No I am not singing George Jones.... *glares @ my pickneys*
it's the end of the farking school year...
Spud has projects due.
15 pages on pro/con gun control with statistics for logic
10 pages from Spanish --has to pick a country and do a PPT
5 projects (2 from last week and 3 new ones) for American History
1 English Exam
1 Chemistry paper on pro/con nuclear energy..
Here is an except of his opening paragraph:
I think that until we can find a safe way to operate nuclear facilities and a responsible way to dispose of the waste, we should explore other options before committing valued resources to this historically dangerous source of energy.We still have not fully explored the use of either wind or solar power to the fullest extent. Use of either is much less dangerous and has little waste than the use of nuclear fission or fusion.Since Chernobyl, there have been at least 9 other incidents that have caused the closing of nuclear reactors, including 2 here in the United States. The last one was in Tennessee that resulted in closing the plant for 7 months. While none of them has had the instant effect such as Chernobyl did, there is no way to track long term effects either on the environment or humans.Here in Nevada we have the added distinction of being the designated dumping ground for the waste products. Yucca Mountain Repository has been identified and contracted for underground storage of nuclear waste material. It is not currently in use due to numerous court cases blocking this proposal. We live only about 65 miles from there. Prypiat, Ukraine was 62 miles from Chernobyl and only 50K people lived there. We have almost 10X that amount within the same radius. The evacuation alone would be a separate disaster, not to mention the fallout over much of the West Coast.I think that until we exhaust our current energy means or explore new ones, like ocean power, we should really put the nuclear ones on hold. That and the fact that our current president can't even say the word correctly.
and he has to expand on that.
Oh did i mention 3 tests in Chemistry as well? the final exam is not even available until the 26th.
...then there is algebra.. which he is finally getting all his work done on time.
and finally animation.. his final project is to create a 3 frame story board complete with animation.
Like HELLO..do ya think you could have posted all of this a week ago so that they'd at least have the time to gather the material????
Oh not to mention.. the pelethora of recruiters that are sending mail, calling and in general wanting him to commit to look at their schools. We've narrowed it down to either mid-atlantic/Eastern seaboard, Pacific NW or Cali. Even though GA State and Tulane have come calling..no way my baby is going to tornado/hurricane alley. Georgetown has sent a letter of invitation as well as NYU and Drexel. We called Northwestern and told them thanks but no thanks..i don't think i'm ready for Chicago.
and yes we are basing where he will go to college with places I can possibly live in, still work for AV and make a decent living.
Did i mention that Iowa State offered full room/board and living stepend. I think they are still trying to recruit minorities. But Chemistry/Science majors who aren't going into medicine are become scarce so he's a commodity.
I know that this time next year I'll be kvetching that it's graduation and I'm too busy..
But its my blog and kvetch if I wanna