When my students used to tell me something wasn't "fair," I used to agree enthusiastically with them. Yup, it's TOTALLY not fair. It's still what we're going to do, though.
Come on. You drop by for a cup of coffee, and the world's not ending? Please.
Connor ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Sep 21, 2011 8:28:17 pm PDT #27732 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Allyson - Sep 21, 2011 8:28:58 pm PDT #27733 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I wonder if I was a big whiner in middle school.
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2011 1:44:38 am PDT #27734 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Man, I would never have gone to a teacher with a problem outside academics. And I might not have gone to them with an academic problem. If they identified one and wanted to discuss it with me, that was fine. Otherwise I worked that shit out with students.
And emotional stuff? Hell no. None of them. I am the prickly student. But I doubt any of them would have dreamt to come to me with anything that mightn't affect university placement or public grades.
As for social media and acting the ass, they would have snapped down on that then. I wonder what their opinion is now? Because the universities we were trying to get into really ran you through the microscope. But it was a big dog and pony show that I think was incredibly stupid.
hippocampus - Sep 22, 2011 1:48:22 am PDT #27735 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Hey ita ! If you didn't just tweet about a new job opportunity, you might want to check your twitter acct.
I'm not here. I'm still asleep.
Cashmere - Sep 22, 2011 2:31:46 am PDT #27736 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Too early. I don't know how morning radio people do this everyday.
Kat - Sep 22, 2011 2:50:26 am PDT #27737 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Poor Cash! I'm up early this AM to keep my swim wakeups possible. I really want my other 90 minutes of sleep, please. Especially since I'm NOT swimming today.
Cashmere - Sep 22, 2011 2:55:59 am PDT #27738 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
We're lucky to get this kind of radio exposure so I'll get up at 3am if I have to. And then go back to bed.
The coffee tastes especially good this early.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 22, 2011 3:20:14 am PDT #27739 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Epic, I am so sorry about your kitty.
Theodosia - Sep 22, 2011 3:25:05 am PDT #27740 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Speaking as the relative of two police officers (still alive), I do believe I'd still speak out against the death penalty in the horrible chance either of them were killed on duty.
(I also disagree strongly with laws that call for the death penalty automatically for cop killing. They're humans, no better or worse than the rest of us, and when a cop goes bad or is horribly mistaken or escalates a situation to lethal force first, there's room to mitigate penalty.)
If I were the relative of slain cop in the Davis case, I'd want a full re-investigation and trial. I would lay awake nights wondering if the real killer got away and the wrong man was put to death.
Jesse - Sep 22, 2011 4:23:36 am PDT #27741 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My understanding is that one of the men convicted of killing James Byrd was also put to death last night, and some of Byrd's family are still against the death penalty.