Yeah, I live on my own, but because I am a schoolteacher in Indiana, my parents pretty much have to subsidize my career. And you know what? I'm done being ashamed of it. If anything, the state should be ashamed that they pay teachers this little.

yeah, I think some nip is what's called for here.

Interestingly, this is the opposite of what the careers office said to do.

Right, because anything about all the paperwork of a regular classroom + mountains of legal special education documents = easy.

I hate voicemail. Send me a text and move on. Or, saving that, do not leave a voicemail longer than five words, 1-2 of which should be your name.

I actually really love it. I wish more guys would wear 'em.

Uh, according to a brief perusal of wikipedia, midazolam does not, in fact, cause anxiety, but rather suppresses it. Which is good, because I was about to be like, what the fuck, Oklahoma, you give them a drug to make them more scared?

We did a color coded thing, but it was more for fun, because they designed the seating arrangement to be the school's logo. As uptight as the place was about a lot of things, I can't imagine that if a kid had really wanted to wear the other color, they wouldn't have worked it out.

Oh Wheaton, fuck you. We know how to do things right in the HoFlo. (Sorry, high school rivalry rears it's ugly head).

Welp, I didn't need the ten dollars I just felt like giving this guy.

I think you need to factcheck the part about Common Core. There is nothing about sex in the Common Core, they are just a bunch of strangely written ELA and Math standards.

There are a lot of reasons to be against the CC, but nonexistent sex-Ed standards is a new one on me.

Thank you for sharing this.

Teacher bashing is such a feature of the reality of a teacher that we even do it to each other. Sigh.

The world is full of nuts. We should, I dunno, dip them in chocolate and eat them while they scream?

... I am coming over to play. I will bring the science kit!

Maybe. I'd hate to think that this is a thing more than one person does. But of course it is not.

If my co-workers told me that, I would have to acknowledge that it was true.

And really, who can't watch Frozen again?

The only consolation here is that if your friends are fun, they will probably raise fun kids. I am cheerfully going to leave everything someday to my "niece," presumably after I expire while we are out dancing. Man that kid can dance.