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Having just read Barak Obama's proclamation on National Information Literacy Awareness Month, 2009, I feel like a total loser. I've been completely illiterate when it came to knowing there was any such thing as National Information Literacy Awareness Month. Worse yet, I didn't even find out it existed until it was already over (National Information Literacy Awareness Month is in October).
Other signs that I've fallen way short when it comes to information literacy:
October was National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Not only did I not increase my awareness about Domestic Violence, I wasn't even aware that there was a special month for it.
I failed to realize that October 11 through October 17, 2009 was National School Lunch Week. Not only did I not give a single young American a wholesome, nutritious lunch, I don't think I even ate one myself. I feel pathetic (and kind of hungry).
Missing General Pulaski Memorial Day really bugs me. At first I thought it was in honor of Ed Pulaski, inventor of the Pulaski firefighting tool and a forest ranger that saved 45 people during disastorous Idaho forest fires in 1910. Then I found out it was really about some general from the Revolutionary War. Now I feel bad, both for my ignorance and for Ed Pulaski, who certainly deserves a memorial day of his own.
And I missed Leif Erickson Day and White Cane Safety Day (but at least I managed to stop before running over that guy with a white cane - that would have been some bitter irony).
I really wish someone would have let me know it was National Forest Products Week - I could have used more pencils and paper that week. They should have National Plastics Products Week the same week. Then you could combine usage by shooting wads of forest products out of a tubular plastics product. Or are we supposed to reduce usage of forest products that week to conserve them. Once again, I'm just illiterate when it comes to October causes.
And how could miss Count Chocula's week. I really wanted to see him count. Or is it some other national character that counts that week. Geez, I wish I knew those kind of things.
I'm glad the NFL wore pink last month (well, not really - in fact, it was a little weird) or I would have completely missed National Breast Awareness Month.
And Declaration of a National Emergency With Respect to the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic? What kind of a holiday is that?! Oh, wait :uhh:. I guess some of those proclamations are for important things other than holidays.
Presidential Proclamations for 2009
Other signs that I've fallen way short when it comes to information literacy:
October was National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Not only did I not increase my awareness about Domestic Violence, I wasn't even aware that there was a special month for it.
I failed to realize that October 11 through October 17, 2009 was National School Lunch Week. Not only did I not give a single young American a wholesome, nutritious lunch, I don't think I even ate one myself. I feel pathetic (and kind of hungry).
Missing General Pulaski Memorial Day really bugs me. At first I thought it was in honor of Ed Pulaski, inventor of the Pulaski firefighting tool and a forest ranger that saved 45 people during disastorous Idaho forest fires in 1910. Then I found out it was really about some general from the Revolutionary War. Now I feel bad, both for my ignorance and for Ed Pulaski, who certainly deserves a memorial day of his own.
And I missed Leif Erickson Day and White Cane Safety Day (but at least I managed to stop before running over that guy with a white cane - that would have been some bitter irony).
I really wish someone would have let me know it was National Forest Products Week - I could have used more pencils and paper that week. They should have National Plastics Products Week the same week. Then you could combine usage by shooting wads of forest products out of a tubular plastics product. Or are we supposed to reduce usage of forest products that week to conserve them. Once again, I'm just illiterate when it comes to October causes.
And how could miss Count Chocula's week. I really wanted to see him count. Or is it some other national character that counts that week. Geez, I wish I knew those kind of things.
I'm glad the NFL wore pink last month (well, not really - in fact, it was a little weird) or I would have completely missed National Breast Awareness Month.
And Declaration of a National Emergency With Respect to the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic? What kind of a holiday is that?! Oh, wait :uhh:. I guess some of those proclamations are for important things other than holidays.
Presidential Proclamations for 2009
