A world of ew!
I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
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.
Glamcookie - Jul 05, 2006 9:32:57 am PDT #5472 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
flea - Jul 05, 2006 9:35:15 am PDT #5473 of 10002
information libertarian
I am always more comfortable splitting a check, no matter who asked who. But two men I've dated, one of whom I married, were adamant about paying, saying it didn't feel like a date unless they did. In both cases this was sweetly old-fashioned and not aggressive or obnoxious, otherwise there would have been no more dates, and certainly no marriage.
I think one place it gets confusing - or used to to me; I haven't dated in 10 years - it sometimes it's not clear what is "a date" and what is "friends going out" and it's also not always clear just who asked whom.
Strix - Jul 05, 2006 10:18:41 am PDT #5474 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
hey, i just got call that i have an elective i can teach! Help a high school teacher out -- thoughts?
Tom Scola - Jul 05, 2006 10:20:13 am PDT #5475 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Are you asking for a subject to teach?
tommyrot - Jul 05, 2006 10:21:38 am PDT #5476 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Laugh and say, “I don’t think my girlfriend/boyfriend would approve.”
So those of us who have no GF/BF should lie?
If you’re not sure if you’re being asked out, just drop an unmistakable hint into the conversation referring to your heterosexuality.
How would one do that?
For some reason, that's something I make a point to never do...
Lee - Jul 05, 2006 10:23:32 am PDT #5477 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I paid for ita's dinner a few times. I didn't notice a power struggle. Must be a dating thing.
In reality, I bend/snap the needle, recap them, and toss them into a juice carton. When the carton is full, it goes into the dumpster.
This is what I've been doing, minus the bending. I think my vet does have a biohazard box though. I should look into that.
Strix - Jul 05, 2006 10:27:00 am PDT #5478 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
It's "Appreciation of Literature" for mainly 11th and 12th graders. Which means I can teach a bunch of stuff I don't have time for in my other classes.
I'm giddy with power.
WHat books had an impact on y'all in high school? Or, what books would you recommend?
Vortex - Jul 05, 2006 10:29:50 am PDT #5479 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
random thought -- teach how your perspective on literature changes with experience and age. Have them reread a popular YA book, like Bridge to Terabithia or A Wrinkle in Time, and talk about how they view it now as opposed to when they first read it.
Strega - Jul 05, 2006 10:35:45 am PDT #5480 of 10002
Erin, could you do short stories or novellas? Then you can do a range of authors and periods and genres. So you can aim more for "something for everyone" instead of trying to think of a single novel that everyone's going to get excited about.
Strix - Jul 05, 2006 10:35:51 am PDT #5481 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Most of my kids are ESL or Latina/o students. A lot of stuff I consider classics, they've never read.
A concept I'm toying with: chronological exposure to lit: Socrates, Beowulf, Canturbury Tales, Renn poets (Herbert, Herrick, Donne), Romantic poets, the novel (Pride and Prejudice? Frankenstein?), um...then into Americana -- Whitman, Hawthorne SStories, Fitzgerald, Millay, and then end with modern, like Kazuo Ishiguro's newest?
I dunno. I could do genre lit, too: the romance! the gothic! the comedy of manners!