Davy'd Better Watch This Space...

Random Notes

I have yet to finish those tax forms.

I got a phone call this morning from that mess of a school asking me to go all next week. For the hell of it, I told them that I couldn't go on the 5th and 6th, since I already told my other school that I would be there. Lo and behold, they accepted that arrangement. I wonder how desperate they are...

How to cook a steak:
1- preheat frying pan on medium high
2- put oil in pan
3- put steak in pan, about 5 minutes
4- turn steak over once
5- eat
0- buy Schwartz Steak Spice, dammit

Conan the Adventurer

Hell, yeah! Finally, someone has information on this series:
CONAN THE ADVENTURER

... And yes, torrents are up. (Where? I'll let you figure that out for yourselves.)

EDIT: The problem I had a few years ago while looking for information about this particular series was that there was loads of information on the Conan movies, comics, live action series, even that dreaded cartoon sequel to the actual thing I was looking for. The torrents are only now available because they've finally come out on DVD... in the UK.

Sketch

I suck at drawing animals. 

Norm

For those of you who weren't present, you just *had* to have been there. It was hilarious in both a happy and a sad way. This is also the place where we saw the actor who played Chewbacca, and Deanna Troi. Norm is indeed ten times taller than both Jorgh and I.

P.S. I know it is 4 a.m. stop bugging me I'm not an insomniac you are.

Something Terrible

This was inspired by the SA thread. I had not learned tact until I was in university. 

So Long, and Thanks For All the Sh!t

1. Thanks for not telling me what your intentions were for Monday, on Friday when I was actually present at school.


2. Thanks for messing up all the students who believed that the next teacher who would replace the classes I was teaching would be THEIR OWN.


3. Thanks for giving an explanation to the cooperating teacher in the math class what was going to happen for the next three weeks, at least. Oh wait, you didn't.


4. Thanks for telling me indirectly that you weren't going to do shitall about the discipline problems that was going on in class for the same students that I kept telling you about having these discipline problems.


5. Thanks for calling on Sunday to tell me I was getting axed in so many words, and that you already lined up a supply teacher on Friday.


6. Thanks for making it pretty clear that you don't think things were getting better, though clearly they were starting to.


7. Oh by the way, thanks for being intimidating and sly in your decision making process. Maybe next time you should ask me before you screw around with a hundred students' lives.

Taxes Again

One of the reasons I can't go out and play this month is because of each weekend devoted to the time known as tax season. (Yes, month.) My mum decided this year to give me her papers and have me do them for her, because I have "nothing better to do." I have already whined enough about it, and I'll whine again. I hate^infinity having to do this shit. I oblige myself, to get the return, but no matter how much I have coming back to me nor how many times I write these things... I will never ever ever do it without breaking out into fits every five seconds.

Tax software that the CRA approves costs money. That's about 50 dollars every year, for something you do yourself for free every fricking year until you die. I am a big cheapo miser, a learned trait from my mum and siblings (whereas my dad wouldn't really care and he would let someone else do the task for him).

Web programs aren't that much better. They all have deals where they let you do them for free, provided you have a net income less than $25000. But what if you made more than that? BAM! $19.95 plus $10 for every extra return. I might as well have bought that box at the store.

Yes, peace of mind for me is not spending a damn penny and doing it by hand. With a little help from my friends, Pepsi and day-old Bento. (Mommy working at the sushi stand on Saturdays is a goddamn blessing.)

And so I spend my weekends yellingly scribble away at the crumpled and stained draft forms. After a dedicated two minutes, I scour the net for easier solutions. WHY OH WHY didn't they make these programs with Quebec returns???

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In other news, the Jorghnassen will be teaching probability and statistics all of May at McGill.

Also, I am still teaching at this school for another 3 weeks. By then, once again, the total time spent there will not be anywhere close to the required 60 days.

EDIT: OK, I just got a call two hours ago and they told me that I'm *not* teaching the same position anymore, but that I'll be replacing someone else (who is replacing yet another teacher on leave), at least for Monday. I'm getting sick of this bullshit.