To say that the students are challenging would be an understatement. There are some good kids, don't get me wrong, but there are some that should have just been drowned at birth ( Read more... )

Not a bad lot so far. Very lippy, will freely tell you that you are boring, that they will just up and leave school if they want to, when they are not talking or yelling at each other. Definitely not a quiet school by any means. I'll borrow a phrase from another teacher because I wanted to "Light the room on fire and lock the door" for my last ( Read more... )

School starts tomorrow. For real. The kids will actually be there. And it will be a mess. We are spending two weeks on going over the Code of Conduct so the kids will be less likely to:riot, set the sprinklers off, mace people, or get into huge fights (all of which happened last year; riot was actually in the news) Not to mention that there will be ( Read more... )

I had an interview today. Hey, Demethos, remember what I said at Pennsic about pigs flying before I got a job. They are flying high, baby ( Read more... )

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But seriously, I do have other things to relate than the results of a Harry Potter quiz. Though the fact that I am Dumbledore strikes me as rather odd...I thought I would end up as Professor Trelawney ( Read more... )

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DId you know that less than 10% of the English language is actually English? Derived from the Anglo-Saxon from whence it came? The rest is all borrowed from Latin(octopus), German(kindergarten), French(croissant), African(zebra), Native American(tomato, can you believe it?) and Greek(I'll think of one later). Seriously! We have borrowed so many ( Read more... )

Goddamnit! Talked to Kutz's mother yesterday. Turns out that someone somewhere in the grand scheme of things did not do their job and fill out a home report. When a person is released, before they are released their home must be inspected to make sure it is acceptable and does not violate any parole rules. Like say it doubles as a meth lab or ( Read more... )

The vet surgeon decided at the end of the day Monday that she did not want to do the surgery without her entire team of assistants, so she postponed it until Tuesday. Yesterday morning, Homestar had his surgery. They tried to go in through his stomach, but found that the hole in the diaphram tissue was large. Most of his liver and part of his lower ( Read more... )