I think I broke something trying to keep my eyes from rolling out of my head and my lips from not forming the words, "You're a jerk."
I was half expecting that to be "polar bear" instead of "jerk".
River: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems. Mal: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 02, 2009 10:33:42 am PDT #21665 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
omnis_audis - Sep 02, 2009 10:59:44 am PDT #21666 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I have decided this is Burrito Week and just had a chorizo burrito which was FULL OF WIN.ha! Too funny, because I learned last night, the band we had for TOMMY, and who were recording music for our next show WON the Chipotle contest. I guess it was make a video with "your burrito" ingredients, if your video wins, they will put your burrito on the menu and name it after you, and you win $10,000. AND THEY WON! Just in time too, now they can pay off the studio for the new CD they are releasing Friday.
Here is the YouTube of their video: [link]
DebetEsse - Sep 02, 2009 11:01:47 am PDT #21667 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm sorry, erin. May something even spiffier come along for you.
People who teach at the elementary level, I have a question. My assumption has been that you will not be handed a complete curriculum and told "teach this." Rather, that teachers have to plan out the year, and units, and there will be textbooks provided, and standards to meet, but that's more or less it. Does this track with others' experience?
My students today were all "I'll teach what my administrator tells me to teach," as an extension of "I just won't teach anything controversial, so I won't have to deal with diversity issues."
meara - Sep 02, 2009 11:18:58 am PDT #21668 of 30000
Well, Debet, what if they just use an example in class (I mean, they're not told EVERY DAY exactly what to teach!) and someone goes home and tells their parent, and suddenly that's something controversial? It's not always the things you think will be...especially if you're teaching a class that has kids with parents who aren't exactly how you were raised, be that fundie Christians or immigrants from other countries, or whatever...
flea - Sep 02, 2009 11:19:11 am PDT #21669 of 30000
information libertarian
Debet, this is highly variable. Some school districts do have a set curriculum that everyone is required to teach to. Sometimes it is as detailed as day-by-day. (There is currently a huge controversy about this in the town I used to inhabit, about a Scott-Foresman reading curriculum for primary.) I suspect there is always *some* room for flexibility/supplementation, but there certainly are set curricula in some areas.
Volans - Sep 02, 2009 11:38:15 am PDT #21670 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Lewis just texted me that he just watched Dhani Harrison playing Beatles Rock Band in the presentation at his conference. Said he looks just like George.
Totally not jealous. Nope. Not a bit.
Glamcookie - Sep 02, 2009 11:40:25 am PDT #21671 of 30000
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
"But do they want yellow? Hell no!"
WindSparrow - Sep 02, 2009 11:52:44 am PDT #21672 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
IOmemememeN I love this dress: [link] I think it might even look pretty good on me, but even if it were not precisely flattering, it is so gorgeous that wearing it would make me feel fabulous. Alas, I have neither a good reason to acquire it nor the extra money lying around to justify buying it "just because".
Ima go play the lottery.
sj - Sep 02, 2009 11:54:00 am PDT #21673 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Shiny dress!
ChiKat - Sep 02, 2009 12:18:13 pm PDT #21674 of 30000
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?
People who teach at the elementary level, I have a question.
I don't teach elementary (I teach middle school), but my experience has been that of flea's. At the 2 districts I have taught in, they are given books and unit topics and told during which weeks they should be teaching the topics. I'm fairly certain they get a lot of curr. material, too.
I teach a subject where there hasn't been a curriculum in place, so I write my own curriculum and materials. It's more work, but I like doing it. I can make sure things are very targeted for my students.