Ugh, Theresa. Sorry so sucky!

I feel like the Facebook privacy shit should bother me more than it does.

Me too! Similarly, I still bank with Citi, even though they are evil.

Amy - I'm not a high school teacher but, as the mother of the child who set the school record for the number of days spent in in-school suspension, I know that at our suburban high school of 3,000 students, skipping school always meant in-school suspension - 1 day for each missed class, five days if you skipped an entire day - even for the first offense.

Thanks, lcat! This is for my book, and I want it to be realistic. My junior higher is totally straight arrow, and my eighteen-year-old ... pretty much just never attended, so my frame of reference is a little skewed.

So, guy at work I've never said more than "Hey" to said hello to me by name today.

Just as I was thinking "No! Don't do that, guy!" he came over and introduced himself. Now, I know exactly who he is, because he does tech support one row over from me, and they're loud, but still.

You must never use people's names until they've been shared with you--and the nameplate on my cube doesn't count, because technically he can't see where I sit from just walking by.

Then again, I'm overly touchy today, because some other guy complimented the colour of my dress and I was taken aback. Upon reflection, hello, wearing the dress, so get over it. Also? Compliment. So relax.

But grumposaurus.

I have marked the FB privacy posts to review later with CJ.

I think I am pretty open regarding folks with fetishes, but I just got a meet up request from a guy looking for a Mommy. He likes wearing ( but not using) diapers and plastic pants. Ok. No thanks. But good luck?

Rules 6, 7, 8 and 9 For After You've Murdered Someone

Do not steal your murder victim's truck, run out of gas on a major highway and then fall asleep inside the vehicle while you're covered in blood.

Some of the details of his crime are a bit gory....

I think I am pretty open regarding folks with fetishes, but I just got a meet up request from a guy looking for a Mommy. He likes wearing ( but not using) diapers and plastic pants. Ok. No thanks. But good luck?

Oh ... dear.

Timelies all!

So sorry, Theresa.

I actually am less googleable by facebook than I am buy linkedin. LinkedIn is the current bane of my googleability. But the top hit for me is a school I worked at THREE YEARS AGO. HATE.

I feel like the Facebook privacy shit should bother me more than it does. And, I don't like how they've changed things up w/out communicating clearly. I think they are shifty and whatnot but I just can't get that worked up about it. Call me a sell out but they make it so freaking easy to fundraise!

So true. Though my fundraising is all school related. It's so much easier!

Can I ask the high school teachers, if one of your students got caught ditching the whole day, first offense, what would the punishment be?

At our school, it's that you possibly will be suspended, though probably not and that your parents/guardian are liable (if caught by the police) for a truancy ticket (~$275) + a court date. For a kid who has little to no record, it might just be all 0s on the work that day. But there is such a culture of ditching here that none of that actually applies.

Oooh. But, at my school, there was a parent whose two kids were always truant who got thrown in for 3 months (not sure how that is meant to improve a kid's attendance).

Theresa, that absolutely BLOWS. Would you consider taking the lower paying job until June then taking your FMLA because then it's something? And if they offered you another job and you don't accept, does that screw up unemployment?