Thanks. I've always known I was meant to be a teacher. I put off college until my kids were older and now that it's finally happening I'm ecstatic.

That's my game plan. And honestly there are only five faculty members that have been in the school over five years. From what I've been told unless you screw or murder a student they will have you as long as you'll stay.

That's an excellent game plan. If all goes well I am going to be at a high school that is located in an extremely poverty stricken town, high dropout rate, gangs, drugs, pregnancies etc (by choice) and whether or not I mumble a *shit* now and then won't matter much.

Even I know you can't actually call them shitdicks. But asshats, that's fair game since they laughed at you.

I can fucking do this!!!!

To be fair I don't know when I say it either. It's my biggest fear for when I start teaching.

That's fucking horrible. So sorry.

Yep, I was induced and on pitocin for 3 1/2 days. He only finally came out when they upped the pitocin to the max and broke my water. I was induced in my due date with my second. Some of us just can't do it on our own. *shrug*

Oooffff, seconded that once you have a kid it's not about you anymore. My oldest is 15 and I was went 43 weeks and was in labor for 3 1/2 days. If it weren't for medical intervention I might have never had the stubborn jerk :-) Turns out he was almost 11 lbs and not wanting to do what I wanted to do, ya know, come…

I'm really loving that you wrote this. There is a specific quality of humans to in group and out group people. We categorize because out lizard brain trained itself to do that to perceive threats. But the thing is that we aren't lizards anymore.

Definitely. I also prompt them to retell me what I said in their own words.

I KNEW IT! *cries*

I use "does that make sense" all the damn time. But I'm getting certified to teach high school and it's so critical to make sure that the student is picking up what you are laying down. Does that make sense?

When I was a kid our church had a women's group called the Dorcas' Guild. For years I thought I was the Dorks Guild and couldn't comprehend.

It's easy to do. Once you start getting their incredible sausage and jerky and baked goods. They have an entire fudge bar with over 20 types of fudge. Not to mention the Buc-ees section where you can buy anything you can think of with that damn beaver on it.

It's Danielle. Which I think is pretty and can be feminine or sophisticate and sort of timeless. In some ways I think it's the only way to remove the patriarchy of name giving and passing down.

Yes! It's ridiculously huge and pretty cool and te deli food is amazing. Just use cash.

I love LOVE Buc-ee's. Word of caution however, they opened the new huge ass one on the way to the island (Galveston) and myself and four people I know had our bank accounts compromised after using our debit cards there.

Mark are you in Houston? It seems like I see a lot of stories from KHOU these days.

Yep. felt like royalty. Walking out of work on a Friday night with $250 in cash? I was banking. And if it were just young kids and college students waiting tables I wouldn't bat an eye at the tipping culture if the US. But it's not. Too many servers are single moms and people that have somehow made serving a career.