Red Mosquito

spike wrote:Surprised all the food was gone, considering the teacher shortages.

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

B wrote:

Mickey wrote:Isn't it like the first week of school down there? Wouldn't be an unusual time to cater lunch for the staff. When I taught I missed a ton of emails (because I was teaching!) and you only get ~25 minutes for lunch.

Sounds like the trainers fucked up.

You wouldn't ask the people around you? "This is a nice spread. Who got this for us? I missed the e-mail."

It would be very unusual for someone to cater food to teachers. These are fucking teachers, Mickey. They get shit salaries for 80 hours a week. In fact, they're so stingy that one of Mrs. B's coworkers wasn't allowed to sign up for the training because they hit a cap on how many lunches they could buy.

Mickey wrote:Isn't it like the first week of school down there? Wouldn't be an unusual time to cater lunch for the staff. When I taught I missed a ton of emails (because I was teaching!) and you only get ~25 minutes for lunch.

Sounds like the trainers fucked up.

daft twat wrote:

Mickey wrote:Isn't it like the first week of school down there? Wouldn't be an unusual time to cater lunch for the staff. When I taught I missed a ton of emails (because I was teaching!) and you only get ~25 minutes for lunch.

Sounds like the trainers fucked up.

This is the right take. We start next week. My school is poor, but there will probably be bagels and coffee unannounced or cookies in the afternoon from the school board, though they will likely be accompanied by a note. The coaches’ meeting will have pizza and it will be clearly announced. Food left on tables in the staff lounge or any common area with no label is a free for all. This is on the trainers, not the teachers. At my school lunches are stolen from lunch bags out of the staff fridge every year. Some people are animals even when they know it’s not for them.

B wrote:

daft twat wrote:

Mickey wrote:Isn't it like the first week of school down there? Wouldn't be an unusual time to cater lunch for the staff. When I taught I missed a ton of emails (because I was teaching!) and you only get ~25 minutes for lunch.

Sounds like the trainers fucked up.

This is the right take. We start next week. My school is poor, but there will probably be bagels and coffee unannounced or cookies in the afternoon from the school board, though they will likely be accompanied by a note. The coaches’ meeting will have pizza and it will be clearly announced. Food left on tables in the staff lounge or any common area with no label is a free for all. This is on the trainers, not the teachers. At my school lunches are stolen from lunch bags out of the staff fridge every year. Some people are animals even when they know it’s not for them.

You just listed a bunch of ways you would know the food is for you.
- There's a note.
- It's clearly announced.
- It's placed in a known common area.

daft twat wrote:As a side note, I never go for the free lunches. The cost of having to associate with the entire staff, especially as they greedily eat more than they need, is way too high a price.

daft twat wrote:

B wrote:

daft twat wrote:

Mickey wrote:Isn't it like the first week of school down there? Wouldn't be an unusual time to cater lunch for the staff. When I taught I missed a ton of emails (because I was teaching!) and you only get ~25 minutes for lunch.

Sounds like the trainers fucked up.

This is the right take. We start next week. My school is poor, but there will probably be bagels and coffee unannounced or cookies in the afternoon from the school board, though they will likely be accompanied by a note. The coaches’ meeting will have pizza and it will be clearly announced. Food left on tables in the staff lounge or any common area with no label is a free for all. This is on the trainers, not the teachers. At my school lunches are stolen from lunch bags out of the staff fridge every year. Some people are animals even when they know it’s not for them.

You just listed a bunch of ways you would know the food is for you.
- There's a note.
- It's clearly announced.
- It's placed in a known common area.

Yeah, the third one - a cafeteria is as common as an area gets in school.

spike wrote:

daft twat wrote:As a side note, I never go for the free lunches. The cost of having to associate with the entire staff, especially as they greedily eat more than they need, is way too high a price.

daft twat wrote:As a side note, I never go for the free lunches. The cost of having to associate with the entire staff, especially as they greedily eat more than they need, is way too high a price.

B wrote:

daft twat wrote:

B wrote:

daft twat wrote:

Mickey wrote:Isn't it like the first week of school down there? Wouldn't be an unusual time to cater lunch for the staff. When I taught I missed a ton of emails (because I was teaching!) and you only get ~25 minutes for lunch.

Sounds like the trainers fucked up.

This is the right take. We start next week. My school is poor, but there will probably be bagels and coffee unannounced or cookies in the afternoon from the school board, though they will likely be accompanied by a note. The coaches’ meeting will have pizza and it will be clearly announced. Food left on tables in the staff lounge or any common area with no label is a free for all. This is on the trainers, not the teachers. At my school lunches are stolen from lunch bags out of the staff fridge every year. Some people are animals even when they know it’s not for them.

You just listed a bunch of ways you would know the food is for you.
- There's a note.
- It's clearly announced.
- It's placed in a known common area.

Yeah, the third one - a cafeteria is as common as an area gets in school.

Have you ever been told you can eat whatever food is in the cafeteria? Hell, my wife has to pay for lunches if she wants to eat a cafeteria lunch. They charge more than they charge kids.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

daft twat wrote:As a side note, I never go for the free lunches. The cost of having to associate with the entire staff, especially as they greedily eat more than they need, is way too high a price.

I just hate the food. I’m that weirdo that will go out and grab lunch the minute a meeting with free lunch catered in lets out.

B wrote:I'll share another Mrs. B story.

A mother at her school wants her kid to be enrolled in services to address a learning disability. So, the principal pulls together the 5 necessary teachers to have the meeting, but the parents asks to reschedule because they time they set interferes with her yoga class. She actually told them that she is taking yoga. Not "I have a conflict." She said, "I'm taking a yoga class at that time."

spike wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

daft twat wrote:As a side note, I never go for the free lunches. The cost of having to associate with the entire staff, especially as they greedily eat more than they need, is way too high a price.

I just hate the food. I’m that weirdo that will go out and grab lunch the minute a meeting with free lunch catered in lets out.

you're too good for potbelly?