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Meee Tooo!  And all my students know I masturbate because I had to talk about the fact that I don't masturbate at school because I had to model appropriate behaviors.  Gotta love working with students that need EVERYTHING spelled out for them.  And tomorrow, I get to talk about kissing with tongues.  I teach such fun lessons.

awww, i totally miss band.  I got to hang out with whomever I wanted cuz I was my own section.

I wasn't a gamer in high school.  It was a sad time for me.  And everyone knew it, cuz I WAS a drama queen.

Sweet!  I once mastered the sad part of FF7 on my french horn....but I'd forgotten it the next day.  Stupid ADD.

I want the really pretty soft handspun yarn that costs $300 per pound.  I want it in every color of the rainbow.  And then I want all the time I need to make it all into blankets that drape around the home that I want to be roommate-free and dog-free.  Oh, and a pony.

Ewww...abstinence-only education....speaking of, my first lesson taught at this school district ended up covering masturbation.  Isn't that dramatic irony?

I can verify that my cyber monkies do not have rabies.  But they're spreading syphilis amoung themselves like mad.....need to get them to sex ed class.

I know, I wanna play that game too.  I was one of those kids too.  My greatest birthdays always involved lots of very thick books.

I'm one of the really tall girls who perpetually looks as though if you walk at her general direction wrong she'll kick your ass till Sunday church comes.

It's true, it's great.  we walk around together and people get very confused.....tall, dark, beautiful amazon princess and this short, fair, cute Irish sprite look like complete opposites....then we start talking and we're almost exactly the same.  It's so much fun to watch the confusion and shock.

Boo to all of you.  I'm TEACHING at the high school, and everyone is taller than me.  I got knocked over by a freshman today and he had the gall to get mad at me for busting his chops about it.  Grr.

I will concede to Xepher on the whole America should be allowed it's luxeries idea.  We live in the most powerful and affluent country in the world, we should enjoy it.  I also agree that it shouldn't be at the cost of others and the enviornment.  So as soon as the rest of the US agrees with us, I'll stop being an over-opiniated evil witch.  Ha!  And horses would totally rock as a means of transportation.  I would totally prefer a pony over a car.  For one, people don't look at you nearly as oddly when you talk to and pet a pony.

Sorry, but I have to disagree.  I'm 22 years old, I grew up in a town with less than five thousand people (in the boonies), went to college in the smallest college town in WI, and now live in a city with 25,000 people (still in the boonies) and a bus system that runs only weekdays, 9-5.  I've only owned a car for about 5 months of that entire 22 years.  I understand that most Americans believe they need cars, and in our current culture, I agree.  But I also think that 5 years could get us to the point where it isn't a cultural requirement for each family to have 3-4 SUVs, and that if you force Americans to pay full, unsubsidized price for their gasoline, we will rediscover the technology that allows a car to get 70 miles to the galleon, and hybrid cars will become the norm, rather than the hippie choice.  We had almost created that technology in the last energy crisis, but then the crisis "ended" and we, being the capitalist and somewhat selfish society we are, reverted to old habits.  And we have to look at the fact that we're within 20 years of reaching the critical halfway point for our fossil fuels.  I'm sorry if my message was all "MASS TRANSIT GOOD, CARS EVIL."  But I do think that we could quite easily become a more eviornmental country if only we didn't allow the federal government to make polluting such a cost-effective option.  And I don't live in Seattle, although I am moving there within 6 months.  And yes, one of the things that drew me to Seattle was the wonderful public transit.  

The vicious cycle begins again.  Just think about it this way folks. Your teachers probably don't wanna be there either.  Trust us.

I would like to put my green and liberal two cents in.  And I'll be the first to admit that I may not be well liked for it.

But one of the reasons we as Americans enjoy relatively low gas prices in the first place (As opposed to Europe, for example) is because our crude oil is federally subsidized, right?  Where does the money to subsidize come from?  Income tax, if I'm not mistaken.  European nations don't subsidize, and people are not willing to continually pay that much for their main mode of transportation.  So what happens?  Public Transport- trains, busses, etc.  I've been told by several enviornmentalists that if we stopped subsidizing crude oil for 5 years and used those tax dollars for renewables and public transport, we would be caught up with and possibly beyond Europe at the end of that five year deadline.  An option to take the US from being the #1 Consumer and #1 Importer.  But feel free to hate me.  

But five years is longer than a presidential term, so....we lose.

Oh, Ashley, that's beautiful.