NYC MetroCard vending machines give dollar coins for change.
And the Atlanta MARTA.
Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.
'Sleeper'
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.
Dana - Sep 16, 2009 9:02:30 am PDT #23371 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
tommyrot - Sep 16, 2009 9:04:29 am PDT #23372 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I also hear there are these places called "banks" which will exchange money for you.
If God intended me to set foot in banks, he'd put ATMs in them. That, um, dispensed dollar coins.
Laura - Sep 16, 2009 9:23:00 am PDT #23373 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I used to give the boys dollar coins. I got them from the post office.
Strix - Sep 16, 2009 9:30:59 am PDT #23374 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
UMKC offers only interdisciplinary Ph.Ds. I'll be moving to Kansas in October, so there's also KU. Although it would be an hour drive, so...
The thing that worries me the most is the lack of health insurance, frankly, given my 2 surgeries in the last 2 years. I take 3 scripts monthly, so it's a consideration. Mostly, though, I want to (a) teach stimulating topics, (b) not have to constantly deal with crisis or behavioral classroom issues and (c) have a more fluid schedule.
And not have to obsess about curriculum. Pedagogy, I'm fine with, but spending more time writing a lesson than teaching it is getting frustrating.
I'm speaking of the endless justification of a lesson, nut actually thinking about how to research, scaffold and present a lesson. My curriculum classes have made me a better teacher -- I do resent all of the minute, CYA, NCLB bs that is present in public secondary ed.
-t - Sep 16, 2009 9:50:04 am PDT #23375 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I can see that. Would private school be an option at all?
Strix - Sep 16, 2009 10:00:05 am PDT #23376 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Sure, i'm not discounting teaching in high school for the next couple of years totally. I'm just thinking about what is frustrating me, and what I like and dislike about teaching. I'm really tired of not teaching, and focusing on the more social work and behavior issues part.
I'm becoming a Danny Glover/Mary Blige mash-up: I'm too old for this shit; too much drama.
-t - Sep 16, 2009 10:03:55 am PDT #23377 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Good thinking. Sorting out the pros and the cons and what exactly about your current job is problematic is sensible in the extreme. it kinda bums me out because you were so enthusiastic about teaching not very long ago, but I have a lot of sympathy for you. All the non-teaching CYA stuff is what got me out of teaching ages ago.
Strix - Sep 16, 2009 10:13:42 am PDT #23378 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'm still enthusiastic about teaching, -t; I'm just not TEACHING. My current job is education advocate at a homeless shelter for teens, and it's so not teaching. It's a useful job, but it's not teaching; it's social work, and it's not right for me. I'm burnt out on it already.
I've been called a bitch and a cunt about (seriously) 500 times in the last 10 months. Nope; not my personality. I need a slower pace, more introspection, less crises.
-t - Sep 16, 2009 10:27:29 am PDT #23379 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, I didn't know that's what you were doing! Yeah, that sounds seriously hard and not right for you. hope you can figure something out that will fit you better and give you health insurance and pay you well enough, etc.
DebetEsse - Sep 16, 2009 11:05:36 am PDT #23380 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Kennedy half-dollars are possibly cooler, if not as valuable, if you can find a source, which I have no guidance on.
Erin, that sounds awful for you. It's good to know what you need, though, and sometimes the only way to do that is "not this". t /silver lining