Fay! I x-posted with you -- let me just say, the "accurate grammar" part alone is worth at least one date. That's all you have to do.

Don't talk yourself out of anything because you're envisioning the whole vast landscape of how it could go -- good or bad -- and the will-he-fancy-you part and the will-you-fancy-him part, etc., etc.

Just one date. That's how you figure out the whole do-you-fancy-each-other thing. Don't look any further than one date. Otherwise you'll spook yourself.

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Luck, vw!

..so this is the part where my 'flee!' instinct kicks in.

No fleeing! He sounds interesting and you are interesting. Go for it!

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Ugh, Hil. I hope it ends up being a productive discussion with understanding on his part.

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Fay, there's always the Thai equivalent of "let's meet for coffee." Which at least makes judgmental comments an even bigger faux pas than normal.

I'm no expert on reading between the lines of personals, but it sounds like this guy is looking for a particular personality rather than model good looks. We've never met, but from the photos I've seen, I'd say you are good looking, though more of an English Rose than a Model. And his personality request seems to fit the way you come across here, at least enough to try for friendship.

And his personal as you quote it doesn't strike me as an Internet Weirdo. At least, not in any dangerous sense.

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I am so twelve.

SFGate.com has the following headlines - one following the other...

The Coach Bared His Bottom! and

Not All Butt Plugs Should Glow

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Dude, work/school/life are all eating me, starting with my bottom! LUSH, take me away!!

Katie Holmes is looking really good lately. I always thought she was cute but kind of forgot it in light of the Cruise hookup. Ew.

I'm getting my bob trimmed on Friday. I'm thinking of going a little choppy on the ends, but my hair always tends to curl under at the ends, so not sure the choppy will even show. I'm too lazy to use a straight iron on it every day.

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Not All Butt Plugs Should Glow

I sense a tender animated Christmas special, about a poor little butt plug who was a freak because he didn't glow so he wasn't allowed to play in any butt plug games....

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Miss Fay, you're one of the least tedious whiners I've ever known

Very much this. I'm so sorry about the frustration, Fay. I can really sympathize with the feeling of failure when a parent just doesn't get you or your teaching, and all I can say is that I'm quite certain that this is the parent's issue, and not yours. Silver lining? If the little one is to be moved to your colleague's classroom, at least you will no longer have to deal with delusional parent-man. {{{Fay}}} regardless. Everything that I have read about your teaching leads me to believe that you are amazing, a true gift to the students. Try not to let this get you down too much, okay?

And good luck with the bloke!

Stephanie, I'm so sorry about the frustration with your car. I hope it works out soon.

Also ~ma to Hil and to vw. Hil, for what it's worth, I think you do need to lay out your medical condition to the prof in this instance. It sucks, but it's important.

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What ita said, or was that Vortex?

:P

I think I need some radical acceptance practice myself. I'm currently of the "lie to myself" school of getting by, and it's wearing thin.

Good luck with man. Fay! You're a lovely woman to look at, and lovely one with the words.

I'm awful with the names of krav students. But I've found teaching something physical engages me completely differently from communicating or presenting something primarily verbal, so I need different tricks. And I make sure to explain to just about everyone I'm going to forget their names more often than I'll remember them for a week or two.

The way the classes are scheduled people come in and out of any one class, so there are people who remember that I taught them that I'd probably swear in court I'd never seen before. I'm the only one of me (okay, sometimes as many as three teach one class), and there are a gazillion of them.

I think you do need to lay out your medical condition to the prof in this instance. It sucks, but it's important.

It's unfair, and shouldn't be legally required, right? But that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it though. Appeal to his sympathetic style.

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I just discovered work is having a fund raising raffle and the prize is a HD Tivo. I know I'm going to be spending too much money on raffle tickets. I mean, I have a dvr and it's nice but! TIVO!

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