highacidity's blog

^{[first time I've written here, please bear with me... thanks]}

Being a new resident here in central Raleigh, I've been observing the wrangling surrounding the schools in Wake county. I joined a Triangle-area online forum that's part of a big site even before we moved here because they had a lot of useful info, 'intel' that even helped with the decision where in the area we wanted to live after our job-mandated move from California. So I would read about parents' frustration with long bus rides, frequent schedule changes, disruptive reassignments... and also why some of it was worth the inconvenience. My own daughter is almost done with college so thank gawd this stuff was not an immediate concern anymore, but I could understand why some folks would be unhappy with how school assignments were handled here.
 

Hello from Pittsburgh!

I'm sitting at a table listening to the many "intros" to the final keynote address by Darcy Burner. I meant to write this earlier, but the tumult that is my life right now caught up with me here, I have a $@!?*^$% cold.

I think I mentioned in my maiden comments here at Blue NC about just moving to the state and the Triangle area and still getting my bearings politically. But that isn't going to really happen until I get my bearings in my own neighborhood ;-)

So I get to the conference, and lo and behold... look, a Triangle Area Caucus is in the list of events! Cool, exactly what I need. A one-stop place to say "Who is that?"