The Stories of the Life of a Wandering Bean

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.

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Who went to the dentist in the middle of the tropical storm? Me that's who! TV said "Stay inside and stay off the roads" I said "Screw you TV this is my first dentist appointment in two years and I'm not missing it!"

The dentist was kind of crappy. My teeth are fine apart from not being cleaned in two years. But the dentist office didn't strike me as clean (the things that should have been white weren't white and they didn't have any of the fancy crap my old dentist had...) and they kept stabbing my gums. No duh they're going to bleed you're puncturing them! Never had a more painful trip to the dentist. But! They have appointments on Saturdays so I don't have to miss work or leave work early and rush out of there, and my copay was five bucks.... and I imagine my DHMO only has crappy dentists anyway so.... I'll stick with him for now.

In other news, Hanna sucked. You call that a tropical storm? More like a tropical bore. My power went out for a little while and my backyard is a mess from tree limbs but other than that nothing happened. I was actually out in the worst of it.... I went to the grocery store for kale but they were out. Honestly, who runs out of kale??

Man  so I realized tonight as I was eating my fake Mexican (Mexican from a box dinner... it's really good though if you add more cheese and a ton of sour cream... of course that's true of most foods...) that I still have a ton of wine in my house. Amazing. I think it's because I'm reluctant to drink anything I can only get at the vineyards alone and none of my friends here drink wine. Tonight I'm drinking the Rockbridge Tuscarora Red which is not as good as their chambourcin (that they don't make anymore.... which is sad because I loved it.... this is a blend with the chambourcin grape so it's close but not the same...) which I can replace because I found this at the Total Wine store on Great Neck. This could get me in trouble though because I have drunk an entire bottle of this myself in one night before... I try not to do that at home alone because getting drunk alone is sad but this is yummy wine... it's hard not to keep drinking it.....

I think I'm going to do a wine tour of all the wines I have in my house... so each night I drink one I'll post about it. Because I think I want to make wine my new hobby. So.... here's my evaluation of tonight's wine... keep in mind I'm no where near a wine expert and like to pretend I know what I'm talking about. I could be totally wrong... this is just what I think of the wine.... I could be totally wrong and sound dumb.. so if you're a wine guru don't read. I'm embarrassing myself.

 So I'm sitting in the UC at William and Mary using the wireless internet because the hotel charges 10 bucks for it each day. Dude. That's a lot. That's more than I had to pay in Greece for god's sake. Anyway I'm going to try this access stuff back at the hotel later probably but right now I'm down here... I'm good. And I'm actually avoiding the people I work with. Not that I don't like the people I work with... I just want some me time and since I don't have my own hotel room... sitting in the UC with the scary old man painting (I think that's what it is) staring at me will have to do.

Yeah so I'm in Williamsburg this week for my AP conference. The guy's kind of boring but the information is good. I definately needed this conference... I just wish people would stop getting him off task by asking RANDOM questions. And then he spends 30 minutes answering them. I did get a TON of "free" books. "Free" because the school paid like 550 bucks for me to be here. Thanks Norfolk. I also kind of lucked out because our school's paying for the hotel... which is nice... VB and the other Norfolk schools are making them drive... which I have mixed feelings about. On the one hand I don't have to leave my house at 6am every day in the hopes of beating traffic and praying the HRBT isn't too blocked up.... but I have to stay here and I don't get to go home at night. Our class is actually being held in the hotel we're staying at which is really really nice because now all I have to do is go downstairs in the morning. Sweet.

So apparently I have to give a presentation on either the 21st or 22nd on how to use the Quarterly test data for remediation. Heh. I hate the quarterly tests. They're stupid and they annoy me. But I have used the data before.... sort of.... I usually know what they need to work on without a test telling me.... but whatever. Now I have to prepare that presentation. I wonder who it's for? The head of social studies for Norfolk's supposed to call me and tell me more.

