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aww as fate would have it, i took my last day off on katie couric's last day on the today show!

not that i'm sad because it's not like she's retiring...

BUT SHE MIGHT AS WELL BE :-(

it's just that NBC (not that i support it politically or financially for any reason) is pretty much the only non-satellite network that i watch. for a whole year and more i've looked forward to the today show, allowing my tea to cool as i waited for the "headline" (you know, where the big dah-DAH-dah and katie or matt's voice serious with the next huge headline). and it was the cause of being just a tad late to work many times.

blech. now if i want to see katie couric on tv i have to go to CBS. (is it channel 7 or channel 2?)

BUT WAIT! i do watch a non-NBC network - the network that has grey's anatomy (is that cbs?)

ok so it's not as bad as it seems. but still. i enjoyed the today show because (and i AM aware of how cliched this sounds) there was just so much chemistry among the cast. anyway hopefully that continues with that lady from The View. but i'm not sure...


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and i've decided that i am no longer impressed by those "whiz-kids" who know all about every president or all about every kind of bug or dinosaur. that's great, if i worked hard at memorizing all that crap, i'd be a whiz-kid too!

sure they might KNOW enough, but can they EVALUATE what they know (which do you think was better, X or Y? and why?)? can they SYNTHESIZE all those facts and make them their own? would these so-called whiz kids be able to thoughtfully answer a question such as if george washington and abraham lincoln could sit down to dinner together, what do you think they would talk about?

this is the change we need to see in schools - i think we need to challenge these whiz kids and thereby get them to develop and use higher-order thinking skills (i'm all about Bloom's Taxonomy these days...)

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ha, martha stewart is on the tv right in front of me. that guy from American Pie is on with his co-star from some disney movie with a bunch of dogs. i find highly entertaining his attempts at being smart and martha's attempts to be "the teacher he never haaad... awww..." (she just asked him so what do you think we need all-purpose cornstarch for? to which he answered, because it's all-purpose???) he just made up a word - gelatinized (they're making cherry pie and have added the cornstarch as a "thickening agent")... too bad that has nothing to do with gelatin. haha i have fun laughing at famous people who are not smart trying to sound smart.