Yeah, rewatching, it's not JA driving. Sorry. Somebody said in comments that it was his voice from the backseat, which is probably where I got the idea.

I would take out my own stitches... it ain't hard. And the damn things itch.

CK might be a drunk slacker, but I would be too if I could get away with it, so I can't fault him for that. I think he's grown up a bit in the last couple years, though.

Sorella, thanks for the link. That's really infuriating. I don't plan to sell my lesson plans anyway, so that's not as much the issue for me--it's more the idea that the business office is trying to tell people leaving that they are NOT ALLOWED to take "the school's" intellectual property, which includes anything they've backed up the the server--which is everything since they helpfully gave us laptops with automatic back up this year. I'm disgusted.

Pix, deleting the data from the school server doesn't change the fact that it may be the school's property. Changing where you store your backups won't undo anything if the info was previously on the school server.

They can take me to court, then.

It's been two weeks since my husband had his job interview. They said they'd let him know in "a week or two". He's done pretty well at not stressing about it constantly. I am not doing so well. I've halfway convinced myself it's a bad sign that we haven't heard anything, and I'm starting to make myself nauseated with the obsessing.

Pix, I looked through my University's official policies, and I don't find one specifically about teaching output, every rule is about actual inventions and such. I think it is so understood that a professor/teacher would both take their lectures with them AND most likely share, if asked, with the next instructor of that class.

Homer Simpson named greatest TV character

LOS ANGELES — Beer-swilling, doughnut-lover Homer Simpson has been named the greatest character created for television and film in the past 20 years.

The star character of long-running U.S. cartoon series "The Simpsons" beat schoolboy wizard Harry Potter and vampire slayer Buffy to take top place in the survey for U.S. entertainment magazine Entertainment Weekly.

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Sorella dear, this is the relevant portion of that article:

If your employment contract assigns copyright ownership of materials produced for the classroom to the teacher, then you probably have a green light. Absent any written agreement, however, the Copyright Act of 1976 stipulates that materials created by teachers in the scope of their employment are deemed “works for hire” and therefore the school owns them.

Forget about the selling of lesson plans; it's only the reason why this has suddenly come to the forefront. Until the Copyright Act of 1976 is amended, anything you create as part of your job duties belongs to the school. In the public school system, it will belong to the state. This does NOT cover anything you create for purposes outside of your job, e.g. as a tutor not affiliated with the school.

It sucks, and any school/district that pulls this kind of stunt is incredibly short-sighted, but they do have a legal leg to stand on.

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Daaaaammmn. That is crazy.

Pix, given how your school has been I can totally see them switching you to different classes, demanding your lesson plans for the past classes for a new teacher, and yhreatening to fire you if you don't give them up.

I would take out my own stitches... it ain't hard. And the damn things itch.

If my face was my tool, I'd be a little more cautious about it, both in waiting the recommended length of time before removing them, and perhaps having someone else do it. He had his face messed up around when I did, and there was no way I'd have taken the stitches out of my own face. Hells no.

Harry Potter is the second greatest TV character? How is that not wack?