Jars likes a boy! Jars likes a boy!

Okay, I have no idea what's come over me.

This weekend: SciFi Friday gettogether, Saturday yoga, Sunday CowParade: The Wrath of Kine. Maybe some snaky planes should I find anyone who wants to go to a movie....

Allyson, do those reports, so you can come in Monday with one less annoying thing to greet you.

This weekend I'm cleaning, going to the gym, meeting a friend to see the motherfucking snakes, and hopefully skating.

You people had BETTER take lots of pictures at the Zmayhem baby shower!!!

Oh we will, but we'll only share them with people who don't suck.

Hey, Lee, I've been meaning to ask you when you were planning to go and if I could join you.

Okay, I have no idea what's come over me.

That's been happening a lot lately....

ok fine, one other time. AND that may have been sartorially induced.

Hey, Lee, I've been meaning to ask you when you were planning to go and if I could join you.

I'm probably going to go up a little early, since I will have some of the food with me, and stick around until the end so that I can help clean up. You're welcome to hitch a ride with me, but I'll make you help carry things to the apartment if you do.

Jars likes a boy! Jars likes a boy!

This is amusing because it's EXACTLY what my friends said when I first told them I had a boyfriend. There was dancing, in many cases.

There was dancing, in many cases.

I admit, I did shimmy in my chair a wee bit.

Anything that induces a chair-shimmy has to be good. Basic law of nature right there.

I agree that "emotional kidnapping and psychological rape" are three exits past rational, but what were the school administrators thinking, showing an R-rated movie (any R-rated movie) to 9th graders, without parental consent? An R-rating stands for something like "Restricted" and I think the age tag associated with it is 17 years old. Ninth graders are typically 13 and 14 years old, and maybe 15, in some cases. I'd be pissed if the school showed my ninth graders an R-rated film without my consent.

Cindy, you’re absolutely right. I am rabidly anti-censorship, but we don’t show R-rated movies in class without sending a letter home, detailing our rationale for showing an R-rated movie, detailing the reasons for the R rating, and attaching a permission slip. If a parent denies permission, the kid simply stays out of class those days, doing an alternate assignment.

I have to wonder what dumbass teacher didn’t listen to their teacher’s ed profs.

I showed the movie “Thirteen” to my freshmen girls homeroom class this way last year, and the history teacher did it with “Schindler’s List.” Neither of us had a parent deny permission.

Besides being upset over the school's showing of Donnie Darko to Alexis and other ninth-graders, Tara says she is also outraged that the school required her daughter to read Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A., a memoir by former gang member Luis Rodriguez.

I’m teaching this book to my 12th graders. It was taught last year, too. Of course, many of our students have personal experience with gangs and gang violence, but it's a well-written and clearly anti-gang book. There are drug and sex refs, but most of it is like "We smoked some pot, and then. . . " and "They had sex in the back seat. . . " Nothing pornographic or pro-drug.

We always have to order more copies; it seems to be our most "walks off" book.

What do you guys feel about showing a non-R-rated portion of an r-rated movie? When I was an assistant teacher in an acting class, someone had a monologue from "The Jury" and the teacher showed just the portion of the show with the monologue. A couple of parents were very upset, and I do have to say it never occured to me to question her (I was 19, though and the teacher was 50) motives in showing the exerpt.

If the excerpt contained profanity, sexuality or excessive violence, permission slip it. If not, hmmm. Well. I dunno. I guess to be on the safe side, I might...but if it were a really innocuous scene, I might not think of it.