B!TC# IT OUT!

What really pisses me off are people who must seek self validation constantly. If you continually have to say "I'm a pro" because of X. You're not a pro. You're a wannabe. It's just like Game of Thrones where having to say "I am the King" actually means you're not a true king.

Like if you post twenty minute videos of yourself doing a whole bunch of the same thing you're probably not doing anything truly worthwhile. For some of my friends with show reels they like to keep it to one song's duration with emphasis on their talents and highlights of their career, not continual day to day activities.

I'll keep being the wannabe pro that pisses you off then. ;) *blows kiss* thankfully your opinions of other mermaids don't actually define them.

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I find it highly amusing when people run out of arguments (in case they had any to begin with),
and then come to this thread spewing poison.

Reminds me of little children.
Always makes me smile.

Wrong thread, I guess ;)

Perhaps people's 20 minute videos aren't even intended to be showreels??? Since demo reels tend to have that in the title? My fans enjoy my 20 minute behind the scenes video, and my 20 minute montage videos. If you don't, don't watch. Who are you to complain about what other mermaids put out, especially if you aren't a professional mermaid. In the words of George R.R. Martin from A Game of Thrones, Oh you sweet summer child.

Spent almost 2 days making my costume. I won't even get to use it since the bf decided he does not want to go out now....

~The goldfish mermaid~

So, i teach 12th grade English and today my principal and department head walk into my room and are like "someone told the district that you've been talking about orgies in your class." I stare at them for a moment and then go, "yeah, because we are reading Brave New World which is full of sex and orgies." Note that it is not me who picks the damn books--the whole department is reading this pornographic insanity of a dystopia). "It's on the approved reading list and the whole department is doing the exact same stuff I am. " I never wanted to teach the sexaholic anonymous' classical fiction piece to teenagers!

"Well, just because it is in the approved reading list doesn't mean that it should all be read aloud.... Hem haw, hem haw."

WTF? Then why did you put it on the approved reading list and assign it to me to teach???

"you just need to, you know, redirect so the kids go home talking about the merit worthy parts of the book and not the sex."

Oh, yeah, cause THAT is gonna happen. It has an orgy in it. No teen is gonna get past that.

note that everytime we read, I emphasize that this is the authors view of a terrible world, not what he wants life to be like. But still some parent wants to string me up.

Luckily my principal and department chair seemed to be on my side--I mean, they ARE the ones who chose a book with orgies!--but it still made me cry and feel like crap.

Sigh. I miss my old job. When I worked with intellectually disabled teens I could just read em Sr. Seuss and be done with it.

I teach English, too! I have 10th and 11th grade. I REALLY feel ya. I taught Fahrenheit 451 (which is WAY more mild than BNW) and a parent called me, yelling because I said "damn" out loud as I read it to the class. Ummmm. It's in the book. It's in the syllabus. And of course, the kiddos will ALWAYS talk about the "bad" parts.

I can't believe they came in and did that to you, though. Were you in the middle of a class when they came in?

Nah, they were really good about it. Came in on my break and wanted to know "my side." But it had gone straight to the district--luckily an informal complaint--and I just started in this district two weeks ago. I've cried a half a dozen times since I started, it's been so hard starting in the middle of the year. Some of the kids have been horrible, so bad they had to move a girl to another class, and I've been thrown head first in with no idea what's been happening. I've only worked with emotionally disturbed and intellectually disabled kids before and so am used to intimate classes--now I have almost 35 kids in each of my six classes. Being sort of reprimanded for simply reading what was in the book I was assigned was like one more blow. It's not as if you can hide the sex in BNW like you can in, say, Mudsummer Nights Dream where kids don't understand the language. If they don't want you to read it, take it off the approved list! I am only teaching what you gave me! Ugh. Just a bad couple of weeks overall. I miss my kids in my old program. This job pays four times as much, though, so I am just trying to keep focused on the awesome tail I'm getting and the blue water scuba trip I am taking this summer. I really do feel like I spend every day being kicked in the face, though.

