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You are Esmeralda

Esmeralda 87% Princess Aurora 82% Timothy Mouse 80% Belle 76% Baloo 73% Aladdin 70% Tramp 69% Pocahontas 69% Donald Duck 68% Winnie The Pooh 67%

You are not afraid to speak up for the outcasts when nobody else will. You have a fiery independent disposition but you are always ready to help the poor and downtrodden.

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(This is the top 10 matches out of a possible 62 Disney characters)

Dear Parent

If your idea of education reform means diverting resources (time, attention, services, or materials) from other students so that your darling little munchkin can have more, then no, I am not likely to take you seriously. In fact, it's quite probable that I'm secretly thinking you're a nutcase. I may not say it out loud, but I am probably thinking it very fiercely indeed.

Sincerely,
A Teacher

I Must Be Having Fun

I can't believe it's been over a week since I've blogged. Longer since I've written anything here.

I think there are things I could have written about, but right now I'm so tired that I can't think of any of them.

Thanksgiving break was a flurry of activity; we drove out of state to visit family, then we had family time with a couple of different groups of relatives who live nearby, and finally we had some cousins who were passing through who visited with us. And also there was a beta test of the new Star Wars MMO.

Also I had my final expansion. The procedure itself doesn't hurt, but as my skin stretches and adjusts, I get these sharp stabby pains that are kind of a lot of not-fun. So I've been pretty heavily medicated this week. The days are a mix of struggling to stay alert in school and struggling to nap while at home.

This doesn't feel like a real blog post. I don't have a point.

We're going to Disney World again over winter break. They have waffle sandwiches ... I want to try one. We didn't win the drawing to spend a night in Cinderella Castle. The band teacher said he'd print me a piano arrangement of "Bourbon Street Blues" but I asked back in August and he didn't and then I reminded him around Halloween and he said he'd get it to me by Thanksgiving and he didn't.

It frustrates me when people don't follow through on what they say.

I wish I had a point.

Random update

Because writing is supposed to be good for me. :P

My tummy feels yucky. I've been sipping Sprite (trying not to think about how much high fructose corn syrup I'm putting in my system) and spooning down yogurt. I feel a little better than I did earlier, but still somewhat unsettled.

I can't find the binder that has our 2012 ad contracts in it. I hope it's under the library books in the truck. I'm going to go look during my planning period.

The newspaper students have finished their articles but I haven't started laying out the issue. I just don't want to look at anything journalism-related. I know I need to do it. I just don't WANNA.

I don't have anything else important to say. I put my standards up on the board today. Woo. Go me. I like how I do it: the students all have a copy of the standards in their writer's notebooks, and after we do the lesson I have them review the standards and select the ones they feel we've been working on & explain how the lesson connects with the standard.

Because Writing Is Good For You :P

Okay, here we go again. On the way to school.

I hate when I think I'm ready to go early, and then I remember that I don't have my medicine with me, and my phone and wallet are in the other room. And THEN I think I'm ready BUT then I feel like I need to go through my bag to make sure that my keys are there and where are they? I was sure they were here! And… oh. Okay. There they are. And by this time, rather than being a few minutes ahead of schedule, I'm a few minutes behind schedule. It's so frustrating.

The Hunk and I talked for most of the trip, so I didn't write as much.

When we got to school, I found out that today would be another Day Of Stress. Not only is it senior portrait day, which involves stress because OF COURSE there are seniors who didn't sign up for a time, or forgot what time they signed up for, BUT ALSO we had to schedule portraits AROUND a senior assembly, and then we had to reschedule another group of them because we have a homeroom today to vote for homecoming queen (no king, just queen) and then later on there's going to be a fire drill.

*facepalm*

Add to this the stress of being told that unlike other years, seniors who do not have their sitting fee WILL NOT be able to have their portraits made today. And we were unable to schedule another portrait date until frickin' NOVEMBER.

Oh - and on top of all of that, the internet is down. AGAIN.

How the hell am I supposed to use technology effectively when we KEEP having problems of this nature? OF COURSE everyone is still going to expect us to produce an inclusive, error-free yearbook on schedule.

I'm TIRED of being expected to produce amazing results without the support needed to do so.

Good Writing - Objectively?

When I'm writing reviews over on Goodreads (which, like just about everything else, I don't do as often as I should) I try to keep in mind that what I think is just that: what I think, subjective and based on my own experience rather than solely on what's in the book itself. I realize that not everyone else does this, and mostly, I try to brush it off, but sometimes? Sometimes it bothers me.

Something similar came up recently over on the EC Ning. And it left me wondering: what criteria do people use for determining literary merit or value?

Dear Google

Fuck you.

I know what the hell I'm doing; I don't need an eleven-character password with a mix of numbers and letters and special characters. There is absolutely ZERO reason for anyone to have the slightest desire to hack my account.

Stop being such self-important intrusive asswipes and ... I dunno, go make a phone or something.

:P