If you are doing things naked you are already cool to me.
And back to work.
We got the flat. Now since I promised that we'd start looking at marriage only after we got our own flat(which will be built in 2022), I'm now hyperventilating because there's a whole lot of things you need to do before you can get married. We need to get a bank loan for the flat first thing. Then do the Registry of Marriage, gown fittings, wedding planning(including wedding dinner/lunch) and afterwards, house renovations.
While figuring out our finances. So yeah I think the only way I'm going to get calmed down is if I start making a list of things that need doing. I think I'll also be living with my BFs family after the ROM is done.
But it's like a completely new chapter of my life so I'm feeling overwhelmed. Don't know where to start...
To me, milk is milk. I'm not that particular. Will eat and drink almost everything.
I'm up early because I'm trying to catch gym class at 7.15 in the morning. I expect I'll get fat in US because their servings are humongous. My friend went to States and came back visibly rounder after her vacation.
So I'm trying to cut some pounds first.
*Slurps up the rum*
I think the saddest thing about that statement is not that it depends on the restaurant you choose, but it depends on how much you're willing to spend. In the wrong way!!!!
Around here, Claim Jumper serves (I kid you not) 3500-calorie meals for under $20. One of those meals would feed my family for 3-4 days, if it were even remotely edible.
Go up to $20-$25 per plate and you start getting places that actually serve you quality instead of quantity, and most of the meals would only serve two.
It isn't until you break around $30 per plate that you get meals that you can actually finish in a sitting without getting ludicrously overstuffed.
It's yet another reason we love Rivoli. We get a few "bites", an appetizer each, a dinner, a dessert, and a couple of drinks. And at the end of it all, we are sated, but not stuffed. Yeah, I bet it's still on the order of 2000 calories in total, but it's a MUCH tastier 2000 calories, and doesn't make you feel obscenely bloated.
But yeah, in the U.S., if you eat 3 restaurant meals a day, you will gain weight. It's just that simple. They're designed for you to have no more than 1 per day.
So. Much. Sugar.
In. Everything.
(or high fructose corn syrup)I honestly couldnt eat some foods because they were so sweet. Honestly, who puts sugar in salad dressing? So, so gross. And I had to have lemonade mixed with extra water as it was too sweet.
Yeah, that's a whole side tirade. We massively subsidize our corn industry so manufacturers want to use corn in everything, then sugars increase appetite so food manufacturers want sugar in everything they make, then Americans get a general sweet tooth and demand even more sugar in everything they buy, until you end up with the current idiocy where if you *haven't* been inured to sugar, you're hard-pressed to find anything that isn't overwhemlingly sweet to you.
Just try a lot of the cheaper Chinese restaurants. You will be out-and-out appalled. Their entrees taste like desserts.
EDIT: It's why some of us with high disposable incomes still cook our own food most of the time: It's just too hard to find prepackaged stuff that isn't overwhelmingly sweet. And the stuff that *isn't* oversweetened costs 2-3x as much as the stuff that is.
What a mucky day.
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Heh...you should try my chocolate cake sometime. I got an order specifically because it wasn't sweet. These days I cut the sugar of any recipe I find, by half.
I'm weird when it comes to sugar as I said, tea without, soya bean drink without, grass jelly without, but I like sweet stuff like chocolate(though my tastes run to dark chocolate with 70% cocoa content), cakes, cookies and ice creams.
I'm wondering if I should start working with sugar substitutes next. I will NOT touch aspartame, since its the stuff that sends me to the restroom.
Yeah, that's a whole side tirade. We massively subsidize our corn industry so manufacturers want to use corn in everything, then...To me, milk is milk. I'm not that particular. Will eat and drink almost everything.
I'm up early because I'm trying to catch gym class at 7.15 in the morning. I expect I'll get fat in US because their servings are humongous. My friend went to States and came back visibly rounder after her vacation.
So I'm trying to cut some pounds first.
*Slurps up the rum*
I think the saddest thing about that statement is not that it depends on the restaurant you choose, but it depends on how much you're willing to spend. In the wrong way!!!!
Around here, Claim Jumper serves (I kid you not) 3500-calorie meals for under $20. One of those meals would feed my family for 3-4 days, if it were even remotely edible.
Go up to $20-$25 per plate and you start getting places that actually serve you quality instead of quantity, and most of the meals would only serve two.
It isn't until you break around $30 per plate that you get meals that you can actually finish in a sitting without getting ludicrously overstuffed.
