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She also brought home the monthly newsletter, which illustrated a few things:
1. Ana is incredibly photogenic.
2. Ana did indeed receive the Dolphin Award (for just generally being a great person and consistently being compassionate and helpful) at assembly last week and not just the attendance award. If they'd bothered to tell us this beforehand, I would have been there. Gah.
3. There is indeed a pajama party at school next week (in two weeks?) as Ana said. We didn't believe her because, again, this is the first official communication about it. Gah again.
4. The person who edits that newsletter is totally incapable of stringing together a coherent sentence. There is never, ever, ever going to be a need to put together seven exclamation points at the end of a sentence! And, for that matter, putting an exclam at the end of every single sentence just makes your work sound weak and childish. Save it for unusual emphasis. And on *that* note, quotation marks do not add emphasis - or, at least, not the kind she thinks. I want to know, if she is "thanking" us for this and that, what she's really doing? Mocking us behind our backs, perhaps? (Yeah, pot, kettle, but my post only reflects badly on me. Her abysmal writing skills reflect badly on the entire school.) And at least twice this person switched topics randomly in the middle of a paragraph! That's not even the half of it....
I suggested to Jenn that next PTA meeting she offer up her, mine, or our mother's services as proofreaders. But in some tactful way, not like I just did.
1. Ana is incredibly photogenic.
2. Ana did indeed receive the Dolphin Award (for just generally being a great person and consistently being compassionate and helpful) at assembly last week and not just the attendance award. If they'd bothered to tell us this beforehand, I would have been there. Gah.
3. There is indeed a pajama party at school next week (in two weeks?) as Ana said. We didn't believe her because, again, this is the first official communication about it. Gah again.
4. The person who edits that newsletter is totally incapable of stringing together a coherent sentence. There is never, ever, ever going to be a need to put together seven exclamation points at the end of a sentence! And, for that matter, putting an exclam at the end of every single sentence just makes your work sound weak and childish. Save it for unusual emphasis. And on *that* note, quotation marks do not add emphasis - or, at least, not the kind she thinks. I want to know, if she is "thanking" us for this and that, what she's really doing? Mocking us behind our backs, perhaps? (Yeah, pot, kettle, but my post only reflects badly on me. Her abysmal writing skills reflect badly on the entire school.) And at least twice this person switched topics randomly in the middle of a paragraph! That's not even the half of it....
I suggested to Jenn that next PTA meeting she offer up her, mine, or our mother's services as proofreaders. But in some tactful way, not like I just did.
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Date: 2008-12-10 06:40 am (UTC)Although I won't count on you driving all the way here from NY.
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Date: 2008-12-10 07:15 pm (UTC)But maybe I can hire somebody.... Hm...
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Date: 2008-12-10 01:03 pm (UTC)That reminds me, the pictures we had taken at the photographer's in Switzerland in summer arrived a little while ago, so I should scan Amy's in and update her icon.
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Date: 2008-12-10 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-10 04:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-10 05:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-10 05:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-10 06:40 am (UTC)Although I won't count on you driving all the way here from NY.
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Date: 2008-12-10 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-10 07:15 pm (UTC)But maybe I can hire somebody.... Hm...
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Date: 2008-12-10 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-10 01:03 pm (UTC)That reminds me, the pictures we had taken at the photographer's in Switzerland in summer arrived a little while ago, so I should scan Amy's in and update her icon.
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Date: 2008-12-10 05:31 pm (UTC)