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whaa:
If you love it so much why don't you marry it?

Wha....?

Nevermind.
flux:
Oooh. What's it called?
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Here's a stellar idea: put a fireworks stand across the street from the Alternative School. What a great idea.

Also, the best damn thing about being a teacher is the large amount of vacation time. I'll be on vacation for a few days.
adjunct:
Well, where else are you going to put the fireworks stand? No responsible, law-abiding person would play with fireworks anymore- their only market is the special kids.

Really thinking about cultivating a nice 'Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday' handlebar for the first day of classes this fall.
mistersatan:
Good point. Ugh.
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Overheard while leaving a movie theater last week:

"Why ain't they put Sinbad in movies no more? That nigga's got what it takes."

Oddly enough, this was while I was leaving "An Inconvenient Truth". I wouldn't think Sinbad and Al Gore would have a whole lot of crossover fans. Then again, these two ladies had started spontaneously clapping about six times during the movie, so...
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twinkie:
I need to make time to see that! We keep saying we will and never do!

Where do you keep 20 pairs of shoes? I feel like I have a hard time housing like 5 pairs!
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I got lost on the way to work this morning. Apparently six months of driving there five days a week hasn't helped me much. I feel smart.
whaa:
I am so smart!

I am so smart!

S-M-R-T!!
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I should never have to have conversations like this with my students:

Me: Do I look like Santa?
Rashad: Not really.
Me: Then why are you sitting on my lap?
Rashad: Mmm, girl...
Me: 'Mmm, girl' nothing. Get up.

I think it's crazy that students have crushes on me, especially my little ghetto thugs.
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Yesterday we got a gigantic mystery box in the mail at our school. Inside, we found hundreds of "Puberty Packs"; pink ones for girls, blue ones for boys, some in Spanish, some in English. Apparently, these are meant to be distributed to our students. I see a few problems with this.

1. Our students range between the ages of 14-21. Hopefully they've gone through puberty...
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adjunct:
Drop them off at the nearest junior high.

One of my college groups used to do preview screenings of bad upcoming films in partnership with some PR firm, and part of the contract was handing out tons of promo stuff from other third parties. We had a few cases of some new ultra-slim junior tampon for a few screenings to give to a bunch of college and grad school women. Not so popular for most of them.
whaa:
You could always give them to bums.
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I've spent most of today in pajamas, which is honestly what Sundays are all about.

I finished reading Fortress of Solitude by Johnathan Lethem. It was very good. He's the only author I've read who can write an ending with no sort of resolution to it, yet still make it satisfying. Poorly resolved endings generally irk me.

I also started reading I Had Brain Surgery,...
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felicia_____:
Since I need to go to a seminar held at a psychiatric hospital tomorrow, I wonder if a tiara wouldn't be a dubious yet thoroughtly appropriate choice of headwear...
felicia_____:
No tiara - maybe next year.

I've decided to be trendy and start a yarn blog. come visit! clic
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Tonight I was so tired and lazy, I actually laid on the sofa and watched WWE Smackdown for 45 minutes because the remote was aaaaall the way over there. I think the only reason I'm up off the sofa right now is because I got a wicked charley horse and was so troubled by not knowing the origin of the phrase 'charley horse' that I...
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Today one of my students smelled like fish. It wasn't even that she smelled like she'd had fish for lunch or something; no, she smelled like she'd been carrying a raw dead fish around in her pocket for a week. I couldn't handle being in my tiny classroom with her. So I found myself in the office, asking our resident social worker how I could...
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felicia_____:
I tried to edit the comment, and it screwed up frown Plus there's now a time limit to edit??!!

I wanted to say that I put a tiny batch of yarn on etsy as a PIF, which because free sold instantly, but it's a more sophisticated version of the multicolor one
here
felicia_____:
Yes, I'm fixing it in vinegar and water. It's colorfast, but just not as much as the acid dyes would be. Of course, I wouldn't think people are washing their wool objects all that often.

Unless they smell like fish, then they should wash everything a few times.
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I hate that it's not even 5 am and I've already been up for two hours. I hate that I can't shut my brain off. I hate that I fret about every goddamn thing I can until I work myself into a frenzy. I hate that I can't cut myself some slack.

Fuck it all. I'm having blueberry pancakes.

Edit: If anyone ever tells you...
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zaksmith:
my downstairs neighbors who i've never met gave me a plate of leftover blackberrys yesterday.