Biting!?!
WHY is my cat meowing???? Please stop!
We're taking a moment ... and we're done.
Oz ,'Chosen'
Natter 61*
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.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 20, 2008 2:18:04 pm PDT #5587 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
beth b - Oct 20, 2008 2:21:24 pm PDT #5588 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
One student (9th grade) bit another
like toddlers?
hippocampus - Oct 20, 2008 2:29:04 pm PDT #5589 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
like toddlers?
toddlers with hormones is ... terrifying.
Gadget_Girl - Oct 20, 2008 2:31:41 pm PDT #5590 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
I just covered one period of class for another teacher. One student (9th grade) bit another.
I'd love to say that I'm shocked; however, I have a Senior who has regressed into biting. How do you break a 17 year old of this sort of habit? Can you imagine the phone call? "Hi, I'm your child's Drama teacher and I'm a little worried about her biting another student today." On the other hand, maybe she'll bite DD. He got slapped by a Freshman girl a week or so ago.
Jesse - Oct 20, 2008 2:35:31 pm PDT #5591 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
WHY is my cat meowing???? Please stop!
Of course my cat meowed right into the phone in the middle of my tense meeting this morning. Awesome. I actually think only the other person on the phone noticed, but still.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2008 2:48:34 pm PDT #5592 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just got a call about a nearby job I wouldn't mind having. Fingers are crossed.
Glamcookie - Oct 20, 2008 2:49:18 pm PDT #5593 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Job~ma, ita!
Gadget_Girl - Oct 20, 2008 3:03:43 pm PDT #5594 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
ChiKat - Oct 20, 2008 3:05:53 pm PDT #5595 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
All kinds of job~ma, ita!!
I just covered one period of class for another teacher. One student (9th grade) bit another.
I'd love to say that I'm shocked; however, I have a Senior who has regressed into biting.
Seriously?? I mean, seriously?? We had 1 kid bite a security guard last year, but he as some Issues. A wide variety of Issues. Dear me.
I started today off with a parent meeting about their daughter who I wrote up last week for disprespect. They wanted the meeting so she could apologize to me. Love parents like that.
DavidS - Oct 20, 2008 3:08:52 pm PDT #5596 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Educators, Wire fans (erika!), rap fans, New Orleans fans, you should all read David Ramsey's awesome story about teaching in New Orleans after Katrina.
Especially if you're a Li'l Wayne fan, but don't limit yourself. It's like all of S4 of The Wire compressed into one article.
During the first few days of school, Darius, one of my homeroom students, kept getting in trouble for leaving classes without permission. At the end of the second day, he pulled me aside to tell me why he kept having to use the bathroom: he had been shot in the leg three times and had a colostomy bag.
When I visited him in the hospital a few weeks later—he was there for follow-up surgery—he told me about the dealers who shot him. Darius’s speaking voice is a dead ringer for Lil Wayne’s old-man rasp. “I told them, Do what you need to do, you heard me? I ain’t scared, you heard me?”
Then he leaned over and pointed, laughing, to Sponge Bob on the television.