It's yet another reason we love Rivoli. We get a few "bites", an appetizer each, a dinner, a dessert, and a couple of drinks. And at the end of it all, we are sated, but not stuffed. Yeah, I bet it's still on the order of 2000 calories in total, but it's a MUCH tastier 2000 calories, and doesn't make you feel obscenely bloated.
But yeah, in the U.S., if you eat 3 restaurant meals a day, you will gain weight. It's just that simple. They're designed for you to have no more than 1 per day.
So. Much. Sugar.
In. Everything.
(or high fructose corn syrup)I honestly couldnt eat some foods because they were so sweet. Honestly, who puts sugar in salad dressing? So, so gross. And I had to have lemonade mixed with extra water as it was too sweet.
yup.
...Yeah, that's a whole side tirade. We massively subsidize our corn industry so manufacturers want to useTo me, milk is milk. I'm not that particular. Will eat and drink almost everything.
I'm up early because I'm trying to catch gym class at 7.15 in the morning. I expect I'll get fat in US because their servings are humongous. My friend went to States and came back visibly rounder after her vacation.
So I'm trying to cut some pounds first.
*Slurps up the rum*
I think the saddest thing about that statement is not that it depends on the restaurant you choose, but it depends on how much you're willing to spend. In the wrong way!!!!
Around here, Claim Jumper serves (I kid you not) 3500-calorie meals for under $20. One of those meals would feed my family for 3-4 days, if it were even remotely edible.
Go up to $20-$25 per plate and you start getting places that actually serve you quality instead of quantity, and most of the meals would only serve two.
It isn't until you break around $30 per plate that you get meals that you can actually finish in a sitting without getting ludicrously overstuffed.
It's yet another reason we love Rivoli. We get a few "bites", an appetizer each, a dinner, a dessert, and a couple of drinks. And at the end of it all, we are sated, but not stuffed. Yeah, I bet it's still on the order of 2000 calories in total, but it's a MUCH tastier 2000 calories, and doesn't make you feel obscenely bloated.
But yeah, in the U.S., if you eat 3 restaurant meals a day, you will gain weight. It's just that simple. They're designed for you to have no more than 1 per day.
So. Much. Sugar.
In. Everything.
(or high fructose corn syrup)I honestly couldnt eat some foods because they were so sweet. Honestly, who puts sugar in salad dressing? So, so gross. And I had to have lemonade mixed with extra water as it was too sweet.
It's amaizing, really. Any of us can give you an earful if you don't mind fielding our complaints. Corn you believe it?
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We got the flat. Now since I promised that we'd start looking at marriage only after we got our own flat(which will be built in 2022), I'm now hyperventilating because there's a whole lot of things you need to do before you can get married. We need to get a bank loan for the flat first thing. Then do the Registry of Marriage, gown fittings, wedding planning(including wedding dinner/lunch) and afterwards, house renovations.
While figuring out our finances. So yeah I think the only way I'm going to get calmed down is if I start making a list of things that need doing. I think I'll also be living with my BFs family after the ROM is done.
But it's like a completely new chapter of my life so I'm feeling overwhelmed. Don't know where to start...
1) Congrats!
2) You already know this stuff, but chunk it into small goals. Achieve each goal independently, and don't freak yourself out by looking at the whole puzzle at once.3) Yes, get yourself a list. Regardless of my view in point 2, you still have to at least keep an eye on the overall picture.
I use this approach in pretty much everything. Take the giant mess and chunk it into smaller problems. Solve each problem, piece it back together, fix anything that doesn't quite fit together.
Also works with running. Feel like you can't go on? Make it to that tree. Make it to the next sign post after that. Now run to that parked car. Eventually you make your overall goal. For me, that's about 47 feet.
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Also works with running. Feel like you can't go on? Make it to that tree. Make it to the next sign post after that. Now run to that parked car. Eventually you make your overall goal. For me, that's about 47 feet.
When I was learning to walk again after being in the hospital for a month, that's how I asked the physical therapists to treat me. Point me at an object, and I focused on that -- make it to the sink. Make it to the door. Make it to the basketball hoop. Until eventually I walked 160 feet on a walker.
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I swear. I don't know who teaches people, "Good presentations have as few words as possible, so you should remove all unnecessary words from your sentences."
No. That is NOT how it works. Randomly dropping words, especially articles or conditional clauses, is never a good idea.
Today's peeve?
Grammatically Correct Version: Select the columns on which to sort.
PPT Author's Version: Select the columns to sort.
So, wait a minute? Now I'm only sorting on some of the columns? How does that work, exactly, Mr. Author?
