sox, congrats on selling the house! I'm sad I missed the pictures though because, OF COURSE, I am curious.

Well, at least I got a good night's sleep. We love you NyQuil, you giant fucking Q!

Oh, I'm so glad! You feel better, and Maria too! This has been such a bad ick year.

Ok. I'm gonna bitchslap one of my tutoring students. I met him yesterday in his prof's office. We set up an appointment for Monday at 10:30 a.m. He just e-mailed me to apologize for not making our meeting this morning. Apparently, he got busy and is starving and needs to get food, you know.

I e-mailed him back and let him know that our appointment was actually for Monday, so we should meet then. But, um, the above are not appropriate reasons for just not showing up to tutoring. He better show up on Monday!

Sox, why don't you post in lj if you're not comfortable doing so on this board?

Wow, Sparky, what a great opportunity!

t waves

Mornin' (or timelies) to ma Bitches. I am currently watching my kidlets as they frantically take a test. Poor kidlets. Sure glad that's not me!

t /heartless teacher

Sox, why don't you post in lj if you're not comfortable doing so on this board?

not a problem - just wanted to remember to take it down after a while.

here it is again (lisah, I'm pretty sure you know where this is - if not, it's just across the street from 'BAR' and down 2 towards Ann street): xlink (also? reiterating and repeating the point that we didn't get listed price - see Sparky re: lzazy realtor above.... not to mention that the last thing he said to us was "can you believe a couple other people who had gone through were angry that they hadn't been given a heads up there was an offer in? Seriously? It's not like we can hold their hands...." )

Probably not high school students, though.

We struggle with the hat issue at my school. This is a rather rural area and I'm sure that contributes, some. Some of the guys are just too lazy to take them off and complain about "hat hair".

I was always taught that it was polite/good manners for a male to remove a hat inside a building. The only exception are the military when they are "under arms". Females are able to wear a hat indoors if it is part of the outfit or not athletic/casual.

I am currently watching my kidlets as they frantically take a test. Poor kidlets. Sure glad that's not me!

I was thinking the same thing about the scale rendering lab my Stagecraft 1 babies are just finishing. Boy do some of them struggle with scale at first.

ION...today is a Senior Lunch so teachers get fed too! It's usually BBQ; however, it's nice to get out of the room for a bit and spend some time with my Senior babies. It's about 70 degrees and sunny outside so it should be amazing!

Hey, does anyone else use @@ or is that just us?

I’ve used it elsewhere, so I don’t know if it was already there, or I brought it. I choose to believe that I brought it.

I'll be teaching here in October

Umm, need a TA?

Baseball caps: remove them when you go inside/in the presence of a lady, or no? Any small-town-in-the-country folks with experience to weigh in on this etiquette question?

Take your hat off when you are inside. I am less rigid about him taking his hat off when you are in the presence of a lady. When I taught, I insisted on no hats in my class or no participation points for the day.

Some of the guys are just too lazy to take them off and complain about "hat hair".

I let it go the first day. After that, they’ve been warned.

The good news is that my beta reader said my personal statement is really good overall. The bad news is that she confirmed my fear that I need to rewrite my intro to shift the focus a bit. I have been staring at a blinking cursor for a half hour. Not good.

Also, I am trying really hard not to be annoyed that despite the fact I asked one of my coworkers six weeks ago if she would write me a recommendation and she agreed, she sent me a frantic email that she isn't sure if she can get it done today because she has been sick. Isn't six weeks' notice a way to avoid these types of last-minute snags? I need to mail this packet tomorrow, so this does not bode well.

Ok, I'm somewhat amused.

On Monday, Daniel and I were really industrious, and planted a bunch of seeds in Jiffy peat pellet greenhouse thingy. Some of the seeds have sprouted, but more importantly, there is a lot of mold growing too. Google-fu led me to a forum discussion of other people who had that problem. After I joined them in their conclusion that Jiffy peat pellets were crap for starting seeds, I then noticed exactly what kind of gardening forum it was - a marijuana growers forum.

Heh.

Also, I am trying really hard not to be annoyed that despite the fact I asked one of my coworkers six weeks ago if she would write me a recommendation and she agreed, she sent me a frantic email that she isn't sure if she can get it done today because she has been sick. Isn't six weeks' notice a way to avoid these types of last-minute snags? I need to mail this packet tomorrow, so this does not bode well.

Oh, Kristin, I *hate* it when that happens. That happened to me two summers ago with a scholarship application. Well, kind of. Turns out the professor actually did write the letter. He just forgot to mail it to me before he left the country for several weeks. I hope you're able to get it worked out. I know how important this is to you.