On spring break, so get to sit around doing nothing. Maybe later in the week I'll get some lesson plans going and so forth, but to-day I'm going to do nothing. Except laundry. Spent the weekend in Nashville, where I would move if only they paid their teachers some decent wage, and saw The Shins on Friday and The Features on Saturday. Pretty good weekend,...
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waldo_jeffers:
That sounds very interesting. It is fascinating to consider the role that man has played in shaping the form and contents of a book which is alleged to be the Word of God!! Even now, 20 centuries on, not all churches agree on the same canon (some orthodox churches exclude the Revelation of John, and several of the Epistles).
waldo_jeffers:
I've just been reading through your Top Ten lists. I still haven't got around to filling mine in (partly because I am so fickle that my Top Ten lists would probably change every week). I just thought I'd say that you have some good choices there. Sid Meier's games rock!!!
Birthday party last night. Realtively small and intimate. I can't tell if I'm spelling right or not, because I am pretty hung over. I am going to eat some sushi in a minute and continue to do my part of the cleaning. G last night she would clean everything up as a birthday present, but then drank with her antibiotics and is still in bed...
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waldo_jeffers:
Good luck with finishing off Uncanny Valley 
rush:
They're straight, it's the picture that's crooked :-)
Happy New Year, all. So it goes.
New Years party went well. 3 kegs and about a dozen cases of various booze, and I didn't even get drunk. Too busy having to deal with everyone and their mother (well, MY mother) trying to be all social and "it's been so long!" Oh well. It's amazing to me that I have friends at all, what with...
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New Years party went well. 3 kegs and about a dozen cases of various booze, and I didn't even get drunk. Too busy having to deal with everyone and their mother (well, MY mother) trying to be all social and "it's been so long!" Oh well. It's amazing to me that I have friends at all, what with...
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waldo_jeffers:
Thanks for the condolences, matey.
I hope things work out well with the Girl-Cohabitation-Unit.
I hope things work out well with the Girl-Cohabitation-Unit.
waldo_jeffers:
Happy Birthday for the Big Three Zero !!!
So, I'm getting sexed regular again, I just got a 150 or so dollar credit on my Amazon.com card for no good reason, finished book 3 of Songs of Fire and Ice series, got a submission ready (though not necessarily worthy) copy of "Crossing the Uncanny Valley" finished, I feel the stirrings of a new project, and I have a couple of pretty decadent parties...
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waldo_jeffers:
HAPPY NEW YEAR
rush:
Thanks for letting us crash chez vous!
No thanksgiving festivities, save a low key affair with my mom and stepdad. Did take the vacation to finally finish my story. (Novelette, actually, according to the SF&F guidelines). As in Finish finish. V nice. Of course, I'm afraid it's impossible to follow for anyone without an advanced degree in history and/or literature and willing to take copious notes, but I gotta have faith that...
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xip:
Wanted to thank you for the comment you left in my journal. It was all, finally, good advice from someone not speaking solely out of their personally opinionated ass. Not that there's anything wrong with talking out of your ass, but your ass had citations for other asses, so it seemed near symphonic.
Especially thanks for the direction on the "Conversation" story I'm working through. When I read your comment, it was like a beam illuminated a shadow and that "aaawwwwuuuuuhhhh" note played and I smacked my forehead and went OF COURSE! Of course I'm not writing him as the angry Christian! He's NOT one!
I like you; you actually read and you actually write, and those are the only two things I ACTUALLY care about.
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Especially thanks for the direction on the "Conversation" story I'm working through. When I read your comment, it was like a beam illuminated a shadow and that "aaawwwwuuuuuhhhh" note played and I smacked my forehead and went OF COURSE! Of course I'm not writing him as the angry Christian! He's NOT one!
I like you; you actually read and you actually write, and those are the only two things I ACTUALLY care about.
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God damn, I am glad my week is over, even if it was only two days long. Been in a wierd headplace. This weekend, one of my brother's old running crew got brutally murdered. (Emphasis on brutal.) Don't really feel grief - haven't seen the guy since I was a squirt - but it has devistated the families of my childhood which is sort of...
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stella_marie:
i always find that how well ive known the person doesnt matter, i still get very upset. but that could be cause im an emotional disaster 
rush:
Wow. Sucky stuff...
Re: writing, I can't wait to mark up your manuscript. It's gonna be my on-the-train thing unless I'm knitting.
Re: writing, I can't wait to mark up your manuscript. It's gonna be my on-the-train thing unless I'm knitting.
I have had a busy time of things, in a playing a lot of DDO sort of way. Called in sick to work today, and have one day of giving tests and one day of on-the-job laser tag before a five day weekend. Yes, yes, I know, it's pretty sweet. Talk to me on the weeks I'm not posting sometime.
Also, for the first time...
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tryst:
xo
waldo_jeffers:
Well, blankets are better than quilts anyway (you can add or remove blankets depending on how warm you want to be but with a quilt its either all or nothing).
Fortnightly. Sounds about right. So, think I've gotten the hang of work, or at least returned to that fuzzy warm happy place that makes it all seem not horrible. (after the initial jolt of 6:00a wears off) Sort of odd, since some of my other colleagues seem to be there and worse now. But, who knows? Anyway, it's only monday, what the fuck do I...
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stella_marie:
i dont really think i want it
i want to make one last jump for the dream job before i totally give up and just get married and knocked up
i want to make one last jump for the dream job before i totally give up and just get married and knocked up
waldo_jeffers:
Fuzzy warm happy place? Where do you workthe duvet factory?
Going to be calling in sick to work tomorrow. Kind of sucks, since I use sick days as fast as I get them (And I'm pretty sure the district screwed me out of one. But, I've made a vow to ONLY call in when I'm sick. Fever, hot and cold flashes, no appetite, and geysers of pablum mean no work tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll work on...
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waldo_jeffers:
I hope you feel better soon.
First six weeks is over. Things are not necessarily "better", but they are more stable, which passes for better in a pinch. 17% done with the school year, then fuck that place and on to a new school, but probably one that is no less SNAFU.
Dad's divorce just went from bad to amazingly fucked up.
Dad's divorce just went from bad to amazingly fucked up.
Life proceeds rapidly in the wrong direction.
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stella_marie:
so, either turn yourself around or forget the sign and see where it takes you
redwildflower:
Yeah I know the feeling. I say slap the hell out of life and walk against the current! =o) *HUGS*
Today was the first day back at work. Got moved to a new classroom. There is a short list of things I think should be in a classroom, but were not:
1. Teachers Desk
2. Student Desks
3. Textbooks.
4. Chalkboard/Whiteboard
The first.. uh... two got fixed. As for a chalkboard? Two months. That's right, eight weeks. That's right, half way through the second grading...
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1. Teachers Desk
2. Student Desks
3. Textbooks.
4. Chalkboard/Whiteboard
The first.. uh... two got fixed. As for a chalkboard? Two months. That's right, eight weeks. That's right, half way through the second grading...
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waldo_jeffers:
Try it you might like it! Muah ha ha!! 
As regards the classroom, perhaps everyone could just sit around in a circle on bean bags and sing camp fire songs until the desks arrive!!
As regards the classroom, perhaps everyone could just sit around in a circle on bean bags and sing camp fire songs until the desks arrive!!
latchbeam:
That is f-ing insane! I hope all is well.