Xander: How? What? How? Giles: Three excellent questions.

Xander/Giles ,'Never Leave Me'


Natter 36: But We Digress...  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 17, 2005 3:49:27 am PDT #2560 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Happy Birthday Cass!

Also, I just want to shake Katie Holmes.


Kat - Jun 17, 2005 3:50:20 am PDT #2561 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Tom and Katie = @@

I agree with Jesse on that point.

How'd they take it, Kat?

They were slightly agog. And some of it was "Is it because of us?" and no. It absolutely isn't etc. etc.

After school two girls came by and asked m why I was really leaving and said they'd miss me.

Poor chickidees as they'll be stuck there again next year.


Jesse - Jun 17, 2005 3:52:52 am PDT #2562 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

And some of it was "Is it because of us?"

Aw, poor noodles.


Kat - Jun 17, 2005 3:57:37 am PDT #2563 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I think many were relieved because I'm not at all the easiest teacher they have.

One of my co-workers who is on my instructional team got so mad that she won't acknowledge me anymore.


§ ita § - Jun 17, 2005 3:59:09 am PDT #2564 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

One of my co-workers who is on my instructional team got so mad that she won't acknowledge me anymore.

What is with people? I mean, you're not kicking her puppies on the way out or anything, are you?


Topic!Cindy - Jun 17, 2005 4:01:38 am PDT #2565 of 10001
What is even happening?

Kat, I think I'd missed (before last night) where you'd said you were leaving. Do you have an elsewhere lined up, yet? Also, all the best to you. I feel sorry for your students. Your courses and assigments always sound so wonderful.


JenP - Jun 17, 2005 4:03:11 am PDT #2566 of 10001

Happy Birthday, Cass!!

I must have missed a day or something, because I'm behind. Kat, what are you doing next? ETA: I'm assuming there is a "next" lined up because of some post or other, but I can't remember what it was. I just remember thinking I needed to ask about that.


Kat - Jun 17, 2005 4:18:35 am PDT #2567 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Not important enough to say twice.


Kat - Jun 17, 2005 4:18:39 am PDT #2568 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Cindy, I do have something else lined up at a local middle school. Exactly what is lined up is a still, somewhat of a mystery. But they are expecting me to be there on opening day of school (which is July 5 this year).

I mean, you're not kicking her puppies on the way out or anything, are you?

I think it was the fact that I was so excited and grinning the whole time.


Kat - Jun 17, 2005 4:22:16 am PDT #2569 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Or it could also be that I'm leaving them halfway through a 2 year cycle. Granted, it's much easier to get a qualified teacher to replace me than if I had left them in January, and my contract runs from 7/1 through 6/30 and I'm not obligated to stay with, contractually, for 2 years.

But maybe she just expected that I would because it would have been the right thing to do for the kids.

But being at that school fills me with such dread and bile that I'm leaving them for MY sake.