just ignore and let this one die

awww, everyone needs a proper holiday....huggles for trout



and for everyone else...for whatever reason...

One place i will never forget is Trona, In the southeastern California. I'm not sure it's in the San Joaquin Valley. The town is a mining town owned basically (or was at that time) by the Kerr-McGee plant built there for processing soda ash. The entire town is covered with lime dust, and a creepier, more depressing place can't be imagined. Crappy little strip malls, depressing, junk-strewn yards, and not a blade of grass, or a cactus, or even a stray dog to be seen... It was raining the day i went through, so the piles of lime dust were interspersed with puddles of gray quicksand, and the buildings streaked with the dust turned to mud by the rain. Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

(My apologies to anyone who lives in Trona)

Thanks, and thank you for the coffee.

I c'n sympathise. I worked as an aide at a school for kids was developmentally disabled f'r a while. I hadda learn to not wear dangly earrings an stuff, cuz they could be ripped out. Running shoes were a must-have, too. I left there after an injury, an seeing other teachers and aids gettin hurt.

I get 20 days holiday, 3 of which I have to reserve for between Christmas and New Year. i think this works out at like 4 working weeks.

But then, we have to use our holiday days for hospital/doctor appointments etc, so we prolly end up with 2/3 weeks per year.

/me tries to ignore the sudden green tinge to her skin

I've never had a vacation. Just occasionally a day off here or there.
I'm sorry you only get 2 to 3 weeks off per year.

aaawwww

/me sends a hug and lots of sympathy your way

Thanks. I'm just glad that Sept. 1st is Labor day. Then I'll probably learn that that isn't a holiday I get off, or that I'll be forced to work that day anyway. After that is Oct. 13, Columbus Day. Vetern's day November 11, Tuesday, and Thanksgiving November 27, Thursday - and yes, I have to work the monday before (and the rest of the days after) Vetern's day, and Friday after Thanksgiving. December 25, Thursday (yay, another Friday after a holiday I work). gosh darn it. Jan 1 - Thursday, yet another friday I work after a holiday. At least there are two holidays in January - also Jan 19, Martin Luther King Jr.'s day

Thanks Claire. I'd almost forgotten about the Two Ronnies. I wonder if I can get those on DVD.

Yay! I just checked! I get the 1st off! Wheeeee! What to do, what to do.....

Fishing? Maybe. Epic road trip? No, not in one day. Maybe take the whole weekend and do the Olympic Mtns loop.

I like that idea!

Great piccy, went scouting for Picard or Riker hmmm?

hehe that was awesome - Zorba was a great touch. I contacted Prospero Linden after talking to you about the cornfield, to see if he could send me there (he was the only Linden on I could find at the time) and he disawoed all knowledge of how to do it too
Just have to try one day to get to Blue's office hours - living at the ass end of the world sucks sometimes

BTW Please bear with me I am catching up from Friday

I am wondering what Brenda is thinking about here - another nice piccy Lexxi Also I think you would be safe wearing red in that way

no, i'd be getting chased instead .LOL

That looks wonderful fun - another great piccy

last year i worked with ED kids, and had a particularly gruesome year with a certified child sociopath who was quite violent. i ended up being the main disciplinarian and leader in the room, as the certified teacher was not only inept, but lazy.

i left the job early not because of that tho, as that child was (thankfully) removed from the school. i actually left the school and took a leave of absence before the year ended.... from stress... because basically, i was being stalked by the teacher.

it was bad.

so i haven't really been on vacation, but medical leave. the teacher is gone, those types of students are gone, and i will go back to strictly working with autistic kids, and downes syndrome kids, etc.

i look forward to falling in love with my job again, but the fact that i have to bathe at an indecent hour and actually leave my house and socialize with the RL people feels a little..... overwhelming.... i've been hiding out all summer.

YAY!

Me too - that is brilliant - makes me want to have big feet hehe

ooh. that's in san bernadino county, towards death valley. makes barstow look appealing. LOL

*nods*

i actually got e-coli my first year. wear gloves, and WASH YOUR HANDS! A LOT!!!

Anyone watch the Bob Saget Roast on the Comedy Channel?

LOL! I laughed so hard I was crying!

Then it got me to thinking about my Dad. He still has- somewhere in the house- the original Bob Newhart Comedy Record. I found some of the audio clips on Youtube. Great stuff! Found some old Lenny Bruce too!


FWIW- I watch alot of TV. Somewhat. It sits on the desk right next to the monitor. Jumping between Comedy Channel, Cartoon Network, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Food Network, TVLand, Sci-Fi Channel, and Travel Channel (cuz Andrew Zimmern RAWKS!!!).

Seriously disturbing Midnight - I love it You did a good job on your av there VV Was fun dancing with you at the weekend too. Sorry I had to log before you got back though - I had a plumber come and erm...plumb a leak for me

EDIT: *waves hand over thread* You did not see my Jedi edit.

In my book that makes you a Saint!

My fiancee works for a school bus company & deals with kids like that all day. I dont know how she can put up with it.

I couldnt do it!

i had a good av teacher to model after.

no worries about the plumbing stuffs. RL happens. i just wish it'd quit happening to me.

Would have been funnier if you had said, "I had a plumber come and erm...lay some pipe"

Bow Chika Bowwow....

i didn't get some, and i turned down some. some are still up in the air, including a desk job for a local lawyer. heaven forbid.... LOL

i am being very picky. i don't want to keep changing jobs, so i want to find "the" job. fortunately, there are a lot of opportunities, and i get to be selective. the personality of the boss is critical to my decision making. i am so done with assholes.

if i had my rathers, i'd take something that allows me to interact with the kids and work with computers at the same time. i hear rumor that the middle school might be losing their tech. if so, i'm all over that.

no matter what, i have decided to no longer pursue my credentials to become a school teacher. i will pursue something else, i just don't know exactly what that is yet. there are so many different directions i can go. something will click. i am patient.

in the meantime, i need spending money. so back to work i go!