DING!! You are now a Level 3 Teacher!

My school got out for the summer last week. This week we've got inservice, which I don't want to attend. Then we're totally free for the summer.

Personally, I think it's much more fun to sit and play with my daughter.

So, teaching. Bleah. The district is really messing with my school, and they've given us a new principal whom I like on a personal level, but whom is really trying to change the school to her Waldorf-trained sensibilities. It's not making some of us very happy, because we're not really sure how much of what she says can be trusted, and we really aren't sure about her day-to-day personality.

Of note to Geeks:

Stan Winston, who created the Terminator machines, the Mr. Roboto mask for Styx, the recent Iron Man costume, and many, many, many other Science Fiction film and television standards, died yesterday after a seven year battle with multiple myeloma.

Grrrrrrr

I understand why the state wants me to have a license to drive a car. I do not, at all, understand the need to have a license to have a cat.

And yet, we got a ticket today because we don't have a license for our cats. If we don't pay the stupid license fee by mid-July, we have to pay a $900 fine. In order to not license them, I have to pay $150, which is about $110 more than licensing would cost.

I asked "Why do I need a license for a cat?" and the only answer was the various uses for the fees. So, money. Lovely.

I may be a democrat, but I am decidedly not in favor of this kind of governmental extortion.