don't say everyone.......i've seen the simmering...and poison!!.
who here do you really click with, someone who seems to understand just where you're coming from.
don't mention a long spiel, just the one or 2 that seem to be on your wavelength.. i'm interested to know as i'm completing an analytical graph data sheet to show who clicks with who most, in a projected sample forum example, and then hope to present my findings on the net.. ok thats bull, but i was just interested anyway.... scoob
No soulmate yet...
But I did find my hairless albino sasquatch twin smoking outside a kingdom hall...
As for people who get me...honestly I can only think of two (outside of the hairless albino twin I found) who "get" me.
They know who they are...and if they don't I shall beat them with sticks until they do get me!
The powerful OZ has spoken!
there were several posters from a couple years ago that i really miss talking to here are a few that i can remember off hand:.
trauma hound.
windchaser.
I miss The_Bad_Seed and that Cygnus character.
http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/dec01/other.html
multiplying sorrow.
women who are jehovah's witnesses have a 44-fold greater risk of maternal death due to obstetric hemorrhage than do other women.
But I am sure Jehovah is proud of them...
can i just say what a cruel joke standarized tests are.
especially ones for english teachers.... .
i had to roust myself at 6 am so i could drag my ass to the "testing center of doom" (ok i added that last part), to take my praxis ii exam.
*sigh* So the tests for English teachers are all about grammatical minutae and facts... and then they wonder why kids don't enjoy English class?
Amen Euph!
It's kind of silly isn't it?
The second test today was much better. About 35 multiple choice questions and four case studies with 3 essay questions after each for a toal of 12 essay questions. I liked it, still feel woefully unprepared, but at least it got a little bit to what makes a good teacher. I still say having the "right" answer won't help you when it's 2:30 on a Friday and your 9th graders are bouncing off the walls...but eh.
i havent' been to kingdom hall in over a year, and i haven't talked to any dubs other than my parents for three years now.
i was wondering if anybody still had any contacts in the truth and how the average dub is feeling about the immediacy of armageddon?.
i remember growing up that this was an omnipresent motivation, especially when the whole "peace and security" thing happened in the early nineties, and we were expecting "sudden destruction" after the collapse of the soviet union.. but safe to say, i'm not worried about armageddon anymore - and i was wondering what the feeling was in the congregations.... czar
Anytime a news article about a parent killing a child my parents murmer in shocked awe "Having no natural affection"...when they watch the war coverage in Iraq they say "Things are so awful...the end has to be near".
It kind of makes you want to leave a copy of Medea by Eurpidies on the counter and photos from the Civil War.
can i just say what a cruel joke standarized tests are.
especially ones for english teachers.... .
i had to roust myself at 6 am so i could drag my ass to the "testing center of doom" (ok i added that last part), to take my praxis ii exam.
SFJim...while fun, I was thinking more along the lines of a bubble sheet like this...
it only took me 2 years to get 1000 posts!
i'm gonna have to start fluffing it up more.
Just who are the people in your neighborhood
In your neighboorhood
In your neighboorhoOod
Oh who are the people in your neighboord
They're the people that you meet when you're walking down the street
Oh sorry, that was Bob on Sesame Street...
What are we doing here? Who am I?
Congrats Perry....quality over quantity...which as you see by posts is the exact opposite for me.
can i just say what a cruel joke standarized tests are.
especially ones for english teachers.... .
i had to roust myself at 6 am so i could drag my ass to the "testing center of doom" (ok i added that last part), to take my praxis ii exam.
Can I just say what a cruel joke standarized tests are. Especially ones for English Teachers...
I had to roust myself at 6 am so I could drag my ass to the "TESTING CENTER OF DOOM" (ok I added that last part), to take my Praxis II exam. Three weeks ago I forked over $185 for the privilege of spending two hours questioning my every instinct with regards to the English language and literature and cursing my former teachers for not emphasising the allusion and adverbial clauses. I half expected the exam to be printed on a silk spun bubble sheet, or at least a helper monkey. BUT NO! They don't even give you a damn pencil with a spiffy ETS logo on it. What exactly am I paying for?
Content like this I guess...
Read the following passage and answer the following questions. Be sure to completely fill your answer on the answer sheet.
The Garden of Love
I went to the Garden of Love
And saw what I never had seen
A Chapel was built in the midst
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut
And "Thou shalt not" writ over the door
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves
And tomb-stones where flowers should be
And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
In this poem is the author
A) Expressing himself/herself as an angst ridden hormonal teen
B) Deconstructing post-feminist rhetorical constraints
C) Gassy
D) Using heroic couplets
In line 7 what does the word "the" mean?
A) The world is going to end tomorrow
B) You are never going to pass this test
C) You really shouldn't have made fun of your 9th grade English teacher spending so much time on subject verb agreement
D) Run Away! Run Away!
Grapes of Wrath.
Honestly--is this what defines a good teacher?
I can spot iambic pentameter at 20 paces, but I am always a bit confused by hyperbole. Should I just give up this whole teaching game right now? Or until I can successfully use gerunds in a participle clause? And stop writing in sentence fragments?
The whole experience kind of makes you want to stab yourself with a number 2 soft lead pencil.
was it jw related?
a death?
a friendship gone bad?
Holy crap...such sad stories...
In comparison mine are pretty minor. I have four I guess...
i'm reading dave barry's "tricky business" right now....it's a hoot!
so...what're yall reading?.
frannie b
Well I just finished Animal Farm so I could teach it to my class...cool little book, when I finish what I am reading now I will have to pick up 1984.
Right now I am reading The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell ... a bunch of essays about history, politics, and such. (She is one of my favorite authors so I sit and giggle for hours when I read her, she's very witty.)
Also, The Austere Academy (book 5 in the Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket. They are kids books so they only take like an afternoon to read, but they are funny as hell! Very dark humor that never fails to tickle me.
I am also finishing up Skipping Toward Gomorrah by Dan Savage. Oh my god he is funny as hell! *note all conservatives stay far from this book, it will mess with your sensibilities--However, if you want a good laugh at religious conservative views, and just our pinchy society in general--it's a must read. (Here is the whole book summed up in one of his opening paragraphs--
The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. Unfortunately, this promise is considered problematic by some Americans. The very pursuits that make some Americans happy (some very happy indeed) are considered downright sinful by social conservatives. By itself, this attitude wouldn't be a problem if these other Americans were content to avoid activities they regard as sinful, live their lives according to their convictions, and recognize the right of their fellow Americans to do the same. While some Americans might choose to lead a less than virtuous existence, at least in William J. Bennett's estimation, what skin is it off Bennett's ass? If we aren't free to pursue our own version of happiness, then the first two items on Jefferson's wish list are without meaning. Life and liberty do us no good if we can't employ them?or waste them?in the pursuit of those things that make us happy.
