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.)

 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!

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 ( Read more... )

 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 ( Read more... )

 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 ( Read more... )

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 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 ( Read more... )

 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 ( Read more... )

 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 ( Read more... )

 Han Solo in Carbonite Lotion Bar.  

Why?

Why not? :)