NPR, which is so sassy, had the quote of them calling it "a narcisstic" and said "That's pretty rich, coming from a music festival with a beauty bar."

My brother and his wife left the chapel to "Jackson" by June and Johnny Cash. I was in the wedding party and I could not stop laughing.

I just said that upthread. "Sober" is one of the most beautiful songs in contemporary country and I heard it on the radio, like, once.

Little Big Town has some really great songs.

I feel that. We have Spring break starting next Thursday (a bullshit Thurs-Monday break, it's the worst) and I'm already dreading trying to get through graphing exponentials.

It was about half and half- some of them had no idea what was going on, some were devastated.

What actually is scary though is that deaths by car accident increases by 10%. There was an interesting piece on NPR about it. So there's that.

I would imagine that, all over the country today, teachers everywhere just threw up their hands and went "Fuck it, we'll cover this tomorrow."

It's a skill you get when you teach teenagers. Because when you say "Ok guys, this one is really hard." And a kid yells "That's what she said!" You have explain how inappropriate it is for the setting, which is hard when you're doubled over laughing.
Which is something I learned the hard way :)

That's what I thought of. I listened to their albums for days and days and my parents were like "You're going to be hella embarrassed by this, but I guess just do you."

One of my students in crying right now, in Algebra 2, while they all discuss it. My impulse is to roll my eyes, because "Sweetie. No." But I'm trying to remember how awful and hormonal it is to be a teenage girl and then I thought of Ginger Spice leaving the Spice Girls and I'm like "OK, you can cry. But you still…

I mean, my thought about the cafeteria thing was "Well he should've approached her alone!" And then I thought about it again and realized that he has literally no reason to think that that would be threatening because it is probably so outside of anything that's ever occurred to him.

GodDAMN. That was fucking harsh. HARSH.

So, (I'm mostly spitballing here) in a parliamentary system, the party that wins selects the prime minister and forms a government. That, however, requires getting some percentage majority of seats, not just 51% like it is in the U.S.

So, the funniest moment with Jane Krakowski's parents was when her dad went "What do they call sitting Indian style?" And she says "Criss-Cross-Apple-Sauce" and both her parents freak out, and I have no idea what her dad says, but I heard her mom very clearly say "We invented that!" And it made me laugh so fucking…

I'd rather not say- Kinja has a lot of problems, but I do appreciate the ability it gives me to anonymously complain about my students :)

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This^^ I went to a hippy dippy college in Florida and it was full of new-wave hipsters talking environment and vegetarian and "money doesn't even matter capitalism is bullshit" and then driving their Mercedes to pick up weed in the poorest parts of town, contributing to the horrific violence of those neighborhoods and…

It reminds me of that state senator (one of the Carolina's, maybe?) who proposed an amendment to an abortion law. The law was that any woman seeking an abortion had to get a transvaginal ultrasound. So she added the amendment that any man seeking a Viagra prescription had to get a colonoscopy.

I went to college in Florida, just a couple of hours from Orlando. One day, my close friend and I went to the mall to wander around and not buy things. While we were there, he told me in confidence that my two best girl friends were not, as they'd told me, out of town in respectively difference locations, but had gone…