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Ferretless

Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:23:14 GMT

So... I came home from work on Monday to find that Kári had died rather suddenly. He was fine - up and playing and standing on my feet - while I got dressed that morning and was cold and stiff when I got home.

This is the first time I haven't had to decide for a ferret if their time has come and more than anything I was just shocked. I had Dr. Byron do a necropsy and it came back that the little bugger had a heart attack.

Seriously.

After 10 years and 4 other ferrets, I thought I had 'what kills ferrets' pretty well surrounded, so this caught me off guard. Dr. Byron basically said that there was no way to know it was coming. I guess it's like that commercial: Heart attacks don't come with a warning.

So the house is stupidly quiet now that I'm the only on in it. I still keep thinking I hear movement from the living room.

I'm dithering on getting more, but right now isn't the time. Etsy is in full 'end of year' swing, I'm traveling in December... I guess I'll make a final decision in January.

I need to scrub the cage and replace certain things first, anyway.

But yeah... that was a real sucky way to start last week. I can only hope that this week goes better. (But it's a two day work week because of Thanksgiving, so I'm pretty sure the kids will be absolutely batshit... so, you know, not holding my breath on 'better'. We already had a girl beat the crap out of a boy on Friday.)

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Dear Danny Williams...

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:54:33 GMT

If the IRA died out with the 'last Duran Duran' album, you have a big problem. See, the last album was in 2011. And a new one is scheduled for next year (ish).

And Dear Jerry What's-Your-Face-from-Lost,

Actually Duran Duran is making a come back too. Actually, they've already come back. See above, new album (#14) due out soon. (ish).

Hawaii 5-0 really needs to fact check their 80's name dropping.

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From the "What the fuck is THAT supposed to mean?" files.

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 03:23:34 GMT

Tomorrow is our first parent/teacher conference day and report card pick up for this year.

Ten minutes ago we got an email through our school system that says, "[The electronic gradebook program guru for the network] has come up with an alternative to grade-based report cards for tomorrow. They're in your mailboxes."

What the HELL does that mean? And really? I'm supposed to not only find out but explain to 25 parents that they aren't actually getting the grades ~~every teacher in the network spent their fall break producing~~ they took the day off of work to come get?

And WHAT THE FUCK is "an alternative to grade-based report cards"???? SERIOUSLY I CAN'T EVEN!!!!!

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Anyone else watching Scorpion?

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:21:21 GMT

Okay, I am NOT a Walter O'Brien, but... was there a massive flaw in last night's episode or did I miss something?

( NCIS did this years ago, so really, it's not brain surgery (Spoilers for last night) )

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Surfacing long enough to say...

Tue, 23 Sep 2014 03:18:39 GMT

For the first time in 4 years I think I have two new shows I'll watch more than three episodes of.

* Forever. How the HELL did I miss that Ioan Gruffadd was the star of this? And also, I had no intention of slashing Henry with anyone, let alone Abe... but then he went and kissed him on the head and it was adorable and... *sigh*

* Scorpion. It's Big Bang Theory for not-laughs. But I have to admit I'm a huge sucker for misfits-as-heroes and the lovely little myth that everyone can find a group of people as odd as they are to be best friends with.

So um yeah... I'm teaching and kids are bringing me bugs to try and get them to mate and my guppies are having puppies (I think we're up to 20, and those are just the ones we could get out before the parents ate them) and I lost a $30 live crab somewhere in my classroom and other stuff is happening.

But there are new teevees now so I'm going to delurk to talk about that. :)

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Running a test on their test...

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:19:37 GMT

Okay, Etsy is annoying the hell out of me with their "short test" that apparently started in February.

Can you guys just go to my shop and answer this quick question? (Skip the line that says, "Picks from the Shop Owner" - amazingly, I still have control over that.)

View Poll: Etsy Format Test

Thanks!

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I know Sherlock is popular in Russia, but REALLY???

