Katie Bee!

> It doesn't surprise me that Ginger helped so many because she was very kind and helpful to me. I just didn't consciously know how many others she helped because she did it so quietly. It just hurts that life wasn't kinder to someone so giving.

Yes.

So far, four students have done this: they see their average grade on the online gradebook, and then they email me begging for extra credit or something that they can do to get a few extra points, or asking me why the grade hasn't been curved like I said it would be, without having first logged on to check the actual grade that was recorded for the semester. If they had done that, they would have seen that the grade was curved, and the grade that they're begging for is the grade that they already have.

And I have students who are frantically e-mailing me asking why there isn't a grade posted in the online gradebook after I made two announcements, both in writing on the website, that I'd be grading all weekend so the scores would fluctuate and they should wait until Tuesday to check the final grade. I'm trying to remind myself that many of my students are kids and grades are really important in their lives but still.

repost from Natter:

Who sent me the green snowflake ornament? It must have fallen out of a package or an envelope because I found it on the floor and I know I've never seen it before! It's very pretty and I put it on a hanging basket to wait until I get the tree up. A mystery snowflake appeared!

It really has been chaos around here, with the moving of stuff and the enthusiastic helpers.

I believe Suzi is the culprit. A number of us got them and thanked her in Good-bye and Good Riddance.

I am at work, where I'm introducing male co-workers to SockDreams and trying to persuade them that they can too order from it.

I will not let heteronormativity win this morning.

That's awesome, Shir. I just recommended it to someone, yesterday! Not, however, someone who will break the barrier that is heteronormativity.

I'm finally feeling better, and now TCG is headed home from work sick.

I'm finally feeling better, and now TCG is headed home from work sick.

Oh, man, I'm torn between "Your poor family!" and "Thank God he waited until you were feeling better, because there is no greater domestic nightmare than a teething baby and both parents sick."

Healing and germ-slayage vibes in abundance to TCG.

Oh, man, I'm torn between "Your poor family!" and "Thank God he waited until you were feeling better, because there is no greater domestic nightmare than a teething baby and both parents sick."

So, true.

Healing and germ-slayage vibes in abundance to TCG.

Thank you.