Totally rude.

"I am not a lesson-on-request."

but sometimes I feel like a certain kind of parent sees me and says "There's one!" and crosses me off, next to Pet Death.

I think I just spit on my cat by accident. The picture of that list is so clear in my head.

Jeez, I'm tired. Just home from work. I was out yesterday, so the usual catching up. Unfortunately, it was exacerbated by the fact that my student assistant is an idiot. I ended up not getting home until 4AM the night before (thank you Mom).

He was supposed to do a bunch of copying and filing so that I could make some stuff happen today. I get to the office late, and discover the he has done NONE of the copying and filing because, wait for it, the copier was out of paper.

Now, he did not go to any of the other offices in the building to ask it they had paper, he didn't email me or call me (I'd left my cell number and told him that I would be checking email and answering the phone). He didn't even tell me that he hadn't done it!

There will be a come to Jesus meeting on Friday.

sj, Exactly! And sometimes it's completely parentally-initiated. Which is way weirder than a kid saying "cool chair!" or stuff like that. more pressure to say The Right Thing, and be role modelly. Which I am better at than Barkley, but still not always prepared for. Thanks, Emily.

The only one I can remember is a little girl on Diff'rent Strokes, one of Arnold's friends, who used a wheelchair, and then there was one episode where we found out that she actually could walk with crutches, but she was a dwarf and preferred the teasing about the wheelchair to the teasing about the dwarfism.

Nobody else is blinking at the weirdness of this? I'm thinking that must have felt quite odd for Gary Coleman. But maybe not.

Nobody else is blinking at the weirdness of this? I'm thinking that must have felt quite odd for Gary Coleman. But maybe not.

This girl was much shorter than Gary Coleman. Like, came up barely to his waist. I think I remember some of the kids on the playground calling her a Muppet.

The internet knows all. The character's name was Kathy, the actress's name was Melanie Watson, she has osteogenesis imperfecta, and she's now known as Melanie Bernhardt and runs an organization that trains shelter dogs to be service dogs for people with disabilities.

Oh yeah, I remember her.

Arnold and Kathy: [link]

Why do I remember this? The show went off the air when I was four years old! I guess I watched reruns or something. I remember liking her because she would say snarky things back to the kids who were teasing her.