A handicapped cat that won't eat for love or money (or tears or begging or...) and then a trip to the emergency vet who can't tell you what's wrong and the resulting forced-feeding with an eye dropper.  Yeah, definitely have had better weekends.

I'll never play piano again!  Or something ( Read more... )

Amazingly Solid Collection

It's not often that I finish reading an anthology and instantly think "Whoa, every single story in there was well-written!" We all know that it's a hit-or-miss situation when you're dealing with 12 different authors, and that usually there's a couple that fall flat. Not here. That's not to say that there weren't some ( Read more... )

Celebrate!  I was getting the oil changed in the truck and watching the TV in the customer lounge.  This came on as the guy was trying to hand me back my keys.  I was like "Dude!  Trying to watch the commercial!  Can't it wait?" 

I have a job.  A well-paying job that I’m good at.  This job grants me seven weeks of vacation that just happens to occur in the summer months.   It’s in my contract.  And it’s not like I go without a paycheck those seven weeks… my salary is broken down so that the same amount of money comes in every month year round.

So why then do I feel SO ( Read more... )

Happy birthday Tammy!!

*bounce*  See you WEDNESDAY!

I've spent every day the last two weeks writing. Test reports, memos, IEPs, action plans.  Necessary but incredibly boring stuff that sucks every bit of creativity out of me so that by the time I get home, I don't have the energy to write what I want to write.  You know, like things that could be published or something.

It's annoying.

Via Metafilter... Brain tests .  Cool stuff AND you're contributing to science!

Some of my results:

You were able to discriminate 88% of the face genders. Based on the results we have so far, the average person who takes this test correctly identifies 78% of the genders.

You were able to discriminate 77% of the facial expressions. Based on the results ( Read more... )

So my assistant brought the kids in from recess, and one of my little girls is sobbing. It took a minute or so to make out that she was saying "pink coat, pink coat" but because of her communication issues, that was all I could get. My assistant kind of rolls her eyes and tells me that her coat had been left on the playground from earlier and got ( Read more... )

I hate why questions, especially the hard ones that come from my kids. One of my girls told the Art teacher that she hated her this morning. Which then, of necessity, prompted A Talk. It was prefaced by me saying that she doesn’t have to like all the teachers in our school, but that she does have to be polite and respectful to them. And left me ( Read more... )