Day 117: Grocery Store

I used the Ergo carrier today while at the grocery store.  It is just too darn hot to use the wrap.

It worked pretty well. Eis slept the whole time and I went as quickly as I could.  I had planned on buying lamb, but I didn't see any... though I didn't look at the meat counter area... that's probably where it was.  I bought some turkey to cook and veggies.

When I got home, I had to edit this woman's paper for some college class.  One of the ladies my mom works with has been asking for help with various things.  However, my mom volunteered me to edit her paper... for free.

I was sent the paper this morning and had to have it back to the lady by 1430.  So, by the time I got home from the grocery store, I had very little time to edit.  It wouldn't have been so bad, had the paper not been terrible!

Yes, the writing wasn't the best, but the content of the paper is what was so awful.  She had to do a SCAMPER paper; take an object and change it: substitute, combine, add, rearrange, put it to another use, eliminate, and modify.  True, it takes some creativity, but it's not terribly difficult.

She chose soap.  Soap!  You can't choose something that's just one piece -- there's nothing to rearrange or eliminate or really, modify.  Her ideas were all fairly similar, but worded differently.

*Use it to write on clothes, instead of chalk
*Use it to write on the floor, instead of tape
*Carve it into a statue
*Carve it into a bath toy
*Put different pieces together to make a puzzle
*Lay them around "as beauty"
*Use it to make you smell good
*Write on a car window to make a secret message for all to see

First off, the idea is to create things that are NEW and DIFFERENT and haven't been done before.  Also, the uses shouldn't be ideas that have already been done.  If you can cite examples to "prove" you have a good idea, then it's inherently a bad idea because it's not creative and new. Duh!

Second... a "secret message for all to see" on a car is not so much a secret, as it is an advertisement.  Her reasoning for soap being put to another use as car chalk is because "lipstick is hard to wash off."  Now, who writes on a car with lipstick?!

I told my mom that this woman is an idiot.  Makes me irritated that she's got some cush job TEACHING children at a private school.  Too bad teachers aren't forced to take IQ tests.  They really should not be allowed to teach beyond their own level.

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On another note, I have two Zumba auditions coming up.  Yay.  Hopefully, I'll at least get one of them!