stupid stupid fish yesterday morning i woke up to find all of my big fish chasing moby dick. at first i thought they were just playing around, like they usually do. so i just let them go about their business. but then when i looked at them again, they were beating up my moby. i'm serious when i say they were beating him up. all five of the other big guys were chasing him around the tank and every time they would get close enough, they would body slam right into him. they were running him into the walls and the gravel and then they were jabbing him with their noses. they'd jab him in the eyes and the gut and keep ramming him into the gravel. i got so frustrated that i took him out of the tank, but i didn't have anything big enough to put him in, so i put him in this tiny little goldfish bowl that he wouldn't even fit into. so he was resting for a while in this little goldfish bowl and the other guys in the big tank were still searching for him. then moby got irritated by being in such a small bowl, so i put him back into the tank, but the other fish started chasing him again and running him into the walls. i was getting so pissed off because moby was so tired of swimming and they were hurting him. so i got out my net and i started smacking them with it- lightly so they wouldn't get a concussion or anything- if fish can even get concussions. so they got scared of the net and were leaving him alone, but the second i took the net out, they were back at it. i don't know what to do.

now today they're back at it again. at first when i woke up this morning they were fine. but now since about 4 they've been chasing him all day. it's getting to the point where i have to smack the side of the tank just to get them to stop for two seconds and then they're back beating him up. so i'm thinking maybe they're horny and moby is a girl, but why beat her up like that? or maybe it's because moby is completely white and the others are orange, so they're being prejudice little bastards and trying to kill him, but why now? they've never done anything like this before. they used to play chase and moby was always in front, but they were never mean like this. jaws 1 and 2 are being the meanest, and i'm so ready to flush them down the fucking toilet. and my mom just took my 10 gallon tank home with her to get it out of my way, so i can't put him/ her in that. grrr. i don't know what to do. but i can't keep hitting the side of the tank because it scares the shit out of the little guys. and i'm scared that the little guys are going to get hurt because the big guys are being so damn rowdy. and nothing seems to work, even yesterday when i fed them thinking it would get them to settle down, they still were attacking moby while he was trying to eat. nothing could keep their mind off attacking him.

so if anyone knows anything about goldfish and their odd behavior please email me and tell me something- anything. i don't want them to kill moby, but i'm so ready to kill them. anyways, i just thought i'd vent my irritation with my kids.   ¶ 9:57 PM

  If I ever become a teacher... I will make the last three weeks of my classes the easiest. Most of the harder, longer assignments will be due toward the beginning of the semester. If I assign any projects, they will be assigned early with periodical checkpoints so that -ideally-my students will not procrastinate. The projects will be due between the midterm times and final times. But I will not have midterms or finals. Maybe a small assignment after or before the midterm time, but nothing that will create stress because I'm sure my students will have other teachers to do that for them. I will not have finals, for I see no point because all finals do is create stress. There is no learning beyond cramming everything into one's mind for three hours and then forgetting everything after the final. I'm not even sure I would have many- if any- tests. Instead, I would probably assign papers that would be assigned early on, so the student would know what to expect. I would assign enough assignments so that if a student failed one or two of them due to stress or whatever the circumstances, that student would not be heavily penalized. I always hated when teachers would grade solely on midterms and finals. It is unfair grading and does not assess what the students have learned. I will not have group work because I personally have had too many negative experiences with it and it has affected my grade. Responsibility is one of my top values and I would promote that in my classrooms as well. Attendance would have bearing on my student's grades as well as quality of their work, and handing in assignments on time.

And I'm sure I'll add to this list if I ever become a teacher. I'm just so tired of the same thing every semester with finals and papers and projects and assessments all due at the same time in everyone of my classes. Anyway... I just had to get that off my chest.   ¶ 12:24 PM

  I love my friends... my friend, Kim, sent this to me.

FRIENDSHIP PRAYER:
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the
crotch of the person who
screws up your day and may their arms be too
short to scratch... AMEN
  ¶ 12:24 PM

  I love this...
'And Really Bad Eggs..'- You're very odd, and no
one's really sure what you're talking about.
Maybe YOU aren't even sure what you're talking
about.


