Nice!

They were a lot of fun...Not many arguments or fights...we all had our moments, but there was never anything serious...

I miss Olivia 33 too...

I don't remember her, the name is familiar though. I know it's someone we're forgetting and it's on the tip of my tongue...........Gosh this is gonna bug me until I remember. But yeah, those we're the days.

I passed up a lot of members, eh? I have been gone from this forum last year then came back on February to catch up the good times. You, BF, Bubba and Mary are the people I remember, then I made new buddies here and on CI.

Cheese and Rice.

Irish, whatever you do, don't look at the new 'Pushed to May' thread at loci lounge. I just puked when I saw it. That member is sick. Bubba would be really dissed.

So do I, thats when we used to have fun and the hatred level towards other members was low.




She was part of the old forum, I miss her and Bensongirl.

HAHAH yes it was and hate is such a strong word unable to get along is a little more appropriate. The great old days. Oh and Bensonsgirl still comes on here sometimes. You must be really busy and never see her.

Thank God, Admin removed the sick thread at CI lounge. A member started a thread saying 'CI is pushed to May' and she made us look, but inside the thread was nude pics of women. Sick!

Sorry guys
I have a request for the person who told me don't interupt when people are speaking to them(to be a little specific you got upset when I interupted a conversation that you we're actually interrupting between 2 people that weren't even speaking to you int he 1st place) I ask you don't jump in my conversations either when people respond to me since you don't want me interupting your convo's. Which defeats the purpose of a forum, but hey. I would pm this but I can't so I'm gonna say it here. I just want everything to run smoothly so we need to come to an understanding about respecting each other's boundaries so we don't get in an argument.

Sorry guys
Back on topic to off topic

Kamara how about The Child the other day. Was that funny or what. I know it had me giggling
Enaka they used to do things like that on svufiction.com and send in messages. I was pissed when I read them.

But hey, If admin can remove that thread, why can't they reset everyone's account. I told you guys they we're lurking around here under the radar.

What happened to Bubba? Does anyone know? I haven't seen that man like in ages.

Bubba left when he lost his name and post count...I think he may have gotten them back eventually, but he hasn't posted in a long time.....

I know he has other things going on too...

Ah, no wonder he stopped posting in every forum. Thank you.

I need to vent before I seriously hurt someone I shouldn't (meaning my Principal)...

He informed me today that a teacher is leaving and in order to hire the intern he wants, I have to give up my favorite class. Because she is an intern, she must teach a Biology class (because that is what she is getting certified in - yes she isn't certified) and because of this I have to give up my kids. In return for giving up my favorite class, I am required to take the worst class in the building. This totally sucks. My sophomores are pissed and are petitioning the owner of the school to keep me as their Biology teacher, but I don't see it working. I told my Principal he owes me BIG TIME! Sorry to vent toward everyone here, I am just pissed off...

I'm sorry to hear that. I just have a few questions though. Isn't there another Biology class in your school? Or if not, then if she isn't certified, couldn't she just shadow you in your class instead? Or maybe you could observe her while she leads the class. It doesn't seem beneficial for the students to have someone who's still practicing her craft, so to speak, use their time. Couldn't she assist you like a TA instead? How long is she supposed to keep your class?

A lot of questions, I know. I don't mean to be nosy, just curious.

No, there is only one Bio class in the building. It is a small charter school.

She isn't certified because she isn't finished with her student teaching and didn't pass the Praxis yet. Her internship is her student teaching. She is a Bio major and completed her required coursework except for student teaching.

I can't be her coop teacher. If I am, I lose the only prep period I have during the day.

She will have my class until the end of the school year. From January to June. She is filling in for another teacher who quit.

Wow that sucks, but hey look at it this way, maybe you could turn that bad class around. All it takes is the right person and they may easily be your new best class. Everything happens for a reason, and who knows, there may just be people in that class who need to see someone who cares enough for them and wants to help them and show concern about them, to get them in check. I know your current students trust you and they don't want to see you go but there may be some students who need you more at the moment. I wish I still had a teacher who cared about us the way you do your students. It'll all work out, even though it's going to take some adjusting.

Thanks for finding a small crumb of positive in this situation. That entire class I am inherriting needs a swift kick in the a$$. If I ever acted like them, my parents would kill me. How can one kid get 22 detentions before Christmas? I was punished for having one, let alone 22. They are literally the worst behaving class in the school. But I will turn them around, because if I don't I will seriously have to kill them. (not literally of course...lol)

22 Good lord that sounds like the kids at my school. It's gonna take some time, but I'm sure you can do it once they gain your trust. I hope you have a game plan. LOL
So was the teacher like a no-nonsense teacher(the one who quit) or a let the students run the class teacher?

