In small world news, I just experienced a rare and cool overlap between my Buffista life and my school life. My students create their own vocab books based on unfamiliar words they encounter in their normal lives (literature from my class, historical documents, or just chance encounters with new words outside of school). I make them identify the part of speech, define the word, and then quote and cite the original sentence where they found the word before writing a new sentence to show they can use it themselves. One of my seniors dutifully cited the source for all 20 of her new words...a fanfic FAY wrote for JILLI!!!!! I about fell off the couch when I saw “FayJay” cited at the end. I now have 20 sentences from Fay’s story peeping cheerfully out from my student's list, and I’m tickled pink. Seriously, how cool is that? And no, I didn’t point her that way--I’ve never even mentioned that I have friends who write fanfic. SO RANDOM AND COOL.

Pix, that is very cool.

Bloody hell. Server's down. ::sigh::

Sometimes, instead of an artist, I feel like a dried-up spinster content-monkey.

Smonster, I've seen her on The Twitter.

smonster, Twitter, and I've been emailing with her. She's cool.

I got the nail polish box info, and Brenda, the box will be lumbering its slow way to you tomorrow!

Actually, can you skip to the next person? I've got a lot going on right now and can't face another thing.

Sure can, if someone sends me the next person on the list's info!

Also, does anyone know off-hand if thyme or azaleas are poisonous to cats or dogs? I need to bring them inside, but not if they're dangerous to curious pets...

I think I've seen Zenkitty on LJ, but now that I think about it that may have been at least a week ago, possibly more.

(((the smonster siblings))) I'm about the last person on earth from whom to ask advice, given my rotten history and eventual blundering into partnership by sheer improbable happenstance (and still, frankly, being none to good at it). I'm positive that someday your excellence will be met and matched by another excellent person who just fits and is ready to fit, but that's thin comfort in the bruised and ill-fitting now.

Ugh. I'm supposed to go teach soon, and I can barely get through five minutes of sitting still without starting to cough. I don't think I'll be able to get through teaching.

Blergh, smonster. I'm sorry.