Did something happen in her neck of the woods?
No. I just had a bad dream about her and feel the need to check in.
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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.
Aims - Oct 08, 2009 4:29:08 am PDT #25685 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Fay - Oct 08, 2009 4:35:22 am PDT #25686 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Aw, smonster, I'm sorry. Go get some chocolate?
So, I'm Little Miss Outoftheloopenstein lately, I know - punctuation for all that need it (I just skipped a gazillion posts).
Work is keeping me busy busy busy lately. Had an Observation today (the Head watching me teach my Year 5 class Literacy) and another on Monday (the Head of Key Stage 3 watching me teach Art to the Year 8&9 group). Felt like utter crap on Monday after the observation, even though the lesson went pretty well - she evidently wasn't much impressed. I mean, didn't say it sucked, or whatever, but didn't have much actively positive to say either - and apparently I really need the pats on the head to make me feel hopeful about my ability to make things better. Which was a bit sad-making, since I've been working my ass off trying to figure out how to connect with this group (who are...well, let's just say that they're less able than my Year 5 class, and leave it at that) and after several weeks of not really getting very far with what we're SUPPOSED to be doing, have rewritten the curriculum to base it around
Fay - Oct 08, 2009 4:35:22 am PDT #25687 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
( continues...) is OMG fabulous, and my kids have been writing their own stories in which a character leaps out of the pages of the book and causes chaos in their lives. Plus, we got to watch the movie. Ooooh, the temptation to accidentally hit pause during the shirtless Paul Bettany fire juggling sequence. Guh. And guh. And guh again.
Tomorrow there is a fancy dress competition at school. Teachers are supposed to participate, of course - it's supposed to be a character from a book. For the life of me, I couldn't think of anything, and then yesterday I thought I could go as the Wolves in the Walls. So I spent a very happy 3 hours after school fashioning myself a Wolves In The Walls costume, of which I am inordinately proud. I may even take photos tomorrow, because I think it kind of rocks.
Fay - Oct 08, 2009 4:36:50 am PDT #25688 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
...okay, what the flying fuck, Board?
Just because I've been away, you eat most of my post?
kicks board
Jessica - Oct 08, 2009 4:37:38 am PDT #25689 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Board HUNGRY!
That was weird - was there some kind of freaky punctuation in the middle that the board interpreted as HTML, maybe?
Barb - Oct 08, 2009 4:46:33 am PDT #25690 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Just because I've been away, you eat most of my post?
I'm not glad it ate your post, Fay, because we haven't seen anywhere near enough of your pixels lately, but I'm glad it wasn't the meds playing with my mind that made it appear as if half your post had disappeared.
billytea - Oct 08, 2009 4:56:16 am PDT #25691 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
In an effort to placate the board's insatiable appetite, I offer these photos of an adorable baby:
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Meanwhile, Flickr gives you a random greeting in some foreign language whenever you open it, "Guten Tag" or "Ni hao", for instance. Today I open it and it gives me the following message:
"O HAI Billytea69! You now know how to greet people in Lolspeak!"
I am nonplussed.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 08, 2009 4:58:20 am PDT #25692 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I am a Very Good Granddaughter. My grandmother has been trying for ages to get me to have lunch with my uncle (the obnoxious one who I'm not sure about inviting to the wedding), so that he can meet The Girl. Today, we did so, and it was not so bad, particularly as my cousin and grandmother were there too. Also, given that it was not so bad, I may reconsider the wedding invitation thing. It would make my grandmother very happy.
Fay, regardless of the missing bits of the post, the project where your kids are writing exciting stories sounds fab!
Shir, being depressed over a life situation is not good. Is there any chance of you moving to a place on your own at some point? With crappy situations, I'm sure it must be better to see if you can resolve them rather than taking medication. Obviously if there's no way to do that, then that's different. I hope that things improve in some way, whether for you emotionally, or practically regarding housing.
smonster, how's the trapped nerve today? I can relate to fighting over seeing the world differently. The Girl and I have to work very hard on that one, especially when you factor in general communication difficulties. I hope that your discussion at least has some useful results in that area.
Jessica - Oct 08, 2009 4:58:52 am PDT #25693 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I approve of the turtles on his bib.
§ ita § - Oct 08, 2009 5:01:09 am PDT #25694 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
think also of the situation where your fictional husband whacks into some old granny in a crosswalk, and runs home, tells you and doesn't know what to do. The privilege allows him to come home and talk to you about it (it is assumed you will urge him to do the right thing) without having you later be the testimonial nail in his coffin
I guess I just don't see why I shouldn't be the nail in his coffin if I want to be. He did admit to doing it.