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We have to make this column quick this month because we have astringent letters to write to the nimrods at NBC (the broadcasting entity here in North America which we have asked Qulibiew Mikael to plague.) Ere qoi this is no way to say hello. But but we hope you understand that having to watch 17 hours of freaks kayaking through Sydney thinking that the women’s 10K would finally air after some Nordic guy with too many ø’s in his name ends our misery, only to have snot-nosed Bob Costas announce the results oh-so-casually before moving on to the Archery finals well, it’s gotten us a leeettle crabby. [A moment for us, please one yellow pill, one white pill, two blue pills, and just to wipe Bob Costas’ smirky face from our hasab, ten green tablets] Indemin senebetin, SELEDAwian? Morale has been up here at SELEDA Land ever since we heard that our alarf biye upper management people went to their first Demera and got a tongue lashing from several Abunes for attempting to roast marshmallows in the Demera fire. CHgr new getinet Welcome to the Education issue! When we finally settled down at the editorial meeting for this issue, we were struck by the possibility that there might not be an issue. What do we know about education Well, tegl tejemereshould we or should we not include an oft-told war story by one higher up about the trauma of having to step through the gates of Menilik School to take matrik But thankfully, SELEDA has someone watching over it because we found gelagais in the form of this month’s contributors. As always, we are indebted to them, because out from nowhere, articles kept trickling in, and before we knew it, we didn’t need to mekenaneb neTelas of shame when we ventured out in public. Now we aren’t saying we didn’t doctor up photographs of some of the writers and threatened to send it to their mothers, because we do that anyway. But the point is, everyone had fun. We are deeply, deeply grateful. And please dismiss all stories about notorious SELEDA editors demanding last minute re-writes and then sharpening the mored very close to the writers’ fingers. Greatly exaggerated. Just one tinseeeey incident. We are again grateful to steadfast SELEDA friend Assegid Gessesse for sending us the spiffy banner you see on top of this page. If you are looking to buy SELEDA stock talk to him because he has ‘em all. We hope you enjoy what we think is a diverse take of issues in education, memories of education and a few creepy jokes thrown in to prove to you why we flunked out of that education thingy. So, what’s new at SELEDA ? Well, we hope it pleases you that we will be welcoming a couple of new editors into the fold next month. Hopefully, this will spell relief for the over-worked and under-paid/non-paid SELEDA interns and that it leaves them more time to hone their skills at being the official gabi lint removers from upper management’s ye kit libss. It might also mean more efficiency around here, but we ain’t banking on it.Also new are a few improvements to the look of the mekeregNa front page. The computer people morphed into shiny happy people this month, and made some smashing changes for which we have a feeling we will pay bafinCHachn. Ah, well. We hope you like it anyway. What else Ah. Our marketing people, who somehow manage to keep themselves busy by effortlessly putting the ‘mental’ in ‘temperamental’, have finally managed to justify their salaries by coming up with a biggie: a SELEDA Survey geared towards knowing you, our readers, a little better. Is it us, or do the marketing people only work once a year Yih bendih indale, we hope you will take a moment to respond to it. As incentive, one lucky Survey responder (picked at random) will receive this one-o’-a-kind SELEDA T-shirt, to have, to keep, to enjoy, to ridicule, to bleach with harsh chemicals and to dry on the fluff cycle for as long as the T-shirt shall live. The rest of you will receive our Kambolojo-size thanks ke mirreQat gar taj’ibo. (And that’s worth way more than a lousy T-shirt, we’ll tell you right now.) November will be the Cities issue and we extend the usual invitation to our readers to mull it over and send us your ideas and contributions. Remember, no you means no SELEDA. (We dropped big bucks on a consulting firm to scientifically quantify that little salvo.) We are looking for memoirs and stories of places that have changed your lives, places you live in that you hate, places that have scarred you, places that have healed you etc. For more story ideas that might tempt you to contribute to the Cities issue as well as to get the lowdown on December’s Humor issue, and to get general guidelines on how to send in your material, go to Hamsa Lomi. We look forward to hearing from you. With that, we will scuttle back to finishing off that letter to the honchos at NBC. We love hearing from you, so drop us a note on what you read this month, as well as suggestions on ways to wipe that smirk off of Costas’ face there he goes again!! “Dear NBC: Excuse us a moment -- one blue pill? one?.”
Selam inihun.
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