Dear god, I need to find something to do.
Spike: You pissed in the Big Man's Chair? That's fantastic! Gunn: Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy? Spike: What, the Lorne thing? Worn off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.
'Life of the Party'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
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.
shrift - Feb 13, 2007 9:07:40 am PST #518 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
sarameg - Feb 13, 2007 9:07:51 am PST #519 of 10001
Jess, congrats! Just think, those doorknobs are ALL YOURS now.
Um, that may be an inside joke not from here, now that I think on it. Hrm.
Anyway!
Amy - Feb 13, 2007 9:09:00 am PST #520 of 10001
Because books.
Which, to me in my thankfully ignorant opinion, seems like an awful waste of time.
Oh, it does to me, too. And who knows? Maybe they *do* want the money. I feel awful for their loss, but I hope, if it were me, I would have moved on ten years after the fact.
lisah - Feb 13, 2007 9:12:49 am PST #521 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Congratulations, Jess!!!
hmm...should I shovel the snow on my walk now? It might help me digest the too many tamales I had for lunch.
§ ita § - Feb 13, 2007 9:14:49 am PST #522 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hope I wasn't that much of an ass when I went.
No, not even! And usually it takes a student I've worked with a number of times to make me that frustrated.
The good thing about a centre like ours is that there are so many teachers and so many classes is that you don't have to be the one that gets them over every hump. As long as they get over the hump in reasonable time.
Doesn't mean you don't stop trying, but since everyone's not working on the same schedule, it's a bit easier to distance yourself from the frustration and concentrate on being positive when you teach.
I'm taken aback by how invested I've gotten into all this. When I can't cover one of my classes, or even when someone else is called in to cover a class I usually cover--I get kinda pouty and sad. At least I've gotten over feeling displaced when watching students I've taught taking other classes.
I like it. I like yelling at them, I like making them laugh, I like getting them to give more than they'd been planning to, and I like it when they pass belt tests. Since I teach at all levels now (how the fuck did that happen?) I run less chance of losing them when they move up a level.
§ ita § - Feb 13, 2007 9:15:29 am PST #523 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh! Congratulations, Jessica!
bon bon - Feb 13, 2007 9:22:22 am PST #524 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Congratulations!
Jessica - Feb 13, 2007 9:22:52 am PST #525 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Thanks guys!
Ohioistas, stay safe from the terror snowice!
My cold is still lingering, so I took the afternoon as a sick day (since I was taking the morning to close on the apt anyway). Part of me wants to nap and part of me wants to pack. Hmmmmm.
Sue - Feb 13, 2007 9:26:48 am PST #526 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Congrats Jessica!!
Frankenbuddha - Feb 13, 2007 9:27:46 am PST #527 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Woot! Congrats Jess and Fone!!!