ita, you have some pretty dresses to try on (from Kat, but currently housed at my house). Very pretty. Esp the blue one that--o woe!--doesn't fit me. (Stupid rassen frassen rib cage!)

Relatedly, I now have a new favorite little black dress. Thank you, Kat!

skipping ahead ...

Pix, could you pull a copy of your lesson plans, etc., from before you started at this school and keep those? maybe in the future recreate some of the work you've done for this school, tailoring it as needed. You'd lose several years' work, but it might be a way around it (since this school seems to want to push the issue).

Oh, Burrell! Do you want to do dinner tomorrow? Maybe sushi on Santa Monica? Not as nice as the last place we went, but not as scandalous or pricey either.

Toddson, it's more the principle of the thing. The truth is that it is utterly unenforcable. I would never give up years of my work; it all builds on the year before. I will keep everything and walk away silently giving the business office the finger behind my back when it's time to go. I never plan to sell my work, so it shouldn't ever be an issue. I think it's just legalese that ultimately is sound and fury ammounting to nothing. Thank you and everyone else for the conversation yesterday's conversation, though. You gave me a lot to think about.

I agree, Pix. I always took my lesson plans with me; I think if you tried to sell the lesson plans, a really assholey school might try to get in on it, but most schools wouldn't even KNOW.

I have certainly never walked into a classroom, and found lesson plans from a previous teacher still on the computer. I know I walked away with all of mine, then deleted them.

I would certainly SHARE mine with anyone who asked, but just leave 'em there? Nope.

I agree with you completely on the principle - I was just thinking that if they were going to be obnoxious about it, you could keep the foundation of the work from before you did anything for them.

Dinner would be great, ita. We should iron out the deets.

This was fun. Board game quiz:

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Oh, speaking of quizzes, my team had lunch today with coworker's bar trivia questions from last night. One of the questions only I knew was about the Hawaii 5-0 remake, and a coworker was like, "How do you know that???"

Edit: Also, I made a dirty joke that I think was fairly well-received. Another question was about Steiglitz and his nude photo of Georgia O'Keeffe. I said, "But did it look kind of like a flower?"

Holy god, ugliest pants ever:

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