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Dec. 11th, 2007 08:11 amCate are supposed to be graceful.
And yet, when mine peeked over the edge of the tub at me enjoying a post-shower soak, she somehow managed to slip and land in the water with me.She used every cat-contortion possible not to. She fought it all the way down. To my dismay, she was still scrabbling and clawing when she hit my thighs. Nothing like having a wet and panicked cat land in your lap when you're naked. Long story short: I'm injured. She's soaked.
Last night, I entered report cards into the new Powerschool system they have us using. There's 52 things to mark each student on, and I have 33 students. Sigh. That's a lot of clicking. So, at some point in the process, I started talking to myself. In Martian.
See, there's three things you have to choose from on each of the 52 subjects: ACH for Achieving, DEV for Developing, and NI for Needs Improvement. I started pronouncing the ACH as ACK. So I'm going down the list saying things like "ACH, ACH, ACH! DEV, DEV, ACH! ACH, ACH, ACH, ACH." I sounded like one of the aliens in Mars Attacks. Who, in turn, sound like irate ducks.
I suppose I could've used a Scottish Ach! instead of ACK! but the ACK! made it out of my brain first and stuck.
And yet, when mine peeked over the edge of the tub at me enjoying a post-shower soak, she somehow managed to slip and land in the water with me.She used every cat-contortion possible not to. She fought it all the way down. To my dismay, she was still scrabbling and clawing when she hit my thighs. Nothing like having a wet and panicked cat land in your lap when you're naked. Long story short: I'm injured. She's soaked.
Last night, I entered report cards into the new Powerschool system they have us using. There's 52 things to mark each student on, and I have 33 students. Sigh. That's a lot of clicking. So, at some point in the process, I started talking to myself. In Martian.
See, there's three things you have to choose from on each of the 52 subjects: ACH for Achieving, DEV for Developing, and NI for Needs Improvement. I started pronouncing the ACH as ACK. So I'm going down the list saying things like "ACH, ACH, ACH! DEV, DEV, ACH! ACH, ACH, ACH, ACH." I sounded like one of the aliens in Mars Attacks. Who, in turn, sound like irate ducks.
I suppose I could've used a Scottish Ach! instead of ACK! but the ACK! made it out of my brain first and stuck.
