Uncertainty with two kids is the worst.
If it were just me, I could figure out something. But it's me, my partner and our two kids.
Weird love's better than no love.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
Kat - May 27, 2012 7:03:25 pm PDT #7143 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Aims - May 27, 2012 7:16:07 pm PDT #7144 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I would rather have daily change than any uncertainty. Uncertainty shuts me down so very fast and then I can not function. I am so sorry you are having to deal with it right now.
Also, can you please tell K that I got my thank you notes and I loved them!! Also, you guys were the total inspiration to introduce Donors Choose to my school and lots of teachers are using it now!
Kat - May 27, 2012 7:19:58 pm PDT #7145 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh, I'm so glad! Donors Choose is wonderful! I have a DC-grant for paper for next year because we don't have a line item for paper [link] which is odd. It's like.... hmmm, I need to pole dance for...um...paper? Sad and aggravating and perhaps adding to my stress level.
Aims - May 27, 2012 7:23:04 pm PDT #7146 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
We were just put on a monthly copy limit at our school. Teachers and paras get 250 copies a month. If we make adouble sided copy, it counts as two copies. So for a class of 25 kids, they each get 10 pages PER MONTH. It's ridic.
Aims - May 27, 2012 7:24:32 pm PDT #7147 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
No damned money for workbooks for each kid to cut back on the copy paper use, but no damned money to pay for the paper to make the copies you need to make. Such a clusterfuck.
Kat - May 27, 2012 7:27:13 pm PDT #7148 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I had a copier in my garage that I thought was an inkjet and ruined. Imagine my happy surprise when it was a laserjet. It's now in my classroom happily making copies for me (which is saving my printer, somewhat, because previously I'd just print 200 copies). I have scavenged all the paper around the whole school.
I don't have books for my non-fiction course, so I do a ton of articles. It's a problem.
Next year all the paper will be scavenged and gone. I could do what I did before and make some copies at kinkos and then steal reams of paper. But that seems supremely unethical.
Aims - May 27, 2012 7:28:15 pm PDT #7149 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Hence, the DC-grant for paper!
DavidS - May 27, 2012 7:37:51 pm PDT #7150 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I was surprised by a sudden onslaught of thunder, but it turns out to be a huge bunch of fireworks for the GG Bridge's 75th anniversary.
I'm sure Deb is furious about the effect on her cats.
Liese S. - May 27, 2012 8:25:14 pm PDT #7151 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I'm sorry so much is up in the air right now, Kat. I know that would drive me crazy too.
So hey, dcp, I finally got that Barlow lens you recommended! It is awesome. I need to work out how to shoot a little quicker, but the detail on the moon is just stunning. You can see the rim of the lens here because I don't quite have the angles down yet.
Also, Saturn! This is without the Barlow, because with it, it just moved too fast!
-t - May 27, 2012 8:32:10 pm PDT #7152 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Wow, those are gorgeous, Liese!