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....

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).

Is that common in California? I know your schedule is always way different from ours. My oldest son's last day of school before summer break, is still a week off.

Man, the mystery. Is it a private school, or public? We still have public school teachers who don't know where they'll be in the Fall, if they'll be in the Fall, because the town is having a fiscal crisis of sorts. We're trying to get an override of the property tax increase limit (our Proposition 2 1/2 which I think was originally based on Cali's Prop 13), to fund a level service budget. Fuel prices are through the roof, and heating the buildings this year made us bleed. Also, health insurance rates for all town employees went up. There is a bitter group of people opposing the vote, so it's no done deal.

Right now, my youngest is slated to enter a kindergarten class of 30 students: 23 boys and 7 girls. We expect that to change, probably even if the override doesn't happen, but we honestly don't know. The kids had orientation with a teacher who in all likelihood will not be there teacher come Fall. *sigh* I don't know how teachers don't go off their nuts with all the uncertainty.

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

Good for you!

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

Again, good for you. My oldest has been blessed with small, small classes, since first grade. In fourth grade, they're combining them into one class, because a couple of kids are moving. It will be somewhere around 25 kids, so large, but not outrageous like the kindergarten. The other teacher is being reassigned to another school in the district. The teacher who is left has a horrible reputation. She's *the* teacher in our school that we consistently hear parents request to avoid. I haven't heard one nice thing about her. She's been in the system for I don't know how long (maybe 40 years), so she has seniority. I suspect if she's anywhere near as bad as we're hearing, she is someone who didn't seek greener pastures when she should have.

Bill Hemmer is leaving CNN and for some reason I'm sad about it.

Oy, school. I think my wife is now determined to home school my daughter until college. I'm still unsure about that, but it's hard to discuss since she takes concerns about home schooling personally.

Isn't everyone happy and grinny when they give notice?

Some people (and I think we all know who) yell "EAT IT!!!!" when they give notice.

Someone should carefully review the footage of Katie Holmes and look for signs. She could be blinking in Morse code or something.

One of our local news anchors pointed out that whenever she talks about how much she loves Tom, she shakes her head. And that she doesn't shake her head normally while talking.

They only showed one clip to back this up, though.

I heard a news anchor say this am that she was jealous of Katie "for the ring only. Definitely just the ring." Made me laugh that anchors are dissing Tom openly.

I was so stressed, I threw up after giving notice once. Does that count?

Hmm, no. Did you get happy and grinny by your last day?

Is the Katie/Tom stuff the only WotW related buzz going around? And, if so, does that say something about the movie? 'Cause I've been hearing lots of non-Katie-related stuff about the latest Batman, and not so much about War of the Worlds. Could be I'm just not hanging with the right set of sf movie fans.

Bill Hemmer is leaving CNN and for some reason I'm sad about it.

Aw. He was my 9-11 tv boyfriend. But I gave up CNN morning news a long time ago when they went with the "morning show" format like all the networks rather than straight news.