| Bad teacher ju-ju |
[May. 25th, 2008|03:19 pm] |
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I know that bunches of you here are on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fountaingirl's f-list...(in fact I ganked this from wretchmuffin) but I thought I'd repost it for those of you who aren't.....
Some teachers are jerks--reposted from fountaingirl
Maybe I'm taking this a little personally because next year my son will probably be in kindergarten (and I'm wondering if I'm "tiger mom"-ing [as one of you describes it] by proxy), but here's your Bad Teacher story of the week.
In brief, Wendy Portillo had a five year old kindergartner stand up in front of his classmates and have them tell him what they didn't like about him and then "vote" him out of class. Kid likely has Aspberger's. Kid is five. Wendy Portillo is a Bad Teacher and should probably find work in a different field.
I know it's a holiday weekend and all, but if you could take some time to be outraged over the internet or with a real live letter?
Here are the relevant contacts:
*Morningside Elementary School Principal:*
Mrs. Marcia Cully
cullym@stlucie.k12.fl.us
(772) 337-6730
*St. Lucie County Schools Superintendent: *
Michael J. Lannon
4204 Okeechobee Road
Ft. Pierce 34947-5414
Phone: 772/429-3925
FAX: 772/429-3916
e-mail: lannonm@stlucie.k12.fl.us
*St. Lucie County School Board Chair:*
Carol Hilson
772-519-0397
HilsonC@stlucie.k12.fl.us
*Vice Chair:*
Judith Miller
772-528-4545
MillerJ@stlucie.k12.fl.us
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I've actually thought about the fact that there may be more to this than is being revealed at the moment, but the teacher confirms the heart of the story: that she had five year old children "vote" one of their classmates out of class, calling him "disgusting" (and also, less disturbingly, "annoying"). Even if he's a pain-in-the-ass five year old (which certainly can happen), it doesn't really seem like she created a "teachable moment" here. In fact, she sounds cruel and stupid. At best, she's an incompetent creep.
While I'm generally reluctant to cry havoc and let slip the dogs of internet rage, it seems (1) justified and (2) potentially effective in this case.
And my own (Bullet's) view.....Kids have a hard enough time dealing with classmates as it is, and as someone who, while never formally diagnosed, probably is an Aspberger's sufferer, this is so repellant to me that I want to vomit!!!
Edit.....I just emailed the superintendant with my views....who knows if that will make any diffence.... |
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| Shameless promotion! (poetry and art show!) |
[Nov. 9th, 2007|08:13 am] |
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This is my friend, upstart_crow's, poetry reading that also includes a gallery show of her necklaces, MY PHOTOS ;-D, nyx_hemsut's artwork, and marchenland's photos. Plus photos and artwork from a couple of other artists.
If you are in the area PLEASE try to attend! This is the first show my work will be in!!!!! Plus, Jo's poetry is fantastic....! |
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| Must sell precious to pay for other precious! |
[Oct. 25th, 2007|06:58 pm] |
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I'm offering up my bottle (full to just above label) of Gypsy Queen....she's pretty, but I bounced my paypal payment for the Minotaur and paypal is going to keep trying for payment (and I'm going to keep having no money in that accout) in three days....argh!
So I'm asking $40.00 shipped for her. sigh.....if this doesn't work I may just have to suck it up and sell Underpants (which I really, really, really don't want to do!) |
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| BPAL wishlist.... |
[Oct. 13th, 2007|11:50 am] |
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I guess I need one 'o these things....
My big wish is ....More Minotaur (yeah, I have 1 1/2 bottles...but I wear it alot!-someone frimped me a glass wand top and guess what bottle it got put on!)
Underpants (of course) but I've around 1/2 bottle left and can survive on that for now.
Snake Charmer (of course...again) and ditto on the 1/2 bottle left...but I use this one
more than Underpants so it will go pretty fast!
I need another bottle of Mr. Ibis (am giving the one I have to sis for Christmas as it smells just like her signature scent Ambrosia by Song of India--and I think she'll get a kick out of having a scent from a line based on Neil Gaiman's work!) But I want one for myself as well.
GCS--(I have bits left of all these--they are very nice!)
Fenris Wolf (my bottle is low :-( )
Shub Niggurath (still have plenty left but its the holidays again and I love this smell for the cold weather!)
The Witch Queen (a very womanly lovely scent!)
Rose Cross (have in imp not bottle, but very nice!)
Ones I haven't tried--
Schrodinger's Cat
any of the new GCs
(I'll have to work on the rest of this non-tried list....I've tried so many!)
And anything that's resinous (combinations with rose/musk/etc are nice!) |
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| A few more pics..... |
[Sep. 28th, 2007|11:49 am] |
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The light of the way....:-)
The Optimist!
