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[mincot]

Argh, I was scoring a student placement test during the Oath of Office and the speech. Student X, WHY mst you ALWAYS take up twenty times as long as everyone else, and then defer your decision AGAIN, and then get angry with me when your options have narrowed? Next term I am not putting up with this. Neither is the Registrar

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[frostfirega]

Agreed, despite our differences of opinion politically. Unfortunately I have seen a lot of other stuff lately also. This morning I unsubscribed from Kate McKinnon's blog because of her vicious nastiness, culminating in a post of an image that referred to former President Bush as a "d*****bag." That's a kind of attitude I don't want to see from any side for any reason.

We do need to be working *together* for the common goal of a better country and a better life for us all.

[xtineebee]

But wouldn't it be AWESOME if that box did appear?!?

We had a very smily moment watching this over breakfast at my sister's house. Nico was getting squirmy, but as soon as the Oath itself was up, we made him sit and watch saying "Nico, this is like when your dad & I watched the Moon Landing. We don't remember it, but everyone tells us we watched it - so pay attention".

And my sister, who managed to make a few evil comments about the Bush Twins (of all the stupid things to even BOTHER having an opinon about) and an attempt to get me to agree that Bill Clinton is 'sexy' (super ick, but to each their own! I'll be over here drooling over the Oddly Hot Christian Bale, thanks!); DID put her big girl pants on and agreed that she needed to be setting an example for her 4 year old about working *together*, not labeling people and spitting hatred. As Obama himself has said. She even explained to Nico that McCain was a good man, and that he and Obama were friends - they didn't agree on everything, but that was OK. I almost fell of the

[alkari]

*sends sympathy about difficult students* I must have an inbuilt alarm clock as I woke up around 3am, with four free-to-air channels broadcasting direct, just in time to see both oaths of office, and Bush's departure. After which I decided I had better go back to sleep!!