ETA: I did not ask if she was tire-d.

Well you should have, because she probably never head that joke before.

Yes, and I've never heard Gilligan's Island references; gingerbread and ginger ale jokes; or jokes about doing something "gingerly."

Precisely why I did not mention it to her.

Same reason I do not address a co-worker who shares the name of a famous evangelist as "Billy."

I can't speak for the hours required by Polter Cow

I can!

it's definitely not a 9-5 job in my company

Yeah, hours are flexible...which means you have lazy times and busy times.

I haven't had a weekend off since the F2F.

I'm not that bad, but I've been there. My company and boss put a value (literally, a corporate value) on having a life, so they're more likely to tell you not to work on the weekend than to do so, but you basically get your work done when you can.

BUT, the money helps. Big time.

I feel so overpaid. But I'm not complaining.

The doctor's are back to saying that Nephew J needs surgery. It's scheduled for Thursday. The blockage wasn't as bad as the doctors in TX thought it was, but they feel it still needs to be dealt with. Please send all the surgery-ma you can spare to Boston on Thursday.

Wednesday is National Punctuation Day.

Wednesday is National Punctuation Day.

(:>)

¡I may put it in Press!

Em is so cute! And I love hearing the progress of Aidan and Kara.

I got to see cute nephew pictures -- so cute and some of the onesies he's wearing are for 6 mth! but he's only 6 weeks! Long torso that one.

I'm outside on my deck with the laptop, I finally figured out how to adjust the brightness level (it was on 20 so no wonder everything looked dim and horrible) but now it's better. Except there are still mosquitos so I may go inside.

Since my cat keeps trying to escape out the front I decided to try supervised balcony time for her... she tried to go inside right away. 19 years as an inside cat I'm not sure what she would even attempt to do outside.

Teppy glad the job situation is a bit better.

Emeline photos have killed me ded with cute.

The drawback to creating your own curriculum and materials and activities and etc.? Copies. Lots and lots of copies.

This. So much this. Combined with not having a planning period this semester is killing me.

guess the kids are too young for e-mail distribution, huh? Or an online forum where they could check for those kinds of things?

I would love to do this. My district is too cheap and too backwards. This place is overflowing with backwoods, hillbilly rednecks.

That's fantastic news, Tep, but I'm afraid I still hate all their guts for jerking you around in such a shitbaggy way over the last couple of months.

Still, go you for making them suck it and eat all their nasty little words!

This! Very much this!

GG - my friend used blogger to set up a class website for her Year 4 (Grade 3) kids, so kids could get information on what their spelling words were/topics/homework reminders/links to handy websites etc. I mean, not ideal, but free and easy.

Thanks, Fay. I've been looking at some free sites to be able to do some things like this.