(I know who it is, and I complain to my manager about him a lot. He constantly drops any word he thinks he can get away with, so his presentations sound like cave-speak. "Your bullets should be complete, grammatically-correct clauses" does not seem like that hard of a concept. But for him, words apparently cost money.)
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Also works with running. Feel like you can't go on? Make it to that tree. Make it to the next sign post after that. Now run to that parked car. Eventually you make your overall goal. For me, that's about 47 feet.When I was learning to walk again after being in the hospital for a month, that's how I asked the physical therapists to treat me. Point me at an object, and I focused on that -- make it to the sink. Make it to the door. Make it to the basketball hoop. Until eventually I walked 160 feet on a walker.
On my first backpack trip (7 years old, 25 pounds) my friend's mother brought a bag of lemon drops. She would walk ahead of me maybe 100-200 feet, then stop, say, "Wow! That was a long way! I think I need a lemon drop!" and lure me up the hill.
Yes, I probably ate 15-20 lemon drops, which is a lot. On the other hand, she got me to climb a 3-mile hill that way.
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I swear. I don't know who teaches people, "Good presentations have as few words as possible, so you should remove all unnecessary words from your sentences."
No. That is NOT how it works. Randomly dropping words, especially articles or conditional clauses, is never a good idea.
Today's peeve?
Grammatically Correct Version: Select the columns on which to sort.
PPT Author's Version: Select the columns to sort.So, wait a minute? Now I'm only sorting on some of the columns? How does that work, exactly, Mr. Author?
(I know who it is, and I complain to my manager about him a lot. He constantly drops any word he thinks he can get away with, so his presentations sound like cave-speak. "Your bullets should be complete, grammatically-correct clauses" does not seem like that hard of a concept. But for him, words apparently cost money.)
That's the thing. "Remove all unnecessary information" is generally sound advice - don't confuse the reader with distractions. The problem you've got is that your writer doesn't understand the word necessary, and their rewording takes out key information.
...I might have just done restrictive vs. nonrestrictive clauses with my kids. :D
Owie. Finished...
A very short description is awaiting translation but it can wait a bit.
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"Good lord, this weather. I was hoping it'd dry up soon."
"It's awful!"
"Driving in it this morning was scary. Couldn't see anything. A real Rain of Terror."
"...I'm gonna drop out."
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Teaching to use less words? HA!
Florida colleges have something called the "Gordon Rule" - there's a minimum amount of words you need to write before you can graduate. It was explained to me that some state senator or whatever lost his shit cause his daughter graduated college and didn't know how to write a decent essay.
So now, the rest of us all had these minimum words to fulfill before we could graduate - even if you major in mathematics, art, or, I dunno, agricultural studies?
Did that teach us how to write? Only if by "teach you how to write" you mean "teach you to use the maximum number of words to possibly say anything, in any possible situation, as I am doing right now in this example before you which you are reading, that could simply have been summarized as 'brevity lacks' or some other grossly simplified version of what could have been said; therefore, we learn to be long-winded blowhards who, in the course of writing a whole bunch of stuff, are summarily saying abso-goddamn-lutely nothing in any way, shape, or form".
Teaching to use less words? HA!
Florida colleges have something called the "Gordon Rule" - there's a minimum amount of words you need to write before you can graduate. It was explained to me that some state senator or whatever lost his s+~% cause his daughter graduated college and didn't know how to write a decent essay.
So now, the rest of us all had these minimum words to fulfill before we could graduate - even if you major in mathematics, art, or, I dunno, agricultural studies?
Did that teach us how to write? Only if by "teach you how to write" you mean "teach you to use the maximum number of words to possibly say anything, in any possible situation, as I am doing right now in this example before you which you are reading, that could simply have been summarized as 'brevity lacks' or some other grossly simplified version of what could have been said; therefore, we learn to be long-winded blowhards who, in the course of writing a whole bunch of stuff, are summarily saying abso-g#&~%@n-lutely nothing in any way, shape, or form".
something sounds off there.
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I'm not sure if my kids love or hate that I prize conciseness. I hate purple prose and only dip into it to be facetious. Just get to the point, support your claim, and call it a day. I'd rather read a solid paper that comes in a bit under three pages than a rambly, padded affair that stretches it out to five. I tell them this every time. Don't write more; write better. If you have enough solid evidence that you really need longer, great. If you don't need to write that much to say your piece, don't.
