So we’ve reached the question the several people have publicly and privately told me they look forward to my answer.
Why? You KNOW what the answer is.
Others have suggested since the answer is so obvious, perhaps I should just… skip it.
No. That would be cowardly and I am not a coward. Also it would bug the shit out of me knowing 19 was missing in my listing.
I had thought to keep it simple. 2 words. I’m going to keep it simple. For reasons. But not THAT simple.
#19 – A ship in the fandom you can’t stand – canon or non-canon, characters or RP.
You know, I’m an easy going person. If you want to ship Glorfindel and the Balrog, go for it, although writing that ship will get you kicked out of Little Balrog. It will also get you kicked out and banned at the Save the Blue Whales of Rohan Pub and Brothel, as well. But hey, whatever floats your boat. Personally, I ship Nick Fox and Judy Hopps. Big time. Is there any Zootopia fanfiction? I need to go look.
however, I dislike RP shipping. It’s been that way for years, since I first got into fandom. I recall doing some website searches for the actors of the original Trilogy and coming across stuff pairing up one of the actors with every other actor available. All I could think of was – he’s happily married and has 2 young children. What happens when they get old enough to surf the web and find these stories of their dad, the man-whore? There was even a fic where he picked up some girl at a bar for the night and the next morning, he found a note from her stuck in his wallet – ‘cute kid’
I have a problem with that.
So normally, I just stay out of real life shipping. If riding that ship makes you happy, fine. I’ll just block the tag and go on with my happy self.
but there on occasion have been instances where people love their ship so much, the world must not only accept their ship, but ride it as well and if you don’t, well by golly, you’ll either change the error of your ways, and accept our ship as the one true boat on the sea of love or we’ll sink your ass to the depths beyond Poseidon.
5 days! YAS!!!!!! You know they are going to be OFF THE CHAIN, but 5 days!!!!
And then 4 days of post planning. My room is done. I already have my banner for beginning of the school year next year done – I just have to hang it – and then 1st week lesson plans and I’m sitting back and writing!
Got TWO shopping catalogues in the mail this afternoon. flipped through them and tossed them. I’m not paying THAT much for a bathing suit that’s supposedly on sale! NYAH!
We did laundry. YAY! 10 loads and 2 of the loads were double loads. Dear God, I spent almost 50.00 at the laundry mat. Of course, we’ve not been in almost 6 weeks. That’s never good. I asked Spawn why didn’t he tell me he had run out of underwear and he just kinda… looked at me. Apparently, when he’s done with one side, he turns them inside out and goes again. Same with socks.
Men. Yuk!
Also discovered the Mother’s Curse works. I found clean, folded laundry in the bottom of his laundry basket.
Just… please.
Took a dive on my ass at the Walmart parking lot. It was raining and I was wearing my plastic yard work fake crocs – those with no tread. Feet shot out and luckily I fell on my ass, rather than my face. Several people – including Spawn – helped me up and I assured them the only thing hurt was my pride.
This is a lie. My left leg is wrenched pretty bad from thigh to ankle. I’ve already taken several motrin.
On the other hand, I discovered you can get apple cider vinegar in capsules! That stuff will knock your blood sugar out of the park on a low rider!
OKAY! Time for more RA Challenges! Hmmmm #17 – character you love to hate – didn’t I answer this already? Percy
and William.
Snarky bastards I wouldn’t…. no. Just no. Let’s keep going, shall we?
#18 – 3 things on your to do list if you suddenly found yourself face to face with RA.
Hope I have rope.
Hope I have a big van nearby…
Naaaah. Let’s be real.
Tell him how much I appreciate his work and the obvious effort he puts in it.
I would then blush and stammer all over the place.
I would then probably mumble how nice it was to meet him and then run off and kick myself for being a nincompoop and total fangirl.
I need sleep. Completely! Spawn says he has plans tomorrow…
The year I turned 30, he had just turned 5. He had me drive us to the restaurant he picked out. He placed my order and paid for it (with money I’m sure his grandparent gave him). He then carried the tray to our table and served me.
After that I was allowed to watch him play on the McDonald’s playground uninterrupted for 30 minutes. It was a great dinner. Yup!
5 to go. I have NEVER been sooooooo ready for summer. (5 with kids. 4 days of post planing. As far as I’m concerned, my room is done. So I’m just doing meetings and bringing my laptop to write!)
