Saturday night on the couch

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Joanna was at the HelpLine training which was a good time, because I love me some Joanna - have since she did a post-training sit-in shift with me back in the day. (If by "back in the day" you mean a couple of months ago.) Much fun was had, as well as a little Friendster stalking which has become my new pasttime ever since I found some chick I went to high school with who now lives up in Portland (ME) and works in the social services. Viva les social services!

I met Jen at the Pru for some delicious burrito action and Qdoba proved once again that they are sub-par compared to fantabulous Chipotle by giving me the wrong salsa and also making my burrito so giant and sloppy that it burst out and oozed everyone. BURRITO FOUL!

Since I got home, I haven't really left the couch much. Slovenly Saturday. I have the television on for noise and I think it's "America's Most Wanted" which I think drops me into an even lower level of lame. Do people even watch this show anymore? I didn't even know it still existed.

I've been reading Lies My Teacher Told Me. Has anyone else read it? Thoughts?

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I find it interesting that most students see the American myth (or folklore) as fact and never really look into history. It's one thing to believe things at face value in elementary school, but in high school and college, we really do students a disservice by not teaching them critical thinking.

I know there is a lot of material to cover in US History classes (ours was stretched out between 10th and 12th grades), but it's amazing how vague everything is, how much is left out.