Hopefully they'll pay me for this. It's nice that they think I'm good enough to tell other people how to do stuff... but on the other hand... I have to go in on the day that I'm supposed to be off (when I have company at home) to do this. It'd nice to get some money for it... at least to cover the gas to because I'm sure it's downtown :-)

 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/ap_on_fe_st/britain_exam_expletives;_ylt=AvXmBsJYhe6OSmSrXEkJyyztiBIF

So something I would do if a student did that in my class :-P

So I haven't posted in forever..... summer is here. Which should be relaxing, and it is for the most part. Got to be better than working anyway. So I have some time while I'm building up the energy to spray my carpet after my sister left with her puppy (dogs are cute but there's a reason I don't have one... I don't appreciate puppy poo on my carpet or in my kitchen) so I figured I'd post....

WSo my kids are extremely forgetful... I mean granted I used to leave a textbook in french on occassion and I left my dad's Silmarillon in my precalc class once and freaked out because it wasn't mine and he would kill me if I lost his book... but never anything weird... so here's the list... I'm sure it's not complete and it's not in order:

1) Shoes (that was today... but that's happened before, both gym shoes and REGULAR shoes... what were they wearing on their feet??)
2) Socks (to go with the shoes... I didn't smell them... so I don't know if they were clean or dirty)
3) The New Testament of the Bible (which no one ever claimed... they either were hinting at something or gave up on it)
4) An alarm clock (a big radio one that plugs in)
5) Underwear (both of the boxer and whitie tightie variety.... and not in a bag... EW)
6) A notebook with a complete play about life in da park.... (yeah it was hilarious... there was no plot but it was really funny to read)
7)  Stephen Colbert's book (ok that's not weird in the normal world but it is if you knew my kids)
8) Toothpaste
9) First aid cream
10) Plastic toy trucks (three of them.... on different days....)

This is just what I could think of off the top of my head. I'm sure there are more and weirder things. Someone left toothpaste and shoes today so it got me thinking.

1) My username is _____ because ____.

Jumping_Bean because my nickname from 7th grade is bean... it's from the book Ender's Game... not Mr. Bean. I've never even seen that movie. It's funny how all my online names are still associated with a middle school nickname.

"The Stories of the Life of a Wandering Bean". It's sort of long... but I am a wanderer. I get bored with places easily and have restless life syndrome and have to move. That and I like to travel a lot. So I came up with that.

 

"Don't goats eat hobos?" I was camping with Ashley and Bobby like five years ago and we were making spagettios by putting the can in the fire (because that's what you do when you're camping) and were talking about something and I said "Don't goats eat hobos?" When I meant to say "Don't goats eat cans?" Somehow I got my words jumbled. It was funny. So I put that on there.

Me when I was in Portsmouth (England... not Virginia) when my sister visited me in England and there was a fake pirate so I got her to take my picture with it. That's my only one. I'm not big on userpics. I don't know why. I'm just not.

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc. Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other.

Yeah I stole this from EVERYONE. Looks fun. Though I never post so it could be almost anything...

 So I got home from work today and I turned on the computer.... Heath Ledger died. I had such a crush on him in middle and high school... ever since that Roar show was on Fox. Heath Ledger in leather pants with a sword stabbing random Romans.... hehe... he always stuck me as someone who would be an asshole in real life for some reason but he sure was nice to look at. 

I also JUST realized it's TUESDAY. I was sitting here thinking "Man... there's nothing good on TV tonight" then I realized it was Tuesday. Duh. My show is on Tuesdays! So that makes Boston Legal tonight even better because it's sort of a surprise because I forgot it was Tuesday.  Hehe I'm excited now. Though now I have to get my work done by 10... I don't have a lot of it... and I'll have like two hours of planning first thing tomorrow morning.... but still.... deadlines man.

This is why I love Wife Swap.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NYPLU92Kgk

Crazy ladies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7GpFFbfTLg

Crazy spoiled kids!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k720zqQJlOs&feature=related

Pirates!

Yep. That's my crappy TV show that I'm addicted to. Gotta crap TV night.