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?

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

That guy is a ninnyshit.

Health ~ma to all.

Bartleby has an infected bum. Which is, well, a bummer. I took him to the local, crazy but gifted vet on Saturday and was given antibiotics and an ointment.

What I WASN'T give we a key piece of information along the lines of 'this will get much worse before it gets better.'

Last night, the ulceration turned into a huge abscess. I freaked out, then went into Civil War field nurse mode. Seriously, it's like aphasia.

Anyway, I expressed the abscess and used hot compresses to keep it draining. whitefont: oh my god, the blood. there was a lot. Then, I spent the night worried about sepsis.

Today the vet charged me for another office visit so that he could poke around with a wooden stick and then compliment my medical skills and say that the worst is over. Sheesh.

The poor boo is conked out and I'm constantly staring at his ass.

I've had better nights/days.

Much health and comfort to all our fur friends!