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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.
I'm really done ranting now and am going to go back to comment-writing any second.
Noah and Grace have stuff galore
In our house we can barely fit some more
They'll be grateful when they turn 18
If you'd like to donate some college "green"Kat, I love that poem idea.
The poem idea is good.
Both my DH and his brother might be teaching if they could make 'more' money. BIL has a family of 4 to support. DH and I couldn't live in CA if he didn't make what he makes. At least not and own a house. And back in CT a starting teacher's salary wasn't much more that he made as a grad student. I think if tomorrow our debts were gone - including the house debt-Matt would think very hard about heading back to teaching. Sadly, for the future, that isn't likely to happen
Yah, most teachers I know are working their asses off anyway. So paying them $125K isnt' going to put more hours in the day...
Kat, I think it's weird what tangles our culture has gotten into about gift giving, but I think the poem idea is very charming.
I think I have found a way to get some balance. I'm going to try the 100 strangers project. Which means approaching 100 strangers (over no specific time period), introducing myself, and asking to take their picture.
Yikes.
How can they do this? I'm assuming it's real, but it boggles.
I wish I could be there March 27. I really do. Alas, work is thwarting that (build that week stupid ass steve who fucked up, damnit.) In the meantime, I'm all about the red envelopes.
You know what's funny? Stylist asked about Noah and Grace. She did a little happy dance when I told her Grace was off the ventilator for a period of time. She's just my haircutter, once every couple of months, but over the past 10 years. But she too has been drawn into their lives. It just tickles me sometimes how this whole human thing works. Sometimes, it is all about who we connect with that makes us who we are.
Were the twins born on March 27th? Really? If so, they share a b-day with my almost 18 year old.
Kat, the poem idea is perfect. It takes the weird awkwardness out of asking for something specific. (I alway wonder about people who'd rather give what they choose versus what the recipient needs or wants...how is that 'giving'?)
I have just one suggestion for meter:
Noah and Grace have stuff galore
In our house we can hardly fit more.
They will be grateful, when the time comes
If, now, you'd help with their college funds!
They're almost a year old?!? Are you kidding me? Wow, time flies!! And they're both so big and cute!!
To add to the happyhappies, a big happy "Thank you!" to sumi and all her fellow IL-14 voters who are sending Ben Foster to Congress (at least until the end of the year, when we have to see him run again in the regular election)!! Nice to see an honest-to-god Scientist in Congress, and can I just, "Suck on it!" to cow-man Oberweis? A defeat couldn't happen to a crazier wingnut.
can I just, "Suck on it!" to cow-man Oberweis?
Hah! The Milk Nazi lost!
Tommyrot! Are you going to be able to join us tomorrow morning for breakfast?