NEWSFLASH

I am apparently the worst teacher ever, I don't do my job, and I'm going to be fired.

That is all.

Merry Christmas!

And yes, this is really in my yard.

Seems I can't get enough thanksgiving . . .

I might need dotty's pants trick soon, but I don' t have nearly as good of an excuse.

Some of you might be sick of thanksgiving, that is not the case here in Casa de Seestur. We had Thanksgiving on Thursday with my Mom's family in Wilmington. Then Friday, Todd smoked turky and we had thanksgiving all over again at mom's house in PBO, THEN, that's right, you guessed it, today I'm roasting a turkey. It's resting as we speak. This brings me to two points.

1. Thanksgiving is just not that much work, people are just a little absurd about it. The only reason to get up at 5am to put the Turkey in is because you want to eat dinner at some ridiculous hour. I put the one in today at like 2 and it's already done.

2. Carry over is amazing. My Turkey has gone up like 8 degrees since I took it out of the oven.

and no, I don't know why I keep capitalizing turkey.

yippie!

For tomorrow only being 75% of a day and the last day before thanksgiving. Boo to NC for not having school tomorrow.

Big Congratulations to dotty , queen of the babies!!

BTW, if you're not watching Heros and Studio 60, you'd better start! Heros gets better and better, in my opinion, and Studio 60 is laugh out loud. It fills my West Wing shaped hole.

Today is a good day.

Because instead of having a 12 hour day, teaching from 8:30 (although I got there at 7:30) until 1:15, then having parent conferences from 2:00 until 8:00, I got to go home at 3 because of the weather! That's even better than getting out early on a regular day. Unfortunately, I have to reschedule all my conferences myself, and that sucks.

In other news, I feel like junk mail is taking over my house. I have a serious paper problem. With the new house and all, Todd and I determined to kick some of our messy habits, that is why I need one of these

I love it

When I read the arrest report and see my old students in NC have been arrested for things like breaking and entering. Way to go guys.

Kids these days

In a discussion in my statistics class today, with a generally educated group of seniors, we were discussing the 800 or so hispanics living in my county. One of the kids asked it that included "illegals" and I said yes, in theory, the census counts everyone, although illegal immigrants, of all races, are notoriously undercounted, because they're afraid to fill out the forms.

This is where it gets good

A kid asked me how they counted them, and I said just like everyone else, they mail a form to their house. And he said what house? and I said, well, where do you think they live? They have to live somewhere.

He said "Don't they all just live crowded together in one tiny little house?"

*Sigh*

Along the lines of my last post, Arizona is the first state to not ratify a marriage amendment, but they DID amend their constitution to make english their state language. How odd to be tolerant and prejudice at the same time.

happily married, and grateful for it.

In the midst of the recent republican outing (no pun intended) Veirginia had another controversial issue on its ballot, a marriage amendment. I'm all bent out of shape about it. I'm ebarassed that I live in a state that voted yes to such drivel. I'm sure you're familiar with the general idea (the kids at school keep calling it "the gay law.") It's, of course, already illegal in Virginia for same sex couples to marry, but this amendment raises it to the level of the constitution so it doesn't "fall to the whim of a judge with a liberal agenda." If, by liberal agenda, you mean equal civil rights regardless of race, religion OR SEXUAL PREFERENCE.

Even more outrageous, the amendment makes it illegal for unmarried persons to make legal arrangements which give them the same "rights" as married people. Meaning, if I'm not married to my significant other (which lots of people do for lots of reasons) I can't even appoint them to be in charge of things like my medical decisions. That's such bullshit. I should be able to pick someone off the street to do that, if I want to.

To any homosexual readers that may be out there: I do not think your marriage would cheapen mine. As a Christian, I think saying allowing you to get married would threaten the sanctity of marriage is absurd, given what goes on in heterosexual marriages every day. I think that what goes on in your life is, at best, none of my business. Saying that people could "try to marry their dog" if we don't pass such amendments is BEYOND INSULTING. I am embarassed to live in a state that has so blatantly abused your civil rights, and I can only hope that one day we wise up and it goes the way of separate but equal and jim crow laws.


I'm sorry.

THIS JUST IN

Brittany Spears filed for divorce.

I don't know

what I want to do with my life.

"it's all mental"

On the mazing race last night, this poor girl was trying to get her team in front of everyone by eating COW LIPS. They were like some kind of crazy, dried, third world cow lips, too. Her boy friend and teammate just keeps telling her how it's "all mental" as she pukes in the street, I don't think he was helping.


Speaking of, I made salmon patties tonight. They were good, not as a good as the tzatziki sauce I made to go with them though. Yum.

Oh wheeeeere is my husband?

Todd is at work today. He's been at work all week. He works a lot. I took advantage of it yesterday and got a lot of stuff unpacked (I know, shocking) and today, so far, I've made chocolate chip cookies and vegetable pot pie. Todd is supposed to be home for a little while sometime this afternoon, so I'mw aiting for him to eat, but no sign of him yet.

Two cute little girls from down the street came and rang my doorbell yesterday. They just wanted to introduce themselves and say hello. How cute is that? One was in sixth grade and one was in fourth grade, I would've not been able to carry on a conversation with a neighbor the way they did at that age. It was very sweet. I gave them candy. I'm the stranger who gives little girls candy, I guess.

wtf

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