Even if it were totally working, I don't think that would be a cure. That's no way to live. Home by 6 to medicate and then useless until around 7 the next day after caffeine? I don't think so. Fucking the fact you aren't actually even getting sleep or good sleep with all of this...

It's quiet in here tonight but I just had to pop in to say I'm done with grading! Well, at least done until the next paper set comes in, but at least I have my weekend.

Theoretically, I wake up at seven and am out the door at half seven. In reality, my alarm goes off at seven, I hit snooze five or six times, turning on the bedside light on snooze four or so, then get up between twenty-five past and half past, and am out the door at twenty to eight. I feed the cats, pee, brush my teeth and, if I can find my hairbrush, my hair. I get dressed somehow too, but very often get to work and realise I've pulled on dirty clothes.

Oh! Speaking of crazy mothers, mine forwarded me a thing about a cocktails and machine guns event. You get to shoot an AK-47. It's only crazy to think that my mother would be looking for a gun-enthusiast son-in-law.

Anyone good with Spanish and/or other related languages? I have a friend who has an American father and a Spanish mother, and is married to a man of Central or South American heritage, and they live in Spain. The just had a baby named Axa; it's a boy. Anyone know how to say that? Their existing daughter is Izel, which I am mentally pronouncing "ee-ZELL" but I could be wrong there.

Timelies everyone!!

So I'm in this play right now, and it is terrible. To put it mildly. Everyone involved is completely aware of its terribleness, to the extent that immediately upon rehearsal ending last night, someone yelled - "Who needs a drink?!" and hands shot up all around the room. So we all went out, tried to figure out a way to fix our failing show, failed miserably, went home super late super sad.

So of course my phone rings at 5:30 AM telling me to come work, which is /fine/, I need the money, but I do wish that substitute teachers could somehow be alerted at a more reasonable hour. I get here, it's a middle school reading class, all good and well, and now I find out there is some sort of testing today, but the teacher I am in for is not a test proctor, there's really no other job they can give me - so just hang tight for the next three hours.

All of this would still be fine, as there's an extremely chatty message board I hang out on (other than this one :p ) but it is centered around a TV show I am only a little bit emarrassed I watch, but since I was out way late last night, haven't seen the episode, and so I can't go to that forum.

The tl;dr version of all that was despite having no legitimate problems in my life at the moment this morning is awfully tragic. :p

flea, X isn't really used in Spanish very much at all, but my best guess for Axa would be something like 'asha' I think there is more X going on in names in Spain, it might be Basque influence? Or I could be crazy. I speak Spanish rather well but I'm not 100% sure here. Asha is my best guess!

I don't speak Spanish, but every kid I teach barring 6 or so has a Spanish name and if those names showed up on my roster, then I'd pronounce the first, Izel, eh-(t)sel, but that's because I have a student name Itzel. The I becomes less of a hard I and much softer.

For Axa, I'd assume it's ah-sah, that the X becomes like the X in Xiomara which is not chio-mara but s-o-mara.

I would assume the names are not traditional Spanish but they look native of some sort, though I guess Basque makes more sense given location.

OH! Info on Izel: [link]

I'm all confused now because there was a Xiomara in a class of mine once and it was pronounced Shio-mara. She wasn't actually born in Spain, though.

Speaking of pronunciation of names, I pronounced a girl's name correctly in a class I was substituting on Wednesday and she was so happy/surprised she didn't know what to do. I was pleased to have made her day, although I didn't think the name looked /that/ difficult. (The name was Ifeoma)