The Last Person.....

[MJS]

Good evening to you, MJS, Terry, and Metaldad!

Speaking of w*!k, should probably get to it... having a hard time logging out, though. Would rather stay on the board than get my stuff done... that ever happen to any of you? :wink1:

Whats up!!

 

[exile]

Whats up!!

Hi Mike---grading to do (yech), and reading to do, and a long night ahead, it looks like... but the thread is too cheerful to quit, just now... how 'bout you?

 

[metaldad]

Good evening to you, MJS, Terry, and Metaldad!

Speaking of w*!k, should probably get to it... having a hard time logging out, though. Would rather stay on the board than get my stuff done... that ever happen to any of you? :wink1:

all the time, but now it's different since i drive a truck

 

[Kacey]

Hi Mike---grading to do (yech), and reading to do, and a long night ahead, it looks like... but the thread is too cheerful to quit, just now... how 'bout you?

I finished my grading last night (yeehaa!!!) and put it in my car - the last thing I want to do is forget to take the kids' workbooks back to school.

 

[metaldad]

Exile and MJS take care, hope to chat again soon. It's dinner and movie time

 

[metaldad]

I finished my grading last night (yeehaa!!!) and put it in my car - the last thing I want to do is forget to take the kids' workbooks back to school.

take care Kcaey

 

[metaldad]

LOL, too bad we can't ban that word from our vocabulary! LOL!

wouldn't it be nice?

 

[MJS]

Exile and MJS take care, hope to chat again soon. It's dinner and movie time

Have a good night!

 

[MJS]

Hi Mike---grading to do (yech), and reading to do, and a long night ahead, it looks like... but the thread is too cheerful to quit, just now... how 'bout you?

5 more hrs. of work. Then home to bed!

 

[exile]

5 more hrs. of work. Then home to bed!

Ouch! That has you leaving for home at just about midnight... I guess the traffic won't be a problem, at least. But I hate being on the road late at night.

 

[MJS]

Ouch! That has you leaving for home at just about midnight... I guess the traffic won't be a problem, at least. But I hate being on the road late at night.

Nope, traffic isn't bad at that time. I'm only about 10-15 min away from home anyway, so I don't have a long drive, which is nice.

 

[exile]

I finished my grading last night (yeehaa!!!) and put it in my car - the last thing I want to do is forget to take the kids' workbooks back to school.

I've had these assignments for a week longer than the promised return day... have to get them done tonight no matter what. Nothing feels as good and virtuous as getting a thick stack of grading done, does it!

 

[Kacey]

I've had these assignments for a week longer than the promised return day... have to get them done tonight no matter what. Nothing feels as good and virtuous as getting a thick stack of grading done, does it!

Oh, I know exactly what you mean... also, my middle school has decided to send home biweekly progress reports, which I have to hand out tomorrow - so I had to get caught up this weekend.

 

[exile]

Nope, traffic isn't bad at that time. I'm only about 10-15 min away from home anyway, so I don't have a long drive, which is nice.

OK, that's a plus---my home is only about that far from campus also(especially at that time), but I gotta go on the highway, which is always a bit of an experience... after almost 20 years in Columbus, still am not used to Ohio drivers. Hard to describe their style...

 

[MJS]

OK, that's a plus---my home is only about that far from campus also(especially at that time), but I gotta go on the highway, which is always a bit of an experience... after almost 20 years in Columbus, still am not used to Ohio drivers. Hard to describe their style...

My wife has to travel the highway to get to her job. She's about 20-30 min. away and out of the 5 days, she tells me that there are at least 2 times through out the week, when she sees a few close calls or has a few herself, due to the wonderful drivers that we have in CT.

 

[bydand]

after almost 20 years in Columbus, still am not used to Ohio drivers. Hard to describe their style...

Dis-jointed spazoids. Kind of like a cat on crack.

 

[exile]

Oh, I know exactly what you mean... also, my middle school has decided to send home biweekly progress reports, which I have to hand out tomorrow - so I had to get caught up this weekend.

Bit by bit, the amount of paperwork teachers have to generate to communicate with parents has grown, um, explosively over the past couple of decades... when I was in grade school, some time just after the end of the last ice age, my parents got exactly two pieces of written communication from my school per year: the mid-year report card and the final report card. Now I get approximately a stack around a quarter of an inch thick from my 9-year-old's teachers, plus half a dozen progress reports (aka report cards!) plus newsletters plus school bulletins... too much information!

 

[bydand]

I hear you about the amount of stuff coming home from school. With 2 in all day and 1 going 1/2 day to pre-school, I KNOW we could fill a drawer a year in a standard file cabnet if we kept everything.

 

[exile]

My wife has to travel the highway to get to her job. She's about 20-30 min. away and out of the 5 days, she tells me that there are at least 2 times through out the week, when she sees a few close calls or has a few herself, due to the wonderful drivers that we have in CT.

Well, you're in New England, which has its own class of bizarre driving... from what I've seen, it's very aggressive (although this may be generalizing too much from Massachussetts)... in Ohio, it's just... um, strange. They don't take off promptly at green lights, so to make up for it, they run red lights... it's like being around a person who's a bit unbalanced in a way you've never encountered before. A whole bunch of loose cannons in great big cars/SUVs/vans, playing unintentional bumper cars all over the highway system.

 

[exile]

Dis-jointed spazoids. Kind of like a cat on crack.

Yes, exactly... a cat which wasn't all that coordinated to begin with. The kind who make slow right-hand lane changes across three lanes of traffic when they suddenly realize that their exit is about an eighth of a mile away (this has happened to me, and no, no one (miraculously) was killed...)