Thanks...fairly certain it's just life, but she found something once, you know?
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Spike's Bitches 22: You've got Angel breath
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
erikaj - Mar 23, 2005 4:55:16 pm PST #9033 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Jen - Mar 23, 2005 4:57:31 pm PST #9034 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Psst, Cashmere: your tag is missing a verb.
Signed, your friendly neighborhood copyediting pedant.
In other news that's all about me and my obsessive-compulsive tendencies: Am I really, really stupid to give up my mega-super-ultra-cheap-but-very-far-from-the-T bedroom in an apartment with two filthy boy roommates in order to move to a relatively-cheap-but-still-twice-what-I'm-paying-now studio apartment that's around the corner from Davis Square?
I just. can't. deal. with the filth. Forget about the fact that I'm the only person who cleans anything up, whether I spilled it or not--the fact that neither of them wash their hands when they're done in the bathroom is enough to make me crazy. The soon-to-be-nurse in me can't abide it!
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2005 4:59:21 pm PST #9035 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
21 parents an hour. Is that some kind of record?
Teacher record, or hooker record?
Strix - Mar 23, 2005 4:59:50 pm PST #9036 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I can live with my own mess; other people's though, I can't abide.
BUt twice the rent? Yeouch. I dunno.
Deena - Mar 23, 2005 5:02:33 pm PST #9037 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Jen, your sanity, not to mention your health, is worth the extra money.
Askye, yes, when your mom gets back, it would be nice to get some feedback from her. Thank you for offering.
I'm tired. Excrutiatingly tired and really lousy company. Weirdly, Perkins says she needs quiet and is enjoying herself. Huh.
Strix - Mar 23, 2005 5:04:32 pm PST #9038 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Teacher record, or hooker record?
Oh, teacher, for sure. Fucking is a lot easier than talking to chatty parents.
I AM really proud of the way I dealt with a parent's concern about Twain's use of the N word in "Tom Sawyer." I explained that I used it as a way to bring up how society deals with racism now as opposed to the past, when it was accepatable for writers like Twain to use it casually; that the students were shocked and appalled to see it in print and that I considered that an excellent sign. She nodded thoughtfully and seemed to find it acceptable. I think, though, that I am happy that I like her kid a lot and our conversation before this topic came up had dealt with what a great, well-mannered boy he was and how much I liked having him in the class.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 23, 2005 5:06:11 pm PST #9039 of 10001
What is even happening?
Oh man, Jen. Run. Run away. Run away. Run away.
Strix - Mar 23, 2005 5:06:40 pm PST #9040 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
YFilthMV.
I am cheap and kinda dirty.
Deena - Mar 23, 2005 5:07:46 pm PST #9041 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Good job, Erin. Parent/Teacher conferences are difficult. The year I taught, we were all in the cafeteria at tables in the shape of a U, and the parents had to come find the teachers they wanted to talk to and move around the tables like they were picking from a smorgasboard. The din was unbelieveable, and it was really hard to have a decent conversation. That principal was... not one of my favorite people.
Strix - Mar 23, 2005 5:11:18 pm PST #9042 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
We were in the gym, but our tables were far apart. I felt sorry for the sad teachers who had only onw or two parents visit them; I had a line!
I felt smug and popular. And I have to say, I was curious to meet the kids' parents, and liked talking to most of them. Only one was obnoxious, and he just wouldn't STOP bitching abou his kid, and how we had to "come down hard on him in class."
The kids problem? Too talkative. Yeah, he needs to curb it, but the dad wouldn't stop yammering about hammering, after I'd said his kid had really made progress about being less chatty about 50 times.