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:43:10 GMT

Apparently the Russians are trying to float the theory that MA17 was full of dead bodies so that the plane could be shot down and a war could start.

REALLY? Taking a plot from "Scandal in Belgravia"? Tacky at best.

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Eek, running out of time...

Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:07:40 GMT

I'm running out of time to get funds matched on my DonorsChoose project. Please use the code INSPIRE when you donate to get us twice as close to our goal! Thank you so much!

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Here I come, hat in hand again...

Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:13:42 GMT

Okay, without making this a ridiculously long post...

• This year Illinois switches from the old ISAT state test to the new PARCC common core test.
• ISAT was paper/pencil. PARCC is on computers. Including the long answers in math and reading.
• Kids can't type. Unless they're using their thumbs on their phone. They can't 10 finger key.
• The PARCC is HARD. They really raise the bar on what's expected of kids.
• Thinking and explaining is way harder in front of a keyboard than it is with a pencil until you've had tons of practice.
• Kids can't type.

Which leads me to... I need more iPads in my classroom to help them get ready for this fershlugginah test.

Right now DonorsChoose is matching funds for the first week a project is listed. So if I can get a little less than $500 I'll get two new iPads and covers/cases.

So if I can convince 50 people to part with $10, I'll be all set! So here's me... asking you to help out (again.) :)

Help Waldo get iPads for her classroom.

~~Sam, if there's anyway this could hit Radio Free Monday, you know, whenever, that would be amazing! Thanks. :)~~ Nevermind, just found the form thingy. :)

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For once...

Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:21:22 GMT

I may actually have to watch the Emmys. It could be a *really* good night for Martin Freeman. :) (And Jim Parsons, and BC, whose name takes too long to type this early in the morning.)

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So I have this fishtank...

Wed, 09 Jul 2014 02:27:15 GMT

Last year when we were moving into the new building, someone donated two fishtanks to the network and my AP stood up and shouted to get one because she knew I'd love having it. And I totally do.

By the time I got it last year, I was ready for the goldfish unit (we do a rather long unit exploring living things - goldfish, isopods, beetles, snails and a whackload of plants) so I just kept the goldfish in it.

But now I get to actually set up a good aquarium set up for this year. I've decided to do a 50/50 tank. Basically the tank is filled about half way or a little more with water and has a few fish and then also has a few air breathers in it.

I'm debating small frog or toad, salamander/s and/or crab. I totally fell in love with the personality (yes, seriously, the damn thing had a personality) of this $30 crab at the cool aquarium store down in Old Town today. But I had salamanders in college and I like them a lot too.

Anyone have experience with this kind of tank? Suggestions? Remember, I'll be there to help, but most of the care will be falling to 10 year olds. :)

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I am not dead yet.

Sun, 06 Jul 2014 02:59:49 GMT

Unfortunately, Logi is, but more on that later.

I know I haven't posted so much as a 'boo' since January, but I'm still around. More or less.

So, what's new the last six months?

Ferrets

• Well, like I said, Logi died. He was diagnosed in May with 'the other ferret cancer'. So he had both insulinoma and adrenal. One or both of them got into his brain in early June. He'd been doing pretty well after the first Lupron shot for the other cancer for about three weeks and then there was a week of things just not being so great. Then on June 4th he wasn't right at all. I fed and medicated him and kept an eye on him, but at about 6:30 I sent my AP an email saying I'd need the morning to take him to the vet. I'd probably need the day if he didn't come home with me.

Then at about 8:00 he started screaming again. And unlike the attacks he was having in January, these were coming on every hour or 45 minutes. By 10:00 I decided we couldn't wait for morning and I took him to the emergency vet in Skokie. The vet took one look at him, noticed that he had serious cataracts, that he was stronger on one side of his body than the other and that one eye wouldn't stay open and announced that the cancer was in his brain. Then Logi started screaming and the vet realized that he wasn't actually in pain. He was psychotic. He was actually having psychotic episodes because of the tumors in his head.

So needless to say, he didn't come home with me.

