Betsy HP's email sig line is Garrison Keillor's farewell: Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. Makes me happy every time I see it.

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So. I just got offered a summer job. Not the one I applied for, but a different one at the same program. Less pay, more hours, better location. I'm considering it.

Also, I seem to have just joined a kickball league. I don't get this -- I was totally immune to peer pressure as a kid, couldn't figure out why anybody would do something just because everyone else was, and now I'm all, "My friends are playing kickball! I should too!" And, it looks like fun and I've been saying I need to do more non-math stuff.

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Kickball sounds like a lot of fun, Hil.

Is the less pay less hourly pay or less salary pay?

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I don't get this -- I was totally immune to peer pressure as a kid, couldn't figure out why anybody would do something just because everyone else was, and now I'm all, "My friends are playing kickball! I should too!"

Do your "friends" include either of the boys you were trying not to drunk dial, last night?

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Is the less pay less hourly pay or less salary pay?

Less salary pay.

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Do your "friends" include either of the boys you were trying not to drunk dial, last night?

Nope. Though I was just thinking I should see if one of them wants to join. (One of the guys is someone I do need to call, just not while drunk.)

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Ibuprofen?

I'd be all like "Well, if we're gonna wait and see if it gets better, I'd like some freaking Vicodin for 5 days of the month."

Anne, if you really want to know:

I am intitled to my opinion as much as the next person and I think teacehers should be PROUD of what they do and are ROLE MODELS for youth. That's all I was saying you do not have to be so angry about it. But I am not supriised that a person like you are who have would write such an angry letter back at me. I should write your school adn tell them what a bitch yuo are but since you are not teaching my children I can tell you would just like that as a way to feel ike you are somebody important. So I think you can just FUCK OFF and one day you will probably be fired for being a FUCKING WHORE as I am sur eyou are from how you talked to people you don't know.

Don't worry I won't writ eyou again, because I am a better person and have better things to do with my day than waste on somene LIKE YOU!"

Cut and pasted, baby. Methinks I pissed her off.

Oh, well -- this FUCKINH WHORE will just cry, cry, cry herself to sleep tonight.

ION, my new kitty Tulip is officially disease free, so now I can let the cat roam the house tonight, instead of listening to one yowl pathetically outside my bedroom.

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Much, much ~ma for Connie & DH.

My dad still says "Don't get caught!" (in a cheerful voice, of course) whenever we part ways.

Plei, you don't really need to see Newsies, do you? I can loan you Empire of the Sun, Velvet Goldmine, Reign of Fire, or American Psycho to talk you off that ledge.

JZ's new boots are very nifty. Too stompy-looking to work with my wardrobe, so I won't be ordering them. I will, instead, go back to my usual search on eBay for 'goth+buckles+pointy'.

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Yay Tulip.

I'm finding it incredibly funny that she's telling you to fuck off after accusing you of moral turpitude.

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Erin, I am stunned by that woman's emails to you. Do you want to borrow one of my waist cinchers for the wedding, for extra "Look at me, I'm a freak AND a teacher!" points?

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