inkycatz wrote:Feel better. Here is a soothing otter in hopes that helps.

cute!! Thanks!

mommadeb1 wrote:I am about ready to try anything!!!! nothing like spending your day off, in bed in total pain!! poor kids, came home from school, came into my room to tell me they were home and that is all they saw of me....til they came in to tell me they were going to bed...

There is a massage thingy on sport woot, and one person in teh comments said they used it for migraines.

Just bought some Ardente Mix and it's my 100th purchase!!!

CAGrl wrote:Just bought some Ardente Mix and it's my 100th purchase!!!

Sweet! One for me?

I'm at 67 ... A ways to go

cmaldoon wrote:Sweet! One for me?

I'm at 67 ... A ways to go

Yup. 1 for you and 1 for me. I probably joined earlier than you.

mommadeb1 wrote:I am about ready to try anything!!!! nothing like spending your day off, in bed in total pain!! poor kids, came home from school, came into my room to tell me they were home and that is all they saw of me....til they came in to tell me they were going to bed...

Hope you're feeling better!

Oh, how exciting! This is my 3,500th post! Ha!

ddeuddeg wrote:This is what totally out of control must be like.

But then again, it could be an early Xmas present!!!

CAGrl wrote:Yup. 1 for you and 1 for me. I probably joined earlier than you.

Year and a half, yep

CAGrl wrote:Just bought some Ardente Mix and it's my 100th purchase!!!

congrats!!!!

chemvictim wrote:There is a massage thingy on sport woot, and one person in teh comments said they used it for migraines.

thanks!

bahwm wrote:Hope you're feeling better!

thanks.... I think this will force me to call the other Dr. that was recommended.. I just haven't taken the time to do so...but I am SO over this!!! day 2, still some headache, not half as bad as yesterday.... but, I will be going back to bed as soon as I get my son off to school... Have a great day everyone,..... Don't forget to Vote!!

Alright, I am officially a mess: just got an email that our grades are due tomorrow by noon. My immediate reaction was, "Whaaat, we just find this out NOW?" I thought they were due Wednesday by 8 AM. Noon is better, right? One of my colleagues looked at me and said, "But tomorrow is Wednesday, right?" I breathed a sigh of relief! I actually have a little more time to finish comments instead of doing an all nighter. I still need to finish grading some tests. ddeuddeg has grades due tomorrow.

Must get out to vote later and get to choir practice, too!

bahwm wrote:Alright, I am officially a mess: just got an email that our grades are due tomorrow by noon. My immediate reaction was, "Whaaat, we just find this out NOW?" I thought they were due Wednesday by 8 AM. Noon is better, right? One of my colleagues looked at me and said, "But tomorrow is Wednesday, right?" I breathed a sigh of relief! I actually have a little more time to finish comments instead of doing an all nighter. I still need to finish grading some tests. ddeuddeg has grades due tomorrow.

Must get out to vote later and get to choir practice, too!

You're sounding rather like a student cramming for a test...

bhodilee wrote:First off, it was fun while it lasted Mike Vick, you suck at football almost as much as you suck at life.

Second, who can tell me whats wrong with this, aside from it being hideous.

Tigers don't live in Africa and it's only 5x7? I need an 8x10... pollsters

I think it's finally getting cold enough that I shouldn't sleep with the window open. I was cruelly cheated out of an hour's sleep due to almost freezing to death.

bhodilee wrote:I want an otter so bad it's physically painful.

At least it's not a gerbil that you want.

bhodilee wrote:I want an otter so bad it's physically painful.

This dancing otter is just for you then.

inkycatz wrote:This dancing otter is just for you then.

I needed that otter. Today my job has been HP Plotter repairman. Not a job I'm suited for, but I do believe I've fixed the damn belt. I love my job. I went to school for 8 years, got a Masters in Geography, work as a Geographic Information Systems Specialist and all around Scientific whiz kid and what have I done the last two weeks. Fixed a Bunn coffemaker and an HP Plotter. Sumbitch.

bahwm wrote:Alright, I am officially a mess: just got an email that our grades are due tomorrow by noon. My immediate reaction was, "Whaaat, we just find this out NOW?" I thought they were due Wednesday by 8 AM. Noon is better, right? One of my colleagues looked at me and said, "But tomorrow is Wednesday, right?" I breathed a sigh of relief! I actually have a little more time to finish comments instead of doing an all nighter. I still need to finish grading some tests. ddeuddeg has grades due tomorrow.

