I know I have been completely absent from this site for like a million years, but....
if anybody lives in the greater Arlington area, and has a couch, a bed, a room for short-term rent, long-term rent, or needs a house sitter for an unspecified amount of time...
my best friend in New Mexico very unexpectedly had to move back to Virginia recently and he is stuck between a house sitting gig and the Motel 6.
He has money but doesn't want to waste all of it on a 60.00 night motel room. So if anybody wants some spare cash or just wants to do a good deed...
his name is Michael, he is very amusing, incredibly tidy, responsible, and can tell you many stories of life in Japan.
I would gladly repay any kindness with unlimited stays in my New Mexico abode or other bribery that you can think of.
Please email me here with vitals and I will send along his phone number.
So in the last two weeks both laptops have gone kabluie! Flan spilt root beer on one and the recent hand-me-down I discovered is plagued with uncurable diseases and all of the friggin software and the operation system are not genuine Microsoft.
So, computer one. All but the keyvboard seem to be in working order. The keyboard at first refused to respond now it responds but it is all googly. I read several mentions recently of keyboard cleaning. How exactly do you do that without breaking the keys?
Computer two I am thinking of just wiping clean to get rid of bugs and starting over. Can that actually be done? I have a new legal version of XP and Office to put back on it.
We turned off the cable so I have no television to keep my sanity. I need the internet to start my new online tutoring gig as well. Who can live without a computer anyway? Where would you keep notes? How could you live without Excel?
Any suggestions would be welcome. Computer one is less than a yr old so I'd hate to chuck it. Computer 2 was free so anything goes to try and fix it (or could I just run it in "safe mode" forever?).
Thank you. I would be more than happy to bribe advice with cookies. My oatmeal cinnamon choco chip are mean mean cookie machines.
Whats up with all you women who are too liberated to have babies but not woman enough to tell your manfriends to wear a friggin rubber instead of havin blood run down yer leg for months at a time and your boobs close to explosion?
Rubbers are cheap and low on side effects. Better yet, get your man to have a vasectomy. Stop taking pills, stop wrecking your body and mental health, have regular periods. Hell, if you hate periods so much, have a baby and breastfeed, you'll get at least a two-year hiatus. They are good for something. You guys really worry about the horror of shredded vag when you have constant blood flow, swollen boobs, raging hormones, massive weight gain, and constant crying?
more images in reply....for the love of josh, please don't enter if you hate yourself, hate children, hate life in general, or just hate me and my reproductive organs. i am in baton rouge right now and i will find you, stalk you, and circumcise you.
i thought a cool pic that wasn't a cute butt wouldn't illicit snide remarks, but this is klogs...
Hey, if anybody is in the Baton Rouge area, my mom has like 500 records in good condition she's trying to get rid of. Its all good stuff, Beatles, Lennon, Elvis, Elvis Costello, etc, etc. Call her, go see them, make her an offer. That sounded really bad. Anyway, email me if you are interested. She needs to unload them so she can move to Alburquerque.
Alternately, if anyone knows of a place that buys used vinyl, please pass the info on.
woohooo. I like reviews. Reviews good. This is the link to the review. You have to read a bit to get to the part about ME. This is the link to the actual show.
The image that they run really big (like 6 by 8 inches) in the paper...
It's not my most favorite genre yet, but I am proud of myself for working in digital and being able to function in a rectangle as opposed to a square. I am going to keep working on it.
In other news, Flan really likes to rub my back. This is what we're both wearing right now watching football with Daddy.
She also likes to ride on her stuffed Dalmatian's back like a horse. She just started doing the fake smile for the camera.
I am so overwhelmed. Not like I'm gonna bury myself and can't get out but to the please beg friends for help stage. Anyway.
Question one: My colleague Mark wants coming-of-age stories from around the world. Preferably short stories and he really needs a female author or main character. This one is easy.
Question two: I am developing an independent project for one of my seniors who is fascinated with the Czech Republic because his family ancestry is from there. The class is economics/government. I was going to get him to do research on Prague Spring, the Velvet Revolution, and the Czech intelligentsia class who basically rebuilt the Czech govt after the Russians left. This would include Vaclav Havel, the new constitution, and the novels of Milan Kundera. Any ideas on structure, format, approach, more insights on the history/ties to US govt economics/govt in general????
Question three: The other senior in econ/govt is much harder to please. Of course they all claim to be anarchists so I am trying to shape the whole class in the form of the question "Why is govt good? Do we really need govt? What is bad about govt in general that we would loike to see changed? I know you guys have opinions on this! For him I was gonna let him to an independent project on separatist groups and/or groups of people that exist within the US but do not have to abide by our laws, like reservations and embassies, etc. What do you guys think? Any other ideas? I can basically teach whatever I want but I have to come up with a way for them to research these topics. We have no library of our own. I can take them to the public one and they have internet access for research. I will rpobably provide alot of the research materials myself or at least tell them which books to check out.
Love,
Amy
Oh, yeah. Everybody else is doing fine. I'll send pictures of my classroom soon. I love the kids. Even the ones straight from juvie.
yay. Amy got a job teaching world history, economics/govt, and art at a small charter school. Only 150 students, full time is considered 4 hour and a half teaching periods a day (one of which is a prep period), and 189 contract working days a year. Not to mention the fact that the salary is a whole 51% more than I've ever made in my life and 198 more dollars than my husbands first management job.
I get a big classroom with lots of windows, I get to have a goldfish, and all the plants (bonsais) I can fit in the room. Its an old building with only 6 classrooms, hardwood floors, and pictures of the first graduating classes of the original school on the wall.
Yay. Happy. And the cherry? A trip to San Fran in November to attend the Coalition of Essential Schools conference. Yay.
And I will need lots of help from you overachievers.
