I am subbing this week at an Adult Autism Center and really enjoying it. Today was a trip to a local yoga center to take a class, which they do once a month or so. Some of the students have verbal outbursts. One of them has some outbursts but he also has a total announcer's voice and perfect diction, which I assume he absorbed from TV. So, in the middle of the hushed yoga class in a candlelit room, we suddenly hear "Doctor, this chart can't be correct" in sonorous tones.

So, in the middle of the hushed yoga class in a candlelit room, we suddenly hear "Doctor, this chart can't be correct" in sonorous tones.

Ha!

OMG, the White House water getting cut off for non-payment is cracking me right up. If someone just goes by and sticks a notice on the door that it'll happen I would be so happy.

The weirdest Facebook family drama I've had involved some old photos I posted. There were a bunch of me and my sister and our cousin David when we were little kids. (David is the same age as me.) I asked David if he wanted to be tagged in the photos, and he said no. So I posted one of them with a caption something like, "This is me and [sister, tagged] and our cousin David who doesn't want to be tagged." FOUR YEARS LATER, David's mother called my mother to tell her to tell me that David didn't like the phrasing "our cousin David who doesn't want to be tagged," and that I should have just put "our cousin David," and that this was a horrible breach of etiquette on my part.

Based on previous experiences with David's mother, I'm about 90% certain that he never said a word about what I wrote, and that she had some kind of issue with it and said that it was his issue.

So...sexual assault once again means nothing in the face of profit.

I really hate that argument, because really what they're saying is that nobody else without the taint of sexual assault could do the work. Which is bullshit. What if they got someone else -- a woman! -- who could do 80% of what Lassiter does, and then hired another woman to do the other 20%. No sexual assaults, just as much profit -- because you know they wouldn't pay the women as much as Lassiter makes.

Hiring Lassiter says: we're in it to protect white dudes from the consequences of their actions. We don't care what that says to any women who might have considered coming to work here. It's not actually about profit: it's looking after their own.

Timelies all!

Seems like the only men facing real consequences for their actions from #METOO are the ones who've committed many, many offenses.

I have a 6 hour Successful Communication class tomorrow. Dread. And probably not enough time to get my actual work done. Bah.

But you'll be able to communicate the hell out of why.

One of them has some outbursts but he also has a total announcer's voice and perfect diction, which I assume he absorbed from TV. So, in the middle of the hushed yoga class in a candlelit room, we suddenly hear "Doctor, this chart can't be correct" in sonorous tones.

That's fantastic.

I would argue that successful communication should not take 6 hours.

^^ true words msbelle

I hope the Lassiter crap backfires big time.

One of them has some outbursts but he also has a total announcer's voice and perfect diction, which I assume he absorbed from TV. So, in the middle of the hushed yoga class in a candlelit room, we suddenly hear "Doctor, this chart can't be correct" in sonorous tones.

That's awesome. Bobby's FIL coaches special olympics basketball and has many autistic kids. When he tells stories about his games and practices you can see how much he loves the antics, and the kids.