Frank: Dokapon Kingdom! and MTELs!

So I acquired Dokapon Kingdom last Saturday, and it's pretty fun. I think it'd be a lot more fun to play with people than CPUs, since they have absurdly good luck. Also, they don't screw each other over as much as they mess with me. But the game delivers everything promised, though it moves slower than I imagined. However, the turn based style makes it easy to keep playing, long after you meant to stop.

Earlier this week, I registered to take the MTEL. MTEL stands for Massachussetts Tests for Educator Licensure, and I can't teach without a license. I'm gonna go for English 8-12 grade license and probably teach for the next couple of years. I really enjoy teaching, and every chance I've gotten to teach, I always do well. I would love to get published and become a novel writer, but teaching will give me time and motivation to earn my master's degree and I think I would eventually want to become an English professor at a liberal arts institution. That's all much further down the line of course. I'll be taking my test on March 7th.

I found an awesome conservative blog I would like to add to our blog friends/blogs we can check from the dashboard, but I don't want to upset anyone or expose this blog to unprovoked nasty commenting. I know people associated with the blog and don't want to be embarrassed or embarrass my friends. Perhaps we can discuss this over the next week or so, and I would gladly welcome a liberal blog to be added to keep things fair and balanced.

I implore the rest of you to consider a rules change. I speak for myself, but I believe there's a similar sentiment among other members of the blog that posting is a chore and brings up a lot of negative memories. We need to reinvent the blog in a way that makes it more fun for everyone. We can't accomplish that under the current system. As Greg pointed out, double commenting is against the blog rules and was violated last week. However, that rule was put in place to prevent spiteful spamming, and in the spirit of the rule, I chose to comment twice when I had something else to say. Especially since we can't edit our comments, it's really annoying to want to add something and have to risk being punished. This is an excellent example of something we should change. If there's a valid discussion in the comments, why let a rule get in the way? CARTHAGO DELENDA EST!