Dazzle Who?

Welcome to hurricane season 2008.  I have already lost 2 work days last week due to  TS Fay.  Let’s see if we will miss any due to  Hanna or maybe even Ike. 

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Growing up as a private school student…I think this is a great idea.  How hard is it to buy pants that fit?  I mean really?

Story from abc news

Violating Gonzales High School’s dress code is not a crime, but some of the offenders are about to start looking a lot like convicts.

Gonzales Independent School District deputy superintendent Larry Wehde holds a jump suit that will…

Gonzales Independent School District deputy superintendent Larry Wehde holds a jump suit that will be offered to students in violation of the school district’s beefed up dress code as an option to in-school suspension, in Gonzales, Texas, Thursday, July 31, 2008.

(Eric Gay/AP Photo)

Soon after classes begin Aug. 25, violators of the district’s beefed-up dress code must don navy blue coveralls unless they get another set of clothes from home — or serve in-school suspension. The outfits aren’t just styled like prison jumpsuits — they’re actually made by Texas inmates.

“We’re a conservative community, and we’re just trying to make our students more reflective of that,” said Larry Wehde, Gonzales Independent School District deputy superintendent.

The new policy in Gonzales, about 70 miles east of San Antonio, has drawn plenty of criticism — along with some speculation that all the district will accomplish is to set off a new fashion trend.

Kids wearing spaghetti-strap tank tops, extra baggy pants, cargo pants or T-shirts may find themselves finishing the school day in the drab one-piece outfits. Boys with earrings or facial hair, girls in miniskirts and anyone in clothes that show underwear face the same fate.

Some parents and students are crying foul.

“They’re not little prisoners,” said Mary Helen Douglas, who has a 17-year-old son starting his senior year.

The 2,650-student district has ordered 82 coveralls, which are most often sold to county jails, state mental institutions and juvenile prisons. School districts have bought lunch trays and similar items from inmate labor, but no other school district has ordered the jumpsuits in the last year, said Michelle Lyons, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

The jumpsuits aren’t the only option for dress-code violators from fifth through 12th grade. School board President Glenn Menking said parents can still bring a change of clothes, or they may request that the student go to in-school suspension instead.

“We’re not going to force anybody to wear it,” Menking said. “It is an additional option to allow us to keep kids in the educational classroom.”

Source:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5498827

I hate it when I lose things.  I look and look and of course its always right under my nose.  I found someone very near and dear to my heart last week.  Seeing him MADE my birthday.  It has been 7 years since I saw him last.  The conversation went off like it never skipped a day.  Funny part is, he was right under my nose.  He worked at the pizza place my aunt and uncle used to get their pizza from.  He lived 5 blocks away from my best friend.  All this time I have spent wondering where he was and he’s been right here all along.  Weird how life does that to you.  He has even tried to find me but I had moved and my information wasn’t public at the time.  Rocco and I used to say we were right for each other but we just crossed paths in life too soon and ruined the chance.  I’m wondering if that happened with me and him and now its too late.  He was really one of my best friends for a while.  I will see him again.  Once I get settled into my schedule at work and find my rhythm, I will make a point of it.  I missed him for too long to let this get away.  i just wish I had found him earlier.

Oh sweet Internet abyss, how I have missed you.  With my last message being June 19th, oh so much has happened in such a short amount of time.

June 20 - 21 Class of 1998 Reunion Weekend:

Wow, what a weekend.  I’m not going to give you a blow by blow detail of it all but let’s just say it started with whiskey, had some vodka mixed up in there and finished it off with jager bombs at Waxy’s.  Over all it was a great time.  I got to see some people I hadn’t seen in years, didn’t see a few I wanted to, and unfortunately had to see one I didn’t want to.  Some people that you never would have imagined talking to you did and some of those who you thought would be more friendly weren’t.  It’s really interesting what 10 years and a lot of booze can do to a group of people.  At the end of the weekend, I was glad I went.  A+++ coordinators.

to be continued…