Cash, we had chicken chili and cornbread muffins last night, so I approve of your choice.
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Polter-Cow - Nov 10, 2009 9:51:33 pm PST #18583 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kat - Nov 11, 2009 3:01:08 am PST #18584 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I was going to say something about teens and pregnancy, but I decided it would just get my blood pressure up. sigh.
Welcome to my world. I get really really angry and then I realize, so what! This is part of how systemic poverty becomes inherited poverty. One of the girls was talking about how she could do this because essentially her mom (who is like 10 years younger than I am) was going to "help," and I could only think, "yes because she did such a great job with you! That's a plan." Some things are better left unsaid.
I have so much grading. It's ridiculous.
Jessica - Nov 11, 2009 4:13:02 am PST #18585 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
ARGH. Every time I send my boss a piece of information, I get an email the next day asking me to send the same thing. I should just stop bothering to send her anything until she asks for it, right? Because this is getting to be a ginormous waste of my time.
sarameg - Nov 11, 2009 4:34:21 am PST #18586 of 30001
I knocked the handle off my coffee mug this morning. The day could have started better.
Lee - Nov 11, 2009 4:38:03 am PST #18587 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I've been awake but trying to pretend otherwise since 4:00, and I made my coffee too weak.
My day also could have started better.
Jesse - Nov 11, 2009 4:38:44 am PST #18588 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Does anyone know where I put my stamps?
Cashmere - Nov 11, 2009 4:39:03 am PST #18589 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Dear XRay Tech, Why would *I* have my doctor's order for a mammogram? Why wouldn't YOU have them? /sitting topless in mammography.
brenda m - Nov 11, 2009 4:41:38 am PST #18590 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
ARGH. Every time I send my boss a piece of information, I get an email the next day asking me to send the same thing. I should just stop bothering to send her anything until she asks for it, right? Because this is getting to be a ginormous waste of my time.
I hope you're forwarding the original emails to her. I find that shit so annoying.
Sheryl - Nov 11, 2009 4:43:12 am PST #18591 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I have today off. Other than getting lunch, and going to an appointment in the afternoon, I have no plans. Since it is raining, that suits me fine.
Kiba Rika - Nov 11, 2009 4:44:28 am PST #18592 of 30001
I may have to seize the cat.
I'm pretty sure there's not a lot of thinking or planning that goes into most teen pregnancies.
And no matter how aware teens are of the risk of getting pregnant/getting diseases, brain science tells us that they have impulse control issues and genuinely believe they are immortal, so mostly they're not going to worry about the fact that when you have a kid, it's not like you can give it back like you would with a pet that doesn't work out.
I have this in my notes from one of my earliest days of my YA Lit class: "GRACE AND FORGIVENESS ARE VERY IMPORTANT WHEN DEALING WITH ADOLESCENTS!"
This is what I learned in five years of teaching. Which I know is not that long but it's longer than many of the other students in that YA Lit class have had. Some of them are undergrads; some of them are library students who went straight through. They overestimate the willingness of students to obey rules; they underestimate the intelligence of teenagers.
For somebody who was burned out from teaching for so few years, I still have a lot of faith in most teens... I don't know if that's good or bad.