they are definitely checking for kidney and bladder issues. I remembered about Amarna when we first noticed Taz- thanks for reminding me of the outcome! I feel like we got him to the vet on the early side, so hopefully the recovery will be quick.

Getting him to the vet early was a good idea--I'm sending healing vibes out to him!!

Probably the best thing to happen after that scare was that I took the vet's suggestion and put a second water dish in the living room for her in addition to the one next to her food dish in the kitchen. Now, she hardly ever uses the one in the kitchen, and drinks a lot more water than she did before.

Of course, she also loves to play with the dish when it's mostly empty--one of her favorite things to do is to peer down into the dish, then whack it with her paw and watch the remaining water splash all over the carpet. She'll then look over at me as if to say, "Well, human, are you going to refill my dish or not?!?"

My mother once had a cat that would drag her water dish (kept in the kitchen) out into the middle of the floor. Right where my mothter would step in/on it when she staggered to the downstairs bathroom after falling asleep on the couch.

Doctor said I have a lot of fluid in my newly-deaf ear (which WAS my "good" ear), but it isn't infected. So he prescribed a steroid pack for me, which means I can look forward to the munchies and mood swings. Yay? On the other hand, if it will make me hear in both ears, I'll live through it and just stock up on chocolate.

hola, bitches! been a while since i stuck my head in. when i get way behind i feel guilty and then stop looking at the thread until it gets so deep there's no possible way to catch up and i skip.

tiggy is me. Hello!

Hello, P-C. Always glad to see you.

Teppy, hope that takes care of the problem for you.

Taz, get better fast and stop worrying Nora.

tiggy and P-C are me as well. I get overwhelmed at work and the next thing I notice are hundreds of posts. Overwhelmed with guilt, I ignore it. Eventually, I just jump to the end and hope for the best.

Sometimes I do a threadsuck and scroll to see if I missed anything really important.

I am going to punch Italy in the face.

DD has reared his head again. Today I was told, in the ear shot of students, that I essentially am not a good teacher because I don't force my students to watch the "morning show" every day. I was also told that "good teachers effectively discipline their students for misconduct," as well as "good teachers set the tone for their classroom."

I have no TV in my room. To watch the morning show I have to take my class into an adjoining classroom and then I spend the next 5-8 minutes keeping kids in the other classroom. They aren't interested in the show and very little relates to them. Also, the only discipline problem I have is that my students talk, but they are high schoolers so I expect it.

I've done everything but physically accost them; yet, I am a bad teacher because they don't want to watch tv? What am I supposed to do, give detentions for every kids who doesn't want to watch? Call home and tell the parents their kid doesn't want to watch the morning show?

I'm even more bothered by the fact he did it where kids could hear. They were embarrassed for me and offended by what he said. He repremands us in front of kids all the time! It weakens our position with our students and reflects poorly on him. He doesn't see this, though.

Can I please have the brute squad come for a smack down?

Can I please have the brute squad come for a smack down?

Where ya need us? I'm in the mood for kicking some asshole ass.

Is that redundant?