FYI or die

Can all school teachers be like this, please? 

togetherforjacksoncountykids:

“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel

Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m not playing. It’s time for art. The rule is no hoods or hats in school.”

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Waiting for this baby to come. Feeling a bit like this girl in the first minute (the Plum is Harry, natch). I expect the first months to be a bit like what follows.

Eagerly counting down the days.

reallyreallyreallytrying:

• Tiny little fingers and toes
• No good bones
• All of the bones are very soft & the skeleton quality is poor
• Can’t move properly, likely to die in the wild
• Colour of the eraser on the end of a pencil (white babies only)
• No knowledge at all basically
• Legendary smooth butts
• Overly proud of butt smoothness, probably
• Suffer from unusual diseases e.g. colic
• Need assistance w/ burping
• They will grow up to be teens one day
• Teens is bad news

It’s not every day someone who sits on the Amazing Babes list comes to town.

Ira Glass has just announced a string of Aus dates for January, including Sydney Festival. Here’s a blog I wrote for them about it (I’m pretty excited).