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.
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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 7:19:58 pm PDT #7145 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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!
Typo Boy - May 27, 2012 10:15:38 pm PDT #7153 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
One good thing. As the economy is slowly driven back to the level of the middle ages, the school will be able to hire scribes to hand copy worksheets at a lower per page cost than making electronic copies.
§ ita § - May 28, 2012 1:22:56 am PDT #7154 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Uh, but nobody does cursive anymore. We can't have scribes without loopy writing.
Speaking of loopy, tonight's nurse is hella perky. And wouldn't give me meds if I refused to change into a gown. Uh, I wear a v neck for a reason. It's comfy and warmer. Newbies.