Exactly like that, or getting hit in the head with a large gold brick wrapped in a lemon skin.

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Here's to all the unwaveringly patient souls that put up with my scatterbrained tigger-like bouncing ADHD learning style during my 20+ years of schooling...

Are you saying that ended with the end of school?

t runs away

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and then your fingers are suddenly acting like ice-skating monkeys

We have to see that! Monkeys on skates! They're so irrational!

Emily, after re-reading I see clearly that I have erred on the side of Be a Dominating Teacher when you needed more It Takes A Year To Make a Classroom.

Which is true. It's an evolving relationship. With several different classes.

Also? You can come over here and watch videos and let us feed you potent alcoholic drinks anytime. You can bring AcrossTheHall Teacher if you like, too.

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The netnanny blocked me from checking out Plei's haircut. Reason? "Nudity:online storage"

Online storage pr0n MUST BE STOPPED.

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Bedtime! Love y'all! To little below quantum bits.

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Exactly like that, or getting hit in the head with a large gold brick wrapped in a lemon skin.

You know, a pangalacticgargleblaster might help right now. Or kill me. It's a toss up.

runs away

Way to welcome the new guy. But I am guessing you know him. Her. I swear I read the profile... Did I mention the dazed and confused?

Oops, I should hello as well. Hi, SonusExMachina.

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The netnanny blocked me from checking out Plei's haircut.

That is so wrong. To sum, Ple got the very haircut she desired. A sharply angled bob with a stacked back.

It is one of her many flavors of Superhot which ranges from Long Haired Teen Ple to Short Cropped Guh Ple.

[goes to happy place]

In other news, eeep, I've got to get up at 6:30 to brave the traffic and get to Emmett's first day of school. It's his first year without Preston in his class. He's bumming about that.

OTOH, the girl he kind of likes that kind of likes him back (Nelia) is in this class.

Emmett's 4th Grade Teacher Describing Nelia To His Parents In Last Year's Conference: "She's kind of like a girl Emmett."

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Emily, right there with ya. Middle school students are the toughest, I think. I remember when my dad agreed to take on an 8th grade class after years of teaching high school, and came home looking shell-shocked: "They ate the library paste." He did it one year and swore never again.

You are doing a Good Thing, though, and you've got the Buffistas at your back.

I brought 3 Corb Lund albums into work for the office stereo today. Viral marketing.

I'll probably xpost this with LJ at some point, but it's vague and formless and I'm just sort of talking it out now: Did my taxes last night (I have to pay my own as an IC throughout the year), and figured out that my take-home pay is $3.65/hour.

I've never made that little. Even in high school I made $4/hour, and that was a long time ago! (And it went farther, as food didn't cost as much).

My nanny makes $11/hour. This means if I miss any work but have the nanny (if I'm sick or have to, say, go get a biopsy), I actually lose money.

The DH is kind of making noise like I should quit working, because it's not really worth it, but (and he understands this) it's the only place I get adult contact. Plus I am keeping my security clearance valid (worth its weight in gold for future employment in DC or overseas) and networking for future jobs.

But $3.65/hour? When I could be home playing with Mal and working on art projects?

Not sure what to do. I've broached the idea of sharing nannies with a couple other folks who work FT, so that might be an answer. Or, being the right-wing types they are, they might think it smacks of socialism.

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Way to welcome the new guy. But I am guessing you know him.

Yeah, I've known him for quite a few years.

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So you are saying that he's used to perverse, wildly disturbing humor? That works.

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