Welp, for those who were keeping up with the game; you're probably scratching your head right now and wondering something like ( Read more... )

So, oh god life what is this stop being so horrible and roller coaster like. I have two funerals coming up that I have to attend. (Even though only one of the deceased is someone I actually knew well and will miss.) Which already just makes life bad because Roman Catholic funerals are not one day affairs. No they usually are two-three day affairs ( Read more... )

Shit, one week before NaNo and I have TWO novels that want to be written. Quick place your bets now. There's a 3:1 odds of Re completely failing due to now striving to write 100k next week, with a nice 5:2 odds on her going insane by week three ( Read more... )

So, three out of my five student helpers got taken down by illnesses. Optimus and Bluestreak are both out with Strep throat, and Scavenger the poor girl has type A swine flu. (Yes, I nickname my student helpers after Transformers, they find it amusing and have learned to deal with it after four+ years of me doing so at this school. Even if 90% of ( Read more... )

My nerves are officially shot to hell and in a very amusing way. Anytime anyone so much as sniffles in my general direction I'm hitting the floor running. The reason? Why out of 300 children 60 have all suddenly come down with serious flu symptoms that had them forced to not come into school this week. That's not including the ten or so who have ( Read more... )