What boggles me is that more than one teacher thought it was a good idea....
Even moreso, the teachers kept saying that THIS WAS NOT A DRILL, that it was real. I mean, what the FUCK?
Mal: Inara, think you could stoop to being on my arm? Inara: Will you wash it first?
'Heart Of Gold'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
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.
Steph L. - May 14, 2007 11:20:06 am PDT #7259 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Kathy A - May 14, 2007 11:21:25 am PDT #7260 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I just found out yesterday that one of my stepsisters (this is the first time I've ever called her such--she is usually "Wayne's daughter" in my mind, because, unfortunately, Wayne didn't live long enough for me to comfortably call him "stepfather", even though that's what he was), who's been going through IVF for a few months now, just got a confirmed positive!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that nothing happens, and that she and Justin end up with a bouncing baby in 8 months.
Topic!Cindy - May 14, 2007 11:42:15 am PDT #7261 of 10001
What is even happening?
Even moreso, the teachers kept saying that THIS WAS NOT A DRILL, that it was real. I mean, what the FUCK?
And even moreso that they were away on a week long trip. I'd have their heads, if they'd done that to my kid.
beekaytee - May 14, 2007 11:44:59 am PDT #7262 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I'm shaking my head so hard my eyes may dislodge.
Let's scare some children with an all too possible fake incident. Sweet weeping Jesus. What could the learning objective possibly be here? Um. Your teachers think so little of you that they'd terrify and humiliate you on a whim.
I just...I can't...oh, never mind.
Jesse - May 14, 2007 11:46:41 am PDT #7263 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ION, fugging Eurovision: [link]
Trudy Booth - May 14, 2007 11:48:31 am PDT #7264 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Wait a second, Gud. Clearly those kids are related to your kids, but they are FAR TOO BIG to be your actual kids, right? Those are some older cousins or something??
This is a more than reasonable theory. I think we can all live with it.
Jesse - May 14, 2007 11:55:32 am PDT #7265 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My boss just told me she "decided" that what I'm wearing right now is a "perfect date outfit." Um, OK. Of course, now that makes me a little more apprehensive about what I am doing tonight, because I'm only 90% sure it isn't a date.
Theodosia - May 14, 2007 12:06:24 pm PDT #7266 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"
The teacher fake attack thing proves that Michael Scott has found a job in education in Tennessee.
At the presentation, I ran into another laid-off employee of my ex-company, who filled me in on a bunch of gossip and news from the month+ I've been gone. The short version: going to hell in a handbasket, including that an entire Reading program had to be recalled because the copyright permissions were for the authors work was not obtained. Like she said, that's Publishing 101 -level wrong.
§ ita § - May 14, 2007 12:11:13 pm PDT #7267 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm only 90% sure it isn't a date.
Then it's a date.
Jesse - May 14, 2007 12:13:48 pm PDT #7268 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's not a date. I would go as high as 98% sure.