Now, I do love me some Shakespeare. In fact, so much - I bought a mug with Shakespearean insults upon them. And Google has a widget you can put on your homepage with them. I'm so excited. (;

My favorite?
"Draw thy tool. My naked weapon is out."
Sounds so damn naughty. (;

Want your own insult? Try here...
Foot-licker!

Posted by: Pandora - 01.20.2008 - 3:36pm - Permalink - Comments (0)
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A very late Friday's Feast.


Appetizer
What is your favorite beverage?
Alcoholic or Non? (; I really enjoy Fuze's Orange Blossom White Tea.

Soup
Name 3 things that are on your computer desk at home or work.
At home: A candle, a candle lamp (no really), a printer

Salad
On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being highest), how honest do you think you are?
Hrmm. Generally about an 8.

Main Course
If you could change the name of one city in the world, what would you rename it and why?
Uhhhh. I have no idea. I never thought of this one. Can I get back to you on this? O_O

Dessert
What stresses you out? What calms you down?
work stresses me out. Mostly the stupid crap - like fully grown adults kowtowing to 14-year-olds like those KIDS know best. WTF. I find that a good book or playing a video game calms me down. Or sleep. Love me some sleep.

Posted by: Pandora - 01.19.2008 - 11:32pm - Permalink - Comments (0)
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It's been one of those days. Where everything is just - blah. Utterly and completely blah. I woke up and didn't feel like I wanted to be awake. I hit snooze at least three times. And then I check the news. Schools open on time. Well, damn. That sucks a lot. I could have used some more sleep. Would have been totally awesome. But - no. None for me. Off I go to work. I get there and type up the agenda for my Precal class for the new unit and send it on to the other teachers. Did some searching for something and found some other things I actually do need for the new unit. So, that was good. (That thing I was looking for? Here at home. Ha.)

Then, the frustrating emails start rolling in. Ugh. In total? 31 students in my Consumer Math class. 31. Seriously? It's obvious none of the people who do the allocations or scheduling or anything know what kind of students are in Consumer Math. It is a practical math class as it teaches materials students need for real life: checkbook balancing, credit cards, taxes, investments, etc. However, since the math tends to be easy (hello, I could get a fifth grader to do it...) - the students who take it are the ones who cannot do anything else. Don't get me wrong. Some of these students just cannot do any higher level math then this number times that number and subtract out a third number. It's fine. However. You put 31 of those in a single class? Let's not discuss it. Of course, they aren't all like that. Some just don't feel like doing the work - so they take a class which won't require a lot of brain power. Unfortunately, the two extremes do not mesh well together. Oh, and then there are the ones, and these can fall into either of the first two categories, which are just idiots and cause problems. Blah. I want to murder myself so I don't have to go to work. Save me.

I'm also tired of having to do - everything. I can't do - everything. I'm supposed to get my own rosters. (That's new. They used to get printed out and given to us.) I have to comb through a list of 300 students who have accommodations (such as extra time and preferential seating) to find the ones who are in my class. (This is actually illegal, but apparently we aren't supposed to talk about that part. It's also frustrating as hell because I'm much more likely to miss a student who has accommodations with this type of set up.) Granted, these aren't big things. They are trivial. On their own - no big deal. However, it's just one more thing on my plate and if it doesn't get done, it's my fault. Especially that accommodations thing. If the students do not get them, I can get sued for not providing them. Me. Because I missed a name on a list of 300 students I don't know. Fuck. >___<

So - yeah. I'm - frustrated beyond belief. Utterly and completely. It's all on me. ALL on me. The fucking special education department has made it all *my* fucking fault if a kid doesn't get accommodations. The Special Education Department. The people in charge of this nonsense. The ones who know everything there is to know. (Or should. They should know this stupid file is illegal, yet don't. Huh.) They have pawned it off on me - to make their job easier. I'm sorry. This is not how you make your life easier. This is how you get people sued.

Ugh. I'm going to stop. It's a rant and it's - yeah. Um.

Bleh.

Posted by: Pandora - 01.18.2008 - 10:47pm - Permalink - Comments (1)
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...a Happy Birthday...
I wish you a Happy Birthday...
I wish you a Happy Birthday...
And a fun-filled new year!

Yes, that's right. Our very own Kentucky Girl is having a birthday today. You should go say something in her comment box. She'd like it. She's a comment whore like that. (;

Go on. Go there. Make her have a bazillion emails in her inbox saying "You have a comment..."

Happy Birthday, woman! (;

Posted by: Pandora - 01.17.2008 - 12:16pm - Permalink - Comments (1)
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I don't know if you've ever looked through walkthroughs on the web for video games. I have. (; I don't considering it cheating unless you follow the whole damn thing, step-by-step, non-stop. Me? I use it to figure out what the fuck I'm supposed to be doing when I'm utterly confused. Like - where the HELL am I going right now? Where am I supposed to be? How am I supposed to make this work?! There's nothing! AGH! Oh. There is. Ha. In the words of KentuckyGirl, Eye'm DUM. (;

However, I've noticed that the quality of the walkthroughs is not the same between walkthroughs and sometimes not consistent within the SAME walkthrough. One will be great and then not give vital information but another will have that one piece I need but suck otherwise.

What the fuck? How is that even possible?! I just don't get it.

On the upside - I am no longer frustrated with Zelda. I'm rescuing monkeys in my first dungeon. Yay. I'm after a dark power I'm not supposed to touch, but I have to in order to defeat the Shadow King. At least, that's what the Being of Light told me.

Who knew?

(As a side note, I'm pondering a Zelda tattoo......)

Posted by: Pandora - 01.16.2008 - 6:32pm - Permalink - Comments (4)
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