pork products

no, this isn't a post about clyde, although he might have something to do with the recent swine flu outbreak. it's all a ploy to get everyone else's share of chicken parm. (for those of you who have no idea what i'm talking about, let's just say i have been permanently scarred by a former mid-level manager who drove me and everyone else i worked with insane to the point of hilarity. voila, the jokes / references to pork products that will never die, even if he becomes anorexic and/or gets a personality transplant.)

if this doesn't let up, we might be staying here for longer than we thought (instead of heading home end of june for the summer vacation). maybe it's all a bunch of hype, but sounds sketchy to me.

and i have to laugh because in the paper yesterday, there was a short piece on israel wanting the swine flu to be renamed the "mexican flu" because it's offensive to jews and muslims. makes me think of the memo we got at school regarding the holidays, i.e. don't mention the word christmas or hannukah or anything, or you could get sued / fired / thrown in jail. that led to everyone making very strange comments before the holiday break such as "have a great winter" or "enjoy the days off while you celebrate or don't celebrate holidays with your family or not". we even had a "secret snowflake" exchange between the teachers. i told this to my friends at mom's coffee on monday (most are from the UK or new zealand, but a few are from other places like argentina, etc.) and they were howling with laughter. 

moral of the story? down with pigs! we've been saying that for years...