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Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now
Spriteling:
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 12 Jan 2013, 05:26 ---One of our former apartments had mice and our cat caught two. One was dead when we found him with it, and soaking wet from being licked, and missing one ear.... The other was still alive and he was playing with it. I took the living one away from him and went and released it in the woods; the cat was most upset. I know it probably died from internal bleeding or something anyways, but I just couldn't sit there and watch him torture it to death.
Nature is brutal.
--- End quote ---
A friend came round and helped me capture the mouse Pol was hunting. He's a kinda dumb cat, so he wasn't sure what to do once he'd trapped it. The poor thing was shaking and terrified, but otherwise seemed okay, and now it's free outside.
>.> I didn't realise how bad my mouse phobia was, though.
Carl-E:
It was a loooooong night....
At one point, she snuck out and went and talked to him without the kid. He had calmed down (he really is a good kid), and has agreed to get counseling/therapy for his anger issues (which apparantly he's had for ages - I never knew) through the local VA hospital (it's one of the bigger and better ones in the state). She took the baby to stay with her mom this morning.
The black eye is subtle, but noticeable. Had her take a picture of it, even if she doesn't make a report, as a reminder.
They both want this to work, but it's been tough for them since they got back last year. New kid, trying to find a place, trying to make ends meet... if anyone will make it, I think they will, but his (old) issues coming to a head has to be dealt with immediately.
In the light of a new day, I'm optimistic. I usually am...
K1dmor:
--- Quote from: Spriteling on 12 Jan 2013, 05:56 ---
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 12 Jan 2013, 05:26 ---One of our former apartments had mice and our cat caught two. One was dead when we found him with it, and soaking wet from being licked, and missing one ear.... The other was still alive and he was playing with it. I took the living one away from him and went and released it in the woods; the cat was most upset. I know it probably died from internal bleeding or something anyways, but I just couldn't sit there and watch him torture it to death.
Nature is brutal.
--- End quote ---
A friend came round and helped me capture the mouse Pol was hunting. He's a kinda dumb cat, so he wasn't sure what to do once he'd trapped it. The poor thing was shaking and terrified, but otherwise seemed okay, and now it's free outside.
--- End quote ---
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VyQipO4miw
Thrillho:
I found out yesterday that a funding bid that I did 90% of the work on for the college was successful and that we're going to get £105,000 (about $170,000) over five years and a new staff member I'll have a hand in hiring.
It was a good week.
Barmymoo:
I just found an absolute gold mine of resources for tutoring. I was thinking desperately "what on earth am I going to teach this kid, he is fluent in English and learning a bucketload of grammar at his English institute?" and I randomly googled something like "writing for different purposes" and came across the BBC Learning Zone videos. I've just built an entire mini study unit using three videos, and they lead neatly into something I've tried in several different ways over the last 18 months teaching the same student. Every time we do any kind of writing, his English is noticably better. I was starting to think I'd have to tell his mum that there was nothing more I could teach him, but clearly all I was lacking was a bit of imagination and some googlefu.
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