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Sunday, Bloody Sunday

I know you might have been thinking, "Mrs. Mimi is going to bag on us on day three ???" all day, as you furiously refreshed my blog page, waiting to see if I would write today. Or maybe, and probably more realistically, you carried on about your day without Read More...

Egg Nog, Vacation and Freebies, Oh MY!

If you're like me, you've been spending all your free time running around to various malls, shopping plazas, and speciality stores in search of the perfect gift(s) and literally vomiting money along the way. Seriously, it's like we can't give it away Read More...

I Got My Mind On My Money and My Money On My Mind

Oh friends! My heart is literally pounding for I am angry! Irritated! Astounded! And no,before you jump to conclusions, this has NOTHING to do with the Bacon Hunter! (Surprised?) Today I am angry because I finally read the story from Sunday's New York Read More...

What's Your Sleep Number?

And no, by asking you what your "sleep number" is, I"m not implying that the good people at Sleepys have gotten to me with their hilarious and adorable little sheep, flooding me with cash to pimp their goods. That's not it at all. I mean, geez, I still Read More...

Someone Cue the Fat Lady?

I think it may be time for her to start singing. There are a few annual events at my school that are prime for high drama. These are days in which tempers run high and the bullshit is thick and deep. For example, Picture Day is a day filled with last Read More...

How Low Can You Go?

I think we might have set the bar so low for professionalism that it may now be more appropriately used for a limbo contest. Seriously. We are currently demo-ing potential new teachers for the few open positions in our school. To those of you non-teachers Read More...

It Must Be Nice...

...To Have No Observable Work Ethic. I guess. I don't think I could look 20 children in the eyes and think to myself, "self, I'm going home early today...screw all that work!" But hey, that's just me. Evidently I take my job a bit more seriously than Read More...

Like A Dog With a Bone...

I am not letting this most recent drama go. If you haven't read my post from yesterday, check it out, because it's juicy! So. I go in super early this morning and try to talk to The Visionary. Over the weekend, I sent him a fairly specific email regarding Read More...

Back With a Vengence

Alternative Title for this post - I Think I Might Throw My First Punch Soon... Oh man. I am angry. Angry with a capital P-I-S-S-E-D! I was having this lovely little Friday with my friends...I introduced a group of super excited readers to a new character, Read More...

Somehow, It Doesn't Feel Like A Choice...

Last May, my printer started defiantly flashing those two dreaded words: "Low Toner". Rather listen to the desperate pleas of my printer, I kept printing away. Because I could. Well, friends, I have pushed the envelope too far, and I am officially not Read More...

Put A Fork In Me...

I think you know how the rest of that little saying goes. I'm so disappointed in myself. Here it is 22 days into 2009 and I was doing such a good job of staying positive. I'm loving my class more and even getting some better results out of Big Boy. Everything Read More...

My Version of a Tightrope

For this post, please picture me in a tutu with those fabulous lace up ballet shoes. I would never actually buy them, but sometimes, I think they sound amazing. We are not going to explore that one any further. So my metaphorical tightrope is my relationship Read More...

It's Getting Hot In Here...

...So Take Off All Your Clothes...or at least strip down to a school- appropriate layer. Why you ask? Why are we stripping in my classroom? In December? Because today it was officially 89 degrees in my classroom. Yes, 89. I'm thinking about dressing everyone Read More...

My Kingdom For A Parking Space - The Grand Finale

A while back I wrote about the great Parking Wars of 2008 and how our current union representative was as helpful and well, representative of us as a pile of poo . Yea, I said it. If you haven’t yet read those posts, shame on you...but now is you opportunity Read More...

I Think The Pot Just Called Me Black...

Recently, when I have written about issues I have had with some of my students’ parents, things have gotten, um, heated. And that’s cool. It used to make me upset, and now I just kind of think of myself as the Linda Richman of Teacher Talk – like I could Read More...
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