It was 2:30 a.m. when I left the emergency vet and after 4:00 a.m. before I could get to sleep. Good thing I'd sent the AP a second email at about midnight saying I wouldn't be in the next day. Between lack of sleep and near hysteria, I couldn't have dealt with my psychotic classes that next day. For some reason, even though he's the fourth ferret I've lost, this one has hit me really, really hard.

Kári is ... functioning. He's depressed about Logi. And then I went away for a week. I got back last Saturday, but couldn't get him from the vet until Monday morning. It seems like just this morning he finally forgave me for all that.

He got a new Deslorin implant while I was gone. It seems to be working well for him - he's burned through one already - which is good. He survived the whole year with no Lupron shots and no significant hair loss, so the cancer is being held at bay.

Work.

Work is... well work. We finally did get into the new building. This brought on a lot of changes. Most of them good. We have some new curriculum initiatives this past year and next as well as rolling out the new Common Core insanity and the PARCC test next year. This necessitated a shift in teaching assignments. The principal wanted to keep my team intact, but there were timing issues with everything Allison needed to get done in each period. So we've shifted things and next year I'll have reading and science instead of science and social studies. I'm good with that. I like teaching reading. And if my scores from two years ago are anything to go by, I don't suck at it. And I *don't* have to teach writing. Which is just how I like it.

I was one of four teachers who has to move rooms for next year. They tell me 204 is bigger than 201, but I'm losing my back closet which sucks. At least I'll be next to the teacher on my team I get along with really well, instead of the teacher I'm far too much like - so we butt heads more often than I'd like - like I was this year. That caused some friction.

What's weird is that I'm cycling back around to the first group of kids I got to know well at all when I started at this school.

Do you remember WAY back in 2012 when I was talking about "Primary Student" - the one I was the one-on-one for? The one with Autistic child "Alpha" and BM, the narcoleptic? Yeah... they're my 5th graders next year. And all those interesting characters are still there.

The second-to-last day of school this year (So, June 19th) we were pulled in for an emergency meeting. Turns out the Middle School that's two floors above us is a FREAKING DISASTER. Everyone I've talked to - my former 6th graders from '12-'13, staff who made the transition, like the counselor, and my students with siblings up there - says they are one big management clusterfuck. So the principal left. We can't tell if one is related to the other, if he left on his own accord or was asked to go or WHAT... Anyway, the CEO decided that the best person to go up an fix a broken program is... my principal.

Half the staff - including me - cried through the rest of that meeting.

Our AP will be the new P, which is good, but to date, she still hasn't announced who the new AP will be. And just to keep my options open, I asked our old P (We'll call him Principal R) if he needed anyone upstairs. They have a whole 8th grade to staff and half the current 6th and 7th grade staff is leaving. From what I hear, half because they think old principal Z is staying, half because they heard he's going. Anyway... he said he'd see what needed doing, but if he has to fire people - and he may - it would look really bad for him to bring me up because it'll look like he's clearing house for his old staff. And the more I hear, the more even my HELLACIOUS 5th grade this year is nothing compared to the mess on 4 and 5. I mean, after all, part of last year's 6th grade does contain the class my coworkers had when I had 6th grade. You know... the class that tried to poison the reading teacher? Yeah, that group.

So there is MUCH change for me when I go back... essentially next week. Seriously, this is my summer break:

School out: June 20
On a boat: June 21
Off a boat: June 28
Clean out book room at school: July 11
Fun Fair Kick off thing at school: July 19
Start setting up classroom: July 21 - 25
Inservice week:July 28
Kids are back: August 4

So, you know, about 2.5 weeks actual at-home-being-on-break this summer. 2.5 weeks. I remember a day when we got more than 2.5 MONTHS for vacation. Oy.

Anyway, much change - new room, new subjects, new standards, new principal...

Oh, here's an interesting thing: Literally a year and a half ago, I posted about a friend of mine from a CPS school, who'd started working as a teacher at another building in my network was under arrest for sexual assault. It made the news yesterday that he was found not guilty. I'm really, really curious now to see if my network takes him back.

