OMG Shut the Fu@#! up already

Out of a nine period day (one being a zero period before school that I actually have a class during) I teach 7 of. I have 2 periods to just get shit done. Like grades, replying to phone messages, emails, prep for the next days classes, blog, you know important stuff. What I don't have time for is Special K sitting there asking me questions like. "Did you get that evite from *insert teacher here*?"

I respond "Yes".

She continues "Do I need to respond to it?"

"I don't know."

"Well if I don't then he will just send a follow up." "Blah Blah Blah, more shit that is just bugging me to the point that I have had to read an email twice because I could focus the first time because you voice is like a woodpecker on my skull." I am paraphrasing she didn't actually say that but she might as well have. I understand people feel the need to fill their time with inane questions and need to speak to someone out loud, but if someone is obviously working or otherwise occupied don't bother them. I would appriciate it more if she would say something like, "Are you busy can I ask you a question?" Instead of injecting herself into my work. Some of us need this time to get things done or just to relax and not work.

Here is the thing we share one class out of the 6 I teach and the 4 she teaches. Why is gods name does it need to occupy 90% of my time. She will interupt my class on a regular basis to ask questions that could have been sent in an email. Or if she would take sometime to familiarize herself with where things are in her Band room 75% of all questions would go away.

Well I need to go now and set up for my next class.

My Partner???

So tonight a parent asked if I was ready for Ireland. I said I was and she followed it up with "Is your partner going?" The funny thing was I wasn't tripped up by the word partner but by the fact that she thought I was dating someone. I looked at her funny and she said "Or your "roommate"?" very wink wink nudge nudge. I said no I don't really have a roommate and then clarified that I wasn't dating and haven't been for years. I had to chuckle to myself. I am not out per say at work but I am not hiding anything either. I know how gossipy the the parents can be I would love to be a fly on the wall for some of the conversations about me. I think that is the first parent to flat out ask or infer it. I find it funny, I think I may have confused her because of my quizzical look. A well, as long as they don't start thinking they need to set me up because I could actually see that.

Fun with computers

So about 2 years ago my desk top got a virus (whore) and it prompted to get a laptop, which I love btw. Well I have over the weekend decided to try to breathe some life back into it. So far so good. I am actually learning quite a bit about computers. Of course I will forget all of this new found knowledge because hopefully I will not have to use this information again.

As I write this I am getting 6 years worth of software updates on my old computer. I have been doing this for the last 2 hours and I think I am about caught up. It's amazing how much better it is running. I really just want it to store old info that I don't want on my laptop. Plus I need to consolidate my music library right now it is split between the two.

Yea another set of updates down time to restart so they can take effect. If only I could do that with my life from time to time. Just plug into a network and have new info just dropped into my mind to make my life run better. Ah dare to dream. However if my mind was as prone to crashing as much as windows I would have to reconsider.

Bizarre yet productive day.

Yesterday I woke up around 7am with a killer head ache. I was also in the clothes from the night before and on the couch. Yep you guessed it my friend Jack. Really not as bad as it sounds when I left the bar I wasn't feeling any effects from the three drinks I had. I got home and sat down on the couch and contemplated food I was a bit peckish and that is when it all came rushing at me. I was sitting on my couch drunk. I turn on the tv with a box of goldfish and that is really all I remember I must have passed out and turned the tv off at some point. Anyway. When I got up I took some advil and went back to bed, well the couch. When I got up I was really hungry I contemplated many options I had nothing quick and easy to fix, I didn't want to cook, and I didn't want to order in. I did however have a craving for Chinese. Understand I have no love for Buffets except Chinese buffets. Why is that you may ask? Well because the way chinese food is made is the also the way it is on a buffet. You can't say that about every buffet. Take the Golden Corral. Steak should never be mass produced and then left under a heat lamp. This goes for so many things. Anyway.

I wanted Chinese so I called my friend Romeo and we were off. the food was good the company was better. We even went to DSW because I needed to use up some coupons I had for there before the expired. I got these really nice Steve Maddens only $30 yet another pair of shoes I have to fit in a bag for Ireland. That is a whole other entry. I got home and felt oddly inspired to do some work around the house. I moved my desktop downstairs along with my desk. I did the dishes, laundry, cleaned the downstairs baths, and started on the living room. I also started trying to fix my old computer. Due to some unpleasentries about 2 years ago it went bat shit crazy and hasn't worked right since. Thus my excuse to get a Laptop (that is what I am typing on now.) I really want to get my desk top up and running again so I can use it for music storage and porn storage. I would like to start using my lap top for work more and having all that on here tends to slow it down.

Well that was my day strangely productive. *Sidebar* Anyone else have difficulty getting the spell check to work on blogger or is it just me?

