Posts made by silverfox

Found out today that a parent I THOUGHT I had a great relationship with and we both agreed on how to challenge her child had been at a school function talking about how poorly I'm challenging her kid.

Just. Like. Fuck.

This is also the parents who absolutely hate technology and wish that I'd never let their kid on a computer again. So I CAN'T use some of the computer assisted instructional things to help move them along without them getting upset about her spending too much time in front of a screen.

screamsinacorner

It always surprises me that there is an expectation of privacy from staff. My first game never had it, and I just always assumed dive and Chey could read and see absolutely anything they wanted to.

I feel like I am consenting to give away my rp privacy when I rp online in any format. This runs true also for my pages, mails, channel chat, ooc. It is there game, and I am a guest.

Is that morally or ethically right? I don't know.

@Scissors

Then we'll easily retirement keep you floating with that much reduced output? I mean, TECHNICALLY I'll have enough years to retire at 60. However, I sure as shit couldn't afford to live on it.

I'm struggling to have the patience I must have with my students when I just want to curl in a dark corner and cry because I'm so worried about family issues that I can hardly think straight.

Being an adult sucks. Being an adult who has to have their shit together to teach little people how to keep their shit together is worse.

My silly students kept changing their backgrounds when they were suppose to be working. So I made them all set it as a solid color and as solidarity I also changed mine.

I miss my pretty background, but I hope I got my point across about use of classroom time...

My brother is in the hospital, and of course I am worried about him. But I am more worried about my mother. She has always been a supremely confident, organized, prioritize things and then get them done kind of woman. This seems to be the straw that broke the camel's back. She isn't cleaning the house, and can't prioritize at all. There is a major project due for her master's degree that she hasn't even started yet. For some reason she keeps saying that she HAS to clean my brother's house and get his handicap van fixed first.

If it was, "I am worried and I can't think," I would understand it. But instead she is latching onto these tiny things she can control vs a big thing she can control, then blaming them for her not being able to do the big thing. Honestly, my brother will probably be in the hospital for probably another week, if not two. His dog is a service animal that mom can take anywhere with her, or even have Dad come up and get. (They have 1/4 an acre of land for him to run around in, Levi would miss my brother but also be VERY HAPPY.) He doesn't need his place cleaned or his car fixed for a bit. Mom does need to get her project done right now.

I am very worried about her. My younger sisters and I can't do anything for her down there, so we came up and cleaned the main house. My elder sister went with her family and did my brother's house. It is all we can do. With the way she is fixating though I'm not sure it will be enough. I can't do her project for her, and since I don't hold power of attorney for my brother I can't do anything there either to ease her burden. I wish I could take the stuff she was juggling and send her to a library with a promise that I got it till she was done... buy I can't.

The only other thing I was able to do was go to church with dad today, then after he had left for his class I hunted down some of the ladies I grew up with and went, "Mom isn't okay, when she gets back please keep an eye on her," and then did the same in the Relief Society presidency. Mom will never ask for help, but maybe if someone is watching and preemptively steps in she can get help. I can only hope.

@saosmash

I want to know why this 8 year old out of the blue googled it!

I mean. She also googled, poop, trees, nekid girls, and hamsters. Why did the president suddenly appear!

"poop with trump in it" <-- found in the browser history of one of my students.

I totally get wanting to not leave the after hanging. My personal favorite way to do it is to handwave the actual sex, but still to play out the after-glow. It's not as explicit, but I still know where their relationship stands after they've had sex.

@Ghost

Lemme help you out.

@Auspice

I TOTALLY agree with that, personally.

I just also see people here going, "No, I don't enjoy talking OOC about stuff," and I feel like even that request is going to fly in the face of what they want. It feels like then it just... hangs there. Forever. Because you're not comfortable continuing to RP and they're not comfortable working things out OOCly to come to an agreement, then nothing ever gets resolved because neither person is comfortable bending. So I still don't think there's going to be a solid resolution.

I mean, I love keeping things IC.

I love keeping things IC right up until the point where I realize that keeping things IC is not working AT ALL and I'm no longer in a good place.

So I don't think there is ever going to be a resolution for this.

@Ninjakitten
There are so many things on that trigger list that look super cool. Alas, till I buy a real computer and stop being a chrome only girl I will have to just dream.

I'm 99% sure that I've caught strep... again. My last bout was two months ago. I've taught for 9 years and worked with kids in summer camp/ volunteering for 7 years before that. I NEVER got sick.

Apparently this is just my year.

Thank God for tylenol and ibuprofen. The worst thing about strep is that it makes every part of my body ache like someone has been drumming on it till it resonates with a return beat. I was all set to just curl in a ball all night till I remembered that last time the doc told me to alternate tylenol and ibuprofen every three hours or so. Still hurts, but nothing I can't ignore. I just hope it doesn't mess with the tests.

@Tinuviel said in TS - Danger zone:

If you "don't have to" read it, then I shouldn't have to write the bloody thing.

I would be okay with that. X.x writing the description to get out of chargen is the worst. It doesn't help I've been mocked for how bad mine are. Playful mockery from my friends so I forgive them but...

@Tinuviel

I know, and I do feel bad about that.

I really am bad at visualizing any descriptions. My favorite authors are the ones that spend little time describing the setting and just get on with it. Most times even if I do read a description I'll just pick out the important details and move on. I can very rarely play with people who write in purple prose because I can't figure out what the hell they are trying to say in all the fluff.

(I also skip pages in books if it looks like it is going to spend a lot of time on visual detail. If I skip to a point and realize that I've missed something I'll go back.)

Relating this back to TS... other than the conflict it has with my very conservative views of what constitutes porn, sitting and reading pages that describe what two people are doing to one another is a bit meh.

@Tinuviel

I generally don't tbh. I only know if they put it in their poses. After almost 15 years of rping it hasn't tripped me up in the actual flow of rp, though I have totally had those moments of 'oh wow, he/she/they are tall/small" but it hasn't ever broken any of my scenes as far as I'm aware. If it is something that my character absolutely would have to know they generally put it in their entrance pose. HT had the ppl command that gave a brief listing of attributes and I generally relied on that.

Now that I think about it, other than the absolute basics (hair/eye color/height) I couldn't tell you the specifics of my Arx characters descs either, since I didn't write them.

I stand ready for any and all derision.

I try to be really hard FTB so my ts experience is limited.

However, I rarely look at a character's page unless I am trying to remember something about them. Also I find the little 'x has looked at you' notification creepy as hell (dunno why, just a me thing?) so I also usually avoid reading descs too.

So PB rarely play into if my character has sex with someone else.

@tek
Yes, but it was only at 1, so others totally had it worse.