This is kind of another "pet Peeve", only this time I am the "peevee" (is there such a word?) I sometimes get so irritated at myself. All my life I have been very good at "English" - spelling, grammar, conversation, and composition. I am not an analytical person, I can't take someone else's story, and tell you what they were "really" thinking when they wrote it - after all they wrote it, don't you feel they knew what they really meant when they wrote it? I can't take a magazine advertisement, and tell you what the subliminal meaning of that ad is. This type of thing has always given me trouble, and almost cost me my Associates degree from college, because I could not pass my English lA class, due to my inability to "analyze" what someone else was trying to say, when they wrote it. But, you would think I would know what I am trying to say,, when I say something, or write something. You would think I could recognize when I have made a boo-boo in my writing. That is what makes me so peeved. Like yesterday's blog. Any time I write anything - a letter, a story, my "book", or my blog, I read and re-read every part of it at least two or three times before I send, print or post it. And still the goofs get by me. Take the possting yesterday - I know I read all of it several times before I posted it, and then after it was posted and I read it again, I found several errors. I just went back and read it again, looking for those errors, and voila! I could not find them. I did find a couple that should have never got past me - I referred to "of those 160 students" which should have said "FOR those 160", and later on I used the word "is" where it should have been "in". I said "enought" where it should have been "enough". Funny how you can read the same thing many times over and fund different things wrong. Usually I am pretty good at catching these things. In fact, over the last year or so, I have found two commercially printed books with errors of this type in them. But, in both of these cases, the error completely changed the meaning or context of the sentence. In both cases I called the error to the attention of the editor of the book, and in both cases, the error was acknowledged and promised to be corrected in the next publication of the book, assuming there will be a "next" publication.

Since I posted my comments yesterday, there have been a couple more articles in the paper along the same line in re: school. So, I get stirred up all over again -but I've ranted enough. I'll pick another subject for next time.