goodness, so much is happening!

Had a lovely brunch with Hil and -t and her DH yesterday, which brightened up an otherwise so-so weekend. Got my hair cut and colored Saturday, so it was nice and bright (and short! really short!) for brunch.

Our printer came by and gave me a bag of Lindor truffles (suddenly, Monday doesn't seem so bad).

Aims ... Aimee ... Empress - whatever the name, you kept your tag (which I love).

MM - yes, you ought to keep a record of your conversations ... perhaps you could arrange an exchange of your FCOD with Hil's overprivileged students. Just think of the fun if they were talking to each other!

A friend - non-Buffista - called last night and she's now officially engaged. Very romantic proposal and whent they got to the restaurant, they'd had "Congratulations (name) and (name) on your engagement" printed on the menus (squee).

Gris, sorry about your students disappointing you ... it does, however, remind me of when they were having rehearsals for the first-ever graduation at my high school (new school) and the vice principal came by to watch. The students STONED him off the field (well, there weren't that many stones, so a lot of the kids resorted to clumps of dirt ... but it's the thought that counts). Unfortunately, he pretty much deserved it.

And the thing way back about asking people about their gender at birth - could there be some concern about possible infection from a transfusion during surgery? (I'm trying to be charitable here.)

ETA: Teppy! congratulations on the five years!

Gris, what's the age range of the students?

9th and 10th grade.

I don't even think the rest of the teachers had close to the same reaction I did. My empathy hat may be screwed on too tight, but I can't help thinking about what my reaction would be if I found out something like that had happened when MY name was mentioned.

Honestly -- and bear in mind that I'm not a teacher -- I think that 14- to 16-year-olds who react with glee upon hearing that an administrator/somewhat draconian dean/principal was going to be out for the day are just acting like normal 14- to -16-year-olds.

I remember being that age, and we were *far* from civilized, for all the veneer of "social graces" the nuns tried to drill into us. Adolescents aren't known for being well-behaved at all times.

But, like I said, I'm not a teacher, and I don't know what your school is like, and how the students are expected to comport themselves while on campus. But their reaction sounds pretty normal to me for a non-military school.

Had they burned the principal and dean in effigy, well, that might be over the top.

I think you all know that I'm not the most patient person in the world, so you will probably not be surpirsed by the following comment.

I WANT MY PASSING THESIS GRADE, DAMMIT! And the comments too!

I'm supposed to get it "sometime today." I WANT IN NOW!

t /Veruca Salt

So, I'm having a pretty bad day. It started last night, after I got home from work. I can't really talk about it, but it's pretty bad, and I'm very sad and upset today. I have to go to work down in Costa Mesa, and I don't really want to go.

Yeah, I'm really upset today. And no idea what to do about any of it.

I think that 14- to 16-year-olds who react with glee upon hearing that an administrator/somewhat draconian dean/principal was going to be out for the day are just acting like normal 14- to -16-year-olds.

Maybe they are. They probably are. Honestly, they're probably acting normal for humans - people boo Bush these days, and booing, by its very nature, is the same type of completely non-empathic, mob-mentality disregard for feelings. I could never boo anybody, no matter how much I dislike them, their decisions, their policies, their actions. I could boo a statement, at a speech for example. But not the person in general.

It may just be a trigger for me. But it did not start my day off well.

{Sean}

{{{{{Sean}}}}} Tons of ~ma.

MM, you really must use these little conversations in your book. Seriously. Chapter could be called "Conversations with My Phone."

I think the phone conversations are how you should begin each chapter of your book.

MM, you really must use these little conversations in your book. Seriously. Chapter could be called "Conversations with My Phone."

I would buy an entire book of just the phone conversations. They're endlessly entertaining.

Hang in there, Sean. Could be worse.

You could be in Michigan.

Okay, re: Phone conversations...

Is there a simple way to dredge all the recent threads at once to find these things and compile them? Or am I gonna have to try to remember when I started writing the things and find the appropriate thread and search and all that?