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Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Anne W. - Mar 08, 2011 1:15:44 am PST #26860 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I got an 86 on the facial recognition test, but I'm not sure the kind of recognition they were testing is very useful. What I'd like to see a test for is matching face with context.

I've had a bazillion embarrassing moments where I've run into someone I know (and who knows me), but I can't figure out how I know them. It takes a huge number of repeat encounters before I can consistently recognize someone out of their usual context (work, knitting store, gym, etc.)


Zenkitty - Mar 08, 2011 1:19:00 am PST #26861 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I've had a bazillion embarrassing moments where I've run into someone I know (and who knows me), but I can't figure out how I know them.

Me too. Worse, flat-out not recognizing someone out of their normal (to me) context. Like, I've always seen Familiar Person in Renaissance costume, and here she is in the Safeway in sweats, and I have no clue that she's even someone I know until she starts talking to me.


Calli - Mar 08, 2011 1:22:14 am PST #26862 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Yeah, I'm lousy at recognizing people out of context. Yesterday I ran into a coworker at the gym. It took 5-10 minutes to figure out where I knew her from. I spend hours every month in small meeting rooms with the woman, and take notes at one of them that include her name. Oh, well.


Kat - Mar 08, 2011 1:42:51 am PST #26863 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I was wondering earlier how English teachers with freakin CHILDREN cope.

Um... I don't know but there are times that I'm pretty sure I'm not doing a good job at either.

I do better, actually, when I teach all new books -- last year I taught stuff I knew and was like, YAWN. This year, I've taught some stuff I know plus Invisible Man (which I hadn't read before), Jane Eyre and Importance of Being Earnest (which I read in high school) and now Love in the Time of Cholera (which I hadn't read since college).

My thing is the shear amount of writing I assign. Since we ave 6 weeks until AP, I will assign two in-class essays each week until the big test. Plus 2 or 3 out of classroom assignments during that period.

Not to mention the research papers I do in my expository class.


Strix - Mar 08, 2011 2:20:30 am PST #26864 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

God, Kat. That's crazy writin'.

We should all really, really come up with a list of books we teach, rubrics, etc, and share on Google docs.

You know, in our copious free time.


Kat - Mar 08, 2011 2:51:55 am PST #26865 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Well, I don't comment anymore on in-class essays. It's all practice all the time. If they are getting low grades, they should come and see me and I'll walk them through it.

AP readers spend approximately one minute on each essay and ICE echo that at this time of the year. The work is necessary for them, but the feedback isn't so important at this point. The experience of working with the prompts is what matters.

Erin, join the AP listserv (the EDG) and there is a ton of sharing of resources etc. And a lot of shit too, because a bunch of English teachers online = verbosity.


sarameg - Mar 08, 2011 3:22:52 am PST #26866 of 30001

I'm ready to go to work! Except my ride won't come until 9ish. Uhg.


msbelle - Mar 08, 2011 3:49:31 am PST #26867 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Perkins is there a time today I can call or IM with you about the bugs?

Thanks for the encouragement people.

Suzi, glad you got it, sorry I forgot to include a note.

Jesse, there is a to-do list and I am ignoring it. I may need to up meds to get me out of this, not sure.


Jesse - Mar 08, 2011 3:57:20 am PST #26868 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Sounds like it couldn't hurt, really. I mean, right?


tommyrot - Mar 08, 2011 4:44:16 am PST #26869 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Perkins, do you sleep with clothes on? Because if you do, you'd generally see bedbug bites on your arms, neck and other exposed areas.

Also, bedbug bites often appear in groups of three in a line ("breakfast, lunch and dinner") as a single bedbug often will bite more than once in a night.

A friend of mine was told by pest control people she had bedbugs. Her house was treated. For months afterwards she thought she was still getting bitten, despite the fact we couldn't find any other evidence of the little bastards. Finally she saw a dermatologist, who told her the marks on her skin were not bug bites, but some sort of skin condition.