Evil Wrapped in a Fangirl Disguise

Rarr. This morning sucks and I am subbing middle school PE this afternoon (it was that or 7th grade science).

I might have fic later.

There are three episodes of season five left. I'm hiding from the rest of LJ until it's over. I don't want to know anything about the rest of the season, including how people are reacting to spoilers. Hiding from the internet in general seems the best way to do this.

( Supernatural - 5.19 )

- Follow-up to Before the Night Is Through sent to ginnith last night. I'm on a dirty, porny roll!

- Editor dropped off the Nikon D40. I get to carry a fancy-shmancy camera around with me! For free! HA. (Unless you count the various tolls anxiety takes on me when forced outside of my comfort zone in order to interview people.)

- The first issue of the new publication came out today. My feature is the first story in it! And they used my title! And it's all "Mary ___, contributing writer"! I feel ridiculous for being excited about it since I've been writing for the newspaper since November 2008, but there is something about opening this one up and seeing it there. Maybe it's because it's thicker than our inky-dinky paper? The publication is a combination of three local papers now, and is more tabloid-style.

- Subbing half a day of middle school PE tomorrow. I'd say I'm a crazy person, but honestly? I'd rather sub those classes than have to deal with a whole day of fifth grade where there are detailed lesson plans. (And half of the material's never where the teacher's note says it is...)

- There was a guy in the library today who smelled of diesel/gasoline. My nose is still tingly with it.

- I have Southland on DVD! Only seven episodes, sure, but now I can watch/re-watch and pause and whathaveyou whenever I want.

God save me from 8th grade girls. Geeeez.

I mean, not all of them. (I was an awesome 8th grade girl, for example.) But the ones in first period PE are just...frustrating. Actually, that whole class is kind of frustrating.

But during the actual activities of the entire day, the other teacher put the radio on over the gym speakers and they played Kris Allen, Adam Lambert, Lady Gaga, and Muse practically in a row. I was very happy.

And got to be the woman in charge of the scoreboard buzzer. POWER, I HAZ IT.

I am disappointed that some of the worst kids throughout the day were kids that regularly use the library. Where they generally don't cause problems. Peer pressure. Ugh.

Two kids in my class got sent to the principal for wearing gang shirts.

Anyhoo. Project Runway tonight! May it be less boring than last season!

01. At the library, I helped a couple find sample questions for the test for US citizenship. Felt awesome after.

02. Agreed to sub three days of middle school PE in a row. OMG AM I A GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT??

Although the times I've done single days have been fine.

03. Southland premiered on TNT. REALLY enjoyed it. The permiere was commercial free and I was surprised that my attention never wandered. Pleasantly surprised. Very much looking forward to seeing more. I'm hoping I won't miss too many because of meetings (at least two a month, stupid city council). But I suppose that's what the internet is for after all.

On a shallow note, I appear to have a thing for Ben McKenzie's profile. ::shrug:: I think I always did. Something about his nose. (I never really watched The OC, but I enjoyed Junebug.) And, of course, Michael Cudlitz is just...hot in a very solid way. Mmmmmmmmmm. I like his profile, too.

And, omg, they're good. That scene outside the house? "You're a cop because you don't know how not to be one." Whoa.

God. I am REALLY EXCITED for this now. I mean, I was sure I would enjoy it, but I'm close to making grabby hands and pleading, "More now? Pleeeeease?"

04. ( NCIS )

05. ginnith did a fantastic thing and reminded me that with no Big Bang, I can have fun with the Porn Battle and not feel guilty. So I can go back to what I do the best the most: writing short, dirty fic.

06. PORN BATTLE. Coming up! I swear, porn battle time is my favorite time. I only wrote two for the last one, three for the one before. My first attempt (porn-wise and battle-wise), Any Other Name, is still one of my personal favorite of the things I have written.

Subbing at the school makes me feel like such a spazz.

I mean, kids generally like me but interacting with the other teachers? The ones that didn't teach me at some point? Kind of makes me feel like a spazz.

And the kids, too, to a point. I think it's the whole...trying to be authoritative when you have no clue what is going on.

Though I was helpful and clever at the port meeting. Or, well, at least helpful. I'm a librarian. My google-fu is strong.

I signed up to sub three and a half hours of middle school PE.

Clearly I am a crazy person. It's PE and it's the middle school.

But it's also only until 11:30 which means that I'll be done by lunch and they won't call me for a longer position. So those were pluses. The whole automated calling at five in the morning makes me stress out every night that doesn't precede a day marked "non-work."

The first time I subbed was PE in the elementary. I could have really used a whistle. Of course, anything out of high school and I could really use a whistle. Lots of trying to project without yelling.

