Comments on: Navigating in a Stormy Economy http://www.jarche.com/2006/08/navigating-in-a-stormy-economy/ Life in Perpetual Beta Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Karyn Romeis http://www.jarche.com/2006/08/navigating-in-a-stormy-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-8662 Karyn Romeis Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:18:03 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=860#comment-8662 I can understand how you feel about September. I found the switch from a calendar school year (as in the southern hemisphere) to a September-August arrangement really weird, because that gave me two year ends, two new beginnings, two occasions to wonder whether I should be buying gifts for teachers. In September, my older son starts his GCSEs and my younger one starts high school (Year 8). It's also the month of my younger son's 13th birthday, another milestone. Definitely a red-letter month! And with the way Christmas stretches further back each year (as far as retailers are concerned, anyway), it seems to collapse the last quarter of the year into a nothingness between one new beginning and another. I feel as if my years have lost a chunk. After 7 years, I still can't get used to it. I can understand how you feel about September. I found the switch from a calendar school year (as in the southern hemisphere) to a September-August arrangement really weird, because that gave me two year ends, two new beginnings, two occasions to wonder whether I should be buying gifts for teachers.

In September, my older son starts his GCSEs and my younger one starts high school (Year 8). It’s also the month of my younger son’s 13th birthday, another milestone. Definitely a red-letter month!

And with the way Christmas stretches further back each year (as far as retailers are concerned, anyway), it seems to collapse the last quarter of the year into a nothingness between one new beginning and another. I feel as if my years have lost a chunk. After 7 years, I still can’t get used to it.

]]> By: Harold http://www.jarche.com/2006/08/navigating-in-a-stormy-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-8648 Harold Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:36:26 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=860#comment-8648 Kevin: perhaps it's time for the Provincial government to make a statement on the absurdity of the Blackboard LMS patent application, especially since it's still pending in Canada. http://www.jarche.com/?p=840 Kevin: perhaps it’s time for the Provincial government to make a statement on the absurdity of the Blackboard LMS patent application, especially since it’s still pending in Canada.
http://www.jarche.com/?p=840

]]> By: kevin mccluskey http://www.jarche.com/2006/08/navigating-in-a-stormy-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-8643 kevin mccluskey Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:49:36 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=860#comment-8643 Happy to see you are keeping busy. We in New Brunswick are offering 43 some courses to high schools studenst in Grades 11 and 12 and the work continues. We are using D2L so we are follwoing the Backboard vs the world and D2l in particular with vested interest. Happy to see you are keeping busy. We in New Brunswick are offering 43 some courses to high schools studenst in Grades 11 and 12 and the work continues. We are using D2L so we are follwoing the Backboard vs the world and D2l in particular with vested interest.

]]> By: Rob Paterson http://www.jarche.com/2006/08/navigating-in-a-stormy-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-8589 Rob Paterson Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:12:07 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=860#comment-8589 Amen Harold! Amen Harold!

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