The Stories of the Life of a Wandering Bean

Dear Healthy Choice Steamers:

Two little chunks of chicken does not make a meal. Yet your General Tso's chicken was quite delicious. It just lacked one big ingrediant: Chicken. Please give me meat next time.


Thank you.

Ok I know I haven't posted here in a thousand years... but I'm trying to revive the joys or livejournal and avoiding figuring out what my kids will do with that Jared Diamond article tomorrow....

So this was what I decided today: My job would be so much easier if I could do the Jedi Mind Trick! A conversation would go like this:

"Ms. Shimp? Can I go to the bathroom?"
"*waves hand* You don't need to go to the bathroom."
"I don't need to go to the bathroom."
"You want to be quiet and do your work."
"I want to be quiet and do my work."

And I just told a telemarketer I was out of town because I didn't want to do their radio survey. Is that wrong?

WTF?! That is all.

Ok so I never post in this thing but I figure my most recent drama is post worthy.

First of all there is always drama in my life. I don't know why. There just is. It makes things entertaining though.

So Monday I actually managed to get out of work at a decent hour. 3:30. Only an hour after the time we can technically leave. During SOL time that's amazing. So I needed transparencies because I had a ton of maps and charts to do with my AP kids Wednesday because I was going to have them for three hours (thank GOD) so I needed to do MASSIVE REVIEW the day before their test. So I went to the Office Max behind the school because that's the only place I can find transparencies anymore. So I finally found the dumb things. I know, I know, who uses the overhead anymore? Doesn't your school have powerpoint projectors? You forget where I teach. We have them but you have to check them out of the library and fight for them. So unless I have pictures or something that really requires powerpoint I don't get one. Anyway, I found them (which is hard because they move everytime) and bought them and was a little poorer and went out to my car. I got in, and was putting the bag in the floor of the passenger side when CRUNCH. The guy next to me pulled forward to leave by going through the empty space in front of him and hit my door.
( Car drama continues )So in conclusion, life sucks.

So I'm going to Disney World this summer. I want to come up with a song that will stump the people at the piano bar. Any suggestions?

Oh I also have to get pirate Mickey Mouse ears for my niece. Her intials are ARR!!

I got this from EK and decided to do it since I'm avoiding work. The work is still there. And I have to do it. But I don't want to.

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you which song or movie you remind me of.
3. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.(if possible. If not, I'll say something that only makes sense to me.)
4. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
5. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
6. I'll ask you something I've always wondered about you.
7. I'll tell you my favorite thing about you.
8. I'll tell you my least favorite thing about you.
9. If you play, you MUST post this on yours.

But this is ok because I'm not terribly active on this thing and only have like five friends. Sweet.

5 Things I was Doing 10 years Ago:
(1) OM: Which later became DI but was then OM. This was the year we were aliens and Ashley was the sun and Bailey was a drum that fell from the Space Station Mir when they threw out the trash and Trey tried to shoot us with a chicken and a banana that he got from his lunch box and we went to Richmond and that's the way we all became the Brady Bunch. Yes, I had a weird childhood.
(2) Marching Band with the high school because we're cool like that.
(3) My first All-District Band: though I'm not sure what chair I was... I think I was 1st Concert... but I think I was originally 2nd Concert but 1st didn't show up... I don't know... not important but it was my first one!
(4) In Mrs. Bartley's 8th grade English class making a sign for her to call on me and writing letters about the One-Eyed Cat to Melissa Hill for that letter assignment. One-Eyed Cat was NOT a good book.
(5) Watching Channel One News with the self-contained class because my homeroom didn't have a TV and I had to keep a journal on it for English. The self-contained teacher was the most annoying lady in the world.

5 Things On My To-Do List Today:
(1) 6:45: Get to work, cut large sheets of paper and set up for character collages
(2) Meet with Berg and Pierce with the rest of my team during planning to be told how too many kids are failing the 9th grade
(3) Take work to ALC, Call parents, Eat Lunch
(4) Go home: Make lesson on French Revolution and quiz and worksheets for stupid scholars class
(5) Try to be done with work by midnight

5 Snacks I Love:
(1) Chicken ball
(2) Sausage dip
(3) Anything with cheese
(4)  Bagels that have way too much cream cheese
(5) Cool Ranch Doritoes and squeeze cheese

5 Things I Would Do If I Were A Millionaire:
(1) Quit working in Norfolk before something horrible happens to me
(2) Buy a house (or put money away for that)
(3) Pay off my car loan
(4) Pay off my student loan
(5) Go back to school (preferably in London as that's my current pipe dream)

5 Places I've Lived: Do places I've gone to school count? I'm assuming they do.... they do now.
(1) Vinton, VA
(2) Farmville, VA (Farmvegas!)
(3) Derby, England (Nunnery Court.... I decorated my room with empty bottles)
(4) Virginia Beach, VA
(5) Wishing I had someplace cool to put here....

5 Jobs I've Had:
(1) Babysitter
(2) Data Entry: Trane, National Linens, US Cellural Engineering
(3) Receptionist: Trane, National City Mortgage, Legg Mason (where I had three employees to answer the phone for and mostly sat around and read my books and tell people where the bankrupcy lawyer who had his office above ours was and spent my hour lunch break wandering the Farmer's Market.... that was seriously the best job EVER)
(4) Human Resources Generalist: Orvis
(5): High School Teacher/PO/Zookeeper/Bouncer: Norfolk City Schools

That was fun. I need to live more places.

So.... if I vomit due to gross rabbit cage (I let it wait waaay too long... I didn't realize how bad it was because I've got that super bedding that doesn't smell, and he digs before he pees because he thinks he's a cat so he buries it, so when I move that top layer it was like "whoa... tons of rabbit pee... that's a nasty smell" moment and that on top of pizza, wine, and 2am lead to vomit... but anyway) right after I take my inhaler (for those of you who don't know apparently I have asthma...) do I take it again?

I guess it wouldn't hurt... the doctor said he was starting me on one puff because it has weird side effects sometimes and he doesn't want to like... make my heart explode... But if it's inhaled through my lungs it wouldn't matter if I vomit right? Different passages.... Yeah no, not going to inhale again.

( More medical stuff I feel like ranting about )

So... the Grudge? What was scary about it? Everyone told me it was the scariest movie ever and I shouldn't watch it alone. I just did. Not scary. Not even all that interesting.

Meowing little boys just aren't that scary. And that "death rattle" noise was just annoying.

Yeah I don't see what all the hype was about.

Your results:
You are An Expendable Character (Redshirt)

An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 90% Jean-Luc Picard 75% Uhura 70% Deanna Troi 70% Mr. Scott 60% Beverly Crusher 60% Geordi LaForge 60% Chekov 55% James T. Kirk (Captain) 50% Spock 50% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 50% Will Riker 45% Worf 40% Data 39% Mr. Sulu 10%

Since your accomplishments are seldom noticed, and you are rarely thought of, you are expendable. That doesn't mean your job isn't important but if you were in Star Trek you would be killed off in the first episode you appeared in.

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