I lead a life of excitement and varied employment.

The '09-'10 school year started at the end of August. Today was my first subbing day. Got the call at 7:15 this morning from the school secretary and not the automated system. Which pretty much means I'll say yes as long as I don't have something else to do. I have a bad habit of hanging up on the automated system. ::shame::

But it was an emergency, so I went in. Subbed for a position that's new this year. I traveled around the school, going to one class in each grade (K-5) for 45 minutes doing Weekly Reader and Time for Kids. TFK was about the California wildfires and WR was fire prevention. I also got to lug around a 45 lbs. backpack to demonstrate how heavy some of the equipment a firefighter carries is.

I was sort of dreading kindergarten and first grade, the last two classes of the day, because filling 45 minutes with kids that age can be difficult if you've only been given so much material to work with. And thrown in there. But they were my favorite classes of the day. Definitely the most well behaved and quiet. I was super impressed.

One of the IAs in the kindergarten helped teach me in first grade. The first grade teacher taught my brother (now 21) in kindergarten. Crazy!

But it really was a pretty good day, even if I am now losing my voice. I saw a bunch of my library kids (haha, my library kids) and even got a drive-by hug from one of them, which was awesome.

You know, I really do not want to teach (because, wow, that is a lot of work and some crazy politics) and when I thought I did it was never elementary, but I do love being at the elementary now as a sub. Kids can be little punks and brats and loud and annoying, but they can be really great, too.

The principal wanted to know if I could do this again this week since now I understand what the position needs/asks for and the woman I was subbing for may not be back due to her father being ill. Unfortunately, Wednesday and Thursday I'm subbing at the public library.

I still have city council tonight. I'm hoping I don't actually fall asleep.

Got a call a little before 5:20 this morning asking if I could sub today. Ended up with a half-day with fourth graders.

I heard, "You're really tall" a lot. Yup, kids, I am. You're not the only ones to notice, either.

I also got several comments/questions about my Tiffany bean necklace.

Meanwhile, I was really happy with my hair today.

( Picture! Because who doesn't want to see a Myspace-style self-portrait? )

I've got a haircut scheduled June 6 and other than shorten the back (because omg it's driving me crazy and I will never survive the heat), I'm not sure what I want to do. Keep the bangs? Grow them out? Get them trimmed? ::shrug:: I also want to dye my hair again, but I don't know if I want to go red or darker brown. Opinions?

Coconut italian sodas are the best summer drinks ever. Yum.

Mom and I are watching season four of Supernatural out of order. I may be on my way to developing an unhealthy interest in Castiel.

I have Merlin fic to post later. Trying something different. I find it amusing that my Merlin writing comfort zone is rated NC-17. How things change.

Anyway, just waiting to hear back on a last question there and then I think I can stop being crazy obsessive about every single word.

I feel really productive fic-wise lately. I think it's the newspaper. It's nice to have two word files open and switch between the meeting of the week and fic whenever I get stuck on one.

I also have more Supernatural to watch now. Yea!

Tomorrow I'll be playing the part of 6th and 8th grade PE teacher. It was either that or three days of high school math. And while the note for that said that it was just tests and worksheets and an easy three days for a sub, I'm still a bit...eh, no about it. Plus, I don't know what type of meeting city council will be tonight and how long it will take me to put it together in an article. So, PE. I've done elementary PE before (first school sub job ever!) and it's not something I can really screw up.

Also, this way I can get my dentist appointment in. I've been putting it off. Time to just get in there and get it done. (This makes me sound like I don't like my dentist. I love my dentist. He is made of awesome, basically, and I've been seeing him all my life. I'm just worried they'll find problems and look at me with their disappointed faces. Which should be fine with them, really, since disappointed means they'll be making more money.)

Meanwhile, I've got "On the Street Where You Live" stuck in my head. What up, brain?

ETA: I should not ever post anything while even remotely tired. ::edits::

Watching Ugly Betty. Betty just had orange juice and ate a pickle. Um. Eeeeew. Like...toothpaste and orange juice.

One of my favorite things about this show is the relationship between Betty and Daniel. I love that they talk. And that they both talk to Daniel's mom. They're all such a family.

I'm doing better than I was the other day when I made this post. At the time, I'd just gotten back from a 2.5 hour council meeting that was exceptionally dull and had several calls from the school about subbing the next day.

Basically, all three of my jobs converged on me this week and I had a moment of AAAHH on top of never quite finding emotional release after having a weird weekend. Still have not had a break-down, but I'm feeling mostly okay. Just a little drained. Fifth graders are crazy, but great. And the library was super busy for the last hour and a half. But I've set tomorrow aside for article writing, so that will be nice.