Yay! I promise not to hate you.

Okay, that was a joke that was funny only to me, based on my streak of bad relationships with English teachers in my youth.

By the way, since we're both here...Emily thinks I made up the word caddywompus. Please tell her I'm not the only person who uses this word. Please. I'm not totally weird, am I?

hi, and urg. stupid job.

I've always pronounced it with t's, rather than d's, but still, real word that people use.

I never said I thought you made it up! I said I'd never heard it before and it sounded funny. But I figured you got it from somewhere.

(Also, I thought you were saying "kittywompus". Or maybe "cattywompus". Which are both even funnier.)

(((Nora)))

I'm so sorry, Nora. Anything we can do?

I'm sorry June isn't over yet, Nora.

I've heard caddywompus, but I don't know what it means. That link is blocked by the office netnanny, which surprises me.

Caddywompus, yep.

As in "That car is parked all caddywompus."

Kristin, I have the Burke English Teacher's Companion; it was the text in my English Methods class, and about the only useful text. Plus, I used stuff from his webpage just about every day while student teaching.

vw, you are not the only person who uses that word. I have never before thought about how to spell it, though, and every way looks, well, caddywompus...kattywompus...kaddy....