Done, Kat.

Aw... I'm all verklempt. You people are wonderful.

Meanwhile, I am sitting here funding other people's projects at her school with the cards. It's like such a system!

Glad Swifty is feeling better.

Kat, I hope the grant brings the positive change you think it will. It sounds needed. Will donate to K's project when I'm more conscious and know what I can afford this month.

Monday is a staff holiday for us, but since we get volunteers (but not my crew, we don't use them) I am working. Two members of my crew will be doing a service project with their sponsoring org, so I'll be short-handed. However, I confirmed that I get a comp day for it, so that's cool. I don't know when our next holiday is - Easter, I guess. They haven't put out a 2012 calendar yet. I'm gonna need it, too; March is going to be a bitch of a month for the org and me personally - why hello thar, Spring Break volunteers.

Cereal: as those who read Bitches know, I had a shit day* and a rough week altogether. Catching up here made me laugh out loud several times, from COMMA-ables and funny links and general sass. So thank you all for your wit and humor and love for each other and this community.

* It's for real teal deer, so I won't x-post, but it's here if you're curious - smonster "Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In" Jan 13, 2012 4:31:22 pm PST.

Hat trick: I just watched the Bumbly Cumbersnatch vid; what are the sexytimes scenes from?

Oh smonster, yikes. That sounds like a shit ton of no fun. Also, addressing it with him before the eval might be good too because then you have time to verbally say it and hear his piece before you write it all down?

Also, I don't know if the change will be good, but it will be different. And sometimes different is necessary. I know that what we have now is NOT working (oh hi class of 53 students in my room!) and that some change is better than none.

Kat, I thought of you and the 50-some student classroom while driving from SFO yesterday --I was listening to the California Report on NPR and they were talking about education funding and class sizes and stuff. I can't imagine teaching or even being in a class that big! YAY for getting the grant, and I hope the people who leave are people you don't like anyway!

smonster, I hope your weekend gets better. :(

I went on linked in today and emailed a couple of old colleagues who are now at new companies, asking about how those are.

I am done. My deadline was Friday the 13th, but it's still before midnight on the West Coast, right, so that counts. I'm happy I didn't vomit on the keyboard or pass out.

Note: This, my first official copyediting job, was M/M. I laughed and laughed when my editor asked if that would be a problem, since I checked that off on the "Would you copyedit X genre?" on the list?

Um, no. No problem.

Going to bed now.

Yay on the grant Kat. Here's to changing what's not working!

Congrats on the grant, Kat!