Ugh Kat! I am sorry but that is in NO WAY your fuck up. That preschool is acting like something out of a Sandra Tsing Loh sketch.

I am frustrated and angry on your behalf.

Also on yours, meara. What an asswad.

I mean, I feel bad for my neighbor, because I KNOW from his perspective, there's this annoying neighbor who drives a beater who ran into his brand new car and is refusing to take responsibility....except for how that's not what happened.

Huh. That sucks, meara. Document. Photograph his car and yours and the relative heights and parking positions. Do it right away if possible.

I have decided to embrace the cell phones of my students. I do not permit active conversations during actual instruction. But at this point I have a fairly vibrant texting counseling service going on. My girls text me to tell me their boyfriend might be cheating on them or they fell off their horse! but nothing's broken or they aren't going to make it to lessons or just to say good morning. It's kinda great at this point.

There's an acceptable delay of response. I can always ignore or censor if I need to. And when they really need somebody right then and can't verbalise it, I can be there, no matter where I am. I worry a lot less about travel like we're about to do than I used to. I always worry when I leave them, but now at least there's a lifeline.

Travel! I am now, finally, done with my board meeting prep. There may be a year when I'm not scrambling around with budget numbers going batty the night before the meeting. But that year is not this year.

Well, technically, the meeting's not until Saturday and I'm done today. But the next two days are travel days and we're picking up our intern in Albuquerque. So.

But anyway, I AM DONE! YAY ME! Open Office has just about keeled over and I'm not entirely sure why, but I have the hard copies printed out and ready to go. You cannot take my preparedness from me now.

Oh, and polish! when it was at me, all sparkly in the sun. In case those of you to whom the box is coming want a heads up. Although that's the beauty of a round robin, it probably won't be anything like that by the time it gets to you.

Another friend linked to this on facebook [link] , so he made it much easier to log in.

dear Insomnia Fairies,

BITE ME!

Me

I'm off today for a second day of Census training. Yesterday we got Sworn In, which was cool, and filling out of a metric shitload of Forms, which was full of Vuja Day, since this job is really about filling out Forms, so I suppose it's good practice, and an augur that good handwriting will count.

Argh. I finally feel a little better, like a human being, and I just realized that I haven't taken my meds in a few days, so I will be having Celexa withdrawal today. Fun Times!

Yesterday we got Sworn In, which was cool

Did you have to take an oath to uphold the Constitution? I had to do that to be a temp worker at the post office.

How the TSA will inspect your monkey

Flying with a service monkey? Have no fear, the TSA has a set of easy-to-follow rules governing the passage of monkey helpers through airport checkpoints:

# When the handler and service monkey go through the walk through metal detector and the detector alarms, both the handler and the monkey must undergo additional screening.

# Since service monkeys may likely draw attention, the handler will be escorted to the physical inspection area where a table is available for the monkey to sit on. Only the handler will touch or interact with the service monkey.

# Security Officers have been trained to not touch the service monkey during the screening process.

# Security Officers will conduct a visual inspection on the service monkey and will coach the handler on how to hold the monkey during the visual inspection.

I have already run errands today! Then I have a meeting at 10 that will probably generate work. Also, my boss is supposedly off today and tomorrow, but she's already sent many emails. @@