In other news...

• I've finally found a dentist who a.) uses nitrous and b.) isn't terrifying. So I'm getting over $10,000 worth of work done. Between being on a ton of meds as a kid that ended up being teeth-toxic and having a WELL developed fear of the dentist after the sadist I had as a kid, it's about time. Last week's appointment was going to be two front root canals and a back root canal. It ended up being the back tooth getting prepped for a crown, but not actually needing the root canal, and the one tooth that needed pulling came out. It had to get pulled because after the broken tooth of two years ago that tooth had nothing to push back against so it was basically just working it's way down via gravity and was going to have to go anyway. The good news is, they're my very back teeth, so not having implants or partials or whatever isn't a big deal because no one can see those teeth. Next week it'll be the front teeth that apparently need root canals. Urgh. Do not want.

• I went on a cruise. Mom and I went to Mexico, Belize and Honduras. Belize is beautiful. Honduras, outside of the island tourist area, is terrifying. We saw whales (of indeterminate type), dolphins, manatees, monkeys and several different kinds of bats all in the wild. We climbed up ancient Mayan temples and had lunch made by some really amazing local women in Mexico who still live and cook in a very traditional Mayan way.

And there were monkeys. Mom actually found a rescue/sanctuary in Roatan, Honduras that trains sets of capuchin monkeys to interact with visitors. This is not like swimming with the dolphins where everything is controlled and practiced. This is just "Hey look! MONKEY ON YOU!" And the guide mom and I had was amazing and let me spend WAY more time in with them than most people do, because I was having so much fun. Look! Me and monkeys!

Honduras Monkeys 1 from smallwaldo on Vimeo.

Monkeys on me 2 from smallwaldo on Vimeo.

He also let me handle the lemur babies that were in the process of being trained for public visits, since apparently I'm one of the few people they get in there who thinks it's adorable when the monkey climbs up on me and takes my hair tie out, takes it to the food dish and wraps banana bits in it. I guess most people freak out when there's a monkey on their head. :) It looks like mom may have the pictures of me with the lemurs.

Etsy

Etsy is alive and humming. I'm working on 200 chill pill bombs for someone. I have 50 crayons to do for someone else. And, of course, all the little orders. Right now I'm at about half of what I made last year. And about 2/3 of my business happens between October 15 and December 15. So I'm pleased. Busy as hell, but pleased. I had a weirdly random $300 day today. And all bath bombs.

A few of my newer, cooler things:

Bath and Body Surprise Boxes
Serenity (yes THAT Serenity) soaps
Gem Stone Soap #1
Gem Stone Soap #2
Brain Bombs

Fandom

Fannishly... uh... nothing. I'm really quite unfannish right now. I have work and I have Etsy and both are keeping me so busy I'm lucky to keep up on shows I watch while grading paper/making plans/answering Etsy comments/making Etsy listings. I'm still watching NCIS (mothership) and NCIS:LA, though the shiny is wearing off on LA lately. I will give NCIS: NOLA a try. (But I swear, if they come up with another one with even more initials, I'm going to wonder if there's some bizarre competition going on over there. I can make a show with the longest name EVER!!!) Anyway, the back door pilot didn't outright suck, but a lot of the NOLA accents sounded forced. Even Scott Bakula's. But I'm starting to think I'll watch any drama SB does. Because, you know... SB. Also, mom got me rewatching Enterprise while we were on our cruise. So, you know...

I watch H50 on DVR if I forget that it's on after Whose Line. I still like it, but I wish it were back on Monday nights. I've gotten casually interested in Big Bang Theory too. It is pretty geekishly funny. It's the number one comedy on t.v. And I swear that you have to be at least as big a geek as I am to get most of the jokes... which makes me wonder... How many of us geeks are out there???

