Bulletin Board of Bad Behavior

please do write it. i'm going to give you the motivation right now -- the long version:

Bill Gates' Mom was a Teacher
(which explains a lot about the J - - and very little about anything else)

I'm going to explain my boredom, which will probably bore others, but at this point I feel the need to share.

The greatest recent discovery to me was not the discovery of hobbits, although that is a fabulous one. I mean the uses of that knowledge are far reaching in my classroom. Not really most of my students despise JR Tolkein and would rather choke me than read him. But the greatest recent discovery was that of the smiley in a word document J I have no idea why this makes me happy, but it does, and I am at that level of boredom.

I have no projects left. I think I've gone through everything already in my how to save the world this month emergency plans.

I think perhaps it has to do with the number of not smiley faces that I encounter tooling around the internet. Sometimes I think the internet is world's greatest downer. So I've become enthralled with the smiley J I can literally force a smile J on the internet.

I'm also bored because I have to read seventy papers on the same topic L, which just enabled to figure out how to make the not smiley face L in a word document.

Which is not only an example of how bored I am, but of how boring the subject of writing has become in our schools. Who wants to be forced to write about the prompt: You've been given the job of deciding who will be on the newest coin, who will you choose and why?

Possible interesting responses, “What's a coin? We all use credit and check cards.â€￾

“Effeminate Boy George on one side, masculine Boy George on the other.â€￾

I'm not seeing these responses though. I'm making them up to get through the various uninteresting responses I'm having to give: your pronoun and antecedent do not agree, sentence fragment, sentence fragment, run-on, please elaborate, no topic sentence, no supporting details, no continuity, no unity, and the all time worst: sp -1. This is really why teachers quit. They say it's the stress -- total lie, it's the mindlessness of comma splice, comma splice, where is your subject?

Plus while trying to teach children how to correct the enumerable spelling errors that inevitably occur in a language that has at least one exception for every rule (not to mention the combination of errors stemming from the damn schwa) ruins our spelling. People don't realize that this is the greatest sacrifice that teachers make. After reading in conclustion, in conclushion, in cunclusion, in concluesion, we eventually agree with Bill and are like where is the damn spell check, how the f**** is that bastard spelled?

In conclusion,
J

i'm bored.

has anyone written anything new, poems? stories? essays?

a call for new stuff.

no, i didn't even know duchamp had done a urinal. the only thing i know about marcel duchamp is nude descending a staircase, unless that's not marcel duchamp's -- i didn't even know there where a sculpture to be vandalized -- the last exhibit that i saw at the pompidou was so freaky i wanted to watc...

i liked the whole first album -- the blue i guess is the first album, if not that's the one i like, the rest not so much. this is strange, but the cdc did not email me back, not that that is strange, but what is is that Dr. James Dobson who is i think a conservative minister knows about HPV and a Be...

thanks. i thought you'd like it.

yes, it howled! barffffk

rosie, george bush has solved your problem completely! the guy who tapped you has now committed a federal crime -- that is if he didn't say, Hi Rosie, It's [insert stalker's real name] and I'm tapping your emails and phone calls. Call the feds and the stalker will serve two years in jail. This has i...

well, we all deserve not have our emails tapped into - -that's a whole nother issue for me though as in, nevermind, i am really sorry. it sounds terrible. i had all kinds of trouble with my email a while ago. i thought it was matt, then i thought it was this guy that i'm friends with, then i was abs...

rosie, umm, tell him to fuck off. and mean it. i don't understand how we get ourselves involved with these types. i have the fuck off face and the my name is married response -- they work. but once i was told that i look like a bitch. i don't know. somehow i think they know that i'm nice but i will ...

(warning: this is an essay not really a movie or music review)

Leaving Lloyd Dobler Because of Biko

Yesterday, I had my first date in a long time, I can't really remember how long because I just stopped caring about dates. I don't know how a person stops caring about dating, but I did. And after my first date in a long time I didn't figure out how I stopped caring about dates, but I did understand why.

My date was very nice, we had an in house day, meaning he rented some movies, bought me some beer, stayed all afternoon, and cooked me dinner. Most of it was nice, but really I think the thing that got me started thinking was the movie; he rented Must Love Dogs. He rented it for several nice reasons; nice reason number one, I do love dogs and nice reason number two, I did love Lloyd Dobler, I mean John Cusack.

