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17352. Jenerator - 11/4/2005 9:04:26 PM Arky,
I do enjoy reading your experiences in education. Sincerely, I believe you were meant to be a teacher. The best ones are those who love what they do. I know that I am not a great teacher. I am a good teacher, but not a great one. My heart isn't in it the way yours is.
Judith,
I didn't know that you were going through this! I hope they catch whatever it is in time to treat it without more foul tasting medicines!
Hi Mags! 17353. judithathome - 11/4/2005 10:34:24 PM I should get the results on Monday.
Today I bought the cutest little rosemary tree...I put it out on the porch and anyone coming to the door gets a nice whiff of it. 17354. Jenerator - 11/4/2005 10:38:55 PM I've seen rosemary topiaries, those are cool.
What other herbs do you have Judith?
I fear that my oregano is taking over the backyard even though I planted it in a pot. The dog ate some but spilled some of it in the grass and I am finding patches of it everywhere. 17355. judithathome - 11/4/2005 10:48:07 PM The tree is the only thing I have as far as herbs go...we have a small bougainvillea that is still alive after 6 months, though! 17356. Jenerator - 11/4/2005 10:58:31 PM That's my favorite plant! Every year, I have to replace it because of the Texas weather, though. 17357. arkymalarky - 11/5/2005 12:40:48 AM Thanks Jen! I've had enough experience in different districts to know that a lot of it has to do with the environment. I'm very glad that 25 years ago I changed school districts rather than just leaving teaching. The state education environment in AR is changing in such a way that I doubt I'll be at it much longer. I don't think I'm a great teacher, but I do think I've become a good advocate for teaching and rural schools. If the district I'm in now consolidates, I will definitely leave the profession.
17358. arkymalarky - 11/5/2005 12:42:14 AM I hope you get a good report on Monday, Judith! 17359. Jenerator - 11/5/2005 1:11:51 AM arky,
I have considered that maybe some of the issues we face in my school have a lot to do with the district itself, but my friends in other districts complain about the same problems.
Incidently, six guns have been confiscated this week from *my* school!
17360. judithathome - 11/5/2005 1:13:19 AM Yes, it's just an experiment for us. I'll report back on whether we have to make it a yearly thing. 17361. judithathome - 11/5/2005 1:16:46 AM(How odd...part of my post was missing...I meant to say my neighbor has banana trees, plumeria trees, and Hawaiian ginger plants around his pool and they survive the Texas winters.) 17362. judithathome - 11/5/2005 1:17:19 AM I think my computer is hexed! 17363. arkymalarky - 11/5/2005 1:22:27 AM Bob cut his banana trees to ground level and mulched them with pine straw. A friend said that's the best way to keep them through the winter. 17364. judithathome - 11/5/2005 1:25:02 AM Our neighbor does that, too, but you'd think the ginger and plumeria would die off because he does nothing to them. It's great to do down there during summer evenings and smell the scents of Hawaii here in the wild west! 17365. arkymalarky - 11/5/2005 1:25:59 AM Jen, for me rural is what works. I wouldn't still be teaching if I were in a large district, even an excellent one. But it could just be that I feel at home. Bob is in a larger (but still rural) district, and he's very content. Administration has a whole lot to do with how a school feels too, no matter what its size or condition. 17366. judithathome - 11/5/2005 1:33:44 AM Dodtor just called and it's not my gallbladder, it's my colon. So I have to have antibiotics and a if that doesn't help, another colonoscopy....bummer. 17367. arkymalarky - 11/5/2005 1:37:22 AM Oh man. 17368. judithathome - 11/5/2005 3:10:34 AM One good thing, though, is I don't have to have that arrogant asshole of a doctor who did my last one. My doctor assured me he would refer me to a nicer guy. (My current doc wasn't the one who sent me to that guy.) 17369. ScottLoar - 11/5/2005 5:22:40 AM Yesterday our daughter called in tears to say she found our cat dead. Long aging, most recently enfeebled with no appetite, the cat was found laying on the sofa in its usual place, nothing untoward save... our cat just passed away in its sleep.
A foolish thought: I wonder if it dreamed of us? We three, me, my wife and daughter, who took in a stray from the streets and raised it with us for fifteen years. Sure the cat had a name, but in the last few years it was always "kitty".
Kitty. We liked that. He liked that, too. 17370. Ulgine Barrows - 11/5/2005 6:03:19 AM Aw, I'm sorry kitty died.
15+ years is a long time for a cat to live, did you know.
Your family's love must have prolonged kitty's life. 17371. Ulgine Barrows - 11/5/2005 6:06:56 AM wabbit, those archives are funny. Thanks for the time you spent.
I remember how belligerent alistairconnor was, when he had to say he lived in Alabama to order from museumtour on the holiday hypermart thread.
And that guy in Target acting like I was trying to steal electronic stuff because I had groceries and stuff ~ he didn't have a scale to ring up vegetables on his register.
I'm too lazy to rip my albums to digital format, and I found that my local lending library has CDs of Rubber Soul, Revolver, and the like. Since I've paid for them once, is it stealing to rip them digitally from the library's copies?
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