Happy S.A.D.

For those of you who are unaware of S.A.D. please let me be the first to inform you of this wonderful new holiday. Those devils at Hallmark did it again, seeing the untapped market on valentine's day they invented Singles Awareness Day aka S.A.D.. This is an opportunity to get into the single market that seems to avoid February 14th altogether. When you visit the hallmark store and purchase 3 cards solely for yourself and non other then you will receive with that purchase a fifth of Jack Daniels and a plush bear. This bear is much like the bears they usually sell but they don't come in pairs or magnetized. These bears come alone and with velcro so they can attach and separate quite easily. They don't need to find a bear with a compatible magnet or a magnet at all just sit to another bear until satisfied and release. Be careful some velcro may take fur or unwanted debris from other bears. You may have to bring the bear in for cleaning at the free Hallmark S.A.D. clinic.

Alas a day for us singles where we are free to do or not do as we please any money spent on this day is strictly for you and you alone. Feel no need to placate anyone with flowers or dinner or a card. Just sit back, order a pizza, put in the porn and roll over and go to sleep whenever you want without talking or cuddling.

Happy S.A.D. everyone except married people or those in relationships you have your day leave me alone.

“Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.”

That time has come again when I must do my duty to remind people of an often over looked holiday. What is this holiday you ask well it is Singles Awareness Day or S.A.D.. This day is celebrated every year by single Americans and some Canadians.

We singles need this day to remind ourselves, that we are not tired down to a loveless marriage or saddled with unsurmountable debt from unwanted children who should have fixed our relationship but only made things worse and led me to sleep with my secretary. No, we are free, free to sow our oats. Even though most of us are not farmers, but that is not the point. We are free to come and go or cum and go as we please. We can sit at home read a good book, watch tv, walk around naked, own as much porn as we like, have people over(after we stash the porn), go to a movie, go to a bar, yes my single friends the world is our oyster and we can grab the pearl or pearl necklace and not have to share.

See many would have you believe that a relationship is what you need. And who is telling us that? People who are already in a relationship. The pushers. Yes I said it. I am relating those in relationships to drug pushers because that is what it is... a drug. Much like any drug it's fun at first. It didn't really cost you anything but that is where they get you. They give you a taste and then it's too late, you have spent more money than you planned and you are trapped. There is no 12 step program for this, cold turkey makes it worse. The withdraws are horrible you just want to shoot the poor bastards. Then time out of one they just want back in one. Just like drugs. The road of vice has only one possible conclussion "Until death do we part". Just like drugs.

So on Thursday when climb out of the bed that you don't have to make because no one is there to tell you to make it because he left around 2 am, and you begin celebrating S.A.D. remember it's a big world out there and you are not alone. Well except for right now in that big house with no one to share your life with ... oh god I am going to die alone!!!!!!


Happy S.A.D. everyone!!!

Oh Come On

I knew it wasn't going to be. I have been fooled twice this semester. Not really fooled, because both times I knew it wasn't going to happen. Yes I am refering to snow days. The school was once again abuzz with thoughts of snow days. Those wonderful reprises from the daily grind, where one could stay curled up on the couch by a roaring fire and do absolutely nothing. I wouldn't have to plan the next days lesson because I would just use the one I had for the day I am I curled up. La la la. Alas it was not to be. In my heart of hearts I knew it was not going to happen. But it's nice to dream right.

In the spirit though I had gone to the store last night to get some essensials.
1. Popcorn for...
2. The movies I bought in anticipation
3. Some good green tea to sip all day long. (Don't look at me like that I am a homo after all.)
4. Ice Cream because I felt like it.
5. A frozen pizza because like hell I am going to really cook.
6. and the most important thing I would need for my day by the fire and tv. Duraflame logs. Because without a fire there would be no fire.

With all that in tow I knew it was going to be a balmy day. Well it wasn't quite balmy but it wasn't the blizzard of 78 or even a DQ blizzard...mmmm... Blizzard... Anyway.

So I get up this morning get ready waiting for that phone call that never came. I was surprisingly ok with that. What I wasn't ok with was the freezing mist I had on the way to work. I had my defrost on full and still it was freezing almost on impact. That was good times. Um not really. Today was a late start for me I was planning on being there at 7 but it was more like 7:08. The real problem was people calling me enroute. I was having visablity issues and sorta slick roads not to bad but bad enough I didn't want to chat. Plus before 8am I am really not good for phone conversation.

All in all it would have been nice to have had the day off but I am fine with how it all worked out. I have a free period maybe I will go to Starbucks...MMMM... Chai tea...



"I like a little Tai Chi with Chai Tea" -Lisa Simpson