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Do you want me to earn it?Do as I say because if you don't, I am going to have to eat your br... ummm... report to your parents?Because I am the Authority here and that alone should be enough for you to respect and obey me despite me doing nothing whatsoever to earn it.
No, because I did first.
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I got another evil shift today~
"Miss, can we listen to Christmas music while we work?"
"Sure."
"WHY"
"WHAT IS THIS OH GOD"
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Eeeeeeeexcellent, yeeeeessss.
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Christmas music is just...just...
...like, how did we find a way to take religious music and make it even more...ugh.
It's...so...bad. It's like, really, really, REALLY bad.
I mean, it beats country, but by the tiniest margins. If Christmas music was sang with a country accent, I'm positive it would be the soundtrack for hell itself. You'd listen to that while drinking luke-warm decaf black cheap store-brand coffee made with tap water out of a disgusting machine that hasn't been cleaned in five years, and eating unflavored grits and collard greens.
Growing up in a Christian family that did NOT celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday left me not experiencing the worst of it. We had the secular staples of course - Jingle Bells, Santa's Coming to Town, Up On the Housetop, etc. - but not all the Jesus-themed ones.
The closest we experienced was the one verse of "Here Comes Santa Claus" with the lines "Santa knows we're all God's children / That makes everything alright / Let's give thanks to the Lord Above / Cause Santa Claus comes tonight". And that verse isn't in all versions of the song.
But we also don't listen to Christian music, at least as it would be defined by radio stations and such. So I managed to avoid that as well.
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In other news, Homunculi #1 heard his father and father's gf doin' it. He knows about birds and bees, but he is now super-weirded out and my wife is livid after talking to her ex about it. ("I can't promise that it won't happen again.") Really, this is the first time I've seen her seething angry...
an ugly situation.
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I wonder if perhaps this disagreement might be the actual core of why we disagree so much on the merits of entertainment medias.i disagree firmly, but the way your mind works is fascinating. I'm glad this concept not just works for you but that you enjoy it so much. I can see how it would help an educator.Honestly, it's more interesting to me because so many things follow genre patterns. It makes whatever twist the author puts into place stand out all the more.
But I'm a big proponent of story structure and archetypes as a useful tool and shorthand. They're Thought Legos - what new thing can I build by switching these two blocks while mostly following a preset structure?
Sometimes, restriction breeds the most creativity.
possibly.
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Can you go to H-e-double toothpicks just for thinking, "I told you so"?
NobodysManager: NobodysHome, I notice that in all your practices you're using menu navigation instead of home page navigation to get everywhere. I find home page navigation much faster and easier. Can I have you change all that?
NobodysHome: No. Home page navigation is kludgy, is frequently missing the pages to which I want to navigate, and just ends up being a mess. I'd rather show students proper navigation so they can always find what they need.
NM: OK. I guess that's acceptable. But I'm going to make everyone else use home page navigation.
So I'm sitting here smugly watching everyone else scramble to undo or fix all the navigation steps they so painstakingly put in.
Life lesson: If something isn't working correctly in a prerelease of a product, don't make the assumption that just because you filed a bug, it'll be fixed by final release.
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Can you go to H-e-double toothpicks just for thinking, "I told you so"?
** spoiler omitted **
possibly.
Man: I love Christmas music, Christian music, and Country music. Heh.
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LAYER UPON LAYER, MAKE YOUR MARK NOW! HASTE!
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I am the bone of my sword...
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"How can I get my grade to passing?"
"Turn in [list of worksheets] and correct your tests. It's a catch-up day today, so you can probably get some of that done."
"Okay."
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Preeeeetty sure my face is going to freeze that way.
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Oh, I know, and I wasn't expecting anything more. Would be nice to be proven wrong once in a while...
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Wow my dad is being quite annoying today can't stand to be in the same room as him without him starting to criticize me and I have not even had breakfaast.
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Mrs. Mieselas is probably the reason I hate math. But that might be unfair. She taught all subjects in 4th grade, and I don't exactly hate reading. It is largely how math is taught and the good point lynora made earlier(that I firmly agree with) with respect to the number of people in the room and the myriad ways individual minds function.
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My parents were my teachers, I didn't make it easier for them.
I regret that.
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Different child.
"I got my grade up to passing!"
"Great! Finish your essay."
"But I'm passing."
"Only if you don't bomb the essay."
"Oh. Okay."
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Can you tell it's the end of the semester? They're in rare form.
Master of all swords! Cut energy! Night sword!
LAYER UPON LAYER, MAKE YOUR MARK NOW! HASTE!
Man I cannot count how many times I've seen this one.
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I got another evil shift today~
"Miss, can we listen to Christmas music while we work?"
"Sure."
"WHY"
"WHAT IS THIS OH GOD"
I made my kid listen to that with me (because misery loves company) and then had to put on Cthulhu carols for like half an hour to make up for it
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.....of all the authors we have to cover, how is Mark Twain the one they manage to misspell? Shakespeare they managed, but Twain is apparently...
Autocorrect in the docs?
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LAYER UPON LAYER, MAKE YOUR MARK NOW! HASTE!Man I cannot count how many times I've seen this one.
haste+quickness=win game for casters, no?
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I mean, come on. There are much more subtle and effective ways to pad length if you want to change font size. You just do it to all the periods/spaces....
Did not realize that.
Padding electronic doc text file with font sizrs is meaningless since invention of word count anyway...
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Padding electronic doc text file with font sizrs is meaningless since invention of word count anyway...I mean, come on. There are much more subtle and effective ways to pad length if you want to change font size. You just do it to all the periods/spaces....
Did not realize that.
Depends on what the class asks for. "1000-1500 words," no. "2-3 pages," yes.
