I just finished reading the 4 chapters of ASL basic rules. My brain hurts. So much.

Holy cow! You don't wanna fool around with fire in ASL!

(What a headache)

Reading ASL terrain rules (Green chapter B)

HURTS.

MY.

BRAIN.

So boring and yet, especially, the elevation rules, so important.

I had waited over 16 years to understand the visually impressive movie The Keep. I finally finished reading the book on which the movie was based. I waited so long, I waited so long. Only now, recently, have I been getting to things that made me curious when I was a teenager or younger. There is a certain satisfaction that I think I can more fully ( Read more... )

Real horror ( Read more... )

Dear God! It is painful, just incredibly painful to fit a wrong example to the rule it is trying to illustrate. If you give an example make sure it is Fing right! Otherwise, the reader will just mentally grind down and down his brain trying see why the rule and example just don't fit and wonder what they are doing wrong. My goal, in the far future ( Read more... )

HP Lovecraft leaves Poe in the dust.

In other news, I am jumpy as hell. Lovecraft can get in your brain.

Compartmentalization is the key to preserving my sanity. The teachers of English in JHS do not care for or want to here of new fangled, innovative, WESTERN techniques to teach English and continue to propogate their style of rote teaching. I am a teacher trainee who will not be teaching these poor masses anyway. I'm just here to collect a paycheck ( Read more... )

By Pastor Martin Niemöller, a survivor of one of Nazi Germany's concentration camps ( Read more... )

Just eating lunch in the staff room when a parent comes in and just starts giving all the teachers shit. Same guy came yesterday towards the end of the day. Fucken trippy. I think parents think that their kids are customers and should be respected as such to the effect that 'The customer is king'. We talk a lot about how fucked the kids are but ( Read more... )