However, the kids have gotten it into their heads that "longer is smarter," and I get rambles and redundancies left and right. I have a room full of Kronks. (The poison. The poison for Kuzco. The poison chosen specifically to kill Kuzco. Kuzco's poison.)
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Yeah. I see it all the time, and similar to VE it's what the schools teach kids to do.
"Write a 500-word essay on your feelings about Columbus Day."
.
"Sorry. I said, '500 words' and yours came in at 480. Your essay gets a 0."
I have seen it more times than I can count. And once you're in the 'real world' of trying to communicate with your peers, you want to strangle all those teachers. (No offense, Scint.)
EDIT: And just for Freehold, I'll say the same thing about math teachers who give 0s if you don't use the technique they were thinking of. If you don't explicitly say, "Do it xxx way" and the student does it in a logically-consistent manner that will always get them the right answer, then sorry, they get full credit.
EDIT 2: I got in a HUGE fight with one of my co-graduate students because we were grading a calculus final and the answer key used integration by substitution. About 90% of the students who ended up with the correct answer used this method. But the other 10% used integration by parts and he was trying to mark them as wrong. I asked him, "What, exactly, is 'wrong' with their technique?"
He said, "It doesn't match the key, so it's wrong."
I reported him. The professor sided with me. He never forgave me. But FFS, if you can't handle that different students will do things different ways, don't be a teacher!
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They also fall into the trap of "if I use big words, I sound smarter."
"Ms. Scint, that assignment was abdominal."
"...did you mean abominable?"
"...No."
"...that assignment was related to the stomach?"
".........yes."
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Yeah. I see it all the time, and similar to VE it's what the schools teach kids to do.
"Write a 500-word essay on your feelings about Columbus Day."
."Sorry. I said, '500 words' and yours came in at 480. Your essay gets a 0."
I have seen it more times than I can count. And once you're in the 'real world' of trying to communicate with your peers, you want to strangle all those teachers. (No offense, Scint.)
Why do you think I teach the way I do? I'm a concise writer and don't want to penalize people for being efficient with their information. :P
I hated a history prof I had who I swear graded on length despite claiming not to do so. I went in and questioned an essay grade, and I had brought up every point he was looking for...in half a page under my classmate's length. In a handwritten bluebook and my tiny handwriting, no less...
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Yeah. I see it all the time, and similar to VE it's what the schools teach kids to do.
"Write a 500-word essay on your feelings about Columbus Day."
."Sorry. I said, '500 words' and yours came in at 480. Your essay gets a 0."
I have seen it more times than I can count. And once you're in the 'real world' of trying to communicate with your peers, you want to strangle all those teachers. (No offense, Scint.)
EDIT: And just for Freehold, I'll say the same thing about math teachers who give 0s if you don't use the technique they were thinking of. If you don't explicitly say, "Do it xxx way" and the student does it in a logically-consistent manner that will always get them the right answer, then sorry, they get full credit.
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That said, if I have kids who are really, really fixated on length and are worried about a short paper, I usually tell them to just find another quote from the book. A sentence of build-up, a direct citation, two sentences explaining the context and relevance. Oh look, there's another quarter of a page, and you can breathe now.
Yeah. I see it all the time, and similar to VE it's what the schools teach kids to do.
"Write a 500-word essay on your feelings about Columbus Day."
."Sorry. I said, '500 words' and yours came in at 480. Your essay gets a 0."
I have seen it more times than I can count. And once you're in the 'real world' of trying to communicate with your peers, you want to strangle all those teachers. (No offense, Scint.)
Why do you think I teach the way I do? I'm a concise writer and don't want to penalize people for being efficient with their information. :P
I hated a history prof I had who I swear graded on length despite claiming not to do so. I went in and questioned an essay grade, and I had brought up every point he was looking for...in half a page under my classmate's length. In a handwritten bluebook and my tiny handwriting, no less...
I have met more scint English teachers than non scint english teachers.
The only time my works were examined for word count were when they were punitive.
Yeah. I see it all the time, and similar to VE it's what the schools teach kids to do.
"Write a 500-word essay on your feelings about Columbus Day."
."Sorry. I said, '500 words' and yours came in at 480. Your essay gets a 0."
I have seen it more times than I can count. And once you're in the 'real world' of trying to communicate with your peers, you want to strangle all those teachers. (No offense, Scint.)
EDIT: And just for Freehold, I'll say the same thing about math teachers who give 0s if you don't use the technique they were thinking of. If you don't explicitly say, "Do it xxx way" and the student does it in a logically-consistent manner that will always get them the right answer, then sorry, they get full credit.