Must get out to vote later and get to choir practice, too!

breathe!!! you will get it all done in plenty of time!!

bhodilee wrote:I needed that otter. Today my job has been HP Plotter repairman. Not a job I'm suited for, but I do believe I've fixed the damn belt. I love my job. I went to school for 8 years, got a Masters in Geography, work as a Geographic Information Systems Specialist and all around Scientific whiz kid and what have I done the last two weeks. Fixed a Bunn coffemaker and an HP Plotter. Sumbitch.

You're multi-talented. I haven't fixed a mechanical device in just about forever.

mommadeb1 wrote:breathe!!! you will get it all done in plenty of time!!

Thanks! What rjq doesn't realize is that I still had to finish grading Unit Tests. I had a number of kids out for illnesses and funerals and, and . . . Now, I need to finish the make-up work & enter those corrected grades and double check to see if I recorded other completed work on my sheets, but haven't updated the electronic gradebook! The good news is that I'll have time in the AM to finish comments that I don't get to tonight!

bhodilee wrote:First off, it was fun while it lasted Mike Vick, you suck at football almost as much as you suck at life.

Second, who can tell me whats wrong with this, aside from it being hideous.

That rug would go well with the life sized lucite panther someone had in the bedroom of a house my husband and I looked at. It stood on it's hind legs and had the front paws propped up against a mirrored wall. All it needed was a chrome pole in the corner to complete the ensemble. As you might guess, we didn't buy that house. Not really a fan of the Scarface interior design style.

bahwm wrote:Thanks! What rjq doesn't realize is that I still had to finish grading Unit Tests. I had a number of kids out for illnesses and funerals and, and . . . Now, I need to finish the make-up work & enter those corrected grades and double check to see if I recorded other completed work on my sheets, but haven't updated the electronic gradebook! The good news is that I'll have time in the AM to finish comments that I don't get to tonight!

Now you're sounding like the faculty I have to work with here doing IT support at the U. Hey, someone has to do it, have some whine.
We're so tired here of the administration offloading all the work to the departments, and not funding it, I could just scream, and at times do!

Quarter or semester system?
Quarter here, and it all comes just that much faster.
So, actually I do get it, but you still sounded a bit like an undergrad.
Don't be mad at me.

rjquillin wrote:Now you're sounding like the faculty I have to work with here doing IT support at the U. Hey, someone has to do it, have some whine.
We're so tired here of the administration offloading all the work to the departments, and not funding it, I could just scream, and at times do!

Quarter or semester system?
Quarter here, and it all comes just that much faster.
So, actually I do get it, but you still sounded a bit like an undergrad.
Don't be mad at me.

Love undergrads. First question I always asked, who took this class because they didn't want to take physics or chemistry? 90% hand raise and smug looks that fell into depression when I said great, cause geology is basically just physics AND chemistry. Be prepared for a crash course on both! Probably got a 30% drop rate by the second class.

bahwm wrote:Thanks! What rjq doesn't realize is that I still had to finish grading Unit Tests. I had a number of kids out for illnesses and funerals and, and . . . Now, I need to finish the make-up work & enter those corrected grades and double check to see if I recorded other completed work on my sheets, but haven't updated the electronic gradebook! The good news is that I'll have time in the AM to finish comments that I don't get to tonight!

good luck!!

rjquillin wrote:Now you're sounding like the faculty I have to work with here doing IT support at the U. Hey, someone has to do it, have some whine.
We're so tired here of the administration offloading all the work to the departments, and not funding it, I could just scream, and at times do!

Quarter or semester system?
Quarter here, and it all comes just that much faster.
So, actually I do get it, but you still sounded a bit like an undergrad.
Don't be mad at me.

Sorry about sounding like an undergrad. I have been known to do all nighters or at least until 3 or 4 AM at grade reporting time. I always want to get something else in that I hadn't finished grading. We are on the quarter system here, but we have to do progress reports every 5 weeks. So, 5 weeks PR, 10 wks report cards, 15 wks PR, etc. I'm not mad at you. Don't worry. I have no idea how I misread my assistant principal's email though. I guess I just forgot what day of the week it was and forgot how to tell time???? THAT would be really scary! Fatigue. Long weekend is coming!

