We have it not.

Yes we do! But only in the "taking a vacation day because I won't have another chance to do so for months" sense.

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A long weekend?

Not for me!

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It's FRIDAY before a LONG WEEKEND!

For SOME OF US, apparently. Not here, though.

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I have Sunday off. And tomorrow I get to go work at my old stomping grounds to learn the new Vista operating system.

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Hmm. I appear to have rubbed salt in the collective wound!

It IS Friday though. That much I'm pretty confident of.

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sputter. Kristen - that's not fair to you - or to the student. I know some schools do some schedule shifting in cases of illness or family events (not the 'hey! honey, we're going on safari!' kind, though). What this is going to teach about the importance of keeping deadlines and working within schedules is what keeps VW waiting for her tutoring students when she's really hungry, I think. Not to meld the thread, but - well -?

She'll learn, correctly, that if you're paying enough people bend over backwards for you. sighhhhhh

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But I don't know that I would want to go get an older cat that only has a few years either, that doesn't seem like a plan...

Get a middle-aged one!

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And, is everyone taking the exam early, or do you have to create two exams?

I have to create another exam. The really annoying part is that there are three daughters who go to this school, and all three are going to take ALL of their final exams a week early to accomodate their safari. It is craxy.

To be fair to the family, the parent made the arrangements a year ago, before the school schedule was changed. On our old schedule, exams didn't happen before winter break, and winter break happened the last two weeks of December rather than the last week of December and first week of January. The parents weren't trying to pull their kids out of school; it just ended up happening that way.

I have no problem with the the girls making up the exams when they return. My problem is that these girls will now miss three MORE days of regular class in order to take early exams that have to be created ahead of time by every single teacher for every single girl in every single class. WTF, administration? How is this a good idea? ARGH.

What is this long weekend of which Nora speaks? We have it not.

I don't have Monday off either.

ND, glad to hear the meeting went well.

I like your writing, and I just hope you aren't getting so frustrated at not being published that you're missing out on *enjoying* your own writing. Because you should, IMO.

This.

In terms of being eaten by cats, we now own three. I figure I'm well on my way to being kibble.

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Coffee:

She'll learn, correctly, that if you're paying enough people bend over backwards for you. sighhhhhh

But that's the thing. Everyone pays a lot to go here, and this is a first. We've never been asked to do this before. I honestly think that this is an admin's idea of an "efficient" solution.

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I would so write that girl a punishing final. But I have rampaging class issues and don't like being ordered around very much. I am probably too fucked-up to teach anyone anything, except Magical Cripple things. Except MC's are probably far nicer than me.

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