Just a Quickie

Just a quickie post--Paul did get his haircut on Saturday, so I'll try to post a pic tomorrow. We are being "strongly encouraged" to teach more phonics, which is generally okay except for those devilish vowels!!! (You can tell I feel very strongly about this because of the many exclamation points.) I had to try to help these poor little Taiwanese kids try to sound out words to find the long vowel sounds. I felt so bad for them. Accents really, really, really screw with vowel sounds. Apparently, I too speak accented English because "huge" does not a long vowel "u," contrary to what the book says. (No doubt it was written by left-wing pinko commies from New England trying to impose their linguisto-tyranny upon the free-speaking world.) Seriously, just listen to it: hewge. It's an "ew," not a "u." Arrrgh. Just thinking about it makes me want to beat up my sole East Coast roommate. Well, that and she stole my laundry detergent--my good lavender, anti-fungal detergent--and dumped SPE set-up on me today because she couldn't be bothered to ask where the activity plans were. Grrrr. Now I really want to kick her in the shins. A lot.