To quote from Non Sequitur, Arizona Daily Star, November 29, 2006
"I don't get it. After all the budget cuts to streamline the workforce, why aren't we moving faster?" (picture of a large boat with committee on the upper deck and 1 lone rower in the galley)
Due to completely forseen circumstances, your faithful correspondent has been completely unfaithful and has been spending lots of time playing and eating instead of paying attention to business and Dotland. And your faithful correspondent had better shape up and quit eating before she has to be rolled out the door!
Correction:
In our last dispatch, we discussed the presentation to the peasants by a CLAPTRAP (Curriculum, Learning And Professional Teaching Refused And Postposed) representative. That was their old name. That department is now known as PL, Preventing Learning. The full name is Preventing Learning At All Costs or PLAAC, pronounced with a hawking sound in the back of the throat and followed by spitting and making the sign to ward off the evil eye. In either incarnation, PLAAC is feared by all. Even the normally poised Diva is known to look harassed and mutter when the name is spoken. Indigo Dot and some artists from Studioland hatched a plot to teach teachers how to use art to teach mathematics and science and history. Indigo tried to get this approved by PLAAC. Indigo has been unwilling to discuss the experience and will probably need long term counseling to recover. Currently the Diva has put on extra armor and is planning to storm PLAAC soon.
Silver overheard the following exchange in the PLAAC office:
Teacher "I taught a course this summer and I'm here to collect the PL credit. "
PLAAC "Did you file forms A and B."
Teacher "Yes, I filed forms A, B, C, D, and E."
PLAAC "All you have to do now is bring me form C."
Teacher "I already filed form C." (Denial)
PLAAC " You have to bring me form C."
Teacher "I gave you form C already."
PLAAC "You have to bring me form C."
Teacher with gritted teeth "I filed form C with forms A and B already." (Anger)
PLAAC "You have to bring me form C."
Teacher "Do you mean you want me to fill out a new form C."
PLAAC "No, you have to turn in the form C that goes with your form A and B."
Teacher "I don't have that form C. I gave it to you."
PLAAC "You have to bring me form C."
Teacher "Can you make a copy of the form C I already turned in so that I can give it to you?" (Bargaining)
PLAAC "No, you have to bring me form C."
Teacher "Can I see the form C I turned in?" (More bargaining)
PLAAC " No, you have to bring me form C."
Teacher "What am I going to do? I don't have form C because I gave it to you. I promised my wife I would get this credit so I would get a step increase so we can afford the surgery for my mother. Now everyone will be mad at me." (Depression)
PLAAC "You have to bring me form C."
After several more equally hopeless rounds the teacher gave up and walked away. (Acceptance)
Silver looked to see if she could tell where the PLAAC robot was plugged in but was unable to locate the wires. Maybe it's a wireless robot like a Roomba. At least the Roomba vacs the floor!
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After returning from a long, long, long cruise to the land of swaying palm tress, lots of water and not so wonderful humidity, I was terrified to see that agitateddots had grown quiet. I had to roll myself to work (made much easier by all that delicious cruise food) to see what had befallen my beloved Dotland. I feared the worst. Then I discovered that other dots get to take time off, too. All was as well as it ever gets. All that and I got leied, too. Leis were hanging from every part of the cubicle that could hold them. There is still a festoon of them at the entry. I like it so I left it. I was just as glad I wasn't there to hear all the folderol at the peasants' meeting. But I'm home now and glad to see all of my fellow dots. My good mood may last all the way to next week -- or until the Black Queen makes another of her grand pronouncements.
Purple with the grass skirt on
Purple...We are so glad that you are back, and envious that you got leied!!
This peasant has been worried that our beloved corespondent from Dotland had perhaps been banished to Ditland. Every day became darker and darker without her 24/7 updates as to what the Black Queen and subjects were up to. At last I can sleep again knowing her eagle eye and all hearing ears will keep us up to date! Huzzah!!
Nervous peasant
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