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  1. #45041
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    Quote Originally Posted by DukieInKansas View Post
    Although we haven't met in fleshspace, we have talked on the phone. Your mother probably thought the women calling you were nuts but it was fun to talk. I can't speak for CathyCA, TillyGalore, or DukePA - but I am slightly on the nutty side. That's what happens when CTN Babes go to the beach.

    I still can't believe I flew into RDU and went to the beach with three women I had never met in real life before. It was a fun weekend. Plus I got to meet a few other DBR folks on the same trip.
    FOMO. I was invited but couldn't come.

  2. #45042
    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    FOMO. I was invited but couldn't come.
    I couldn't remember who all was thinking of coming. I know AD was planning on a football weekend for the AL game but couldn't come. I got to meet Sue71 and the CTN tailgate crew. I think Weezie even stopped by.

    I need to plan another football trip. The 10/30 Clemson FSU game doesn't count.

  3. #45043
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    Quote Originally Posted by DukieInKansas View Post
    Although we haven't met in fleshspace, we have talked on the phone. Your mother probably thought the women calling you were nuts but it was fun to talk. I can't speak for CathyCA, TillyGalore, or DukePA - but I am slightly on the nutty side. That's what happens when CTN Babes go to the beach...
    Oh man, I had forgotten about that!
    She also thought it was pretty wacky when I went up to Durham to crash at Tilly's house and attend a football game (a Duke football game, at that ) with a bunch of people I'd never met in real life.

  4. #45044
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    Y’all got some history!

    Also, can request an alternate to “flesh space”? Yuck.

  5. #45045
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    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    ...can request an alternate to “flesh space”? Yuck.
    The ick factor is part of the deal. No changes or substitutions.
    Fight me.

  6. #45046
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    For today, the kids' reading assignment was Chapters 2 and 3 of The Hobbit. As Bilbo and the gang set out for the Misty Mountains and all that, my 7th graders observed that "Bilbo is, like, equal parts excited and amazed by the things he's seeing, but also nervous and afraid because he's not sure he can make it through all of this."
    ...whereupon I noted that "It's a lot like 7th grade," with impeccable timing before it was time for their next class.
    So the kids are alright.

  7. #45047
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    Y’all got some history!

    Also, can request an alternate to “flesh space”? Yuck.
    I typically go with calling y'all my imaginary friends until I meet you face to face. Those I've talked to on the phone are semi-imaginary.

  8. #45048
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    Quote Originally Posted by DukieInKansas View Post
    I typically go with calling y'all my imaginary friends until I meet you face to face. Those I've talked to on the phone are semi-imaginary.
    I'm down with being the square root of -1.

  9. #45049
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    I'm down with being the square root of -1.
    i resembles that remark.

  10. #45050
    Quote Originally Posted by wilson View Post
    For today, the kids' reading assignment was Chapters 2 and 3 of The Hobbit. As Bilbo and the gang set out for the Misty Mountains and all that, my 7th graders observed that "Bilbo is, like, equal parts excited and amazed by the things he's seeing, but also nervous and afraid because he's not sure he can make it through all of this."
    ...whereupon I noted that "It's a lot like 7th grade," with impeccable timing before it was time for their next class.
    So the kids are alright.
    As someone whose very sweet and sensitive nephew just started middle school last week, I relate to this sort of anxiety on his behalf.

  11. #45051
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    I'm down with being the square root of -1.
    I do not cosine this joke.

  12. #45052
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15 View Post
    As someone whose very sweet and sensitive nephew just started middle school last week, I relate to this sort of anxiety on his behalf.
    Fear not. As you might recall, this is pretty much all middle school is about. I mean, I teach history and literature, but what I really do is work to reveal kids' strength that lies within, push them to expand their conception of how capable they are, and remind them as frequently as possible that this world has a place for them.

  13. #45053
    Quote Originally Posted by wilson View Post
    Fear not. As you might recall, this is pretty much all middle school is about. I mean, I teach history and literature, but what I really do is work to reveal kids' strength that lies within, push them to expand their conception of how capable they are, and remind them as frequently as possible that this world has a place for them.
    That is astonishingly similar to what my middle school math teacher says regularly. If they learn math, great. If not, hopefully they can grow socially and personally.

  14. #45054
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    Quote Originally Posted by DukieInKansas View Post
    Although we haven't met in fleshspace, we have talked on the phone. Your mother probably thought the women calling you were nuts but it was fun to talk. I can't speak for CathyCA, TillyGalore, or DukePA - but I am slightly on the nutty side. That's what happens when CTN Babes go to the beach.

    I still can't believe I flew into RDU and went to the beach with three women I had never met in real life before. It was a fun weekend. Plus I got to meet a few other DBR folks on the same trip.
    I so wish I had been able to go on that trip! Would’ve been super fun.

  15. #45055
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    FOMO. I was invited but couldn't come.
    Same here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15 View Post
    That is astonishingly similar to what my middle school math teacher says regularly. If they learn math, great. If not, hopefully they can grow socially and personally.
    There are periods in my life I wish I could revisit because I was having so much fun. Middle school is not one of those times.

    But I have yet to meet anyone who liked middle school and Wilson and other teachers of the puberty-afflicted deserve medals.

  17. #45057
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    There are periods in my life I wish I could revisit because I was having so much fun. Middle school is not one of those times.

    But I have yet to meet anyone who liked middle school and Wilson and other teachers of the puberty-afflicted deserve medals.
    Middle school was without question the worst time of my life, outside of specific terrible events. I have the utmost respect for teachers who choose that particular challenge.

    Someone recently told me that everyone they met had at least one memorable middle school (we called in junior high in those dinosaur years) who made a difference. I certainly did. Mrs. Haviland, seventh grade science.

  18. #45058
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    I told each one of my sons at the start of 7th grade that the point of 7th was not to enjoy it, the point was to get through it. Then, when they started high school, I told them that if their high school years turned out to be the best years of their lives, they were going to have rather sad lives. Enjoy what you can and if you have at least one friend that has your back, high school is a success.

  19. #45059
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15 View Post
    Middle school was without question the worst time of my life, outside of specific terrible events. I have the utmost respect for teachers who choose that particular challenge...
    It's often said jokingly, but in all seriousness, rather few of us chose middle school; it truly chose us.
    I did not set out to make a career in 7th grade, but I landed here in part by accident and in part by providence or whatever you want to call it. Now, I know that I belong in these trenches and I fully intend to stay here for the remainder of my career. A lot of my brethren who teach the middle years will tell you similar stories.

  20. #45060
    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    I told each one of my sons at the start of 7th grade that the point of 7th was not to enjoy it, the point was to get through it. Then, when they started high school, I told them that if their high school years turned out to be the best years of their lives, they were going to have rather sad lives. Enjoy what you can and if you have at least one friend that has your back, high school is a success.
    This is sage advice. I had an incredibly rigorous high school life in a very different academic program. I had no time to be much of anything. I did have a pretty solid group of friends and was fortunate for that.

    Middle school was an obstacle to sat the least. Did you ever see Dangerous Minds? Michelle Pfeiffer? The amazing Coolio song? That was my reality in middle school. We had fights, bomb threats, drug busts, and all manner of distractions.

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