'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'

Jayne ,'Safe'


Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


billytea - Jul 12, 2006 2:50:10 pm PDT #4022 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

It took me half a minute to get that.

It's a rare kind of geek that thinks 'lizard' before 'computer screen'. And that right there is the difference between me and -- um, humanity.


brenda m - Jul 12, 2006 2:51:55 pm PDT #4023 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

What's interesting is if you look at the literature on sleep patterns, it really ought to be more that way. Young kids are mentally and physically alert early in the morning, yet in many place they start school late. Teenagers, no matter how much sleep they get, are mentally more alert mid-morning. School starting even at nine or nine thirty would be better for them, and for the poor folks who have to go in to teach them.


Pix - Jul 12, 2006 2:53:03 pm PDT #4024 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.

Fay's story made me giggle a lot.


Cashmere - Jul 12, 2006 2:56:34 pm PDT #4025 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

DH wishes they had a third shift for actuaries. He's most active from about midnight to 2 a.m. Mornings, he hates.


Strix - Jul 12, 2006 2:59:55 pm PDT #4026 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh, Brenda, don't get me started. My first hour class was so sleepy and unmotivated. However, since I stumbled into work at 7:31 every morning, clutching a venti coffee and growling like Godzilla with roid rage, we got along well. They didn't talk to me till the 8 a.m. bell rang, and knew that my temper was...uncertain...till I'd had 1/2 a cup of coffee. In fact, after they got comfortable with me, they'd often say "Ms. G., do you need more coffee?"

(Of course. after they got TOO comfortable with me, they'd ask things like "Did you drink too much last night? Did you party all night?" And since I HADN'T, this made me grumpier, knowing my gronk came from nothing like fun.)

yes! The biggest drawback about teaching for me is the hours. I honestly don't know how I'm going to handle having to be at work at 7:30am.

This, too, was my biggest fear, and remains my greatest challenge. Aropund the end of October, though, I started waking up at 6:45.

My greatest teaching tip? Never teach with a hangover. I did this ONCE. I generally never went out on school nights, but I stayed out WAY too late on a date and vodka took me amiss, and oh, god, just DON'T.


Cashmere - Jul 12, 2006 3:04:22 pm PDT #4027 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

My senior year in high school I had English first period. It's a good thing it was my favorite subject and I learned a lot from the reading because there's only so much you can learn staring out of one bloodshot eye.

There are at least three pictures of me sleeping in that class and the second period study hall, where I could mercifully sack out on a sofa in the journalism office (where I managed to get assigned thanks to a fantastic teacher.)

Yikes. If I skipped more classes instead of sleeping in them, I'd be Ferris Bueller.


Aims - Jul 12, 2006 3:17:30 pm PDT #4028 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Calling vw...

Lookie what we got, starting here [link]

Three pictures follow. It is so beautiful. Thank you.

I don't enhance penises

You have two children that would be proof otherwise. IJS.


sj - Jul 12, 2006 3:25:14 pm PDT #4029 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I am a complete idiot. I left the house today without my purse. No license, no money, no credit cards, no medicine, nothing. I didn't even realize it until I was an hour away at therapy. Thank God Mom was around to give me money to get gas to get home again. Why am I allowed to run my own life? The best part was I remember to bring books with me. I need more sleep.

Jack and Zoe are so adorable and with such pinchable cheeks!

Congratulations on the house, amych!!!

Yay, vw!!!

If my world would accomodate it, I would sleep from 3am to 11am. But, my world is not accomodating.

Me too.

That is the cutest dress that Em is wearing. Good job, vw!!!


vw bug - Jul 12, 2006 3:27:43 pm PDT #4030 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

Calling vw...

Lookie what we got, starting here [link]

Three pictures follow. It is so beautiful. Thank you.

Oh, YAY! It fits! It's so cute on her! Thank you for the pictures!

I'm doing a nebulizer, because my asthma's really been kind of out of control the last few days. Toto is so freaked out by this thing. He's just barking at it and jumping on me and kind of driving me nuts.


SuziQ - Jul 12, 2006 3:28:43 pm PDT #4031 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

vw - that is ADORABLE!!!!! You do nice work!

I miss crocheting. I haven't had time to do a square or anything...