I hate when that happens :gonk:

I seem to do that a lot, especially when I'm using a laptop and accidentally click outside of the text box. :C

Yeaaaaah. So very gosh darn frustrating.

This machine turns pandas into gnomes. I don't know how I feel about that, but it's cute!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ld...fsnio1_500.jpg

Poor rabbit. *huggles the bunny* I would never do that to a bunny. I'd keep the foot...with the rabbit attatched to it.

And hello, steel!

>< I feel sorry for the pandas.

Pandas are secretly gnomes anyway. It's just showing their true colors.
Heya VFA!

Googled it.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eUZJJbqpNi...N.47383033.jpg

IT IS TRUE o_o

Bwahaha. YES! THAT IS AWESOME

O.O I had no idea... My neighbor has a bunch of little lawn gnomes all over his lawn. I wonder if he knows their secret...

I've never seen anyone actually seriously have a lawn gnome. I had some college friends who had one in a "ha ha this thing is so ugly" sort of way.

lol He's the only person I've ever seen who has them. Whatever floats his boat though, right?

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>< Gotta go eat dinner now. I'll be back soon!

We have a ceramic turtle in our garden, but it came with the house xD

I've thought about moving it but it's currently positioned so that it's greeting us at the gate every time we come home. It's sortof cute.

Have a good meal!

There's a lady in my grandfather's neighborhood that even has the pink flamingos. Her house looks so goshdarn trashy. Hahaha.
I have the WORST headache ever.

Omg. Ping flamingos! :rofl:

The popular thing in the neighborhood I grew up in was the white goose you dress up for holidays. I didn't really like those either though.

Aww, headaches are crummy. I get awful migraines sometimes and they make me just want to crawl into a hole and hibernate until it's over. >_<

Yeah, it's because I worked today. Substitute teaching is pretty much a guarantee of a headache. Also, laryngitis.
The kids were actually really good today, just, that many kids in a room pretty much guarantees headaches. Heck, just passing periods give me headaches.
Thank goodness for caffeine and chocolate!

Do you sub any subject or just science/biology?

All subjects, all grades. There pretty much isn't anything I can't teach. I really hate elementary though, so I sign up for as few of those jobs as possible.
Today I taught math intervention to sixth through eighth graders.

Oof, middle school and junior high :gonk:

I decided that if I ever taught, even subbing, I would never do the puberty years. Way too intense for me.

I'd love to do high school math (except calc) or any elementary school classes. I have no idea what the requirements in Cali are though. In Missouri you were qualified as long as you had at least two years of college, even if you didn't have a degree.

Elementary kids are too intense and loud for me. And they don't have any self control.
In Texas, 60 hours qualifies you, but you make more if you have a degree, and more if you have a teaching certificate.

I think it would depend on the day for me. Sometimes I definitely have enough energy for elementary kids. I feel like it's easier to get them to behave too, and they're more likely to do what you ask of them.

Unless they're at camp, and then there's no way that I have enough energy all the time for them. I did overnight camps for 5th and 6th graders and those were some intense weeks. xD

But it's so fun to get them to do stuff without them realizing they're actually "working" (like get them to hike all the way across camp while singing camp songs so that they don't complain ONCE about how far it is! PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT \o/)

Haha, nice. See, I have a much harder time wrangling elementary kids than older kids. I'm constantly having to remind them of stuff, they're constantly melting down.
I'm kind of a "sink or swim" sort of teacher though. If you don't want to learn, I'm gonna let you fail. I have no use for laziness.

I would be too. Unless they're showing effort (or some obvious signs that there's something wrong and they've become reclused), I probably wouldn't put extra effort in.

Yeah, reminding them of a bazillion things can be exhausting, but then I discovered "Well what do your friends know?" and "What does the group think?" and deliberately answering "I don't know" to questions I know the answer to but don't want to discuss.

"WHAT IS OUR NEXT ACTIVITY?!?!?!?!?!?!?" "I don't know, we'll find out when we get there!"

"WHAT IS FOR LUNCH?!??!?!??!" "I don't know, we'll find out when we get there!" (but that we legitimately never knew, lol)

"WHAT TIME DO WE GO TO THE POOL?!?!?!" "Well I told the group earlier, do any of your friends know the answer?"

Oh, no. With elementary kids, every five seconds it's herding them back to what they're doing. They just wander off or get tired or forget what they're doing. Or want to do something else, and they just LEAVE the activity. It's like herding cats!

But by middle school, they can sit still better, and there are less reminders.

The hardest part for me was trying not to get into an argument with one of the kids who was proselytizing other children. I eventually redirected her energy into something else but it was tough :ninja:

I'm baaaaaaack!

Little kids make me lol. They're cute to be around...but after about an hour of being with them in the same room, you feel like chucking them into a wall. =.= That's why I gave up on babysitting.

Haha. Oh man, I am the WORST at not getting into arguments with kids. Because I was always raised with logical reasons for things and talking stuff out. And you just cannot do that in a classroom!