She was young...just out of college and teaching out of her major. She is an elementary ed teacher teaching middle school and hated every part of coming to work in the morning. You can't succeed if you really hate what you do. I love high school kids and that is what I was meant to teach, she wants the little ones.

I definitely have a game plan. I have been doing this a little while and I will let them know who is running the show from day one. The problem is I won't get them until January. The school year is half over and it is tough to build a rapport with them so late in the school year. I will do it because I will not let some snot nosed little wimps get to me...lol...

Yeah that's why. I don't blame her. MS and HS students are harder to deal with if you haven't got a clue what you're doing. Especially the young teachers, students don't show alot of respect towards them. We have a teacher at my school, and she's sweet as a button. She just has a pet peeve of using curse language. So this girl walks in and something happens and she curses. So the teacher stops, and ask her "please don't use that language in my class". So I guess she hurts the girl ego because she starts mocking her saying 'oops I didn't mean to say sh*t, I am so sorry I said the word sh*t in your class, sh*t.' over and over again, so the the teacher's like I'm going to call your mom and the girl says she doesn't care, blah blah blah. In the end the teacher ends up apologizing to the student for "offending her"
and I'm sitting there like 'what the heck just happened'. It was so ignornant and stupid, and I'm like no matter how nice a teacher may be you need to make these kids respect you 1st, and then be their "friend" if that's the route you want to take.

Your plan sounds air tight, lol. I can't wait to see that blow over. They're going to be sitting in their seats with their eyes all big like "This teacher ain't no joke" LOL. See how many of them want to test you after that.

Hiya Irish,

Do you still go to lmb, which moderates by the ci people? Is it still active there? I don’t go there anymore, though. I got hooked with this new asian board. Their comments are so hilarious!

That is another one of my problems...since when is it okay at all to use that kind of language? Especially by a child and in school. I know you don't consider yourselves children when you are in high school, but I'm sorry, you are. Until you are on your own and paying your own bills you will be considered a child, just an older child. (sorry my opinion, feel free to slam me for it, I don't care...lol) And when I see things like this happening in a classroom, it just proves my point. Sorry, but that is a HUGE pet peeve of mine too and I used to charge a quarter a curse and the more you cursed, the price went up exponentially. LOL

If I was that teacher I would have held my ground and called home, had her removed, and set a precedent that I will not accept that language in my classroom. When you back down, you lose everything you worked for. Respect must be earned, not demanded. You don't get the respect of your students if you demand it.

I haven't been on in a long time..

Sam Bradford became the 5th Sooner to receive the Heisman tonight...Congrats to him

You are 100% correct. You know I curse when I'm angry, LOL. But I still hate it and I myself don't condone it. Especially for people my age, and that girl cursing really pissed me off because the teacher is too nice for that, and if she ask for anything it's just to not curse, and the girl shows out and the students are sitting there laughing like it's hilarious. That's exactly why she get's no respect, she trying to be nice. You can be nice and stern at the same time IMO. But it's her 1st year here, and usually after that 1st year those teachers don't play around, and the students are like "what happened?????". It's crazy

I'm surely going to tell her about the cursing money jar though, that's pure gold. My 6th grade science teacher had a big jar filled with gum he collected from like years, so serious. And if he caught you chewing gum he would make you put it in the jar and take another piece out, which made me wonder how did he collect so much gum if really all you were doing was trading it in. Anyways everytime he opened that jar it would smell like death. I think that was the worst part of the entire barter. Thank goodness I never did it though. HA

And so are the others. Some are having slow connection problems, excess emails, etc.

Thanks...the money raised went to the American Cancer Society...

Really? That's awesome. Did you ever have trouble with people not paying up?

School.....gosh, I hate that, well not being able to post.

Nope...it was either pay up or deal with their grade level Vice Principal. They chose to pay up...some even wanted to pay in advance...lol .. I told them no...

hey guys... I thought I will write something here. I'm at the moment so ... I don't know how to say it lol Everybody sucks here lol (besides my friends here). I hate my situation here grrr And I'm not supposed to change something. I can't do something. I always have to say yes and I don't mind. They are such a pain in the ass -.- I don't know what to do... more than 6 months -.- before I'm free looooool
It sucks! I feel a little bit like... well Cinderella. I wish a prince would come to my rescue :-)

Ouch...I'm sorry for you.... I had some problems with my computer and I can't go on msn yet so I answer you here... I hope you could reach your family for Xmas...hopefully you have friends there...I send you a lot of friendly hugs for the end of the year and I hope you'll have great time even...

