at the grocery store this evening, I did a msbelle. the person blew through the stop sign at the entrance to the store. She had her windows wide open. I yelled into her truck: "you are supposed to stop!"

Earl Grey does not make good iced tea, but I kind of figured that and made it anyway. It'll do for the time being.

I love roundabouts. I think I call them traffic circles, though.

I don't understand the roundabout and I won't respond to it.

Duxbury. Not Ducksberry, but I LOVE THAT.

Same dif!

I was walking out across the street yesterday at a place where the cars don't think they need to stop at the red light, and there happened to be a dude on my left (toward the cars), so I ended up saying to him, "THEY HAVE THE RED LIGHT." I would have just said it to the air, honestly. Because they HAVE A RED LIGHT.

I call them both, because I am confused.

There's one roundaout near Portsmouth, NH, that is enormous and frightening, and I've always driven it at night, which is extra scary. I can't see how a three or four laned traffic circle is safer than a traffic-lighted intersection. But I also live in NJ, and can't understand how a jug-handle with an unprotected left turn with the clearance of two car lengths is safer than a green left arrow.

On campus there are so many crosswalks that have "stop for pedestrian in crosswalk" that people just blow through, and I always point at the sign and yell "I HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY!"

I never loved traffic circles, and we had a couple in NJ, where I lived. Here we have four-way stops everywhere, and two-way in the borough where there are a lot of intersecting one-way streets. Driving through town is constant stop and start.

That was the biggest change moving to Seattle--my East-Coast aggressiveness (which was kind of hard core) was SOOO not how these people roll.

Hahahahah! I am still thought of as too aggressive and critical in meetings. In fact, they had a meeting where two of my employers (the district and the university partner I work for) talked about how I am scary critical (in the context of small professional learning community groups called critical friends). Umm? Wha? If you knew what was I actually thinking versus what I said, sure, but I edited 98% of that!

In other news, I think my department will only have 3 people who are returning and the rest are newbies. We've had PD attended by the three of us and basically we are formenting a revolution. Each day we meet and decide stuff then I type up minutes and send them to the rest of the department, including those who I know are leaving. Then I invite in a completely genuine way everyone to attend the next meeting. Lather rinse repeat. AND we are doing an entire overhaul with a performance assignment at midterm, common grading, a writing handbook and a complete overhaul of the portfolio process.

Why yes. This is what happens when you don't go to meetings. If you cared you'd show up.

Go, Kat! That's awesome.

Huh, I think this Feel Better Blend tea is actually making me feel better. That never happens.

OK, just got home, and my package is here! And an infonotice??? WTF?