Dear So and So

[Crankin]

I had the kids of more than one principal. The year one of my teammates was verbally abusing my class in particular when they went to her for math, it got so bad that finally I said to the daughter of the HS principal, (I can still see us sitting on the rug and me saying this through clenched teeth) "tell your father." I now believe that this woman was bipolar, but after the kids filled up 4 pieces of chart paper with complaints about her and the counselor was having to come in to my class daily, I had had it. Fifth graders didn't need that.
How can you be a teacher today and not be goal oriented?
Fourth graders would occasionally cry when they found out they had me for fifth grade, because they realized they would have to work! It became less of an issue when i when to a 6th/7th loop in middle school. I was on the team that had high expectations, but in a kid friendly way. As opposed to the "kill and drill" b*tches who thought I was evil incarnate when I first arrived at the school. Thankfully, by the time I left, they all were gone and everyone was on board. My school was great and I was very lucky to have been there for 8 years.

[ultraviolet]

Dear self,

You're more than fully booked on projects. Absolutely no more until you've freed up at least 25 hours of billable time a week. I mean it. There will be consequences for non-compliance. Don't make me get rid of some of your toys.

Love,
me

[Owlie]

Dear friend, and boyfriend's mom--
I do not really want to hear anything else about Zumba. I'm glad you enjoy it, but I think you both need to find different things to talk about...

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Dear friend, and boyfriend's mom--
I do not really want to hear anything else about Zumba. I'm glad you enjoy it, but I think you both need to find different things to talk about...

LOL! That sounds like me with my contra dancing and beekeeping...I can't seem to shut up about it!

[Owlie]

Dear bike--
If it's not one thing with you, it's another. We're going to the shop tomorrow morning, and you're not getting a sticker or a lollipop on the way out.

[Trek420]

LOL! That sounds like me with my contra dancing and beekeeping...I can't seem to shut up about it!

Yeah, but those are interesting, especially bee keeping. You get to wear the hats with a mask and run around with the smoke thing, and there's honey. It's a skill, you watch the bee's dance, there's tastings ....

Zumba?

And thanks, V. If you can read and post to TE, thank a teacher.

[Owlie]

My boyfriend's mom--as much as I love her--has 2.5 topics of conversation, to my knowledge:
-Zumba/her friends from Zumba
-sometimes cycling
-DBF

I know she teaches Zumba (as part of her second job), and DBF and his dad tend to monopolize conversations about cycling, but still.

Beekeeping is at least interesting and isn't something most of us know much about.

[divingbiker]

Dear friend, and boyfriend's mom--
I do not really want to hear anything else about Zumba. I'm glad you enjoy it, but I think you both need to find different things to talk about...

Haha. Zumba people do seem to be rather cult-like, don't they?

[indysteel]

At least your BF's parents are active, Owlie. My in-laws' hobby is monitoring the comings and goings of their neighbors from their kitchen window. I can't tell you how absolutely rivoting our conversations--if you want to call them that--about that subject are. During a recent visit to our house, my FIL made a beeline to OUR kitchen window and starting reporting about our next door neighbor. I wanted to scream.

[Becky]

Haha. Zumba people do seem to be rather cult-like, don't they?

To say the least! I tried it twice and, while the actual class was fun, the catty, obsessed women drove me to the brink!

[Crankin]

I want to tell all of the Zumba people to get outside!
People probably think I talk too much about cycling, although I try to really limit it with my regular friends, and especially at work.

Owlie, your comment made me think of all the characters I knew at my old gym. They do seem cult like, even though they weren't all doing one thing. When I was going into Trader Joe's Monday I saw the one who I was most amazed at. She spent all morning on the treadmill, running at a very high speed. I mean, she ran for at least 2 hours. She spent some time lifting weights, too, but she ran every day, in full make up and she barely sweat. Always with a friend who was walking on the treadmill. She never did any races or ran outside. I actually heard her say she hated being outside. She was still wearing her gym clothes when I saw her in the early afternoon.
I don't know why this person irked me so much, but she definitely has an issue.

[Trek420]

Haha. Zumba people do seem to be rather cult-like, don't they?

And we're not? 3092 posts about wool?

[spokewench]

And we're not? 3092 posts about wool?

Snort!

[Eden]

Dear uninsured driver who hit me 2 years ago....

I'm still (perhaps finally?) feeling the effects of stopping very abruptly against your car. I don't know what happened to you - I know you had a court date that was for some reason, not explained to me, canceled. I hope you got a honking *big* ticket - I hope you still remember and are feeling the effects too....