also i had some unpleasant run-ins with the principal at my first student teaching placement last year and they felt awful in the thick of teaching, when i could hardly catch a breath to get some perspective but now that that intensity is over i can see that she was just miserable. it makes me mad that she had that job, but it didn't affect me in the longterm.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
Abbott it sounds like you handled that perfectly fine. I mean, what else were you supposed to do? That guy sounds dumb.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
abbott is prob the best teacher imo
― river wolf, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
I'm imagining you standing there stuck holding this urine soaked item while the vp hassles you endlessly about "Why are you holding a urine soaked item?" The answer being, "Because you won't shut up and let me go dispose of it!"
― thejenny, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
That was exactly it!! "Is it dog urine? cat urine? Human urine? How can you even stand holding that?" argh I just want to get rid of it
― not uplifting (Abbott), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
Many a wine out of nowhere spell will be cast on my desk tonight.
― not uplifting (Abbott), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
bless
― river wolf, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
I hate saying this, but you really shouldn't have been carrying around an item soaked in human bodily excretions, esp. if it was dripping wet. You didn't have a garbage/shopping bag available to wrap it in?
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 08:17 (twelve years ago) link
really?
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 11:36 (twelve years ago) link
abbott you did fine, imagine if you hadn't gotten it away and another student figured it out how much worse it would be for that kid than for you. you took a bullet for him like!
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 11:39 (twelve years ago) link
also you are the best teacher
yes, it was a kind and lovely and swift thing to do,
― estela, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 11:42 (twelve years ago) link
this may be the first, but it will not be the last time you are expected to do something like thatwelcome to the club
― league of women voters, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
Have you been talking to my vice principal?
― you are a baby seal (Abbott), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
No, I've just been working in health care for a decade. You're not paid enough to take the chance of getting sick. I understand that you did what you had to do, though, and I don't fault you for doing it.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
abbott, i like yr. line breaks.
last year i had a serial butt-scratcherasshole-manipulatorin my classhe was also very huggyinappropriately soand i made him settle for occasional handshakes
a pee-covered notbook is only a prelude torealizing there's a silver-dollar-sized smearthat isn't chocolate on the side of your handand that you have no ideahow long it has been thereand that you have to bleachand purell and bleach againand eventually take a showerand clip your nails a littlebefore you can feel clean again
and not let on how icked out you are.
― remy bean in exile, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.mayfieldhsband.org/images/large_brown_ribbon_8th.jpg
― remy bean in exile, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
haha what can you doI used to work with developmentally delayed kids and once in a store one of the kids pulled an entire turd out of his pants. I took him by the wrist (same logic as holding a snake right under its head) and walked him to the bathroom to deal with it. I could have yelled or lectured or told him he was awful and gross and unhealthy, or hemmed and hawed and wished I had a plastic bag, but I didn't. You have to work with what you have at the moment and solve the problem. I did tell the kid while we were in the bathroom that this is the place you go when you need to poop.
― you are a baby seal (Abbott), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
Abbott the public school administrators of the world do not deserve your awesomeness
― silby, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
pulled an entire turd out of his pants
omg
Christine - isn't urine pretty sterile? Given the situation it sounds like Abbott did exactly the right thing and I know I would have done the same.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
How did the urine get on the notebook? Did I miss that part or is no one asking the important question?
― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
it is a pystery
― bloating forecast: ruff swells (p much resigned to deems), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
smdh
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
It's awful an dismal out today but it's Wednesday which is sort of close to the weekend which is nice.
Couple of my friends surprised me with tickets to see a John Waters 1 man Christmas show on Sat night. Psyched.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
goddam u. i waited too long to get tix to that and then they were too expensive, and now i am sad. also, apparently, missed him signing books at the coop by about 20 minutes.
― remy bean in exile, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Well, two people cancelled so they have extra tickets they're trying to get rid of! Want me to find out how much they would want for them?
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
i was once pooped on by another kid, and the school didn't do a very good job of helping me out at all. i would have loved to have had an abbbottt helping me out that day!
― Z S, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
how did the pooping on happen
― dayo, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
^keepin it 77
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
e - yes
― remy bean in exile, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
I'm already on it. :) Will let you know.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
dublin-stansted-poznan 07/06/2011
Holy shit this just became a thing
― bloating forecast: ruff swells (p much resigned to deems), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
pricey? I'm getting my arm twisted majorly at the moment
― Number None, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
just booking the outbound flight, 80 quid pp no bother
Lol wait we're flying to leipzig
― bloating forecast: ruff swells (p much resigned to deems), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
Sure it's only down the road. There's all sorts of harebrained schemes involving complex combinations of flying and driving being presented to me.
― Number None, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
campervan ftw, or tent/interrail
Every other option seems to be too dependent on scarce/dear accommodation
― bloating forecast: ruff swells (p much resigned to deems), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
1. kindergarten2. sitting really close to the kid next to me, like legs touching, for some reason3. diarrhea explosion4. squirted up the back and side of his jeans5. "plop"6. *staaank*
― Z S, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
7. 8. profit
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
9. someone did end up taking me to the bathroom, where i splashed water on the poop stain on my right leg10. she asked if i would like to call my mom to bring a change of pants, but i was afraid of making my mom mad (???) and so i said no.11. spent the rest of the day in class with a poopstain on me.
see, an abbbottt-esque figure to help me was totally absent, i would have really appreciated it
― Z S, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
plop
― bloating forecast: ruff swells (p much resigned to deems), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
*plop*
― remy bean in exile, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
This seems like a setlist at an industry showcase
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
dude it was awesome & then half the crowd just left but they came right back on & played *staaank* it fuckin slayed
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
diarrhea explosion brought the house down
2 is a medley obv
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
2 is actually kinda a beautiful poem fro the ny school, just w/o linebreaks
sitting really close to the kid next to melike legs touchingfor some reason
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
I was Pooped On: the Z S Story
― Z S, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
*staaank* breeze
― lxy, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
Certain band being awesome today, making me feel all hopeful and like I have a heart again. Damn them.
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
- havent eaten a real meal since monday. currently polishing off a basket of fancy cheeses and crackers and antipasto that my aunt sent us for no reason
- havent gotten dressed, havent showered
- spent most of the morning playing skyrim and the afternoon playing records and interneting
- terrible waste of a midweek day off, so many boring chores to do
- thinking abt spending the change i scraped together for laundry on pizza instead
― blah blah blah (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link