A Return To Normal

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A couple of crazy weeks have passed!  It’s nice to be back to normal.  W goes back to school on Monday and she’s really excited to finish out her middle school years there.  She has had to change schools several times and it would have been such a disruption to her life to have to change schools again this year and then again next year.   Her education has benefited, it’s objectively obvious when you look at her transcripts and awards.

Next year she’s likely return to public school.  It’s not really an issue of private vs. public school.  These three years are the only years she has attended private school and that was due to my faculty tuition discount.  I suspect that most parents are paranoid about public school the way that some are about stranger danger, yet if you do your homework you’ll see that your child is safer walking (alone) to and sitting in public school in NYC than they are in a lightning storm and we have lightning storms here almost daily in the summer.

Public schools in North Carolina are terribly underfunded.  One of the best things you can do as a parent of a public school student is try to have your child placed in the honors programs.  Because W will finish the year at her middle school in honors Algebra 1, Spanish I, Latin, Chemistry, and an advanced English and History curriculum she will benefit in the pubic school system.    She has her own goal of attending a private, specialized school for math and science on scholarship her last two years of high school.  She is extremely motivated to do well.

Of course, I can’t say this without mentioning how imbalanced the public school curriculum is - for a public school system it still seems to be a very have vs. have nots system.  I recognize that this is a Privilege.  I also recognize that it’s in my job description as a Mom to do everything I can to give her every advantage that I can in life, while teaching her to be grateful, compassionate, and generous.

Okay, so enough about education and parenting.  Life!

The Best Sex Bloggers is doing great - our content is top shelf, the contributors are amazing writers, and the variety isn’t found anywhere else that I know of.  Most of the admin stuff is finally done.  Our header is up and looks good, we got the image problem fixed, and now we can start adding selected contributors to the project.

I’m going to be helping Audacia Ray with some promo work on some of her new projects, so that’s pretty amazing and exciting.

I’m going to review a movie for Madison Young that she sent to me.

Rachel Kramer Bussel is sending us some books to review for Amazon.com, as well as a copy of Spanked! for us to review.  I have another of her books that I am reviewing currently, called Dirty Girls, for Seal Press.  I am actually the only person holding me back from being done with that because now that I know her RKB, I want to ask her a few questions about the book before I publish the review and I have been distracted.  I’ll have to get back on track with that.

I’m talking with Lucrezia Magazine about writing for them, though since I’m still just talking with them, I don’t have really specific things to mention.  I just thought that it’s worth mentioning.

Lelo.com contacted me and asked me to review a product of theirs, so I chose the Luna Beads.  I haven’t even had an opportunity to try them out.  Yes, I know you can’t imagine, but it’s been a weird couple of weeks.  I assure you, I’ll get to work researching them and give you my opinion.

Finally, at least for now, I’ve joined The Femme’s Guide and will post there about some specific topics with some amazing women who are collaborating on the project.  It’s a nice opportunity and I appreciate being invited to take part in it.

All of my friends are out of town this weekend.  Seriously.  M is gone for three weeks traveling in Asia, Mr. F is in Pittsburgh celebrating his birthday, Mr. Johnson is in Colombia, I dropped The Dude at the airport yesterday for his weekend away, and Nikki is at Fetcon, as are Sabrina and Melvin.  No wonder I’ve managed to get so much work done today! :)