Time to get back to work.

mommadeb1 wrote:good luck!!

This!
You need it.

bhodilee wrote:Love undergrads. First question I always asked, who took this class because they didn't want to take physics or chemistry? 90% hand raise and smug looks that fell into depression when I said great, cause geology is basically just physics AND chemistry. Be prepared for a crash course on both! Probably got a 30% drop rate by the second class.

That was nicely done.

bhodilee wrote:I needed that otter. Today my job has been HP Plotter repairman. Not a job I'm suited for, but I do believe I've fixed the damn belt. I love my job. I went to school for 8 years, got a Masters in Geography, work as a Geographic Information Systems Specialist and all around Scientific whiz kid and what have I done the last two weeks. Fixed a Bunn coffemaker and an HP Plotter. Sumbitch.

Don't get me started on plotters. I work in a large engineering office with a lot of engineers near retirement age. I spent a lot of time fixing the damn thing or troubleshooting other people's problems with it, some how word got out that I was the go to guy for all plotter problems. Makes me want to seek other employment.

So how late are the polls open in California and in the Western States?

cortot20 wrote:Don't get me started on plotters. I work in a large engineering office with a lot of engineers near retirement age. I spent a lot of time fixing the damn thing or troubleshooting other people's problems with it, some how word got out that I was the go to guy for all plotter problems. Makes me want to seek other employment.

We have an HP 5500PS. What do you have? Turned out to be not so bad, but I did end up with a plastic clip I forgot to put back. Looks like a cable clip though, so no biggie.

bhodilee wrote:Love undergrads. First question I always asked, who took this class because they didn't want to take physics or chemistry? 90% hand raise and smug looks that fell into depression when I said great, cause geology is basically just physics AND chemistry. Be prepared for a crash course on both! Probably got a 30% drop rate by the second class.

I spent about 25 years teaching part-time at the local community college, and taught pretty much every course in the catalog. We gave a placement test to all incoming freshmen, and insisted they abide by the results. Not always popular, especially when they had to take a developmental (not for credit) course, essentially 9th grade algebra, to be ready to take the course they needed for their program. One semester, I had a student in her mid-20's approach me after the second class, claiming she had already had all this math in high school, and shouldn't be taking the class. Realizing her skills were probably rusty, I pointed out that the placement test showed that she belonged there. She repeated her protest that she already had all that math, and we went back and forth with the same argument a few times before she said what I already knew she was thinking, "But I can't get credit for this course," to which I responded "And you can't get credit for an F in Math 125 either, and that's what you'll get if you don't complete this course successfully." That ended the conversation.

bahwm wrote:So how late are the polls open in California and in the Western States?

CA closed at 20:00, that'd be 8PM.

rjquillin wrote:CA closed at 20:00, that'd be 8PM.

We had to rewrite code on our time sheets because people in our office couldn't figure out Military Time. Now you get my animosity displayed in the other thread.

rjquillin wrote:CA closed at 20:00, that'd be 8PM.

Thanks for the translation, but not a prob for me: I teach French & Spanish and have lived in countries where this is de rigeur!

BTW, I'm going to leave the report card comments for the morning. All updates have been made and comment list triaged. It's looking good!

This guy on fox news literally looks like a zombie.

Also, I need to shave my head. Anyone use an electric razor for this? Recs?

bhodilee wrote:This guy on fox news literally looks like a zombie.

Also, I need to shave my head. Anyone use an electric razor for this? Recs?

I don't have a recommendation. Just thinking...don't shave yer head. It's cold out.

bhodilee wrote:We had to rewrite code on our time sheets because people in our office couldn't figure out Military Time. Now you get my animosity displayed in the other thread.

I also do dates-time thusly
2012.11.07.01:56 or even just 201211070157
much easier to sort that way.

bahwm wrote:Thanks for the translation, but not a prob for me: I teach French & Spanish and have lived in countries where this is de rigeur!

BTW, I'm going to leave the report card comments for the morning. All updates have been made and comment list triaged. It's looking good!

Great to hear you soldiered thru and made it at a decent hour.
AM/PM should be made illegal.