Belated Yay for Jen!!!

Very belated - SA, don't they have Dr Pepper in Ireland? We have it in the UK. Not as widespread as Coke or 7 Up, but it's definitely out there. Keep looking? Dr Pepper-ma to you?

Sex ed, mechanics of safe flirting, how to drink properly and not make an ass out of yourself (with extra credit - Fernet: Devil's Brew or Best Medicine Ever?), theatre etiquette, How To Make An Actor (or someone else) Do What They're Told Already

...can I sign up for this camp?

In return I can offer the Buffistasprogs et al World Travelling with Felines, Relying Upon The Kindness of Strangers, Basic Thai, Negotiating with Cairo Taxi Drivers and Accessorising Above And Beyond The Call of Duty.

Former teacher of English, ESL, drama, and jiujitsu.

Not as unrelated as all that.

My DH wants to teach when he retires in 5 years. He wants to teach high school, but everyone, including me, sees him as a college professor. I guess we could take on high-school-age 'ffistakids now, for training. Topics include Gaming, Knife Skills, Applied Movie Quotes, International Toddler Wrangling, Design and Build Your Own Haunted House, and How To Identify Which Country You Are In Today (team-taught by us, Fay, SA, and meara, with guest lectures).

Hey, vw, just saw your LJ about (I added you). Lots of ~ma and good wishes for your mom.

Congrats, ChiKat! Illinois sounds like it got a tough certification program. I think Wiscosin must also. My SiL originally was certified to teach in Minnesota. When she moved to Wisconsin, she needed to take more classes in order to get certified here and she wouldn't. Stubborn as hell. So now she teaches on an Oneida reservation because they don't have to go by state rules for teachers.

Welcome, SCube!

Also an ex-teacher, here. I taught electronics for the Navy for three years. It was teaching adults, however. Much more motivated adults because if you wash out of school, you either a) have to keep taking it until you get it right which pisses your command off because they have to pay for you to be there, b) get sent to a different, less dificult job than what you wanted (with possibly much less chance of promotion), c) get written up by your command for wasting their money, d) get stuck spending more time in the service without the extra training, ad infinitum. They have more ways to punish you than erika or ita know to kill a person (with or without a pinky being involved.)

Erm, my seminars are mostly along the lines of "How to Fight Unfair" and usually end with large amounts of bleeding and very happy injured people (since I only recruit masochists).... So maybe they don't count.

and How To Identify Which Country You Are In Today (team-taught by us, Fay, SA, and meara, with guest lectures).

Heh. Excellent! I can also do Drag Kinging 101, How to Lead a Fabulous Lesbian Lifestyle, and I can certainly assist in those Flirtation classes.

Buffista U: Learning more than you thought you wanted to know.

ETA: or more properly...

Camp Buffista: Learning more than you thought you needed to know.

Erm, my seminars are mostly along the lines of "How to Fight Unfair" and usually end with large amounts of bleeding and very happy injured people (since I only recruit masochists).... So maybe they don't count.

Oh, that's what ita does!!

Hey, vw, just saw your LJ about (I added you). Lots of ~ma and good wishes for your mom.

Cool! I'll go add you. And thanks for the ~ma. I'll post in Beep Me on Tuesday to get all the ~ma there is available.

Let's see...what could I teach at Buffista Camp? Crafts, of course, then I think I'd want to do a workshop on Getting Your First Apartment: Know Your Rights.

ChiKat - congratulations on the certification!

I spent yesterday hanging out with my Supernatural obsessed friend you know, watching her Supernatural dvds and now I'm hanging out and watching MY Supernatural dvds. Mine has the glitch in the season finale.

Today is the first day that my fluffy cat Tanuki has deigned to come hangout with me while I'm on the computer. She's been napping, purring and desultorily playing with the mouse. I've been reading and scrolling. Now, that I'm typing she is suddenly wideawake, sitting up and watching the magically appearing letters intently. It's very cute. (Ivan usually just sleeps when he hangs out with me while I'm on the computer.)