversation and I typed a couple sentences of it without realizing. 

I caught the tail end of the report, but wasn't exactly sure what they were talking about so switched to an AM news station.  By that time the second plane had hit and the reporter at the scene was practically hysterical, saying, "You're not listening to me.  Another plane just hit the second tower!" 

Then while my car was being worked on, the TV in the waiting room was on CNN or one of those channels and I watched at least the first tower fall from there and just remember thinking "I can't believe this is happening."  I guess I was in shock, because I didn't cry until the memorial service at the National Cathedral was televised several days later.

when my child was in high school there were 3000 kids - 2 security officers and perhaps one cop (big huge city) - NOT ENOUGH TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN.  Guns and knives were waiting with perp kids across the street from the public school buses, near the city buses....lots of knifings.......pulled my kid out and had her finish up elsewhere....where they did care about kids.......

Like I said elsewhere - if they (authorities) don't care about our kids, they don't care about our/their future either.......

:(((

It's amazing to me how many parents push their kids to the extreme with extracurricular activities.   I saw a cousin this weekend and her 2nd grader is taking 4 dance lessons (4-1/2 hours a week), an acting class (1 hour)  is in some special gifted program that meets 1 hour after school each week and is in the church kid's choir on Wednesdays.   This means this 7-year-old has 7-1/2 hours of extracurricular activities scheduled.  

I told her that my 6-year-old chooses 1 activity to participate in outside of church kids choir (meets on Sunday) and that's all she does. 

What about your kids if you have them?  If you have your child scheduled in a lot of things aren't you worried that they will burn out?  I've recently read stories that a lot of kids that are overscheduled are getting depressed and I can see why.

Probably depends on the teachers and the corporate culture at your school.

How frustrating - 1 day in school and now a "bug".  We had this in our house before the holidays.  Everyone in the family had a turn with it, and now again!  I think antiseptic and antibacterials are needed in these schools.   Can't afford to be down for even 24 hours!

Just needed to vent my frustration here - my poor kiddies!

must you be so full of yourself?

I've been wearing regular glasses for nearsightedness since 3rd grade.  Of course vanity put me into contacts many years ago and suddenly, about 3 years ago,  I began wishing for longer arms when trying to read something like the side of a Childrens' Tylenol bottle while I was wearing contacts.  I told the eye doctor they were making the print smaller and smaller.

It went downhill so fast from there that I either have to wear my regular glasses to see the computer screen or put on the magnifying dollar store glasses over my contacts. Yes I know, time for bifocals, but who can afford them? 

How about the ones who dictate discharge summaries and they don't have their thoughts together before they sit down to dictate and they are flipping through the patient's chart pausing, eating, and carrying on a conversation with another resident in the same room with them.  The dictation ends up being 20 minutes long but you get 400 lines out of it.  Drives me nuts!!!