The Optimists (two woodpeckers on a steel light structure....lol!--actually there were THREE woodpeckers...the third was furthur to the left.) What an odd sound their pecking made.
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| Amazing sunrise.... |
[Sep. 28th, 2007|10:07 am] |
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Sunrise this am was FANTASTIC!!!! I knew it would be from the hints of pink showing up in the interesting cloud patterns on my walk home.....so I rushed in, grabbed the good camera and ran out the door to wait.....
SSSOOooOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad I did!!!! Following pic is completely unedited except to make smaller.
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| Taking fall pictures..... |
[Sep. 26th, 2007|01:23 pm] |
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Last night's full moon was incredible....too bad I don't now how to take low light pics/have lenses that can handle it yet!
This falcon chased the pigeons away....what is he?
Yes, I'm feeling morbid.....cemetary I walk by everyday on my way to and from the bus to work
Our Lady of the Cemetary....a tree outside the fence of the Holladay Cemetary....
Mist rising off of the Little Cottonwood in the early fall morning...
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| BPAL-what I have list |
[Aug. 4th, 2007|11:43 am] |
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Because I probably should...Behind cut due to excessive length!
*=particular favorites (this is not to say that the un-starred ones AREN'T favorites....just that these are the biggies so far)
Bottles:
General Catalog (am including the Gaiman scents, but not Carnival Diabolique):
Fenris Wolf (I only have 1/3 of this left-time for more!) *
Zombi *
Shub Niggurath*
Brisingamen *
Aglaea
Snake Oil *
Mr. Ibis *
Mr. Nancy (1 imp in bottle)
War (1 imp in bottle) given to friend
Crowley (1 imp in bottle)
Tristran (1 imp in bottle)
The Witch Queen (about 2 1/2 imps in bottle)*
Limited Editions
The Moons-
Wolf Moon 07
Red Moon 07
Milk Moon 07
Hunger Moon 07
Blue Moon 07
Hungry Ghost Moon 07
Bitter Moon 06
Pink Moon 07 *
Singing Moon 07*
Allison Gross (1 imp in bottle)
The Gibbous Moon *
The Sportive Sun (1 imp in bottle) given to friend
Poisson D'Avril
Minotaur (1 and 1/2 bottles)*
Pruno
The Brides of Dracula *
Smut 06 (1 and 2/3 bottles) *
Smut 07
Glasya (ressurrected) traded
Mi-Go Brain Canister (and squishy brain) *
Monsterbait: Closet *
Monsterbait: Underpants *
The Haunted Palace *
F5
13 (white label-don't know what date this was released) *
13 (orange label-10/06) *
13 (purple label 4/07)
13 (pink label 7/07)
Beltane 06
Litha 06
All Souls 06
Pumpkin Queen (1 and 1/2 bottles) *
Yule 06
Gypsy Queen*
Snake Charmer (pending---being sent from UK)*
Kajuraho
The Carnival Diabolique:
Midnight on the Midway (2 bottles)*
The Candy Butcher *
Hope (the Siamese Twin)*
The Wild Men of Jezirat at Tennyn (2 imps in bottle)*
Australian Copperhead*
Okay (WHEW!) on to the imps. These are at various levels from full to sniffie
I'm not breaking them up into categories-
Villian
De Sade
Casanova
Perversion
Whip
Loviatar
Wanda
Shanghai
Amsterdam
Kostnice
Water of Notre Dame
Moscow
Lampades
Black Forest
Florence
The Isle of Demons
Versailles
Centzon Totochtin
Embalming Fluid
Bayou
Cathedral
Jazz Funeral
Burial
The Lady of Shallot
Anne Bonny
Catherine
Bess
Wicked
Hell's Belle
Lucy's Kiss
Morgause
Queen Mab
Titus Andronicus
Rosalind
Robin Goodfellow
Sophia
Jester
Queen Gertrude
Hope *
Faith *
Old Morocco
The Hanging Gardens
Hamadryad
R'lyeh
Thunder Moon 07
Victoria*
Spider
Mad Sweeney
Bilquis
Hollywood Babylon
O
Dragon's Milk
Dragon's Reverie
Dragon's Bone
Dragon's Eye
French Love
Love Me
Lightning
Miskatonic University
Ephemera
Haunted
The Raven
Undertow
Wolf's Bane
Black Rose
Mandrake
Black Opal
Blood Amber
Midnight
House of Night
Dove's Heart
Incantation
Rapture
Rose Cross
Wings of Azrael
Niflheim
Seraphim
Imp
Lust
Greed
Lurid
Red Devil
Carnal
Ravenous
Bloodlust
Kuang Shi
Baohban Sith
Psyche
Yggdrasil
Yerevan
Urania
Zorya
Coyote
Euterpe
Bastet
Old Scratch
Saint-Germaine
Anubis
Urd
Kephra
Odin
Lilith
