Fellow teacher here — this is my first year. I've yet to have my first parent-teacher conference over a disciplinary issue, but I know that when I do I will be super nervous. However, my fellow teachers with more experience all say that they were nervous to contact/meet with parents in the beginning too. You wouldn't…

Hopefully, one of them will bring you chocolate. :)

You will be great at your teacher conferences. You have the data. You know your kids. You can do it. Break a leg!

Cheer up. Back in the good old days you would have been run out of town for your trifling ways.

How do you feel about him?

How 'bout we get rid of Mondays while we're at it?

What's really baffling to me is how the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been known for months now and up until a couple of days ago people were just being asked if they might have caught Ebola when entering other countries, including the US.

I would simply like to say that The Gilmore Girls is my most favorite-est show of all time.

10 years of ballet, 5 of tap and 3 of jazz and after watching this I'm left wondering why I wasted so much of my parents money. I can dance toe point, but that makes me feel like I may as well continue to sit here and watch Buffy.

Totally! Whenever I see bees I put my hand next to them hoping they'll climb on it, and many times they do. In hundreds of encounters I've only been stung as a kid while messing around near a hive. Otherwise they're just happy-go-lucky. Especially the really fat fuzzy ones. Little fat bastards.

Bees are SO squee!!!

I saw an interview with a director who said that it's much harder to make a good movie than a bad one because to make a good movie, the writing, acting, editing, and directing have to be good, whereas if even one of the above factors is bad, the whole movie will be bad.

This was delightful!

You thought "@amandabynes: My dad never did any of those things The microchip in my brain made me say those things but he's the one that ordered them to microchip me" was a coherent tweet?

Same. This Motown version sounds like a dirge in comparison. I would have enjoyed this if it were more Fontella Bass and less Pat Boone. The whole reason that I like the original is that it makes me want to bop. And I am not, in general, a bopper. Shake It Off is one of the few songs that my 3 year old niece and I…

oh my god, my first dog used to do shit like this with rocks. there was a very specific sequence of events.

Maybe I'm nuts, but I see that Chastian comment as a criticism of lazy casting and by no means throwing shade at Streep.

No, I do know, just that this subject has a lot of grey area that most folks feel uncomfortable talking about - as though just having a normal conversation about it makes it bad.

mmm, yeah… does he know how she knew? common friends? otherwise she might be still have feelings, but maybe she's trying to get over them, and if she isn't she'll lose one potential friend if not two, so she can suck it! Your boyfriend seems pretty down with keeping you posted with this so….

You can totally ask how she is, and you could always invite her for dinner so you can see how they interact. One of my besties who happens to be my roommate is an ex, I love him to death, we have each others back and we have no lingering feelings whatsoever. You seems like a considerate, openminded person so if you…