Somehow, i got roped into working 4 days in a row. My day-shift cohort needed to play switch-a-roo again this week, so i covered Sunday through today, and have to work in the morning as well ( Read more... )

WHAT TEACHERS MAKE
OR, IF THINGS DON'T WORK OUT
YOU CAN ALWAYS GO TO LAW SCHOOL

He says the problem with teachers is
What's a kid going to learn
from someone who decided his best option in life
was to become a teacher?
He reminds the other dinner guests that it's true
what they say about teachers:
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Today should be fun...

Last night, oktoberain gave me advanced notice that today she would be redeeming one of her 'birthday coupons'... specifically, one of the ones that says that she has a 'slave for the day'.

*L*

For 24 hours -- starting at whatever time she gets up -- i shall then be at the mercy of whatever strikes her fancy.

Wish me luck!

I have to find someone around here in the neighborhood from whom to borrow a lawnmower.

The guys down the street (from whom i usually borrow) are having mechanical difficulties with theirs, so i have to either pray that mine will miraculously start (after putting in another tank of fresh gas and yanking on the cord three million times), or that i ( Read more... )

I switched things around with Matt this week, so i'll be off today and tomorrow, then work Thursday, then again Sunday and Monday.

I could get spoiled by that :-)

There are a ton of things that i've been avoiding doing (alternately, either oktoberain or i haven't been feeling all that hot for the past few days), but i actually need to get done ( Read more... )

I THOUGHT Thursday was going to be a good day off.

Wrong.

So Very Wrong.

At around noon, i started feeling a strange intermittant tightness in my chest, right below my sternum... i'm no idiot, so i told oktoberain about it immediately. Sometime around 2, she and i laid down for a mid-afternoon nap. Since Brendan was still at Grandma's, we laid down ( Read more... )

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I know around 10pm i heard the deep, resonating 'booms' of professional mortar-fired explosives going along with the tinny snaps of firecrackers and roman candles and such ( Read more... )

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