Tiresias, the Androgyne
Wulric, the Wolfman
Kataniya, the Clockwork Woman
Zarita, the Doll Girl
Meskhenet, the Vulture Maiden
Priala, the Human Phoenix
Isaac, the Living Skeleton
Thalassa, the Galapagos Mermaid
Arachnina
Torture King
Pink Pheonix
Jonathan Harker
Baneberry
Ostara
Rose Red
Twilight
Flower Moon
Darkness
Veil
Danse Macabre
Les Infortunes De La Vertu
Bacchanalia
Death on a Pale Horse
Delerium
Black Annis
Golden Priapus
Musica Universalis: Uranus
Dana O'Shee
La Fee Verte
Theodosius
Titania
Oberon
Carfax Abbey
Count Dracula
Sugar Skull 06
Lick It 05
Peacock Queen*
Buck Moon
The Masque
Chaos Theory DCCXXV
Chaos Theory MCLXXXV
Monsterbait: Underbed
Jacob's Ladder
Red Lantern
Monsterbait: BiggerCritter
Bad Luck Woman Blues
Samhain 06
Herr Drosselmeyer
Black Moon
Schwarzter Mond*
Peony Moon
Khajuraho
Beaver Moon
Bakeneko
Fire Pig
Tamamo-no-mae
Rose Moon 07
Selkie
Creepy
C13: Lydia
C13: Shanghai Tunnel
C13: Unheavenly City
C13: Crumpet Rebellion
Snake Charmer *
Asp Viper
Australian Copperhead *
Banded Sea Snake
Boomslang
Coral Snake
Cottonmouth
Death Adder
Green Tree Viper
Habu
King Cobra
Saw-Scaled Viper
Temple Viper
Western Diamondback
Anaconda (teensy sniffie)
Faiza the Black Mamba
The Oblation
Khandita
Two, Five and Seven
The Emanthides
Singing Moon
Moon Rose
And that would be all of them so far.....I've had a few others....some that didn't work on me and some that I was persuaded to trade or gift...I had a bunch of the Mad Teaparty, but gifted them to someone :-)
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| Other Dark Arts pics..... |
[Jun. 11th, 2007|03:52 am] |
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Is it just me or is veil just too damn gorgeous!? And one of the sweetest folk ever....not FAIR!!!LOL! BTW....am leaving this and the Carphax Files posts public so folk not on my lj list can see the piccies!
( MOre Dark Arts pics ) |
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| BPAL wishlist post |
[May. 24th, 2007|08:30 am] |
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By request....:-D
Hmmmmm.....Well.....my favorites.....these are ones I have but adore...so if you know other scents that are similiar I'd probably love them.
13 (all versions) -- I have big bottles of white label, orange label and purple label
The Candy Butcher -- Just got a couple of bottles of this. Yum!
Shub Niggurath-- Just got my second lab bottle of this. My bottle is the current GC, but I have an imp of the earlier Shub and I love it also.
Snake Oil -- A standard. Love it!
Zombi -- Love a good rose scent and this is so odd and yet yummy to me.
Brinsingamen -- Love amber....adore it!!! (and carnation!)
Minotaur -- Have enough decants coming to make up a full bottle, but since this is an LE I'd be willing to have more!
Fenris Wolf -- Another standard for me. The first scent I knew I had to have in a big bottle. My bottle is getting low so more would be nice ;-)
MonsterBait: Underpants-- I scored a mostly full bottle for a really decent price (plus got the cutest stuffed bottle holder EVER handmade by the seller!!!) I'd love more, but I know its a longshot!
Schwarzer Mond-- Love my little decant....would like more!! Please!!
Hope and Faith --I've partial decants....would like more! (edit*have a full bottle of Hope on the way....:-) )
More Bilquis, Spider, Mr. Nancy and Mr Ibis-- (have partial decants)
I've a decant circle of the Snake Pit and my favs are Australian Copperhead, Temple Viper and Fazia the Black Mamba (yeah, I know she isn't technically part of the "pit", but she was included in the circle) I know y'all are mad for Anaconda, but my little sniffie didn't move me THAT much!!LOL! Could take more Australian Copperhead....I scored one of the empties from the circle of that and so have a nice little home for any new impies of it I might get (don't want to put the decant circle imp in there since hayet did such a phenominal job with the labels!! (seriously folks....if you have the chance to do a decant circle with her take it! She rocks!!!)
Ones I'd love to try and don't have.....
Les Bijoux...I had an imp and gave it to a co-worker for his girlfriend, but I love it!
