HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ASKYE!! Yay. Glad you're here.

Happy Birthday askye!

Happy Birthday askye!!!!

mearing...

Which I read as pottery slams. Fun, sure, but maybe not in school.

Jen, I have leeway. Maybe I’ll include a shatter-and-hum event to the evening.

the girl being written up for doing the perrito (doggy style) dance toward/on a (white) teacher? Hilarious.

BWAHAHAHA! I not only wouldn’t write the kid up, I’d probably fall down laughing so hard she could step over me.

Today is apparently "Let's do lewd and inappropriate dances at school day" in NYC because I got to see a thrilling performance to "Gasolina" and watch a class full of Puerto Rican kids try to explain to their very nice and infinitely patient non-Puerto Rican teacher what Reggaeton is.

I think every day can be that day at school. Is it wrong that reading about all these naughty kids is making me more and more excited to be teaching mostly Latino kids?

Did I mention that? My school that I just got hired at is a charter school in a mostly Hispanic part of town. There about 150 kids in the school – 85% Hispanic, 14% African-American and 1% White.

I’m so fucking JAZZED.

Are you at all familiar with Daddy Yankee, Kat? He has a hit out now, "Gasolina", that is kinda what the reggaeton thing is all about. It's a style of Puerto Rican dance music that mixes dance hall beats with salsa and rap en espanol. It is very good music for to make with the lewd and inappropriate dancing.

One of my girls was a huge Daddy Yankee fan, and played that song whenever I’d let her get away with it, but I didn’t know that it was reggaeton. Cool. New things learned today: reggaeton and perrito, and it’s only 9 a.m.

Huh. I would love to see the OED citation so we could see when and how it was first used.

I bet it was first used in an argument about sheep.

BWAH!!! Spittake.

Thansk for all the birthday wishes!

ION, some company has been calling my house for the last week or so, leaving messages on my machine that start well before the beep [..]

So THAT'S what those are about. I've always wondered. I don't answer them, and I don't call back. I figure if they don't bother to identify themselves, no point in me returning the call. If it were important, like my bank or credit card, they'd identify themselves. Speaking of which, last weekend my cc called with an early possible fraud alert (it's a service they offer free.) Nothing was wrong, I guess I'd just broken out of my usual pattern of purchases by grocery shopping, then Target, then Walmart (they are the only place that carries picky cat's litter) then BB&B. I'm sure it is an algorithm or somesuch, but it is alway amusing when I set it off. I'm soooo predictable.

If the developers would just TELL me they are using a new dev database, I could change the scripts for them before they get all confused and start blaming me for not "updating properly." Dudes, I'd update properly if you'd talk to me once and a while.

Happy Bloomsday everyone!!!

On the way to work today I saw a bumper sticker with "CSI:" on it just like the tv show's typeface along with a big fingerprint. I though this was odd as I have never seen a bumper sticker for a tv show before. However, at a stoplight I saw that in small print on the bottom it said "Christ Saves Individuals". Clever.

Happy Bloomsday everyone!!!

I changed my tag for the occasion.

However, at a stoplight I saw that in small print on the bottom it said "Christ Saves Individuals".

He also saves groups. It's cheaper that way.