I know. I say that every year, but this year has been particularly heinous. I would like to do some retail therapy, but I’m staying strong. I’ve NOT been to any of the sites and all the catalogues were gone when I got home today. Whooot. Go me. And love to my son.
We’ll see where I’m standing come Memorial Day. Hmmm mmmm.
Challenge – Day whatever… Name a character you love that everyone else hates.
Okay, so I don’t know if everyone else HATES him. I do know when the movie was announced to be released, there were those ‘fans’ who were screaming the part was beneath him, how could he taken it, what a let down to his fans, he was destined for bigger things.
And they hadn’t even seen it. Please. Kiss my ass.
I am, of course, talking about Gary Fuller. Into the Storm.
I rather LIKE Gary. Okay, I like Gary almost as much as I like Guy, k? I accepted the movie for what it was – a smash ’em up summer fun flick. That’s it. No Oscars or awards for this, except maybe special effects… maybe? Spawn loved it. We got free tickets. That’s all I care about. I enjoyed it. I like Gary.
I’ll have more to say about Gary later. Hmmm mmmm.
Six days left. Will I survive? I don’t know. I’m in the middle of a pissing contest with a custodian, of all people. (Apparently, I missed the memo where I was told the head custodian decides what should be in my room and what should not and if she decides that my resources – including all 24 of my lab pianos that were purchased before my time – need to be trashed, so she can load my room with rickety tables I don’t want or need and that are dangerous, then I have to understand that.)
Trust me. Those tables will be gone by the time I leave by the end of the school year. We have been fighting over them pretty much all school year. It’s unreal. The next time she tells me I only need 2 or 3 pianos, I’m going to ask if she intends to only issue one roll of toilet paper to the bathrooms, for everyone to share.
Did my grade level testing today. I was very concerned because I have been unable to review the last two weeks. Seeing how I only see them once a week, it was… well concerning! My room’s floor has been stripped and I’ve been told – again by the custodians – that I’m not allowed to have children in my room. Wait until next week when I haul kinders down to rehearse for graduation. Hmmm mmm. My sub didn’t show up (because there is no way I can test, grade, load the grades into the State System, and update the data AND teach 5 classes in one day.) and it took the Wrath of God (and a lot of Zee tears) to get a replacement sub 2 and a half hours late. Anyway, they’ve stripped one of the 1st grade classrooms, so that ENTIRE class was pulled into ANOTHER 1st grade class AND the room has about 8 3rd graders who passed their mandated testing and didn’t need remediation for the 2nd go round next week.
So the head of the department takes me down to an empty classroom where I set up, only to discover NONE of the computers – 3 of them – have ANY audio capability. And 2 of the questions are audio.
I attempted to recreate them. One was on an instrument, so that was okay, however the other was vocal. Zee is a contralto with asthma. The listening selection was of a coloratura soprano. My sweeties know Ms. Z sings low and that’s how they answered the question. My apologies to Heidi (the singer) and Schubert for slaughtering such a beautiful piece.
Also my German sucks. I’m sure I saw a few students cringe.
Either way, one of the custodians tries to lay me out for using a room SHE didn’t give me permission to use. I told her tough titties and oh btw – I didn’t let me in the room, the department chair did, so go talk to her. They won’t mess with her at all.
Despite all of that, they did really well – all passed or exceeded. I”m in shock. I have to start hunting up the ones that missed tomorrow on my own time. Hope the 20 that weren’t here show up tomorrow.
Edit: I want to clarify that the state did NOT provide me with recordings. The question stated – what music is the teacher playing? So I provided the music they were familiar with.
Challenges
I turned off notifications from the places I tend to buy clothes from. Told Spawn if catalogs came in to just toss them, no matter what cute tote they were giving away was on the cover. We have things to do this summer, money to save. A 3 day excursion to Charleston is in our plans, especially since That Man promised to take me there for a ‘special weekend’ – and obviously that didn’t pan out. So while Spawn and I can’t afford a nice hotel, we can afford squatter’s cheap (Motel 6) and a few days R&R at some of the memorials and Boone’s Plantation.
Also, Dragoncon is not so far down the road.
Challenged!
