EMILY! You are smart and awesome and when you get to my side of the country I will take you out for G&Ts and have you meet pretty tattooed boys.

when you get to my side of the country I will take you out for G&Ts and have you meet pretty tattooed boys.

Yessss. Life is worth living again. Tell me, will there be tattooed boys who find math discussion oddly endearing?

Ginger is very right, Emily. WooHOo for G&Ts. And woohoo for you, too, you very smart, very funny, and very pretty person, you.

Pics of the suit, Robin? It sounds pretty.

Darling stripey kitten! Very cute Petey pics. And also? Walter! Walter is the cool dude of dogs.

Tell me, will there be tattooed boys who find math discussion oddly endearing?

Quite possibly. Even if they don't understand all of it.

Quite possibly. Even if they don't understand all of it.

Excccccccellent. (How would you pronounce that?) Vive la geek!

Emily? In the Bay Area again? But how completely foamy is that??? Emily would be the best darn hire the Oakland Unified School District ever made, that's what. Why? Because she's smart and funny and knows about Teh Math, you darn betcha she does. Plus it would be fun to take her to the bookstore.

Also: what Ginger said. Those little dummies promising young people are busy thinking mostly about about summer vacation and gettin some anyway.

And I can say: From a random sampling of dogs met by me, Walter may be the coolest dog ever.

Ooh, can I come? I like drinks, and tattooed boys.

Speaking of - say I were to go into one of the big liquor stores here, looking for Fernet. Do I pronounce the t? I don't want to use up all the cool cred I get by knowing about it in the same instant I find it.

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And I can say: From a random sampling of dogs met by me, Walter may be the coolest dog ever.

Feh.

(Who's Walter again?)

Ooh, can I come? I like drinks, and tattooed boys.

Sure! Yay!

looking for Fernet. Do I pronounce the t?

Yup. It's pronounced exactly as it's spelled. Fer-net. If you want to be more specific, ask for Fernet Branca, which is what we had.

Emily? In the Bay Area again? But how completely foamy is that??? Emily would be the best darn hire the Oakland Unified School District ever made, that's what. Why? Because she's smart and funny and knows about Teh Math, you darn betcha she does. Plus it would be fun to take her to the bookstore.

Aww, see now, you're nice! And the promising young women were a bit contemptuous of me, but mostly the problem was the yelling and working-up-to-fighting which I proved totally unable to stop. Crap. Er, not thinking about that. Although thinking a little about applying to slightly less "high-need" districts. Perhaps I would be able to do more good if I wet my teaching feet in comfortable, well-behaved schools before trying to teach kids whose experiences place great value on balls and much less on getting along and obeying the authority figure.

Er, had something to say. Brenda, my due South enabler, you should totally come with. Oh, and I just watched Wilby Wonderful! I have no point, I'm just sharing.

What, I can't ramble drunkenly?

I'm actually thinking I might try to make a trip out this winter - see the Halloweenie and hang out for a few days. We'll see.