so as I'm putting the finishing touches on my final...

i hear my students arguing that high school teachers often make MORE money than small college professors. The debate is getting heated (because you know, why do any last minute studying) finally they come and ask me. I tell them that if I went back to Pittsburgh and worked in high school i'd instantly double my salary. They looked at me as WHY would I be here then (good question) and then demanded to know how that was possible since I'm more highly trained...well isn't THAT the question. Either way I'm rather amused (otherwise I'd think on my salary and cry)


ETA - I'm wearing an all black shirt white cotton lace arround the scoop neckline. Guess where the coffee i spilled hit?

so i head to the restroom (because of all that coffee) and let me set the stage. We have exactly one female faculty toilet and it's handicapped so the toiletpaper holder is above the handrails. I pull off a few sheets but the morons who filled it DIDNT lock it so it swings down and cracks into my face. Now my eye is black...and i can't even claim workmen's comp and take a few days off...this is my last day until the fall semester.

YAY

It's over with! I only have to finish grading stuff. YAY. Now on to bigger and better things (okay cleaning the house and hey maybe working on my synopsis, the one for Ties that bind suggested part of itself on the way home)

One of my students told me on the way out the door that he loved my class and that I was nuts. Hard to argue that!

They invited me out for drinks but I did decline as I always will. I appreciate the offer but I'm just afraid of getting in trouble that way (whether I do something or not which has just recently happened with someone at the school so...)

was looking into the 'lore and magic' of trees (mostly back in my spiritual investigation mode) and found out that by birthday and by name (in Oghma) my tree is the Oak. I rather like that.

ETA - I forgot to mention that I just finished a very large Royai piece set after the FMA movie. However, I never could make it all the way through the movie and my usual beta has never seen it so I'm looking for a second beta to check out the details from the movie to make sure I haven't buggered it up. Thanks in advance (i'll send it one chapter at a time or in one fat chunk, your call, though right now it's totally unpolished)