#15 – A character everyone else loves that you hate. OR Watch Zee’s butt get kicked. Sell tickets. Popcorn. I’m sure someone will say – here. Hold my beer.
Here’s the problem. The characters I hate – I mean really hate – no one loves. At least, I don’t know anyone who would love these god-forsaken lowlifes. For real. I don’t.
So rather than hate a character everyone else loves, I’ll sort of…. reinterpret it.
Name a character everyone loves that you’re rather…. meh to. Immune to.
Easy Peasy. John Thornton.
Now before everyone piles on the hate, I watched North and South spread out over… oh… year or two. I watched an episode, got busy with life and then watched another one and got side-tracked and watched part of one and then back-tracked and waited for a while and then watched the last episode loooooooooong afterwards. With the exception of that train scene…. and that kiss…. which yeah, makes up for a lot…
It doesn’t help that I’m not so fond of Margaret.
Perhaps, I should have a grand re-watch… Everyone LOVES this character, loves this show and I’m just… immune.
I have concluded that I have a problem, but we’ll discuss that in a minute.
When Baby Sis was last up here, we went to the beach. I found a lovely Tybee Island picture frame and Spawn took an awesome picture of mom’s three girls. So we framed it as a combo Mother’s Day/Birthday Gift.
She called me to tell me she loved it. I’m going to take her word for it. None of us like to have our pictures taken, so this was the best we could do.
I still have a problem, but I’m going to discuss it after I do my RA Challenge.
Day 14 – A villain you love.
Now, here’s the problem. I don’t LOVE his villains. Not at all.
I don’t love William Chatford – or is it Chatworth. I watched Malice Aforethought once. Once.
Really a dislikeable, despicable person.
I don’t love Paul Andrews.
I DO like his…
Ass-ets.
I certainly do NOT love Percy!
Is Lee a villain or simply a Douche?
No love for John Mulligan
So, who does that leave me with???
But the question I have is Guy REALLY a villain? No doubt he’s quite the nasty and baddie at the beginning, but it doesn’t take long before we realize there is more to Guy and less to Robin… and Marian is an idiot.
And I don’t think Guy is as bad as he’d like us to think he is.
Can I hear an amen from the congregation?
Good. I’m glad we’re unified on that front.
Now. I have a problem.
I’m a shopaholic and I’ve decided to tell my son to TOSS the catalogs and to unsub from the automatic mailings for a while. At least until school starts. I was bad tonight. Sooooo bad…
Half off sale. And everything was already on sale. What all I bought for 100.00 plus S&H is unreal.
And I didn’t get a swim suit. I need a swim suit.
HEY! Did I show you the dress I bought that Spawn liked so much on me? I”m shorter than the model, so the dress is REALLY long on me. I’ll step on it if I’m not careful.
Yes, I got the shrug in that color. I have to cover up my flabby arms. And it’s a crinkle dress. I have no idea how to wash it to keep the crinkles in. I guess I should twist it and tie it up and wash it that way.
8 days. 8 days. Received awesome news today – one grade level that has been exceptionally difficult this year will NOT be having resource the rest of this week and possibly next week.
Okay. I can hang with that. No. Really I understand and wholly support the teachers decision in this. Hmmm mmmm.
Either or. We come to yet a NOTHER question I’ve mulled over.
Day 13 – A song that reminds you of RA.
Now, Misty Mountains will ALWAYS remind me of Richard. It doesn’t matter WHO sings it.
Always Richard.
However, for some odd reason, the first time I heard this, I thought of … yeah. Him. Don’t ask me why. I still haven’t figured it out.
I had a student tell me that I was much nicer this year than last year. I reminded her that their behavior this year was much worse than last year, so next year, I’ll be mean again.
You will NOT believe the hoops I’ve had to go through to remove 6 dilapidated, broken down, useless computer desks from my room. Honestly! You. Will. Not.
Little sister and niece spent the last 3 days with us. I soooo appreciate a quiet house. Really.
Day 12 of Guylty’s Challenge.
Name something you WISH would happen –
I wish they would have released The Crucible to everyone at the same time, not made us wait a fucking year and a half for it. Sorry. I’ve lost interest now. Yes, I’m still chewing on that bone. I”m bitchy that way.
I wish all these wonderful movies Richard filmed after the last Hobbit film, they would actually release! Urban, Sleepwalker, for starters.
