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I survived Gallifrey One! Um. Pics still in my camera as usual. I have lingering crud, so I'm still low-energy. But it was a total blast and I have about two dozen photos of Doctors taking photos of other Doctors.
I actually just hopped on to post my delight with the Girl Scouts. Since the cookies are ubiquitous at work right now, I did a little Googling to find out what their memetic stance is on sexuality and so on. I found this: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97977 It's a conservative site painstakingly going through the entire modern Girl Scouts curriculum to be horrified at it. It's really amazing, because I can tell by the tone they're horrified, but the curriculum exactly as they describe it sounds spectacular to me.
Sowhile I still don't like the cookie company making money off cute children, I may make an outright donation to my coworker's daughter's troop today. :)
Edited to add: I've just looked at the numbers and, unlike most child sales fundraisers, Girl Scouts gets about 70% of the gross. (~15% troop, ~55% larger organization). That's incredibly reasonable. I still have to make my own navigation around the issue of children and parents pressured to sell (I always hated that in school), but knowing that the substantial majority of the money is actually going to some pretty awesome life skills programs has me won over.
I actually just hopped on to post my delight with the Girl Scouts. Since the cookies are ubiquitous at work right now, I did a little Googling to find out what their memetic stance is on sexuality and so on. I found this: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97977 It's a conservative site painstakingly going through the entire modern Girl Scouts curriculum to be horrified at it. It's really amazing, because I can tell by the tone they're horrified, but the curriculum exactly as they describe it sounds spectacular to me.
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Edited to add: I've just looked at the numbers and, unlike most child sales fundraisers, Girl Scouts gets about 70% of the gross. (~15% troop, ~55% larger organization). That's incredibly reasonable. I still have to make my own navigation around the issue of children and parents pressured to sell (I always hated that in school), but knowing that the substantial majority of the money is actually going to some pretty awesome life skills programs has me won over.
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Yeah, I briefly volunteered for the Girl Scouts, and was generally quite impressed.
Hey, maybe *that's* what I should do about teaching. Hm.
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Should your contact fall through, feel free to ping me and I'll see if anyone I still know in the area has recommendations.
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(Tops, formerly Finast, is gone, however.)
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A typical what are we going to use our cookie funding for brainstorming sessions (something you do before cookie sales start)starts out with "Let's go to Disney"! So we look up the prices of transportation, hotel, food, park entry etc (great real life math skills practice!)... then we translate that to boxes of cookies you would have to sell to earn that money etc (note some older girls DO go on fantastic trips and cookie sales are often a large part of the fundraising). The brainstorming usually takes a more realistic turn not long after that X)
Since my troops have been 4-6th grade Juniors it hasnt been realistic to go to Disney X) We have done a day in Seattle going to the aquarium and other site seeing plus a fancy meal out, gone camping,and paid for our service unit encampment fees
As a lifelong Girl Scout (since i was 5 that would be 27 years now, eek!) my favorite slogan the organization has used is "Girl Scouting: It's more than just cookies" because it becomes tiring to explain over and over how cookies sales only take about 2 months total out of the year and all the awesome stuff we get to do the in addition to that, thank you for taking the time to do some research about the amazing opportunities GSUSA provides for girls and young women!
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I think the sales take so much focus because that's the single point of contact for the non Scouts or Camp Fire people (well, that and the advertising surge this time of year).
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ahem.
I'm a huge fan of Thin Mints. I believe my mother's put some on order for me through someone in her office. What's your favorite?
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It was really, really awesome to see you, and I'm sorry I didn't reply to your text promptly; I'm not very coordinated at texting and I've had the crud which tends to make me contact-avoidant.
I also noticed that you arrived at the hotel *before 4 pm*. I am agog that I was worth waiting over two hours to see. Though I did at least (have Rachel) buy you dinner before I took advantage of you. ;)
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Hey, it's totally cool. We all slack at some point and my hypocrisy does have some limits. :)
And of course you were worth waiting for. Besides, I'd already waited, what, six years?
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My mom pushed me into both Campfire and Jobies to try and get the other girls to be friendly to me as I was bullied. It didn't work, I was eccentric then, too.
The selling thing was always hard because the other parents took the items to work and sold for the kids. With two teachers as parents, not so good. . . With K-la, cookie dough was the WORST. No one wanted it.
Still don't. Valerie bought some, felt sorry for some student and left it here when she moved out. It took months before someone finally used it up.
When I watched the presenter for the Band Christmas wrap sale last year lay on the guilt (you should feel BAD if you're not doing your share), I was seething.