> I would just like to say that, as a 15-year old homeschooler, I found the last journal entry very enjoyable Sam. I was also wondering when you update the reader poll. Do you use ideas that are emailed to you or is it whenever you happen to think of an interesting question (or something else)? As far as I can tell it's updated 'irregularly'.

I must say, this is a strange poll. What do paperclips have to do with homeschooling?

Anyway, I was not homeschooled, I attended public primary and secondary school like everyone else. If I should ever have children (which I very much doubt), they would probably do the same.

This actually made me think of polls that combine several questions. The only problem is that the number of possible choices is the product of possible answers in all the questions. For example:
1) I was homeschooled and I can straighten a paperclip.
2) I was homeschooled and I can not straighten a paperclip.
3) I was not homeschooled and I can straighten a paperclip.
4) I was not homeschooled and I can not straighten a paperclip.