Cool! And knowing that it's adapted ASL and not just made for babies makes me feel much better about the "milking a cow" motion for milk that Debra Messing was making on Letterman last night.
Yup. Some of the signs are too complex for wee hands to make--so they either adapt an ASL sign or make one simpler. But for the most part--it's very much ASL. And most of the signs actually make a hell of a lot of sense.
The teacher had several great examples of how young babies grasp concepts that they are unable to communicate--signing helps them do this a lot earlier than they would if they had to wait to speak.
Rodents will leave an immediate area pretty quickly without a food source.
Jesse is a weather predicting COWGIRL llama.
I prefer the idea of Jesse as a cowgirl Lama. It's all multicultural and empowering and serene.
I might be a llama, though.
I promised myself I won't post today anymore (students all over the place, too), but I just have to say this: there's a slang expression in Hebrew, if a person is being ignored at something that's obviously includes them, they respond with: "what am I, a goat?". My usual ending of this phrase is "no, I'm not. I'm a llama". So if Jesse isn't one, I probably am. [Edit: and one that can't spell, too]
In Hebrew "llama" is a very funny name for an animal, because "lama" is the word for "why". It's like you'd call a capybara "what".
[Edit: {{Ali}}]
Rodents will leave an immediate area pretty quickly without a food source.
Well, the rodent is very dead. But there are little bits of peanut pieces on the floor, from the snap traps he snagged food from, before he was caught. Should I be expecing another rat?
ETA: And thanks for the sympathy, Jesse.
Aren't rats a health department type of problem? They spread disease. If there is a serious problem and the building management isn't taking care of the problem, would the health dept. be able to force them to do something?
Do you have a dustbuster at the office?
Well, the rodent is very dead. But there are little bits of peanut pieces on the floor, from the snap traps he snagged food from, before he was caught. Should I be expecing another rat?
It's highly, highly unlikely that there's precisely one rat who is now dead. Especially since your manager told you the building is ratty.
These are California rats, so they live outside. They just come in to grab food and then leave again. They're n more like ugly, ballsy squirrels than city rats. The only way to get rid of them is to cut down all the vegetation for miles around. If there's no food, they won't come in.
