Side tracked...

And this train of thought is why I don't have my lesson plans done for tomorrow...

I'm sitting here reading some background information on American Romanticism getting ready to teach it in class tomorrow. And I came across a quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes. He said, "Everybody wants to have a hand in a great discovery."

(This was after the first time a physician used gas to make a patient unconscious for a surgery. Holmes was the one to call it anesthesia, which means without feeling. Cool, huh?)

Is that true, though? Do ALL of us want that? I thought, "Sure, he's probably right, but I hate it when people overuse superlatives like, everybody and always."

Things never go well in our house when one of us uses superlatives. Unless Greg says, "You always make the best dinners!" It's usually something more like me saying, "You always leave your shoes here...or I always do the dishes!" or something along those lines.

We should all just be a little more political and not assume that everybody wants anything!