Oh, that sucks SO bad... I worked in my district for three years, and then our school had a huge drop in attendance, so being the last teacher hired (I only had three years experience) I was let go. I went to a conference in San Francisco where only 200 out of 3500 people were chosen and I was let go from my teaching position the day I came back to work, that Monday. suuuuuucks. I found another job within the district, but I don't have a classroom and I have to teach from a cart. I can't tell you how many times I've cried. It just sucks. ESPECIALLY when a teacher in our department plays checkers with her kids DAILY and watches movies, but she has tenure and basically can't be touched. I feel like I teach in fear, now.

Seriously, if you need materials or anything, or if there is anything I can do, let me know.

Oh and this district has a policy of allowing students to vent all their problems about you, THEN after they all talk horrible about you, the principal will step in and be like "Now that you've gotten that off your chest you need to obey her." Talk about humiliating. That one made me cry. They walked into my room after I asked for help, without telling me they were coming, asked me to leave, let the kids talk about me as I stood outside, embarrassed as hell, then after they had leg a bunch of misbehaving teens complain about me, told the kids that I'm the teacher. Then one of the principals said there's not a big difference between 27 and a senior in Highschool and maybe I should be more of a "facilitator" instead of a teacher and let them work on their own because they felt I was treating them like children. I was treating them like children because they were acting like children and wouldn't do anything and constantly said I had no right to tell then what to so! Yuck, seriously this has been a horrible three weeks. I pray it gets better.

Thanks, WillowAnne, I appreciate it. And I feel for you too. Working off a cart SUCKS and having my own room is one of the best parts of this district. The joys of teaching, right? Lol

I know, it SUCKS. I had my own classroom for three years, then I lost my job, and now I'm teaching from a cart. I feel disorganized, and I don't feel like the awesome teacher I used to be. My entire spare room is filled with books, binders, files, and decorations, and I have nowhere to put it. I have to look at it all the time and be reminded of how things used to be.

If it makes you feel better, we had a student last year who urinated in a bottle during class and rolled it to the front of the classroom. It wasn't one of my kiddos, but sheesh!

I feel your pain ladies, there are no jobs where I live. People sub for a decade trying to get a perm job and they make it impossible to go perm. I get much more mermaid work than teaching. :( we have like 20,000 more teachers than we need in my province and they keep cutting the education budget.

Wow... That really stinks. I feel lucky because I wouldn't have gotten another job if it weren't for my previous principal. He spent two days out of the building talking to principals within and outside of the district to try to find me a job. It isn't a good time to be a teacher. Way too many budget cuts, class sizes are huge, and we wonder why our students aren't learning? Eek, rant over. Raina, did you find a permanent job, or are you still forced to play the system and wait? Sounds like you've got it bad over there... yikes.

Yeah, I was a TA for an eternity before I found a teaching job. I am definitely gratefully to have it, despite the headaches. It really can be SUCH a difficult job, though. People have no idea how much work is involved. I emailed over forty parents, graded over a thousand assignments and entered the grades, wrote different material for my English Language Learners, dealt with a half a dozen SpEd issues, and did three tutoring sessions after school just this week--oh yeah, and taught class, lol. But I do love kids, and when things go well it can be so rewarding. I just hope I settle into my new home school. I found out yesterday that one if my sped kids from my old school is refusing to do his work--"I want Miss Wilson back!--and it made me yearn to be back with the kids I know in the school I'm used to. But I am still grateful for this chance, and really feel for you, Raina. On the good days its a tough job to get, and when they're cutting funds like they always do then it gets harder and harder!

Honestly, I work constantly as a mermaid so I'm okay with it for right now. Eventually I'll have a classroom but I'm busy right now :) I mean, I won't be able to be a mermaid forever, so I'm going to keep going and see how far I can take it! :D

So I got married on Saturday been (the 26th of October) and that went really well. Except that two of my husbands brothers didn't end up coming because of my mother in law (she was uninvited and got them to not come because of it. and because we invited them and their girlfriends it was actually 4 people who didn't show up. and they told us that they weren't coming the day of the wedding. :(

I'm so happy for you. Sorry some family didn't come but it's their loss.

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Congratulations! I know it's a bummer, but those family members are going to regret not coming in a few months, and it's a mistake they'll have to live with. Hopefully they realize after that, that temporary drama isn't worth permanently missing something like that. :/

Congratz! To bad some people have to think like that