Archive for June, 2005
June 27, 2005
Generally speaking, one should not work nine days in a row. And when one does, it is advisable not to work in a short staffed environment. But, if in a short staffed enviroment, it is best not to be training new staff at a proportion less than two old staff per one new staff. However, if training of new staff is occuring, most would suggest not to volunteer to work overtime two consecutive days in a row … especially at the end of a nine day stretch while training new staff in an already short staffed environment.
But since when do I take my own advice?
June 16, 2005
I just finished watching Jamie Oliver’s ‘Jamie’s School Dinners’ on TV. The show is essential about the poor state of school lunches in England and how kids won’t eat anything other than processed foods.
So this episode, Jamie takes over one class and near the beginning gives them a vegetable identification quiz. For example, here’s what the kids said when Jamie showed them a:
rhubarb = onion
leek = potato
Really – do kids not even know what an onion or potato look like these days? Has all familiarity with raw ingredients been lost in a single generation?
They even had a dietician on the episode who said at a local doctor’s office they have constipation clinic for these elementary school kids and that ’some of them don’t go to the loo for 6 weeks’. That is extremely scary. I realize they are mentioning the bad examples to identify a concern. But I wonder if similar things are happening in Canada? Do we have a problem dealing with children not receiving proper nutrition, especially in schools …. in schools where they meal they receive might be the only meal they get that day?
So what is it that we need to do now? What will you do?
June 2, 2005
OK … so, along with the upcoming move, I figured I may need some furniture for the new (but as of yet, unfound) residence.
These are things I’m liking at the moment (i.e. pulled out of magazines and then found online)
The Valencia Collection at Palliser … sofa tables
Brava Sofa and Corfu table and Wales ottoman at Urban Barn
I’m really not into the overstuffed sofa look, especially in an era where one’s clothing is not supposed to be frumpy, but is supposed to be tailored. So I was wondering … do those with frumpy sofas also wear frumpy clothes?