And of course, I did a little girly squee when I saw on Facebook that there would be 3 new Sherlocks and a special coming up sometime in the next... decade? I know it's a while off, but at least there will be more. I REALLY REALLY want to see them deal with the canon of Mary dying.

I still watch White Collar when it's on, and Covert Affiars (though I'm behind on that already). I still dig Graceland, even though I'm not sure I like this whole "Mikey bumbling around with all the power thing." Or, you know, the "Mikey and Paige" thing. Just *no*. But it's still a good show. I might try that new Satisfaction show when it comes out.

But I've barely been reading fic, let along writing anything. Or vidding. I'm in a weird place with that where I *wish* I missed doing those things more than I do.

So um... yeah... I guess that's the state of me right now. How are all of you?

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Today should have been good. It wasn't.

Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:58:42 GMT

Yay: Cold weather closing for Chicago schools.
Boo: Woke up to a parent BITCHING me out in email because I didn't send her information I DON'T HAVE at home. Apparently I'm refusing to help their child because I don't memorize all three spelling lists (of 17 to 27 words) each week. So apparently it's all my fault her kid didn't bring home her notebook even though this parent knows I told them to grab it.

Yay: Cold weather closing for tomorrow too.
Boo: It's looking more and more like I'll spend it taking Logi to the vet for the last time. I know I've said that before and he's pulled through, but tonight was another of those screaming episodes and it was bad and it was long. Then he sort of passed out. And at first I thought that it was just a question of his heart realizing it needed to stop beating, but then an hour or so later he roused enough for me to get half a bite of food into him so... hell if I know.

Which will lead me into the weirdest fucking week ever at school - I'll see my kids for one day if we're open on Wednesday (and the weather reports make me think we will be). We have institutes and report card prep on Thursday and Friday. I'm not 100% sure what I want to do with the kids for a one day week.

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Dear Winter,

Thu, 23 Jan 2014 03:24:55 GMT

I'm not sure how to say this without hurting your feelings, but... well, I'm over you.

I know, I know, you want to hang around a while longer so we can see if we can make it work. I've heard it all, "Just 8 more weeks! You'll get to love me!" and "By July you'll be begging me to come back!" Yeah, yeah, heard it. Besides, I've heard from your friend at the news station, that you plan to take your negative self into my home and settle in until at least next month. Are you planning to pay rent? How about at least contributing to the heating bill? No? Didn't think so.

So I just can't do it any more. Maybe if you stopped dumping your stuff all over my space, we could talk. But as it was I couldn't even FIND my car this morning under all that crap you tossed around last night. And then, when I did, I spent almost fifteen minutes (when already late for a meeting) trying to get said car up and over the pile of your junk creating three-foot wide butte between where my car was parked and where my car needed to drive.

There's also this whole physical abuse thing. I'm standing up to say No More. I *need* those fingers you keep trying to freeze off. And my nose? NOT just for decoration! Leaving ice in really inconvenient places so I slip and fall is a little passive aggressive and it isn't cool either. I mean, it's COOL... cold even, but it's not something I can take lying down. Even when, you know, I'm lying down in the middle of the damn street. I'm tired of having to wear almost everything I own in order to have enough layers to keep you from leaving marks on me.

I'm not leaving you for anyone in particular, but I will say that Spring is a lot more mellow than you are, and I could totally go for less frigid, more comfortable right now.

No Love,

Me.

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Waldo's Ramblings, Part the First

Tue, 21 Jan 2014 02:49:16 GMT

james asked me to ramble about, "a craft you'd love to get into, but won't because of time, expense, fear of failure, etc"

Cold Process soap. Cold process is the 'old school', Little House on the Prairie, type soap. The stuff that uses lye.

Which is why I haven't even thought about doing it. When you play with lye you need to be outside, or at least somewhere with MASSIVE ventilation, which I really don't have access to. You also have to let the bars cure for *weeks*. And I don't have the storage space for a whole bunch of ten-pound soap molds. (And 'ten-pound soap mold' doesn't mean the mold itself weighs ten pounds - it means it holds ten pounds of soap solution. Now add the heavy wooden mold to that.)

