Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?

Doyle ,'Life of the Party'


The Crying of Natter 49  

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.


Pix - Jan 21, 2007 8:36:30 pm PST #4870 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.

Oh good. I missed the football. (Happy for you that love it, but not so much my thing.)

t Warning: frustrated teacher rant

I think all of my brains have leaked out of my ears and are puddled somewhere on the floor. I just spent four hours tweaking a reading/assessment/writing/finals schedule from now until the end of February for my four 9th grade classes. In theory each class should be doing the same thing, but our school schedule is CRAXY and unpredictable and makes keeping my classes together impossible. I mean, seriously, I've taught under five different schedules, and this one is ridonkulous. It's a six day modified block schedule, which in this case means that one of my classes meets for 45 minutes 5 out of the 6 days and the others meet for three 45 minute periods and one 90 minute period over the six days (and not, I might add, in the same pattern). So basically there is NO WAY to make one plan; I just have to create different plans that still have the same outcome.

I am so damned glad that we're going to a new schedule next year. I don't even know what that schedule will be, but at least it will have some semblance of a pattern.

t /frustrated teacher rant


Laga - Jan 21, 2007 9:17:02 pm PST #4871 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

gah. Yay for new schedule next year!


§ ita § - Jan 21, 2007 10:07:03 pm PST #4872 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Location: Bar Lubitsch, West Hollywood

Order: Vodka gimlet straight up

Received: Unnamed vodka and organic freshly squeezed lime juice with some sugar--one martini glassful and a shaker's worth (about the same volume)

Cost: $11

Verdict: Hmmm. Not sweet enough, and lacked that juicy tang. Missing the best of both worlds, really. However, there was a lot of it, and it wasn't bad. It just wasn't as good as the last few.


-t - Jan 21, 2007 10:37:40 pm PST #4873 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Is $11 a representative price for gimlets? It seems high to me, but in my head all drinks are $4 and I'm pretty sure that's not accurate at all.


§ ita § - Jan 21, 2007 10:39:05 pm PST #4874 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's the most expensive gimlet I've had so far (I think--I haven't paid for all of them myself), but it was two glasses' worth of drink, so I can't complain. Other people found drinks there pricey though--ones smaller than mine were also $11.


-t - Jan 21, 2007 10:45:48 pm PST #4875 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, another martini glass worth in the shaker, all becomes clear.


Kat - Jan 22, 2007 4:34:20 am PST #4876 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I love that you are becoming a gimlet pro, ita.

It's morning and my usual monday panic is lurking around my eyes.


sarameg - Jan 22, 2007 4:42:53 am PST #4877 of 10001

It's monday and a lot of things are on the list. Snow, Old Navy's whackass sizing, damp jeans and whatever it is that got into my eye and is making it sting and ruin my makeup, for starters.


Kat - Jan 22, 2007 4:48:30 am PST #4878 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

oooh. poor sarameg. What's UP with Old Navy? It's like fitting by monkey!


Tom Scola - Jan 22, 2007 4:48:34 am PST #4879 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

The good news is that Starbucks switched to a different kind of apple fritter that doesn't have trans fats.

The bad news is that they're still bad for me.