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?

Marylanders don't get roundabouts.

Hmph. Maybe not in Baltimore.

The Chevy Chase roundabout is a little terrifying, though.