Awe, a thread for me…
i’m so sick of this person. All they do is bicker bicker bicker. They seem rto enjoy the thought fo picking out peoples flaws, and poitning them out everytime they talk
I feel better now lol
Flaws who around here has them? Emiily you just have to really get back at them. Do not let them upset you and do not join in that bicker and pick game. It drives them nuts.
I was told on Friday that I have another subject to teach. Students start Monday.
That sounds like very poor planning on ‘someone’s’ part !
Not me, that’s for certain. But I got cake. Well, actually I HAD cake. But then I eated it.
Well what gets me is I could have told them the master schedule would not work but no one asks the teachers.
Fay now looks like it is moving east more toward me. We do not know if the students will start next week or not. We may have school Monday and then stop for Fay.
that should be the motto for public education
When someone does wrong the students and teachers pay the price. I am in panic mode as usual for the start of year but this year is a bit rougher.
Yikes! Good luck, Leah. I was thrown an extra course last week myself, but my students don’t start till September 4 (I don’t teach at all till the 5th) and it’s a graduate seminar, so I’ve got A LOT of wiggle room. I couldn’t handle what you’re doing (I’m surprised I made it through an entire year of high school teaching, frankly). Hang in there.
Go to the teacher thread and say high.
:mad: Air conditioning monkeys they can all go straight to hades :mad:
Tropical storm Fay can not make up her mind about where to go so she is sitting over me.
One of my employees came to work last night after having had the crap beat out of her by her boyfriend. I sent her to the hospital and she came back to work 2 1/2 hrs later. No broken bones, but plenty of bruises and swelling.
I want to kick his sorry ass, and I can’t. I want to make sure she presses charges, and I can’t. I want to make sure she stays safe, and I can’t.
And that’s why life is teh suck today.
If you want to start a posse, count me in. Wife/girlfriend beaters suck. Hard.
I’ve got courses to finish designing by Tuesday, a piece to finish learning and more writing to do, yet I can’t seem to get to a place where I’m satisfied with any of my work (okay, I feel pretty comfortable with the piece I have to learn, actually). UGH!
It super-sucks not to be able to do anything to make sure she is pursuing the help she needs, but you can make sure she has the info and resources she needs to make a next step. You already did that by getting her to the hospital, but you can also just give her the card or contact info of a domestic violence hotline or a therapist who specializes in domestic abuse.
This pales in comparison so now I feel crappy for being all emo-whiny, but I had another interview for a job I didn’t end up getting (4th interview since I started the job search). They had 400 applicants. How, in this job market, can I make myself stand out enough to hire??
Also, I lost my Smartrip card (Metro fare card) at some point today and it had $35 on it but wasn’t registered to my credit card so I won’t get it back. So tomorrow I will have to trek over to Metro Center on my lunch break to wait in line for a new one. Meh.
Me three.
I agree. There are a lot of ways she can get help. She just has to want to get help. 
This pales in comparison so now I feel crappy for being all emo-whiny, but I had another interview for a job I didn’t end up getting (4th interview since I started the job search). They had 400 applicants. How, in this job market, can I make myself stand out enough to hire??
I feel your pain. The academic job market for composers has us typically competing with at least 100 other applicants for jobs. For the last seven years since I finished school, I’ve managed to make it to the interview stage a few times, though have only managed to land two temporary and one adjunct job. (Last year I didn’t make the campus interview phase at all, just phone calls. About nine or ten of them, which isn’t bad, considering.) It sucks. Hard. And the suckiest part right now is that I look at my students and I start seeing them as competition, rather than as people to whom I have a responsibility.
But hey, this is going to sound trite, but at least you’ve got interviews. My wife is out in the DC job market right now and hasn’t even gotten any phone calls. It sucks.
Which is totally belittling you, and I’m not trying to do that. I’m sorry. I’m just trying to commiserate but I feel like I’m failing miserably.
I agree. There are a lot of ways she can get help. She just has to want to get help.
Indeed. I don’t get men who do this to women. What, is your little wookie so small that you have to bully someone into wanting to stay with you? Does it get them off? What the frak?
I totally agree. My bff has a neighbor/friend who has left her abusive husband twice, only to reconcile with him. (It’s even more complicated by the fact that she’s Chinese and her family discourages her seeking a divorce.) Anywho, she brings him to parties and we’re all supposed to act like he’s a great guy while he smiles and jokes with us like he’s the nicest guy in the world. 
He’s an ass-munch. It’s sooo frustrating. He was being all bossy to me while I was setting-up for my bff’s suprise bday party this weekend and I finally told him to back the hell off. I think he was shocked that a mere woman would deign to speak to him like that. He stayed away from me more after that. Thank GOD!
