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  1. I asked my wife about it. No, it is not in the job description. If they don't buy supplies, they won't be disciplined. If a kid doesn't have supplies, they might have to go to the office to get supplies. There might be supplies in the office. She doesn't know what would happen if she didn't buy lab supplies. Her schools have never given her money for that. She thinks the kids wouldn't be able to do any labs. Turns out I was wrong about the district providing lab kits. It was just a brand new school that had those. At her current school, there are some permanent lab supplies (like microscopes or triple balances), but most things are purchased by the teachers. Since this is sixth grade science, nothing is very complex. It's not like she is buying them fetal pigs and hydrochloric acid.
  2. My wife is a sixth grade science teacher in her sixteenth year. After taking inflation into account, she makes less now than she did as a first year teacher. Because she is so far into her career and is in her fifth year at her current school, she has been able to cut back on classroom expenses quite a bit. She probably spends only $500-750 per year. Part of this is that she has always taught at Title 1 (poor) schools and many students have no supplies. Even if they qualify for free supplies (from the school district or local churches or whatever) at the beginning of the year, the kids either lose them or never got them in the first place. The district (Fort Worth), on the other hand, is fairly decent about providing lab equipment and kits, so she only has to buy science supplies (chemicals) once or twice a year. She has to purchase consumable lab materials about once a month or so. (Think sugar that will be burned into carbon.) Everything that you see on her walls except the Promethean board, from charts to calendars, came from out of pocket. Even her desk chair came from out of our pocket. But she doesn't buy pens or pencils for her kids. She has classroom sets of scissors, glue sticks, map pencils, and journals (notebooks), only the last of which requires replenishing each year. Unlike some of y'all's kids' schools, there are no supply drives. Most of the parents do not or cannot provide for their own kids, let alone someone else's.
  3. It's an okay show. It has great production values. But it feels like the show is happening at warp speed. The books actually did a great job of showing just how far apart everything is in space (at sub-light speeds). More than anything, that is why I won't miss it.
  4. Awkward, 34 year-old neckbeard asks out 20 year-old college student. After several false starts and the college student having to drink a little and build up a huge fantasy to even fuck the neckbeard, it doesn't go well. She cuts it off. Some time later, he stalks her in a student bar and calls her a whore.
  5. It's the New Yorker, so I'm guessing the author either got lucky with a timely piece or she studied for years to switch from condescending jackass to dumbass.
  6. Yes. It is supposed to be the narrative of a college underclassman who apparently isn't all that bright. The author absolutely nailed that voice.
  7. I read the story. I read a Huffpost article about why the story was important. I still don't see it. It's in the New Yorker, so of course it is well-written, but it is fairly meh overall. Neither character is particularly interesting and the plot is hardly novel. It was probably a well-tread meme when 'Brat was a young man.
  8. I never understood how Chipotle did so much better than Qdoba, Baja Fresh, Freebirds, or fresh Mex/fast casual places. As far as cheap, fast food, Taco Casa is the best.
  9. I thought he already got off. That was the problem in the first place.
  10. I hoarded so many plastic utensils, chopsticks, and condiments, that I had to send them with my wife to her school for her fellow teachers. Speaking of that, chopsticks are the worst. It's like the restaurants don't get that the average American eats 12-24 rolls of sushi. I try to put them to use. I'll use 'em to eat cheetos and similar chips while working.
  11. Another story that I didn't screenshot, (because Tapa was down), before it was deleted. A woman posts about the snobs in Montserrat who called security on her family for flying a drone near their houses. She got ripped a new one, because there are no public lands around that development and rich people are nice.
  12. It originated with Coach Royal after we messed up your previously perfect 1961 season.
  13. Depends on what you mean by “swords” and if you’re taking about male or female SMU cheerleaders.
  14. There has only been one episode since David came back. They skipped a week.
  15. WTF? A $1200 APAP? Just buy one from secondwindcpap.com. You can find a good one for less than half that.
  16. There is a parking garage at the corner of Cantey and Stadium. More are coming, though not necessarily for the stadium.
  17. I don't doubt that people ignore the signage and lane markings all the time, but people also do it the wrong way on <30 ft medians by not turning around the near corner. Both are great examples of jackassery. But lately, there has been a movement to get people to treat the method for >30 ft medians as the method for all medians, which screws things up even worse.
  18. I wouldn't make that assumption. There is a very popular meme making the rounds that doesn't make that distinction.
  19. That’s not the law in Texas. It depends on the width of the median or signage.
  20. Aldi is great if you know how to shop there and if you have a decent store in your area. (Some locations are disgusting.) If you're shopping for your elementary kid's lunch and are buying juice boxes, bread, PBJ, chips, lunch meat. fruit snacks, cheese sticks, etc., they are great. They have a good selection of inexpensive nuts and trail mixes. Eggs, butter, and milk have hard-to-beat prices. Frozen products are good, but it is clear they make their money on things like fries and tots, (small portions and relatively higher prices). Frozen veggies are cost competitive, but the portions are small. Rice, beans, tortillas, and cheese, you might as well shop at Walmart in terms of prices. Cereal is the same way, but Walmart wins on price and larger sizes. Aldi pizzas are great. Not much selection, but the prices cannot be beat and they are about the same as cheap deli pizzas anywhere else. Their chocolate cannot be beat in terms of quality and price. The best recommendation I can give is that when I shop at Aldi for just a handful of things that I need for dinner, I will always spend much less than at Walmart. The only problem is that I still end up shopping at Walmart or on Amazon for some items, mostly cleaning supplies and toiletries.
  21. I wouldn't go so far as to say that, but I did feel some relief due to severe MCU and comic book movie fatigue.
  22. This was deleted before I got a screenshot, but there was a great post on my NextDoor this weekend. A woman posted about an attempted carjacking involving her friend. The friend had stopped her car on a residential street to look up an address on her cellphone. Two white men walking down the street "aggressively" approached her car and tried to get in. She put the car in drive and fled. A few posts later, the rest of the story came out. The men were not walking down the street. This woman happened to stop in front of a man's driveway at exactly the same time as the Uber app showed their Uber as arriving. So the man and his friend walked down the driveway and attempted to board what they thought was their Uber.
  23. I used to feel the same way. Then I started flying down there a bunch to see a client that is fairly close to Hobby. Since the client was paying and a colleague was usually driving to Love, hell yeah I'd fly.
  24. How about renaming it for Texas bluesman Robert Ealey?
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