Croquet
Cheshire Cat
Most of the "Moon"s (I've got Hungry Ghost Moon, Wolf Moon, Rose Moon, Blue Moon, Pink Moon, Buck Moon, Fire Pig, Milk Moon 07--ick!, Have Hunger Moon on the way and likely getting a decant of Chrysanthemum Moon soon)
Order of the Dragon scents (I've got a decant of Count Dracula and a sniffie of Carfax Abby and I have a big bottle of Brides of Dracula which I adore, but would like to try the others)
Veil
Any of the Dogs Playing Poker salon scents
Any of the salon scents period
The new Monsterbaits (Tokoyo Stomp, Bloody Mary, Ventriloquist's Dummy, --have a decant of Bigger Critters.)
The old Monsterbaits (Underbed, Closet)--I have decants of both of these now.....NEED MORE!!!!!!!!! (foody yumminess!)Especially Closet! I adore Closet!!
The Hesperides
The other pagan holidays (I've got Beltane, Litha and a decant of Samhain)
Midnight on the Midway
Gennivre, L'Artiste du Diable
(Okay, okay.....probably ALL of the Carnivale Diabolique LOL! At least as imps to start...I know there are some I'll adore!*edit....have decants of all of the act III CDs on the way.)
I'm particularly interested in more foody scents, especially cakey ones that have some sort of fruit or berry (like Closet!!)
I know I have more wants, but I'll have to go browse the forum to remind myself....
Notes I LOVE.....amber, patchouli, musks, sandalwood, frankincense, vanilla, carnation, iris, rose, moss/dirt, some violets, citrus, bergamot, saffron, some chocolates (The Candy Butcher is very, very good, but Bliss and Velvet are too dusty and not deep enough), ginger, pumpkin (well, I know Pumpkin Queen and Jack are good! Haven't tried the other Pumpkin Patch scents yet.) Nag Champa, honey
Notes that most often do not work on me....almond (unless it vanishes quickly as in Bilquis) and cedarwood (can't wear Tombstone), Cinnamon (allergic!!!!! Love Bakeneko, but it makes me wheeze and break out in a rash!!) Cardamom doesn't make me allergic like cinnamon, but it DOES tend to take over a scent! (case in point...I love how Enraged Groundhog Musk smells in the bottle but on me it turns completely cardamom with none of the foody yumminess the bottle smell promises....*pout*)
Some aquatics are okay. Would like to try more cream/milk scents and more fruit scents as I have not enough experience with them to know which I love yet.
Hope that helps those who have been wondering a bit.... |
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| Bpal madness |
[Mar. 17th, 2007|08:01 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | bpal | ] |
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| | smell happy | ] |
In other words.....I'll have more than plenty to let folks sniff at the meet n sniff party when we finally solidify plans for one.....(cradles head in hands...."what have I DONE!!")
( Bpal Madness...what I have, what I'm getting, what I currently want! )
I think I need to stop now...though buying imps isn't too pricey....especially if you keep your eye out for good deals....but, yeah, need to stop now until I work my way through the current crop. |
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| Most interesting foreign body scope!!! |
[Mar. 16th, 2007|10:37 am] |
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x-posted to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) vet_tech
So this morning at about 5am I got a call from a woman who had been woken up by her cat's extreme gagging/meowing sounds. The cat was foaming at the mouth and drool was all over her apartment. I reccommended they bring the kitty in right away! When the kitty arrived he was making very odd gagging/gurgling noises. The owners were concerned that he had possibly ingested a toxin, but they couldn't think of anything he could have gotten into.....
Dr. M asked for a lateral x-ray of Yoshi's (the kitty) throat. This is what we saw on the first x-ray.....
For the rest of the story....(HEAVY PICTURE POST.....Dial-up beware!!!!!) go behind cut....
( Yoshi's big endoscopy adventure )
Not friends locked per request of someone who wanted to link for friends education...;-D |
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| Women's Erotic arts Formal Tea Party |
[Feb. 26th, 2007|08:17 am] |
The date has been set for the Women's Formal Tea. It will be Saturday May 12 at 2pm at Lady J's house.
The formal tea, for those who don't know, is where women (and men in feminine persona) can meet to read erotica and share erotic artwork while indulging in tea, coffee, tea-time foods and good company.
Required dress is formal and/or a nice spring dress, hats and gloves for femme girls and men in feminine persona. Women of the more masculine persuasion may dress in formal masculine attire (including kilts).
At this time I am still looking for those willing to help provide foods and/or formal tea serving skills. We have the teas and the tea services (dishware), but we need those who find joy in serving others to dress up as french/english maids/butlers and serve the tea.
RSVP me here if you are interested in attending/helping with food/ serving. |
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