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?
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
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.
§ ita § - Jun 17, 2005 3:59:09 am PDT #2564 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
§ ita § - Jun 17, 2005 4:28:15 am PDT #2570 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think it was the fact that I was so excited and grinning the whole time.
Very rude of you to be happy about making a change in your life for the better. Next time, be sure to be fucking up, so she doesn't have to get pissy.
When did this become all about you?
Jesse - Jun 17, 2005 4:39:37 am PDT #2571 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Isn't everyone happy and grinny when they give notice?
Cashmere - Jun 17, 2005 4:41:36 am PDT #2572 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Isn't everyone happy and grinny when they give notice?
I was so stressed, I threw up after giving notice once. Does that count?
Theodosia - Jun 17, 2005 4:54:30 am PDT #2573 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Huh, come to think of it, I don't think I've ever given notice more than maybe once or twice, and those were for part-time jobs....
Oh, no, wait, the hospital data-entry job was full-time and I'd landed a data-entry job at Lotus, so that was a whole going-away party and stuff.
Oh, Cashmere -- the tv commercial you mentioned wanting to get an MPG of? Do you know what shows it has been shown during. If it shows up on one of the ones that I TiVo, I could try to get it transferred to my laptop as an MPG, if I know where to go look for it....