Today, I had to work in a very special layer of hell. That's right, folks. They gave me a whistle.

My brother is doing a school musical. Yet another riff on reality television. At no point in the whole thing does anyone say "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

This has been a very good past week so far. Does it say something bad that all I can do is wait for the other shoe to drop?

Upsides: Thoughtful, and help you stand out

Downsides: Too easy to mess up. Way too easy.

Tomorrow's going to be a long day. There are going to be meetings. I had to junk a lesson plan today because someone taught them such gems as "i is any number that goes on for ever and ever without repeating" and that a parabola is only defined by the equation Y=X2. What makes me even sadder is that pointing out this failed attempt to expand the ( Read more... )

My town has decided to keep a good many businesses open late over the weekend. Whether or not this will be a good thing for local merchants, we'll see as winter comes around. But as far as making things pleasant for most of us, it seems that everyone forgot one side effect of this plan: Swarms of high school kids. So yes, I now have even more ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or is the internet cranky lately? It seems like the simple act of hitting favored sites just had to get harder. I'll just sit here hoping this trend reverses itself naturally; if I have to find ten good people out here, we're all screwed. (And also, I need to broaden my phone stable ( Read more... )

"She's about as tall as a child, maybe about four feet tall, but built like an actual woman. Her skin color varies according to her mood, but her nipples are always the same shade of bright pink."

Links I know you'll all like:

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.skepchick.org/about.html

Links I wish existed:http://www. ( Read more... )

"I" statements are awfully easy to abuse. That might be why people haven't seen much stuff from me. Too many of them, and it seems the entry doesn't flow at all. And there are times when it seems better to keep quiet rather than feel subclever.