Scheiss Weekly

Monthly Archives: October 2010

Halloween is Rocky Horror Time!

Mamacita says: “Great Scott!” Halloween has been and gone but it’s still THAT SEASON, which means many things, one of which is that I have a giant bowl half-filled with Tootsie Roll Pops and Hershey bars on my coffee table, and another of which is that I am once again compelled to obsess over my [...]

Pronoun Sex

Mamacita says:  Today’s  giggle: Pronouns. There are three pronoun persons:  Person speaking (first person)  Person spoken to  (second person)  and Third Person (person spoken about.)  Grammar is a soap opera, remember.  I told YOU about HIM. All pronouns must match their antecedents in many ways: singular with singular, plural with plural, masculine with masculine, feminine [...]

Good Teaching Is Like Good Standup

I love children, and I love students of all ages, and I love teaching, and I love genuine education in all of its 6-degrees-of-separation wonder.  Everything is connected – everything in the known and unknown universe is connected. Nothing exists only within the four walls of a classroom.  It often happens – I sincerely hope [...]

Language Issues

Mamacita says:  On occasion, my husband and I have what one might euphemistically call “slight miscommunication” episodes.  I’m sure I don’t know why he can’t seem to understand me, but it probably has something to do with the fact that he’s a man a very busy person. I’m busy, too, but I have no problem [...]

One Is Silver and the Other, Gold.

Mamacita says:  Something some of you might not know about me is that I love meeting people, and I tend to strike up conversations with them without ever knowing their names.  I’m also a bit of a card shark. My specialty for this seems to be airports. A few years ago I was traveling with [...]

Insensitive People Baffle Me

Mamacita says: People who indulge themselves at the expense of other people are not nice people; they’re selfish and inconsiderate.  I do not understand how their minds work.  These people baffle me with their insensitive glossing over other people’s lives. When my kids were tiny, and I was RIFFED from teaching for a year here, [...]

A Few Things I Will Never Understand

Mamacita says:  When I was teaching in the public schools, the same things happened almost every day: I rejoiced when my students did well. I cried when my students faced insurmountable odds. I laughed when my students were happy. I was proud when my students worked hard. I was angry when the decisions of adults [...]

Only the Stupid Fear Questions

Mamacita says: Warning: I’m in a bad mood. I’m sick and tired of a handful of people taking all the joy out of the majority of our children’s school experience. I maintain that if a family is that insecure and unable to defend their own beliefs against a good honest question, or withstand any questions [...]

Army of Women: Dealing with Life’s Lumps

Mamacita asks: What does an Army of Women look like? It looks like you. And why should you be interested? Because it could have been you. Maybe it was you. Women remove their bras for many reasons. You know them, so I won’t list them. But I will add this one: so we can check [...]