So I went back and checked my records. Last year I paid the bank $1458.04. This year they write me a check for $1460.42 Sooooo, since my parents helped me out last year, that means that I actually have only made $2.38 So much for being rich ( Read more... )

Okay so last year at this time, I got a letter from my bank saying that I needed to cough up $1500 pronto to cover the shortage in my escrow due to the increase in property taxes. (Those of you who don't own a house are probably drifting off to sleep right now.) Anywho, I opened my mailbox today only to be greeted by that nasty foreboding bank ( Read more... )

Yuck. I am so sick of the snow. It can just go away now. Winter is over in my book. I am so bored. I really don't like going anywhere when it's 19 degrees with wind gusts up to 44 mph. There is nothing to do...and while I have a million movies I could watch nothing sounds good. I did watch a funny one last night though. Even though I had ( Read more... )

Yeah, it's me. I just had to get this written down. My students had to write essays I guess you could call them. It was like pulling teeth trying to get them to write more than a paragraph. They are in 8th grade for crying out loud! It's not like I asked them to discuss the Theory of Relativity or something. They just had to answer this: "If ( Read more... )

I really needed to take a break from grading papers so I took this quiz that was on my friends list from some quizzy thing I signed up for.

You Should Wear a Ball Gown Wedding Dress


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The Great LiveJournal
Outage of 2005

During the outage I experimented with mixing various brands of cold medicine with daytime TV.

What did you do?

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It's actually probably a good thing that LJ went down so I didn't write numerous posts bitching about all the papers I had to grade by like...yesterday.

You Are 24 Years Old

24

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe ( Read more... )

Your Ideal Hairstyle: Layered Bob


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Today one of my student's asked me what I thought of the name Defrostiaire. Read it slowly...see if you can figure it out. She said she liked it because she likes that song that says "In the frosty air ( Read more... )

I should be in bed but I figure all my friends are doing it so I should too. Damn peer pressure!

Copy and paste the first sentence from the first post of each month of 2004:

january: Well, Evan did manage to make it up for New Year's, thank goodness!

february: Your Dream Engagement Ring Has a Round Diamond!

march: Today would have been Dr. ( Read more... )