Vents/Confessions/Flamefuls

[Deleted]

Wow.

What grade do you teach?

[game blouses]

Audiobooks are an excellent way for kids to hear proper cadence and pronunciation as they follow along. When I taught 8th we did plenty of audiobooks, because popcorn reading and silent reading get old.

If you were a draconian, old school teacher she'd find fault too.

[Deleted]

My vent is that my damn period is seriously giving me anxiety. It is my first PP period and it is awful. Cramps and the worst bloating EVER. My stomach seriously looks 5 months pregnant. It is messing up stomach and causing so many issues. I have the worlds most painful gas that just won't leave my body. I want to eat all the chocolate ever, but I need to lose this baby weight because - hello - it has been 7 months, there is no excuse.

My body is failing me and I am pissed.

And because I feel like crap, I haven't exercised in over a week.

We have an event every night this week, and I am already tired.


I want to hear back on the house but we won't hear anything from underwriting until at least early next week.



I hate EVERYTHING.

[nicanmatt]

Ouch! That sucks. Is their kid a good one or pretty bad? I wonder what they are saying when they get home from school...

[Miss Phryne Fisher]

Um...colored pencils are an excellent tool in differentiated instruction. I color code EVERYTHING. I have a dyslexia-related learning disorder.

Basically, she can eat a bag of dicks.

[sonrisa]

bricco: How unpleasant. What is it? the second week of school? This is the time for a few softball assignments to ease out of summer, if you want. I'm sure They'll write plenty of two page essays before Halloween rolls around.

[nicanmatt]

My flameful is that I'm already comparing DD to other babies her age. She is 10 weeks and while she can lift her head for short periods of time, she can't do it for nearly as long as the other babies her age. It makes me sad to know that she is already falling behind at such a young age. Also, she didn't gain as much weight this week and I'm scared we'll have to put her on formula. It's not the worst thing in the world, but I've worked so hard to nurse her and pump bottles so I have plenty of milk, I guess it's just not providing all the calories she needs to grow. Pity party for one over a daughter who is beautiful and strong and so very sweet.

[sonrisa]

Sept 11, 2013 17:01:07 GMT -5 game blouses said:

When I taught 8th we did plenty of audiobooks, because popcorn reading and silent reading get old.

Genuine question. By eighth grade, aren't most of your reading assignments to be completed at home in preparation for class? 

[rex]

People keep coming by looking for my upstairs neighbor. They knock and knock and call her name. They've done this 3 times today. Each time they spend AT LEAST 5 minutes knocking loudly.

Hey morons, she's CLEARLY not home, seeing how her car isn't even in the driveway and she isn't there to answer!

[shostakovich]

Vent/(Flameful?): I feel like such an utter fuck-up at my job lately. It's really, really not like me to miss deadlines or major details and to mess things up, but I keep doing it again and again lately. We lost three of our staff within six months earlier this year, and a lot of their workload was shifted over to me (plus other support staff). Then we had a huge, all-consuming conference that essentially made it necessary to drop everything else for April - early July.

But it's now September, and I still feel like I'm underwater, and I'm really behind and keep discovering ways that I've fucked something else up, and it's making me feel like such a loser.

[silva]

I'm so sick and tired of getting BFNs. ugh. Next month it will be 2 years of trying. I hate the situation I'm in right now and I need to see why this is happening to me. I feel if I knew why I'm not meant to have a second baby I would be ok. Because the situation I'm in age + finances + reproductive health issues + timing is driving me nuts!

[margotmacomber]

We bought a 3D tv a couple of years ago.  Great and awesome.  So, because of an injury from my child hood I can't see in stereo.  

linkhttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=seeing-in-stereo

Anyway.  Turns out watching 3D things gives me massive headaches and I typically don't even notice all that much of a difference anyway.  MH knows this.

HE STILL ALWAYS WANTS ME TO WATCH THINGS IN 3D WITH HIM.

Fuck you dude.  Go away.

[deanlicker78]

I hate my job. While I was gone last week there was an incident and we lost a client. It was several small incidents and it's not a huge client but our boss is super pissed. She is placing the blame squarely on the person she likes least and we all think she is doing so just so that person will quit. As a result though, we all have to fill out this ridiculous amount of paperwork to document that we are doing the very smallest of tasks so that she can check up on everyone and make sure "there are no more mistakes ever made here again". Everyone is too paranoid to complete any work because if anyone makes a mistake they will be fired. So now she is also pissed because no one is completing any work out of fear.

It should be noted though that our boss made a mistake recently and forgot to charge a group for thousands of dollars and had to go back and bill them a second time, and they legitimately would not have had to pay a second time if they weren't decent people. She also got mad at someone trying to change their contract and ended up telling them to go fuck themselves, in earshot of another employee.

This is made worse by the fact that we are friends outside of work. She's not a good boss though I really like her outside of the workplace. Awkward.

[Deleted]

I'm having a crap day. I don't even know why, but I feel poopy and feel like I'm totally failing at parenting my child. I know it's stupid, because like- is it really the end of the world that she watched TWO episodes of Sesame Street today?

I just wish I could force myself to cheer the fuck up. I think it's the combo of the rainy, gray weather and the 9/11 anniversary stuff everywhere.

In short, SADZ, I HAZ EM.

[Moe]

It took 6 days for a pack agate to get from NC to MN with FedEx Groind. Fine


It arrives to the Twin Cities yesterday. Fine.