But it was actually painful to watch. For one thing the female character was a divorced school teacher named Sarah. Every time she was in a terrible scene, saying terribly stupid things, and doing even dumber ones, I cringed. Really as my name is Sarah, I am a school teacher, and I was on my first date in a really long time, it made me uncomfortable.

For another, the acting and script was bad. With the exception of Stockard Channing, Dolly-Rizzo, who is always weird and funny, everyone else was boring and terrible. There was absolutely no reason to believe that Sarah, divorced whiney school teacher would be the constellation of normal women's quirk's that caught Lloyd Dobler's eye. I mean Lloyd Dobler had now found his vocation, it was not owning a record store, as I had once thought, it was now creating art, and apparently having some kind of anonymous patron as he never got paid. But anyway, it was a movie, and in Lloyd Dobler tradition, John Cusack stream of consciousnessed his thoughts as Sarah sat staring in confusion. Obviously she did not understand or even come close to appreciating the soul of Lloyd Dobler. Every scene they were in was one of confusion, not connection. And then at the end of the movie I sat staring in confusion when Lloyd Dobler's friend told this woman that she had broken Lloyd Dobbler's heart. Then I thought, Really? This is the best Lloyd Dobler can do? For all the profundity found in his mental ramblings on screen, Lloyd Dobler must be dumb or desperate, this is not Diane Court, this is Diane Lane as Sarah and she's not all that great.

At which point I began to re-think Lloyd Dobler.

Several years ago, a friend of mine and I sat discussing men, and we both came to the conclusion that she and I and many other like-minded women of a certain generation had been ruined on men because of Lloyd Dobler. We theorized that all of us had been waiting around for the sensitive, a bit confused, poetic soul who would come to our windows, Romeo style, and serenade us to “In Your Eyes“. It was sort of Lloyd Dobler, Lloyd Dobler where for art thou Lloyd Dobler life for us.

We were rather stupid, I think, as was Lloyd Dobler to be waiting around for this. Another friend of mine explained ten years ago after I'd told him what a great scene the serenade one is, that it was actually a very weird scene for him to watch because of who sang the song.

I thought he was trying to discredit Lloyd Dobler, but now ten years later, I think he was trying to explain something important to me that he couldn't quite articulate. For him it was a weird scene. As he explained, the song “In Your Eyesâ€￾ in his mind had always been about Stephen Biko, a man who did something to change the world for the better. In his ears, it was not a sappy love song about a teenage boy who's just had sex and lust for the first time. It was a song about a deep appreciation for a person who has sacrificed for a greater thing.

And now I think, I understand what he meant, and I don't really care if Lloyd Dobler gets his heart broken. There are greater things to work on.

i changed my mind, i'm just going to put the information and a link about it here. if you ever want to write to the folks who are in charge of some of the decisions on whether or not we get this vaccine any time soon, here's where you can go. so if you'd like to write to contact them, here's a start...

yes, so was mine. that's very good to hear. especially that you won't have to have another for a year. that's a good sign always. someone else gave me the name of the folks that i can write to to try to help push through the legislation or whatever it takes faster. if you'd like to know who to write...

pixie, i'm sorry if i was hard on you. it sounds like the work that you do and have done is very beneficial to women. you will be connected with it i'm afraid. when's the last time you had a pap smear? did you have any abnormal cells? that's hpv. that's what they call it, abnormal cells, dysplasia, ...

"but it does make me feel better for my celibacy/abstinance however you choose to say it." you've got to be kidding me right, "feel better" you should feel like THE MAN -- especially on this website, no offense, but that's impressive. i mean that's really really impressive -- goo...

sorry, i've taken over this thread pixie, really, this whole thing just disgusts me. they've known since 2002 in the us that the vaccine was 100 percent effective according to one article. all of the articles say pretty much the same thing, it's effective with two strands hpv 16 and 18 over and over...

pixie, you can tell your young female patients that the middle of 2006 is when they are saying the FDA could approve the vaccine, and it is a good idea to let all those who are in control of legalizing this substance know that it's in our best interest to do so, especially if they read about the cos...