Nice work, Parent Whisperer. You should have your own show.
Heh. Oh dear...it's only a matter of time before they have that reality show. Which I will watch and mock and most definitely not be on.
Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'War Stories'
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.
Pix - Mar 08, 2007 7:36:42 pm PST #6037 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
JenP - Mar 08, 2007 7:48:36 pm PST #6038 of 10001
Ha! You're probably right. Although I bet being a fly on the wall in the teachers' lounge (do they still have those?) would be hilarious. Then again, they'd probably have to censor themselves for cameras. Still...
Pix - Mar 08, 2007 7:51:11 pm PST #6039 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Ha! You're probably right. Although I bet being a fly on the wall in the teachers' lounge (do they still have those?) would be hilarious. Then again, they'd probably have to censor themselves for cameras. Still...
Oh yeah. It would be hilarious and would instantly result in the firing of everyone present. (Yeah, there are still teacher lounges. But we call them "faculty rooms" now, and no one ever uses them. Well, except sometimes at lunch or if there's a copier in there. Actually, a fly on the wall wherever the copiers live would be the best reality show ever. "You want to know the truth about teaching? Ink stains and paper cuts, bay-bee, ink stains and paper cuts.")
DavidS - Mar 08, 2007 8:01:00 pm PST #6040 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think teacher's lounges stopped being essential when teachers stopped smoking at school. It used to be the place where they could all light up out of sight of the kids. I remember going in a couple times as a kid and they just reeked of nicotine and caffeine.
billytea - Mar 08, 2007 8:24:40 pm PST #6041 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'm so excited for you! There will be LOTS of pictures, right?
I think that's a certainty. We have a whole day set aside just for photos.
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2007 8:54:37 pm PST #6042 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
we call them "faculty rooms" now, and no one ever uses them
Why not? They seemed so occult and fascinating to me when I was in high school. I can't imagine not needing a place to escape from students. Hell, us instructors flee to behind the front desk, which annoys the people actually working back there. The students can still see us, and perhaps hear us, but are geographically urged to not have long conversations with us.
Theodosia - Mar 09, 2007 2:52:23 am PST #6043 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
A couple of times at our sales conventions, when we've been doing massive overhauls of all the laptops, et cetera, we've actually kind of barriered off the room and got somebody to act as a receptionist. Because the sales reps -- pushy by nature, you know? -- will come in and talk the ears off the tech types and push to get better upgrades for their laptops.
I do mean actualy barrier -- long tables pushed together so that you have to carefully maneuver to get in and out of the area. Telling the reps "you can't come in" just doesn't register, but then they've self-selected for a profession that doesn't take No for an answer.
Jesse - Mar 09, 2007 3:05:24 am PST #6044 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I remember going in a couple times as a kid and they just reeked of nicotine and caffeine.
Oh man, me too.
tommyrot - Mar 09, 2007 3:46:08 am PST #6045 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Today it's supposed to be 53. Finally, it's up to normal temps for the season. ION, I am on a choo-choo.
Tom Scola - Mar 09, 2007 3:49:36 am PST #6046 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Because it seems like every single Buffista is getting sick at exactly the same time, I'm staying home today. I woke up with a wicked sore throat this morning.
And it didn't help that I had a really, really tough therapy session last night.