EDIT 2: I got in a HUGE fight with one of my co-graduate students because we were grading a calculus final and the answer key used integration by substitution. About 90% of the students who ended up with the correct answer used this method. But the other 10% used integration by parts and he was trying to mark them as wrong. I asked him, "What, exactly, is 'wrong' with their technique?"
He said, "It doesn't match the key, so it's wrong."
I reported him. The professor sided with me. He never forgave me. But FFS, if you can't handle that different students will do things different ways, don't be a teacher!
I can only justify your co-graduate student if the test specifically wanted that method, but I can't see that being the case in college so much as a freshman class in high school (Okay, your test specifically over substitution is tomorrow!).
You could just get rid of minimum page lengths and minimum word counts. Call it, I dunno, "with sufficient supporting evidence" and move the f##& on. Just saying...
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I swear. I don't know who teaches people, "Good presentations have as few words as possible, so you should remove all unnecessary words from your sentences."
No. That is NOT how it works. Randomly dropping words, especially articles or conditional clauses, is never a good idea.
Today's peeve?
Grammatically Correct Version: Select the columns on which to sort.
PPT Author's Version: Select the columns to sort.So, wait a minute? Now I'm only sorting on some of the columns? How does that work, exactly, Mr. Author?
(I know who it is, and I complain to my manager about him a lot. He constantly drops any word he thinks he can get away with, so his presentations sound like cave-speak. "Your bullets should be complete, grammatically-correct clauses" does not seem like that hard of a concept. But for him, words apparently cost money.)
me drop words good
me gets paid dropping words good.
ugh!
Yeah, I am also given some creative freedom by the editors most of the time. That's why the previous translation was the most challenging one - as an interview that needs to be authorized, I had to stay as close and literal as I could.
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You could just get rid of minimum page lengths and minimum word counts. Call it, I dunno, "with sufficient supporting evidence" and move the f!$~ on. Just saying...
You haven't met many kids.
"How long does it have to be?"
"Long enough to get the job done."
"Okay, shoot for 3-5 pages."
Every time. They need a ballpark, or they shut down.
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You could just get rid of minimum page lengths and minimum word counts. Call it, I dunno, "with sufficient supporting evidence" and move the f!$~ on. Just saying...You haven't met many kids.
"How long does it have to be?"
"Long enough to get the job done."
"Okay, shoot for 3-5 pages."
Every time. They need a ballpark, or they shut down.
I would argue that's most people.
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You could just get rid of minimum page lengths and minimum word counts. Call it, I dunno, "with sufficient supporting evidence" and move the f!*& on. Just saying...
You've never taught. I can tell. :-P
Seriously. If you don't set some kind of expectation, you can expect 3 kids to do it "right", and 27 to turn in something along the lines of, "I think xxx because it says so on page 27 of the book," then argue incessantly with you because their 1-sentence answer doesn't meet your irrational definition of what an "essay" is.
There's a middle ground, and it sounds like Scint found it. I'm proud of her.
Unlike Freehold, *ALL* of my English teachers focused on word count and length obsessively, to the point that we'd do stupid stuff like 2.2 spacing instead of double spacing just to hit the page count, because we knew we'd get a 0 if we didn't hit it.
EDIT: Ninja'ed by Scint herself!
I would argue that's most people.You could just get rid of minimum page lengths and minimum word counts. Call it, I dunno, "with sufficient supporting evidence" and move the f!$~ on. Just saying...You haven't met many kids.
"How long does it have to be?"
"Long enough to get the job done."
"Okay, shoot for 3-5 pages."
Every time. They need a ballpark, or they shut down.
Could be! I've not rounded up many adults to test this hypothesis.
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You could just get rid of minimum page lengths and minimum word counts. Call it, I dunno, "with sufficient supporting evidence" and move the f!*& on. Just saying...You've never taught. I can tell. :-P
Seriously. If you don't set some kind of expectation, you can expect 3 kids to do it "right", and 27 to turn in something along the lines of, "I think xxx because it says so on page 27 of the book," then argue incessantly with you because their 1-sentence answer doesn't meet your irrational definition of what an "essay" is.
There's a middle ground, and it sounds like Scint found it. I'm proud of her.
Unlike Freehold, *ALL* of my English teachers focused on word count and length obsessively, to the point that we'd do stupid stuff like 2.2 spacing instead of double spacing just to hit the page count, because we knew we'd get a 0 if we didn't hit it.
EDIT: Ninja'ed by Scint herself!