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Master of all swords! Cut energy! Night sword!
it wasnt in all caps, it does not count.
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Over a quarter of the essays have now been turned in early.
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For some reason, I want to create a strange goonies ii/legacy of the sword game in which someone has absconded with fawtl wives and the player has to select a fawtl husband to use to get said wife back. Each fawtl husband will have strengths and weaknesses and have weapons/spells/abilities unique to them. There will also be a heavy first person dungeon exploration component a la goonies ii.
And no, it's not me this time. In fact, the first level in the game is fawtl husbands attacking the abscondi-cave and learning the basics of the game only to discover that I am, in fact, not the guilty party. I will sell you supplies to cover the cost of repairing the damage to the abscondi-cave, however, which husbands can use to heal up, switch out characters, and other river city ransom esque things.
Each retrieved wife is unlocked as a character and can be used in the game. There are some areas of the map only wives can access, and some items only they can find/use.
Naturally, bearing the game on easy unlocks hard mode, where the husbands are kidnapped, and the wives have to get them back. New weapons, abscondi-cave facilities(which can actually be used by the wives, as the husbands have repaired it depending on how many items they have purchased), and different enemies appear.
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it wasnt in all caps, it does not count.Master of all swords! Cut energy! Night sword!
ABSOLUTELY!!
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ABSOLUTELY!!it wasnt in all caps, it does not count.Master of all swords! Cut energy! Night sword!
OF COURSE!!!
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Why I Love Impus Major #238: (or whatever)
His Spanish teacher is making them do one of those horrific white elephant gift exchanges for the last day of class before break tomorrow. The rules are simple: The gift has to be store-bought, cost between $1 and $15, and be wrapped.
So Impus Major is buying a watermelon, and having me pack it in a nice box so it won't roll around (or move at all), and NobodysWife wrap it (she takes wrapping to a new level of art form -- if you have to use more than one piece of tape, it's ruined. And if you have to use a piece of tape at all, you could have done better).
Then tomorrow he's going to sit back and enjoy watching his classmates squabble over the heavy, beautifully-wrapped "gift".
And yep, it matches all of her criteria.
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Why I Love Impus Major #238: (or whatever)
His Spanish teacher is making them do one of those horrific white elephant gift exchanges for the last day of class before break tomorrow. The rules are simple: The gift has to be store-bought, cost between $1 and $15, and be wrapped.
So Impus Major is buying a watermelon, and having me pack it in a nice box so it won't roll around (or move at all), and NobodysWife wrap it (she takes wrapping to a new level of art form -- if you have to use more than one piece of tape, it's ruined. And if you have to use a piece of tape at all, you could have done better).
Then tomorrow he's going to sit back and enjoy watching his classmates squabble over the heavy, beautifully-wrapped "gift".
And yep, it matches all of her criteria.
Please tell me he steeples his fingers while this goes on, muttering "dance, puppets, dance!"
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We've been doing similar all week, except we drew names out of a hat and get each other little $1 gifts once a day then a slightly larger $5ish gift tomorrow. It's less squabbling involved overall, since there's no fighting over who gets what.
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Depends on what the class asks for. "1000-1500 words," no. "2-3 pages," yes.Padding electronic doc text file with font sizrs is meaningless since invention of word count anyway...I mean, come on. There are much more subtle and effective ways to pad length if you want to change font size. You just do it to all the periods/spaces....
Did not realize that.
Use standardized pages - or strip formatting to revert it to preset default.
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Why I Love Impus Major #238: (or whatever)
His Spanish teacher is making them do one of those horrific white elephant gift exchanges for the last day of class before break tomorrow. The rules are simple: The gift has to be store-bought, cost between $1 and $15, and be wrapped.
So Impus Major is buying a watermelon, and having me pack it in a nice box so it won't roll around (or move at all), and NobodysWife wrap it (she takes wrapping to a new level of art form -- if you have to use more than one piece of tape, it's ruined. And if you have to use a piece of tape at all, you could have done better).
Then tomorrow he's going to sit back and enjoy watching his classmates squabble over the heavy, beautifully-wrapped "gift".
And yep, it matches all of her criteria.
Please tell me he steeples his fingers while this goes on, muttering "dance, puppets, dance!"
I am pretty sure we already determined that Impus Major is gone to be a world top class villain.
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I am pretty sure we already determined that Impus Major is gone to be a world top class villain.Why I Love Impus Major #238: (or whatever)
His Spanish teacher is making them do one of those horrific white elephant gift exchanges for the last day of class before break tomorrow. The rules are simple: The gift has to be store-bought, cost between $1 and $15, and be wrapped.
So Impus Major is buying a watermelon, and having me pack it in a nice box so it won't roll around (or move at all), and NobodysWife wrap it (she takes wrapping to a new level of art form -- if you have to use more than one piece of tape, it's ruined. And if you have to use a piece of tape at all, you could have done better).
Then tomorrow he's going to sit back and enjoy watching his classmates squabble over the heavy, beautifully-wrapped "gift".
And yep, it matches all of her criteria.
Please tell me he steeples his fingers while this goes on, muttering "dance, puppets, dance!"
There is hope for the younger generation after all.
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OF COURSE!!!ABSOLUTELY!!it wasnt in all caps, it does not count.Master of all swords! Cut energy! Night sword!
STEVE HOLT!!!!
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Stories about the Impuses (Impi?) make me smile.
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It turns out that Potential Lady Longears (Diamond Edition)'s dream is to be a jazz singer who keeps chickens, which sounds alright apart from the chickens bit.
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It turns out that Potential Lady Longears (Diamond Edition)'s dream is to be a jazz singer who keeps chickens, which sounds alright apart from the chickens bit.
I like keeping chickens. Warm. On my pan.
Or maybe she meant "chicks"?