But someday I'd love to give it a go. For some reason, cold process soapers are seen as 'more legitimate' soapers than us M&P folks. When I told someone at Craft Bar that I was teaching soaping the next month she actually turned up her nose when I said it was melt and pour and said, "I can't be bothered with that silly sort of thing. If you were doing lye-soaping then it would be worth coming out for." Well, excuuuuuse me!

Not that I don't love the stuff I do. With cold process you have to decide what colors and scent your slab will be and then hope your customers want that. And a lot of that. I kind of love doing things on demand. I know I'm making exactly what the customer wants and I'm not going to be staring at these bazillion soap bars I thought would be awesome, but don't sell, for the next ten years.

If anyone still wants to drop me topics to ramble about, you can add them here on LJ or here on DW.

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Succumbing to Peer Pressure

Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:17:05 GMT

I'm seeing a lot of people doing the "give me a month's worth of topics and I'll answer one of them each day" meme and although it looks like fun, and I will try to answer one of them each day. (I reserve the right to skip questions that do not inspire me or skip days because my schedule is psychotic.) Leave topics on DW or LJ, I'll cross post to both.

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Odd question...

Fri, 17 Jan 2014 04:24:16 GMT

I'm actually debating writing something again. (I haven't posted fic in over a year. Ai!) But there may yet be more Mistakes to be made. :)

Anyway, in my head-drafting I had John from Sherlock making a Poe allusion. Would Poe be widely read by British school kids? I know we read British classics in US high schools, but the US has only so much history and 'classical time' to work with. Do British kids widely read dead [U.S.] poets?

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File this Under: Well, I did ask...

Fri, 17 Jan 2014 02:51:35 GMT

My class had the assignment to grow sugar crystals over break. Of course only about five kids did it in one class, but today we actually weighed the ones we had and then had a discussion about why the crystals weren't all the same size since I sent home the same directions with everyone.

And as a teacher you want to shake it up so as I'm polling the class, I'm using phrases like, "So what do you think happened?" or "Why didn't the crystals come out the same?"

And I'm getting good answers like, "Maybe different people used different kind of sugar." And "If you used plastic ribbon instead of yarn you might not have gotten a very good result."

And then I call on MT2 and say, "So [M], what are you thinking about?"

He looks right at me and says very calmly, "I'm thinking about how badly I need to go to the bathroom right now."

Talk about ruining someone's rhythm.

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Sigh. Flakey 10 year olds.

Wed, 15 Jan 2014 03:19:43 GMT

Last year I contracted a sore throat unlike anything I've ever had. I went to a couple doctors, neither of them knew what exactly it was - we listed a bazillion things it turned out NOT to be - but the end result was, it went away on its own and left my vocal cords slightly scarred.

So, the short version is, after half a day of teaching I start losing my voice. The obvious problem here is... I have to teach a full day.

Drinking something hot helps, so I walk around with a thermos of coffee after lunch. My thermos has one of those little 3 or 4 ounce lids that becomes a cup.

Now note, I've been walking around drinking from this thing in front of kids, every day since *at least* this time last year.

And yet today there was this conversation with a little girl who is the FLAKIEST kid I've had in DECADES. No, really DECADES.

AC: Is that your coffee cup?
Me: Yes. You've seen this thing in my hand every single day this year.
AC: But it's so SMALL! You could drink shots from that thing!

Very, very, very long pause.

AC: Maybe I shouldn't have said that out loud.

Do you THINK???

Then again, this is the kid who made me rearrange my seating system. She's named after a continent. My seating groups are continents (my science tables are oceans). But I had to NOT have a group with the same name as her because every time I said something like, "Why do I hear talking from North America and Asia?" She went all "WHAT? Who me? WHAT?????" So now we have Europe. It makes my life easier.

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And then I did this...

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:09:21 GMT

Han Solo in Carbonite Lotion Bar.

