Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
In the last 11 days I have lost another 4.5 pounds. On August 1st, I decided a change needed to be made and I set out to make myself half the person I used to be. So far I have lost 13 pounds altogether. Inches are coming off, too. Of [...]
This weeeeeek will go down in the history of my life as one of the longest on record. Disaster precipated disaster. I have never been given so many new tasks with so little direction in such a small amount of time. Monday I was given paperwork at 8 o’clock in [...]
Our school staffs about 68 people. Eleven of them are men. The men and women have the exact same amount of bathrooms on our campus. Some of the women grumble that it makes no sense. Others of us take a different course. There are two single stall bathrooms in the [...]
My car door was tagged. The mark was on the passenger side, so I may not have spotted it right away. It was made with a brown marker — probably a Sharpie. It was the sign of a local gang. The discovery left me feeling doubly violated — someone vandalized [...]
Jake just couldn’t keep it together. He got in a fight in reading class (name calling, eraser throwing) and received a citation. He repeated the performance during writng period and received yet another citation – and lunch detention from me. At lunch time Jake informed me that he had also [...]