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JonnyWoop · **Posted:** Sun Nov 25, 2012 8:58 pm

DarthCupcake wrote:

I love my job, but I also really resent it so often. I feel like I've spent the last year and a half having to choose between doing my job well, or maintaining my personality/hobbies/friendships, and I've consistently had to choose the former. I just can't keep this up. I don't know if I'm going to go back to teaching next year.

My parents were both teachers. I don't know how anybody does it.

ijustdiedinside · **Joined:** Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:43 pm **Posts:** 8529

kiva is great!

Maybe I will try suggesting that we all donate to a charity that they think the other person would like and get maybe a small gift? it'd be way less stressful for everyone, i think. holiday shopping stresses me out!

lavawitch · **Posted:** Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:02 pm

BUSCH GARDENS IS OPEN FOR CHRISTMAS. I WANT TO GO SO BADLY.

ok, sorry, that needed all caps. Roller coasters. Ahhhhh. I would give anything to be able to go.

DarthCupcake · **Posted:** Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:08 pm

Tofulish wrote:

ijustdiedinside wrote:

mollyjade wrote:

What about asking for donations to a (noncontroversial) cause instead?

Unrelated, I want there to be a gravy beverage. It's so close already.

that's a good idea. I bet people would be ok with that! I could just say that I really don't need anything this year, but if anyone wanted to get me something maybe they could donate to something that helps animals. That doesn't sound too bad.

Or you could suggest that they donate to any project through Kiva and surprise you with it! Microloans can make a huge difference in someone's life and they could actually pick different projects that spoke to them. Maybe $10 for water improvement or $20 for a sewing machine :)
http://www.kiva.org/

Whoa, that is really cool!

choirqueer · **Posted:** Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:19 pm

booberthefraggle wrote:

"Cat Lyfe Redeems"

well, it says:
cat (picture of cat) lyfe
(heart) redeems

also, it's sharpie.

Looks like CATALYST PROBLEMS to me.

booberthefraggle · **Posted:** Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:23 pm

I've got catalyst problems and CH3CH2OH(g) + HCl(g) -> H2SO4-> CH3CH2Cl + H2O is one

raspberrycomplaint · **Posted:** Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:27 pm

Maybe one of you guys can help me out with this. I asked my mom what she wanted for xmas and she said "One of those things that you can use to sit up in bed... you know, the pillow things with the armrests that you can use to prop yourself up when you're sick?" and I know exactly what she's talking about, but I don't have any idea what it's called either. Is there a proper name for those so I can try to find one?

DarthCupcake · **Posted:** Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:37 pm

raspberrycomplaint wrote:

Maybe one of you guys can help me out with this. I asked my mom what she wanted for xmas and she said "One of those things that you can use to sit up in bed... you know, the pillow things with the armrests that you can use to prop yourself up when you're sick?" and I know exactly what she's talking about, but I don't have any idea what it's called either. Is there a proper name for those so I can try to find one?

I was just talking about these today!

I did some quick Googling, and it looks like they're called "bed rest pillows." I see them showing up at Target and Sears from about $20-$25, as well as at a number of other retailers, but I didn't check those prices.

I didn't realize how affordable these are! I might follow through with my joking threat to buy one to keep at the bf's apartment so I can spend all day sitting in bed grading in comfort, ha.

raspberrycomplaint · **Posted:** Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:47 pm

Thank you, that's exactly it!

choirqueer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:08 am

booberthefraggle wrote:

I've got catalyst problems and CH3CH2OH(g) + HCl(g) -> H2SO4-> CH3CH2Cl + H2O is one

I...don't even know what you just said :(

mollyjade · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:20 am

lavawitch wrote:

Jones makes a gravy soda. I never, ever, ever want to try it though.

That was a one-time thing, I think. Also, bubbly gravy is just wrong.

j-dub · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:21 am

booberthefraggle wrote:

I've got catalyst problems and CH3CH2OH(g) + HCl(g) -> H2SO4-> CH3CH2Cl + H2O is one

Ha!!

booberthefraggle · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:23 am

choirqueer wrote:

booberthefraggle wrote:

I've got catalyst problems and CH3CH2OH(g) + HCl(g) -> H2SO4-> CH3CH2Cl + H2O is one

I...don't even know what you just said :(

I was desperately trying to cram a chemistry joke/pun in to the song "99 problems" but failed a bit.

pandacookie · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:45 am

raspberrycomplaint wrote:

Maybe one of you guys can help me out with this. I asked my mom what she wanted for xmas and she said "One of those things that you can use to sit up in bed... you know, the pillow things with the armrests that you can use to prop yourself up when you're sick?" and I know exactly what she's talking about, but I don't have any idea what it's called either. Is there a proper name for those so I can try to find one?

I've heard them called husbands.

kara kara · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:58 am

I nearly broke my printer in a fit of blind rage. It works now, though.

booberthefraggle · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:00 am

kara kara wrote:

I nearly broke my printer in a fit of blind rage. It works now, though.

BEEN THERE. glad it works now!

choirqueer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:46 am

booberthefraggle wrote:

choirqueer wrote:

booberthefraggle wrote:

I've got catalyst problems and CH3CH2OH(g) + HCl(g) -> H2SO4-> CH3CH2Cl + H2O is one

I...don't even know what you just said :(

I was desperately trying to cram a chemistry joke/pun in to the song "99 problems" but failed a bit.

I got it at least that far!

choirqueer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:51 am

pandacookie wrote:

raspberrycomplaint wrote:

Maybe one of you guys can help me out with this. I asked my mom what she wanted for xmas and she said "One of those things that you can use to sit up in bed... you know, the pillow things with the armrests that you can use to prop yourself up when you're sick?" and I know exactly what she's talking about, but I don't have any idea what it's called either. Is there a proper name for those so I can try to find one?

I've heard them called husbands.

I Googled "pillows with arms", which seemed to do the trick, whereas "husbands" got me a sitcom, the history of heterosexuality, and some videos that I am not going to watch.

Gulliver · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 6:34 am

In a well-meaning but possibly misplaced display of generosity, I have been given a carrier bag full of enormous quinces. The smell of them slightly turns my stomach (I don't like the smell of pear or apple skins either, which I'm aware is quite a specific thing to have an aversion to), but I'm sure they're very nice cooked. What do I do with them?

kilgore trout · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 6:34 am

kara kara wrote:

I nearly broke my printer in a fit of blind rage. It works now, though.

I think I have actually cried before because my printer was refusing to work when I really needed something printed and was already ten minutes late for class. Glad it's working again!

lavawitch · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:27 am

Oops. I'm pretending to be a math teacher today and I've forgotten how to do implicit derivation and all the trig functions.

I used to be smart.

I'm going to have to dig up a textbook and wing it.

lavawitch · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:35 am

gah. It's too early for this.

What is the derivative of: 5ln(cosx) * tan(5x^2)

I don't remember all the stupid trig derivatives.

lavawitch · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:36 am

(I'm seriously going to give myself a crash review course in calculus and differential equations, because this is pitiful. Use it or lose it.)

Anek · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:37 am

I ate way too many fries. But they were my favourite fries and I won't get dinner so I need the sustenance. Right? Right.

linanil · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 9:05 am

lavawitch wrote:

(I'm seriously going to give myself a crash review course in calculus and differential equations, because this is pitiful. Use it or lose it.)

I took a calculus based statistics course 10 years after my last calculus course. I relearned calculus in that semester. Now it has been 2 years and I've forgot all I relearned.

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