Why?

Why not? :)

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Using my unexpected downtime to get my geek on...

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:40:04 GMT

TARDIS and Dalek soaps at my Etsy. ;)

Much more geekery to come. I went crazy and spent about $80 on geek molds (Star Trek, Star Wars, video games...)

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Just announced...

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:06:29 GMT

Schools closed again tomorrow. This is turning into a HELLA long winter break. But I'm okay with that. ;)

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YAY!!!!!!

Sun, 05 Jan 2014 23:55:43 GMT

CPS dug their heads out of their asses and canceled classes. About 20 minutes later we got the official email from our network.

I don't have to go out in -50 windchills! I get to live!!! :)

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This is going to S U C K!

Sun, 05 Jan 2014 03:16:50 GMT

My network follows CPS in terms of declaring a weather emergency closing.

CPS is the ONLY district in the immediate area (I didn't pay much attention to the extended area) to declare that they WILL be open on Monday.

Monday's weather in Chicago. HIGH of -12 with 22 mph winds. Which means windchills of -39.

The news has been harping on about FROSTBITE IN TEN MINUTES if you leave skin exposed. Ten minutes. Seriously.

And we're going to school. Seriously. What. the. fuck.?

There is nothing about this makes sense. Will there be Safe Passage workers out there? Are busses going to run? Will they start? (This doesn't actually affect me, but the last real cold snap Chicago had there was a big bussing issue for the special needs kids).

When you tell parents attendance is optional, more than half will have common sense and keep the kids home. Which means we can't actually teach anything... The last time this happened, when I was on the South Side with CPS, we had, I think 5 of 22 show up.

CPS just closed 50 schools which means a lot of kids are walking a lot farther to school. And now they're going to do it in weather that feels like -39 degrees F.

A bunch of my co-teachers and I were just talking on Facebook - if our cars don't start, we're NOT taking CTA. Not in this weather. Just no.

What. the hell. CPS?

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Blergh. Again.

Fri, 03 Jan 2014 02:10:18 GMT

Logi's back to being very unwell. He had another one of those not-exactly-a-seizure things tonight. It sure as hell look like a seizure, but it stops when I pick him up and wrap him in a towel. And he pees when it stops, not when it starts. (TMI?) And then he eats like a horse so...

Then an hour after eating he was bad again so I put him in a clean towel, and held him on the heating pad for about an hour. He got comfortable enough to sleep for a while. Then active enough to try and crawl in my bag of pretzels.

But now he's flopped over on the floor of the cage looking awful. And he's had *all* the meds in the world. And food. And fluids. There is literally nothing else I can do for him until it's meds time again at 11:00.

Grr.

Actually today has kind of sucked all the way around.  Or maybe the weather is making me moody.

I drove out to work and did about 3 hours. I'm missing two boxes of stuff.  Gr. I still don't have shelves in my closet which is the major thing I need to get the room serviceable. Right now the stuff for the closet is scattered hither dither and yon in the room. Spent an hour and a half (after the 3 hours) hanging out and talking with the Lit teacher. Which meant I drove home in the dark and the snow. Lots and lots of snow.

And Sherlock left me... meh.  It wasn't awful. But I wasn't all "OMG! OMG! OMG!" while watching it.   I'm not excited about Mary. I know they were kind of obligated to bring her in as per canon. But.. meh. I take solace from the fact that if they felt that they had to bring her in due to canon, then they'll have to take her out in short order for the same reason. Maybe some rewatches and some captioning will help me appreciate it better.

ETA: On further reflection, I think part of the reason I wasn't keen on Sherlock was that it wasn't funny. Not like 2.01 funny. I know that given the topic it needed to be dark, but one thing a do adore from this particular incarnation is the drop dead funny stuff. "Are we here to see the Queen?" [Mycroft enters] "Oh, apparently so." Or "I'll be mother." "And there is a whole childhood in a nutshell." Maybe I feel better about next week's.

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