I would say 'you have no idea'; however, that's not totally true. It will be amazing if it all comes together. I almost can't imagine a life without rotating 12 hour shifts. He would be off on most holidays and weekends, too.

I feel your pain with the messed up shifts. Kristin and I just spend most of the year on mirror image schedules, so even when I'm in town we can go days and days and not even see each other. Lately I've also been traveling a lot more, which is a whole different level of pain in the rear.

Fingerprints don't change...at least I didn't think they did!

We are re-fingerprinted every 5 years AND they keep our fingerprints on file. Someone said they run our prints through the system every 6-12 months. I don't know what they thing they are going to find.

If we go to a different district, the whole fingerprinting, background checking, drug testing thing starts again.

Well you know, teachers really can't be trusted.

That's crazy, G_G. Though I guess it does give you some measure of protection from some imposter getting plastic surgery to look like you, dropping you down a well, and taking over your life.

It's the oven rack I usually burn myself on. The pan or cookie sheet I am careful with, the rack that is always in the oven, why would I think that's hot? It wasn't when I started this process.

Well you know, teachers really can't be trusted.

HEY! I resemble that remark!

I'm going to tell Kristen you said that!

(sorry you and Kristen have been having to deal with the crappy/crazy schedules. It often feels like Tom and I play this weird game of "who's sleeping in the bed now?" Tom and I go long periods without seeing one another, too. It sucks. People joke about my invisible husband.)

Given how many of us are copping to grabbing hot objects with unprotected fingers, I'm seeing a logic behind periodically updating fingerprint records, should you choose to need them....

That's crazy, G_G. Though I guess it does give you some measure of protection from some imposter getting plastic surgery to look like you, dropping you down a well, and taking over your life.

That would be a poor, desperate, deranged fool! After a couple days they would probably go screaming to the school resource officer, begging for mercy!

It's Kristin with an "i", Kristen with an "e" is a totally different person around here. Just so you know.

Yeah, the not seeing each other can suck. I'm working on taking larger blocks of time off though, as long as the work keeps rolling in for me.

Fingerprinting is redone every 5 years.

Just in case you were kindapped by aliens and replaced by a remarkable -- but not quite pefrect! -- facsimile of you!! That might be teaching students about the joys of their alien overlords!

Also, generally speaking, once you have fingerprints, they're all scanned into a database. (The trend is to take the fingerprint directly into a computer, no ink, but I know that tech hasn't made it everywhere yet.) Paper fingerprint cards not databased are so incredibly not useful. Not to the education department, and not to the criminal justice people.

Sorry I spelled Kristin's name wrong! I'll try not to let it happen again.