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  Phobias I was doing some research for a fiction paper that's due friday, when I found this list of phobias. All I have to say is that there are some fucked up people in this world. For example, there is a fear of being infested with worms: heminthophobia; fear of long words: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia; fear of rectums: protophobia; fear of urinating: urophobia. I think the doctors are bastards for making a long ass name for people afraid of long words, but of course I laughed. Anyways, check out the list if you'd like a laugh or two.  ¶ 8:06 PM

  I'm whiny I'm tired. I'm crabby. I'm pissed off. I've got to pee. My finger hurts. I feel fat. I'm home alone. I want to scream. I want to break something. I want to throttle ben with a hammer. I'm not doing shit for spring break. My plants are dying. and my fish are hyper. What a lovely day it's been. Good night, wake me next week.   ¶ 12:24 AM

  Hmm i just read my v-day posting for the first time since v-day. yeah, i'd have to say that was my worse v-day ever, even worse than last year. Last year we got in a fight, i left his house without him knowing. he thought i broke up w/ him. we both had last minute shopping to do, so what do we do, we're pissed off at each other and we go shopping for each other. then i get the news that my best friend is in the hospital. she had a huge cyst - the size of an orange- on one of her ovaries and it ruptured. the docs had to remove it and one of her tubes. I think that was her shittiest v-day. then our other friend also got in a fight w/ her boyfriend. yeah, last year sucked. i haven't talked to them to see how this v-day went for them. i'm not sure i want to. so anyway, i haven't posted for ages because i have homework piling up my ears and my fish are eating me out of house and home- not really, but they do eat a lot. they haven't made me babies yet. i think they ate their last batch, but that was a while ago. some of the big guys have been performing acrobats. it's so damn cute. Godzilla, jaws 2, and moby dick will swim to one corner of the tank and and once their noses touch the corner, they do this little back flip. they do that for a while and then they'll touch their nose to the corner and swim in a tight little circle, touch the corner, swim a circle, and so on. and sometimes they look like they're having seizures, but they're just playing. then the cutest damn thing is they got the babies to do it too. goofy kids. usually whenever the big guys see me they swim to the corner of the tank and do their acrobats, and now the babies swim the the corner whenever they see me. i stuck the tip of my finger in the water the other day and little ben came up and gave me a kiss. so cute.

their tank is getting dirty again, but after cleaning it last time, i'm not quite sure i want to do that again. i don't remember if i wrote about that, but to make a nasty story short, i was using my syphon to suck the nasty shit from the bottom and yep, you guessed it. i sucked alittle too hard. well actually the hose kept falling off the syphon part, so i kept having to reattach it and suck on the end again, so the 3rd time it fell off, i stuck it back on there and sucked again, but i forgot to drain the hose, oops. nasty nastynasty. i about puked. i'm just glad i didn't feel any chunks floating around in my mouth. if i didn't love these fish so much, i think they would have ended up in the toilet atfer that. gag.
so i'm supposed to be in class right now, but when i was coming home from my other class the battery light came on in my car, and that's never happened before, so i didn't dare drive it because my luck there would be no one around to give me a ride home. so here i am. oh and i just printed that 'navigating the blog universe' article off and i just have to say that doc morgan is evil. why do all teachers assign assignments all at the same time? It's crazy. and i am dreading midterms most of all. other than that, i really don't have much to bitch about.   ¶ 3:22 PM

  getting very upset i'm about ready to strangle ben, if only he was here. hmm, happy valentine's day honey, i'm gonna go over to my friend's house. what a dick. he says "oh, i'll be right back." it's been what? 21/2 hours! i'm fuming. he is so thick-headed. I'm tempted to put my comfy clothes back on and say fuck it. it's like this everytime we plan on doing something. he has to go to his friend's house everyday. seriously, he has been over there everyday. for the past how many months. i don't mind that he goes to a friend's house, but every fucking day. and v-day too. i'll probably delete this later, but until then, i'm pissed off!   ¶ 1:52 PM

  Template changes I'm in the process of trying to change my template. Every time i try something, I mess it up, so it could take a while. Be patient. I probably won't do jack shit this weekend because Valentine's day is Ben's birthday. ick. it makes me feel like i have to do twice as much as i usually do for him. yippie skippy. Well, i'm off to class, and now with the projects starting for class, i don't think i'll be posting much. not like i make a daily habit out of it as it was. oh well.   ¶ 12:23 PM