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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, that is brilliant! I'm not sure if my cats would acclimate to it but I am bookmarking it and will definitely be giving it a shot.
Just brilliant.
With this? If they got thumbs? They could flush, open their own food and get jobs. Extermination is the obvious calling. Or anything that requires a lot of napping. Perhaps government work.
Cass, I'm sorry , but no thumbs for cats. because what is mildly annoying now, would become very scary and evil.
and today we got to pet this cat
That's not a cat. Interesting critter, but not a cat.
I don't think I actually want cats to get the opposable thumbs. Because, evil and *able* is a bad combination. But the toilet training? Would be crazy beautiful. Even better than self-trimming claws.
My cat's is so fascinated with flushing toilets now that I wonder if she would ever grasp the concept of toilet training for herself. Ever since I moved, my new bathroom has provided hours of entertainment for her, since she can now perch on the sink's edge and either (a) scratch at the mirror, (b) watch the toilet flush (I'll leave the seat up while the water's running for her delight), (c) stare at the water coming out of the tap, or (d) wait for me to get out of the shower, laying on my towel and forcing me to fight her for it while I drip in the tub. Oh, and she can almost get the cabinet door open, but the drawers are currently beyond her. Give her opposable thumbs, and they'd be open in a heartbeat.
beth, you need to tell me, what exactly does a hairless cat feel like? I've been annoying Mister Kitty by poking at his shaved spots but I don't think it's quite the same.
Kravvers don't bring you tributes of dead mice. Wait, I was trying for a positive spin on cats, wasn't I? OK, cats don't argue back. In english.
Tangental, but I wrote this on the spur-of-the-moment, and am going to give it to my students after their finals. I just sat down and thought about how much I have loved my first year of teaching, and all I have learned from my experience.
What I Learned From My Students This Year:
How to say “shut up” in Spanish
Reggaeton is really cool music
How hard it is to be a teen mother, and how gracefully and well some girls do it
What a coyote is
That hot Cheetos, lime juice and hot sauce is really good…and KILLS my stomach!
You taught me about 17 new cuss words in Spanish…my freshmen next year will hate you!
That teenage girls can put one more makeup in one 50 minute class period than I did from age 20 to 30
That not all teenage boys are jerks – some like to learn, love their parents, and are secret romantics
How important good parents are to everyone…and that I am more grateful than ever for mine
How cool a quincenera is, and how much I wish I’d been a Latina girl so I could have had one!
That grammar still puts all high school students to sleep
I finally figured out why my high school Chemistry teacher hated me for sleeping in his class
I learned so many fabulous things about Latinos, including the importance of family. All kinds of family.
That my Spanish accent sucks, that you will ALWAYS laugh at me when I speak my awful Spanish, but that it’s cool that I try.
That my car is a hoopdee.
What MiGente is
How to say “Your son/daughter is very smart, but is very lazy. S/he needs to study more” in Spanish. To about 8 million parents.
How much fun dancing is…and that my body simply doesn’t MOVE that way anymore!
That Mexican schoolgirls in telenovelas dress kind of…well, DARINGLY
How to hold my temper better
How to think before I speak
That what I say and do affects other people in ways I didn’t think of
That it’s really darned HARD to go to school and learn in a new language
That I love being a teacher, even when my students make me want to strangle them
How much one student can grow in 10 short months – physically, emotionally, intellectually
And finally, and most importantly, I learned to care – a lot – about what happens to all of you. You made my first year of teaching really wonderful.
Gracias y te amo, Ms. G
Reggaeton is really cool music
Joe asked me a couple of weeks what type of music Raggaeton is. I told him that, to the best of my knowledge, it was a sort of Latin-based raggae. He asked how one culture could take over another culture's music and make it their own. I reminded him that it's been happeneing since music was invented. He pondered that, and decided he was going to create Irish-based reggae and call it Reggae-ish.
He pondered that, and decided he was going to create Irish-based reggae and call it Reggae-ish.
Ask him if he remembers House of Pain? And also, does he know Sinead O'Connor put out a FAB album of reggae covers recently>
Thanks, JZ. I have fucking LOVED my first year teaching, and got a little sniffly composing that list.
Hairless cats just looks so...worried. It's the wrinkles. I can't help but pity them their lack of fur, as cats are (usually) so freaking picky about it. Also? Fur covers a multitude of sins. Like Devi's belly waggle or Mister Kitty's wrinkles or paunch. Someone go knit them a coat!
The students from mom's first year of teaching (first grade) graduated a few years ago. She can still name all of them, and hell, even I remember Adrian. Scary thing? She's already had one of their children in her class (head start, then.) She's vying for a professional development position next year, as she's winding towards retirement and just doesn't have the energy levels any more. I hope I'll still get stories of the kids, because I've always loved the exasperation and delight she takes in them.