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I've not seen Coach Carter. Perhaps I'll have to. smile

I'm a bit scared of this...I've not been in my own classroom before, and while I will have a week of orientation stuff for new teachers...a week is NOT long to plan out everything, especially when you'll be in inservice all week from 8-3. I haven't even seen the text book yet!

I agree with you whole heartedly on the listening to our bodies thing.

Something else interesting:

I've always had bad sinus problems. They run in my family...my dad had them so bad that he used to have to give himself injections once a week for them. eek But this past year, December before last through last month, I worked at the Fort, and was outside ALL THE TIME. And sure..I may have been inside a building at the fort, but it was still 100F, or 30F, and I was still barefoot, wearing the same clothes I'd worn (and not been allowed to wash except in the river) since I got them in December, snuggling next to the fire in the cold, or trying to hide in the shade/breeze during hot days....and I had NO sinus problems this year. NONE! I didn't even get a cold, like I do EVERY spring and fall. It blew my mind!

It's amazing how much getting used to it helps. Because I was in it all the time, my body was able to adjust, instead of freaking out every time I stepped foot outside during pollen season.

Nifty! smile

I have three kitties, and luckily, am not alergic to them.

Interestingly enough, I've found that the ammount I'm allergic to a cat is inversely porportionate to it's intelligence....I've known some REALLY smart cats that I have no problem with, but the few really DUMB ones I've known stop me up like nothing. I'm not sure why...

LOL.

My roommate's cat has figured out how to open her door.

One of my birds can get out of one of the cages. And in...whenever he's out of the cage for a while he'll get into that one, because he knows he can leave it whenever he wants.

Aww. That's cute. Well...everyone needs their own room to retreat to when they want to.

Phew...just finished a contest I was having for a colorist for breedable pets. Just waiting to find out if the winner wants to be our colorist or not. sweatdrop I really hope so, she's GOOD, and I don't know who our second place would be.

A nifty artist named WritheNShine. Here are the samples she turned in:

(linked, to keep from taking up room)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/writhenshine/coloristcontest-writhenshin.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/writhenshine/dragon.jpg

Agreed. The pet should be really a good one, with her as the artist and SunFireDemon as the lineartist. I'm the thread manager, and Deljarum is the RP manager. It's going to be a relativly heavy RP pet, though not necessarily with journals, or a special guild.

Nifty concept too....pets brought from other worlds/dimensions to Earth, as part of a univeral pet trade company. smile

well, I've got to head to bed. I have to be at work at 8, and it's at least a 30 minute drive.

Have a good evening!

I admire you for being a teacher. I think teaching would be hard, especially since being around a lot of people makes me sort of freak out and get really stressed. I don't enjoy being around others at all when my husband isn't there to be my "buffer." And I understand about the sinus problems. I didn't have a single one living in either Maine or Arizona and then I joined the military and I had problems ALL the time. I still have a postnasal drip a lot of the time but I think right now it might be just because I'm pregnant. I'm hoping that, like most of my health problems, it was mostly stress and being too busy to eat right. We didn't get lunch breaks at my job even if we were working a 12 hour shift. You either had to bring food or hope that someone went out who could bring some back during the day. (Usually fast food.) Otherwise there were snacks you could buy. Only the military could treat people that way. And they also bitched at us for not eating right and for people gaining weight. Figures. Jerks.