Today I see that it left the twin cities distribution center, and all day I keep refreshing to see whether it has arrived.

Finally an update:

It's now NOT in the Cities, but in a muthafucking suburb outside of the Cities on the opposite side of where I live.

Fuck you FedEx.

New estimated date of de,ibert, Friday.

What the ever loving fuck.

[game blouses]

Sept 11, 2013 17:06:38 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

Sept 11, 2013 17:01:07 GMT -5 game blouses said:

When I taught 8th we did plenty of audiobooks, because popcorn reading and silent reading get old.

Genuine question. By eighth grade, aren't most of your reading assignments to be completed at home in preparation for class? 

Ideally, yes. But not many students actually complete the reading at home. Novels were for reading at home, while short stories were in class reading. It's a good way to model pausing and questioning while reading as well.

[W.T.Faulkner]

bricco, your post is why I am TERRIFIED of moving to a suburban school someday.  Right now, I teach in a spectacularly shitty district with parents who are so supportive of me, even though I'm so young and relatively new (3rd year).  These kinds of stories make me hesitant to ever leave urban ed, even though it might be easier in some respects.

VENT:  I am getting rewarded at work with more work, and even though I got my master's, I'm getting paid no more than I was my first year.  COOL.  

CONFESSION/FLAMEFUL:  I have a weird crush on my coworker.  Not, like, "I want to bang you," but "I think you're cute and I want to look cute in front of you."  I love BF, and I'm happy with him and wouldn't ever dream of being improper, but I'm young and certainly not dead.

[snickers]

I just spent like $10 trying to beat a freaking level on candy crush and still didn't beat it. I think I might need to break up with candy crush.

[sonrisa]

Thanks, game blouses and bricco. That's good to know. I should check what the standards are at our local school and find out what kind of academic supplementation is available. We were really hoping to avoid private school. 

(ETA: I can remember reading A Midsummer's Night Dream in eighth grade so the idea of only one novel all year sounds quite different.)

[Deleted]

I ordered a pair of the AE jeggings (I look the levi's ones back) because I really want a nice thick pair of jeggings to wear with chunky sweaters and boots in the winter (so like, for the whole two months we get here).

That's flameful, and I don't care.

[eb777888]

I am so fucking tired this week. I am dragging. I was a little sick the past few days and I feel great today but I can't shake the feeling of wanting to go curl up and take a nap.

[Deleted]

Today a fellow kindergarten mom was all I wish they weren't going all day, she's so little, I want to spend more time with her. 

And I was I'm glad he's going all day.  I spoke before she did.  

Look I am super dooper happy that D is in school all day.  I wouldn't want it any other way. And I'm not embarrassed about it and I'm not going to hide it either.

[sonrisa]

Is the bazillion page anger thread by Kuus worth reading? Interesting exchange?

[iamali]

A blogger thingy person I follow on FB posted a link to an etsy type store that is going to be selling merchandise this CLEARLY violates Disney's Antipiracy laws. I wrote her a nice note explaining my concern. I'm kind of hoping she gets bitchy with me because I want to report her.

[cinderbella]

I have a flameful. We are going to Florida for two weeks in November and I am not hesitating for a second to pull my first grader out for that long.

She's reading at an almost fourth grade level and ahead in most other areas so I'm not concerned in the least.

Fuck March and long lines at Disneyworld.

[Deleted]

I'm overwhelmed and honored by how amazingly thoughtful and happy our friends are about this baby. I almost got a tad teary last night when I came home from a work trip to this in a package on my doorstep.

I don't plan to transform into a complete sap, but the outpouring of good wishes and cheer has been so wonderful. I feel this little monkey is so loved already.

[lauralala]

Sept 11, 2013 17:17:56 GMT -5 bricco said:

Sept 11, 2013 17:14:26 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

Crazy part of this?  Our district is fairly shitty.  I can't say urban because it's a small town.  But it's a small town that had all of the jobs based on manufacturing until those businesses pulled out 10 or 15 years ago, leaving a large portion of the town unemployed.  Now, we have a 75%+ poverty level and most of the parents just don't give two shits.

HOWEVER, we have glimpses of the suburban crazy parents.  Like these.

You just described the town I grew up in.  It makes me sad to think about how far downhill it has gone, but happy to not be there anymore.

[bania]

miso that's so cute! I know that baby will be super loved and spoiled!

[pedanticwench]

Sept 11, 2013 17:05:49 GMT -5 nicanmatt said:

My flameful is that I'm already comparing DD to other babies her age. She is 10 weeks and while she can lift her head for short periods of time, she can't do it for nearly as long as the other babies her age. It makes me sad to know that she is already falling behind at such a young age. Also, she didn't gain as much weight this week and I'm scared we'll have to put her on formula. It's not the worst thing in the world, but I've worked so hard to nurse her and pump bottles so I have plenty of milk, I guess it's just not providing all the calories she needs to grow. Pity party for one over a daughter who is beautiful and strong and so very sweet.

((hugs))

I don't have a kid, but I will say that you probably shouldn't worry too much about this.

Going to formula will be fine. The lifting head the head thing will work out fine. Your DD will be fine. YOU will be fine.

[rex]

Another one:

If one more fucking person texts or Facebooks me and asks me if there is a baby yet I am going to get angry.

It's really hard to be nice at this point.