The Slacker Uncensored

Colin’s Mom is so freaking cool. I miss her already. We went out to eat a lot, cruised around downtown, went to the zoo, toured Girdwood/Alyeska resort/Portage glacier, and shopped. Next time, we’ll plan ahead enough to be able to take one of those glacier cruises.

Dave came into town Saturday night for his Mom’s birthday. He’ll only be here until tonight, but it’s great to be able to kick back and hang out nontheless.

A man was fed up with teachers making a hefty salary for only nine months work. “If I had my way,” he said, “I’d pay teachers the same as baby-sitters! That’s right… $3 an hour. And only for the five hours a day that they actually work, not for planning time, meetings, or outside of school duties either! $15 a day! That’s enough.” “Fine,” said a teacher. “I’ll take it!” The man was surprised. The teacher continued, “Each parent can pay me $15 a day for me to babysit their kids, and I’ll throw in my teaching for free. Since I teach an average of 25 children per hour, I’ll make $15 x 25 or $375 a day. Since we only work 180 days per year, I’ll
make $375 x 180 or $67,500 a year.” “Hey, wait a minute!” said the man. The teacher added, “Teachers with ten years or more of experience, a Master’s Degree, or special education teachers should make more–say, oh, minimum wage. I’ll round it off to $6 per hour. Let’s see: at 5 hours per day times 25 children equals $750 per day. Multiply that times 180 days and I’d make $135,000 per year.” The man looked puzzled and said, “Something’s wrong here!” The teacher replied, “I couldn’t agree more!”

Via Carmie:

I got a 43. How about you? Have a pen and paper ready:

1. When do you feel your best?
a) In the morning
b) During the afternoon and early evening
c) Late at night

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I might not do a whole lot of updating in the coming couple of weeks. Today is “Clean the house day”, and some dude is supposed to come and buy my rotting VW and haul it away (Yay!). Tomorrow my mother-in-law gets here for a two-week visit (she’s earth-mama-cool and I wuv her), and Wednesday Colin gets home!

[whew!]

Mikey is a very smart guy.

And now, just because I feel like it…

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