Thought this was amazing.

Lost WWII battlefield found in New Guinea.

A hiker found the remains of an undisturbed battlefield.

7 Quick Takes Friday - The Thirteenth! (hee!)

1.  Mispronunciations:

Patrick is pronouncing volcano as "vol-CANE-hoe".  I guess at least it isn't "Vulcan-hoe", which would be something else entirely, eh?

Calla has erplane (airplane), wanana (banana), and gircle (circle) on her list.

2.  End of the school year!  Patrick is off for a few days until he starts a summer session on Wednesday.

3.  Speaking of the end of the school year, an observation on the difference between early elementary and secondary teachers:

Me, at the end of a school year - go out to the car and blast the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah on the car stereo (sadly, the cassette player isn't working any more, so I'll need to find some other way to do this in the future).

Patrick's teacher, today on the last day - was fighting tears.

(But that was really sweet to see.  She was so good with the kiddos - fantastic catch for the school district, I think.)

4.  Drove straight from Patrick's class's end-of-year award ceremony to where my in-laws were having lunch on a car tour, to drop Patrick off with them.  He'll have a great time on the tour (as always!).  Meanwhile, Calla was off with the babysitter at a local homeschool co-op's day out.  She apparently had a great time with them.  I really didn't want to haul Calla with us, for her to find out Patrick was staying and she wasn't, as my MIL can't keep a good eye on both of them right now.  In another year or two, they'll be more of an age where they can both go without a problem.

5.  I'm wondering how Patrick will take to his teacher next year (who will be the one at the summer session as well).  The summer session will give him the chance to get acquainted, to practice classroom-type skills a bit more, etc., and I'm hoping it'll be easier to transition in August, since we'll be able to tell him he'll have that same teacher - rather than his being done right now, and perhaps thinking he'll be having his teacher from this year when he goes back.

6.  I really need to order the book I'm going to be using for the co-op that I'll be teaching at next year.  I've seen it before - heck, I've taught from it for a few years out at the private school I worked at - but I don't have my own copy, and I'll need it for this.  I should probably get it sooner rather than later so I'll have more opportunity to get some better planning done.

7.  The hubby has been watching recorded episodes of Star Trek:  The Next Generation on his comp.  They recently finished the series, and so are back to the beginning.  He's watching "Code of Honor" right now.  When I saw it come on, I said "Oh no, THAT episode" and he remarked that you could say that about all (or nearly all) of the first season episodes, and some of the second.  Heh.  He did say that, in returning to the beginning, he noticed that some of what they do in the episodes - such as the dramatic music before commercial breaks, etc. - is a lot like what they did in the original series - that it's much more obvious to him, after just having watched episodes of the final season (as well as the first season of DS9 on DVD from Netflix), what had changed over the years as they adapted.

Other than just that the episodes got a bit better. :D

Love it. :D

Something that is possibly irksome.

I saw this on LFMF:

From Learn From My Fail:

Whenever you have a red substance in your stool, remember that you had four helpings of spaghetti and a cherry slush drink for dinner last night before you rush to the ER with "internal bleeding". It will save you from the extreme humiliation you will receive. #LFMF

Now, he didn't say what the "extreme humiliation" was.  It may just have been whatever tests they ran before finding out that it was just from food coloring (probably the slushie), because I can't imagine that the tests that would have been done for suspected bleeding from that area would be all that dignified.

And I hope that's really all he means by that.  It probably is.

But if he did overhear any of the staff chuckling/laughing, well...it isn't necessarily something that would encourage him to come back if, next time, he suspected a heart attack (but wrote it off to heartburn).  If you really do want folks to get to the ER *pronto* if they have symptoms that may indicate something serious (but may also be something fairly harmless), then folks MUST feel that they can make a mistake without ridicule, and should be reassured that their mistake was understandable (even if from a medical POV it may not be all that normal a mistake to make), and given better information if necessary on how to tell if they are experiencing the suspected issue.

Again, not saying the medical staff in this situation were overheard having a laugh at his mistake.  He may well have felt humiliated simply by having tests done only to find out it was from his food.