Dude. Ctrl-F, search for spaces. Up the font to 14-pt on spaces alone. They will never check as long as the spacing looks consistent. That is the only reason I hit my 25-page minimum on the Battle of Balaclava. Also works on periods, minor margin adjustments...
I feel bad for my kids because I know all of these tricks.
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Could be! I've not rounded up many adults to test this hypothesis.I would argue that's most people.You could just get rid of minimum page lengths and minimum word counts. Call it, I dunno, "with sufficient supporting evidence" and move the f!$~ on. Just saying...You haven't met many kids.
"How long does it have to be?"
"Long enough to get the job done."
"Okay, shoot for 3-5 pages."
Every time. They need a ballpark, or they shut down.
why do I have visions of orthos driving you around town in an old open top jeep while you wear a pith hat and pristine white field gear as you shoot adults with a tranq gun before tossing them into the back seat?
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why do I have visions of orthos driving you around town in an old open top jeep while you wear a pith hat and pristine white field gear as you shoot adults with a tranq gun before tossing them into the back seat?Could be! I've not rounded up many adults to test this hypothesis.I would argue that's most people.You could just get rid of minimum page lengths and minimum word counts. Call it, I dunno, "with sufficient supporting evidence" and move the f!$~ on. Just saying...You haven't met many kids.
"How long does it have to be?"
"Long enough to get the job done."
"Okay, shoot for 3-5 pages."
Every time. They need a ballpark, or they shut down.
No idea. I can't aim for beans.
That strange feeling when you can actually check who liked your post...
Anyone else felt that without seeing who actually marked your posts likes were not the same?
That strange feeling when you can actually check who liked your post...
Anyone else felt that without seeing who actually marked your posts likes were not the same?
If you clicked right after the colon on favorited by, you could tab and check on the link preview. But yes, this is much more convenient.
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Looks like NobodysHome is buying himself a few bottles of vodka that he'll never drink. Yeah, it's a publicity stunt. But it's a brilliant one.
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Eh, buy one for Fritzy. It'll throw off his aim.
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Oh, goody. I get to watch a little friend spat play out via homework.
"Don't forget to use your vocab words in a sentence after you write the definition!"
"Ms. Scint, she keeps putting me in her sentences!"
"...then do it back?"
...I think there's maybe one or two words that would actually be considered insulting without actual effort being put in.
Speaking of changes of topic, it hit 49°F last night (44°F at the water), and still hasn't broken 60°F.
Most years we make it until the first week of November before having to turn on the heat, but a few more nights like this and I may need to pull the trigger early. Trying to work in a room that's under 60°F is distracting. (I know, I know, Freehold and CY, but keep in mind that I'm just sitting at a keyboard, not moving around. That makes 60° feel a lot colder than it should. When I'm active 48°F is still T-shirt weather, but sitting still... nope!)
It was 33 degrees when I took the dog for his walk at 6 this morning.
If we're lucky we'll get up to 42!
Speaking of changes of topic, it hit 49°F last night (44°F at the water), and still hasn't broken 60°F.
Most years we make it until the first week of November before having to turn on the heat, but a few more nights like this and I may need to pull the trigger early. Trying to work in a room that's under 60°F is distracting. (I know, I know, Freehold and CY, but keep in mind that I'm just sitting at a keyboard, not moving around. That makes 60° feel a lot colder than it should. When I'm active 48°F is still T-shirt weather, but sitting still... nope!)
Oh, I don't work in a room, unless I'm there to demolish it.
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Peoria IL...
Monday: 87 with 95% humidity. Plus rain.
Tuesday: Basically the same. Plus rain.
Wednesday: 73...and raining
Thursday: 55 and wind, basically was 45.
Friday: 37 with rain and snow mixed.
I hate Midwestern weather.
Peoria IL...
Monday: 87 with 95% humidity. Plus rain.
Tuesday: Basically the same. Plus rain.
Wednesday: 73...and raining
Thursday: 55 and wind, basically was 45.
Friday: 37 with rain and snow mixed.I hate Midwestern weather.
I did to, until we moved to Seattle, after four years of "this week it'll do this next week that" you start to miss it.
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"What are we doing today, Ms. Scint?"
"Vocab for Huck Finn. So you'll want to change the resolution on your chromebooks."
"Why?"
"Don't you want high-definition?"
"...I hate everything."
People only need guidelines because we as a society demand it so. They can't do it because every other teacher teaches that way.
And yeah I've taught. It's my disgust with the industry that made me leave, among other things.