Yeah I can't do anything that's really frustrating. You are so helpless and this feeling is the worst. They are so nice and friendly but only in public.... so nobody belives me, what they do.... That sucks!

Yeah I have some friends here but I miss my best friends and my family. I hate this Christmas *lol* Everybody is happy and comes home for Christmas lol
Thank you for the hugs :-) I send you some back.

Hey guys! I don't think I will be around too much over the next couple of weeks, well, not that I have even been around at all lately, BUT, I just thought I'd send a quick note to you all in case I don't get a chance before the holidays. Sooooooo........

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I hope it's safe, merry, happy and healthy!

Love saRah
PS- If you have to travel, be careful! We are suppose to get hit pretty bad here in Chicago w/ ice storms over the next few days, so stay safe!!!

hey chicas and chicos!! im baaacccckkk! lol hows everyone?
so im glad to say that my organization at my school is for sure going to the Presidential Inauguration!! idk if i told you all that before, hmmm... but yes! im very excited!
i also got accepted into the university that i've dreamed of going to!! another positive thing in my life. im going to major in theatre performance and a minor in secondary education. This university is known for its great programs in both areas here in my hometown!
i have been watching SVU dont think ive disappeared and lost interest in this show! heck no! hehe

oh and can someone help me make a new siggy? i want a really cool pic! preferrably an EO one! lol cuz i still am an EO shipper! let me know thanks

Hey babe!!! Glad to hear everything is going great for you.
You should ask mariskaxgee to help you with a banner. The girls got skills.

Yeeeeeeesssss !!!!! You're back !!!
That's great news...
Now you said you're back you have no excuse for not updating "Hello I'm Kathy Benson"!!!!

By this time, I wish you a merry Xmas and good time with your relatives !

haha hey jolec and DSR!! i missed you guys!!
oh and thanks DSR, i might just go do that! in the meantime im still looking for some new pics. i like your siggy that was from Wildlife. i knew sooner or later almost everyone would have siggys referring to this eppy! hehe

Missed you too.
So are you looking for general pics of CM & MH or SVU pics only of ES & OB. Or do you have no preference?

Arabesque, I loved the Falling fic you posted. Awesome, the characters thoughts and specific detail was so in character, I could only imagine what the eppy would have been like if they worked that train of though into that scene instead of leaving it up to interpretation. I don't know how they would have done it, lol, but the ficlet was great.

Thanks DSR! I figured we had spent so much time discussing it on the boards (which btw are extremely dead--where is everybody?) that I figured I'd work through it with a little fanfic. Plus I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to be taking it easy right about now. I've already spent one night this week in the ER (it's pretty sad when I go to the hospital for someone else and end up as the patient...).

Wow, if you don't mind me asking what happened? It's cool if you don't want to talk about it though.
And yes it's a ghost town!!!

No, I don't mind. The docs aren't quite sure what happened. One minute I was standing next to the hospital bed talking to my rape victim and feeling fine, and the next thing I know I passed out and had four nurses surrounding me. As soon as they got some fluids in me, I tried to get them to wheel me into her room so I could talk to her and make sure she was okay, but the doc didn't quite go for that. I did manage to convince a SANE (sexual assault nurse examiner) to take care of some basic paperwork (so we could follow up with her) and to hook up a phone at my bed so I could call into our office and let them know what was gong on. But I felt awful that I couldn't be there for her. Although I guess better that I was in the ER when it happened rather than home alone.

Wow, so are you a rape counselor? Also did the Doctor run some test and find out what happened?

I'm a hospital and law enforcement advocate for survivors of sexual assault. I'm typically on call as needed anywhere from 15-100+ hours a week so I spend quite a bit of time at the local hospitals. I don't do the follow-up "counseling" per se, but I'm there during the initial "crisis" period for whatever the survivor needs from me and then I've started helping them to train new advocates. I'm still working toward my counseling certification, but hopefully soon. And yes, they did run an EKG and a couple of basic tests, but they never did figure out what happened.

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!!! Please be celebrate safely...

Wow, that's great. I don't know if I could do that, I'm to sensitive and might end up in a wreck seeing a rape victim like that.
It may have just been one of those 'nothings' that happened with you. Had you eaten?

Oh and I so read to 2nd chapter of falling, it was awesome!!! Are you planing on making that an entire story?

ahhhh...DSR, i sure do love your siggy! lol

As I do yours lol.

Just wanted to stop in and wish everyone Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanuka...enjoy this season how ever you celebrate it!!