Friday Five

Posted on 1/30/2004 by alianora

the friday five:

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first? Senor Brandus. then Shan. to brag.

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself? a house

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else? the house would count for brandus too

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom? shan and i agreed years ago that whoever won tons of money had to split it with the other. so shan gets half.

5. Do you invest any? If so, how? yes, most. probably in whatever stock my dad recommends.

other than that, it goes towards bills. yueeeech.

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A Tale of Insanity

Posted on 1/30/2004 by alianora

This week really has been just..goofy. In the work department, I mean.

So kid #1. lets call him..Mick
comes into my room on tuesday, throws his chair around, throws his cd player, writes various expletives on my board, manages to invent words in my magnetic poetry set on my filing cabinet that belong in the perverted version..and i have the original. leaves my classroom, wont come back in, cusses the entire class (including me) out, then gets upset and blames me for writing him up.

On the upside, he did stay for detention for being late without me asking.

kid #2..i cant think of a name for..

comes into class after being out of school in psych care. when reminded he needs to go get his make up work for other classes, tries to convince someone else to do the work for him. tells me he cant be in art anymore, “cause its ew.” i tell him its too late to change classes because he doesnt like them, and send him off.

next day, the nurse comes to talk to me. He has been down there three times.
1) tummyache, wants to go home. no, sends him back to class.
2) his whole body hurts and he wants to go home. no, gets a tylanol, sends him back to class.
3) still not feeling good, wants to go home. no, back to class!

keep in mind, here, that he doesnt have a fever, doesnt LOOK sick, nothing.

I congratulate nurse on avoidance and go back to work. then, the phone rings. Hes down in the principals office..he doesnt feel good, wants to go home.

GAH!! send him home! of course, we found out that he was doing this because..guess what? “art class is ew.”

Kid #3 is just a little obsessive..

he was in my class without his sign interpreter, which i can usually handle. got the kid set up with some coloring sheets and colored pencils. but he keeps getting up to go next door to sharpen his pencils. one at a time. all of the pencils. so hes going back and forth and im not paying a lot of attention to it, cause i have kids doing job applications..then, the teacher next door comes over and asks what the heck he is doing. assuming she means the back and forth, i told her he was sharpening pencils.

all of a sudden, he comes back into my classroom..using the hall door (601 and i share a door between rooms)..and he is carrying a clock.

i check to see if my clock is still on the wall, as he has a habit of taking it down and removing the batteries, resetting it, etc..and my clock is still there.

uh oh.

its not the nurses..we just asked..its from the business department. he got up, went through the connecting door, out 601s hall door, cut across 2 computer labs and a classroom, entered the business classroom, CLIMBS UP ON THE TABLE, steals the clock and takes off.

IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE CLASS

Sillyness. completely.

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Its What Today?

Posted on 1/29/2004 by alianora

Ya know, its kinda sad when you dont realize its almost the weekend until someone points it out to you. i knew it was thursday, and of course i know thursday is followed by friday, but it slipped my mind somehow.

ive always been a fanfic fan, but Finding Nemo: Gill/Nemo slash fic is a bit squick worthy for me. im just saying.

tonight i have photography, and i really hope the last roll of film i took turned out. i took my camera to dress rehearsal of the Vagina Monologues, and i took some great pictures of “My Short Skirt” and “The Woman Who Loved to Make Vagina’s Happy.” Totally coveting the dominatrix boots.

i bascially have nothing to say. but here i am!

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Monday on Tuesday

Posted on 1/20/2004 by alianora

As much as i love having a built in day off..having it on monday is just too stressful.

because, today, which is tuesday, is acting like a monday. i have a kid to test who isnt here, i have to call and schedule a last minute annual meeting, getting mom here by friday at the latest, fill out a bunch of paperwork to get my ACE/WES credintial so my program might actually get some money next year, pass out paperwork i forgot about, figure out lesson plans for today and thursday, as i will be in training to administer the stupid CSAP-A, and wont be here, pack my stuff for dalton visit for engagement party, and find some time to actually see Senor.

Gah.

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A Life More Literary

Posted on 1/20/2004 by alianora

meme from Mac at Go Fish. thought it was kinda cool..bold is what ive read

1984, George Orwell
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blighton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philantrhopists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D’urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

does that mean i read too much or too little?

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