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Carter-Orange:
Two sea days isn't bad at all, don't bother with the wifi package then.  Not long now until you go :)

mare:
25 days, but who's counting? LOL

RokofAges75:
Sorry I've been MIA for the last few days!  When the back to school bug finally hits, it hits me hard!  I haven't actually made it into my classroom yet (hopefully tomorrow), but I've been busy working on school stuff at home.

My district is doing a redistricting study this year to hopefully even out enrollment across the different schools, and we're hoping they will decide to move 6th grade up to the junior high and move 3rd grade to the intermediate school, where I teach.  If that happened, I would be much more willing to change grades at some point in the future.  I loved 3rd grade when I student taught!  Our 6th graders can be obnoxious, but I think it's because they're the oldest kids in the building, whereas if they were at junior high with 7th and 8th graders, they would seem sweeter by comparison.

How was the reaction to your flatline chapter?  I hope you got some good comments on that cliffhanger!  How close are you to finishing the story now?

I've been writing just enough to keep my streak alive, but between school stuff and watching gymnastics live in the morning, I've fallen off my morning writing routine.  Worse yet, I still haven't finished that damn Frick & Frack story I posted part of for April Fool's Day, and now it looks like I probably won't finish it before school starts.  Fail!  I need the guys to do something together and give me some inspiration LOL.  I've been more focused on Kevin and my OCs in my other story.

Ooh, that's exciting that you were able to print your cruise stuff!  Getting closer!  When are you leaving again?

mare:
I figured that's what you were doing. I thought it was interesting the way your schools are set up. I've never seen a k-3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-12 setup before. All the schools where I've taught or went to (NY, NJ, MA) were either k-6, 7-8, 9-12 or k-6, 7-9, 10-12. And of course, standard Catholic schools are k-8, 9-12. You guys having four divisions tells me that you probably have a huge district. My hometown in NJ was pretty small. We only had 6 elementary schools and two middle schools, and we all ended up in one high school. I always thought it was dumb to have 9th grade as part of the middle school because some of us who were in the more AP classes, ended up losing out on going up a grade because of the location and for me, I was still in the Marching Band in 9th grade, so I still had to trek to the HS for afterschool practices and games etc... The year I left, they reconfigured and moved 9 up to the HS. That would be awesome for you, if 3rd did move up. Sometimes a change is refreshing. I can see why the 6th graders were obnoxious. I think the 'oldest' of any school acts like they are the best!

I'm not sure how the flatline chapter went. For some reason, AO3 was being sketchy for me all day yesterday. Probably because we had some really bad storms, and a tornado roll through! I was able to post my chapter but not able to access it at all the rest of the day. I'm not sure if I have any comments or not. They really suck at sending emails. I usually get the email after I've already been to the site and have replied back to my reviews. I'm going to attempt to get in there after I am done here. I have figured out that I'll be done by chapter 25. I think that one is just going to be a short epilogue and then a year time jump with the beginning of the brand new one. That's what I'm currently toying with in my brain. Whether I want to go through the entire healing process or skip ahead a bit to after he gets out of the hospital and already has his skull put back together. LOL poor guy.

Well, at least you kept your writing streak alive and now gymnastics is over so maybe you'll be able to get some writing on the frick and frack story done. If not, I say just wait until next April Fool's and just make that a thing. One new chapter a year. LOL It seems like AJ and Nick are active, but the others are just chilling? I have seen Howie doing cooking things randomly on twitter. Maybe the food network will give him his own show. It seems like their thing.

We leave for NJ on the 28th. We decided to leave a day early and get a hotel since it'll be about a 7-hour drive. Then we get on the boat at noon on the 29th and come back on the 7th. YAY!

RokofAges75:
My district has 11 schools, which makes us one of the bigger districts in the mostly suburban/rural area I live in, but not big compared to the urban districts.  It is probably just slightly bigger than your hometown, as we also have 6 elementary schools, 2 intermediate schools, and 2 junior highs.  Our district does not include the high school; they're actually a separate district because several other K-8 districts feed into them.  The high school is huge!  It is a weird way to divide the grades, definitely different from the district I grew up in.  I went to a K-4 elementary school, followed by a 5-8 middle school.  Those two schools have since combined into one K-8 school after one of the schools added on a new wing.  My school is the newest building in our district, and we are already busting at the seams, so it'll be interesting to see what changes redistricting brings.

I heard AO3 was having issues yesterday, so I don't think it was just you.  I tried going there to reply to a comment, and it wouldn't load.  Then I saw they had tweeted about the site being slow and something about emails not working properly.  Then my power was randomly out for 3 hours last night, so I never did get back on to see if it was working again.  I hope you didn't have any damage from the tornado!  And hopefully you do get some good comments on your chapter.  I understand the debate over whether to show the entire healing process or skip ahead.  Sometimes I like to go into agonizing detail, and sometimes I feel like that just drags it out too far.  I guess it depends on how well it fits with the rest of the story and whether it's important to show the healing process or not.

I actually ended up having a decent writing day yesterday because my power went out, and I had nothing else to do except write on my Chromebook.  LOL That's a good idea, just update the Frick & Frack story every April Fool's Day.  I started it as a one-shot, but it's getting long enough that I will probably end up breaking it up into 3 or 4 chapters by the time it's finished, so that would get me through the next few April Fool's Days LOL.  That is always a minor source of stress for me, trying to come up with a good prank.  Every year, I'm like, "Maybe this is the year that I let that go," but I've always managed to come through with something, even if it's lame and last-minute.  What's really pathetic is that "Frick & Frack's Fuck Fiesta" already has more hits on AO3 than half of my novels. 🤦‍♀️

I could see Howie with a cooking show on Food Network LOL.  That would be awesome!  Do they have celebrity cooking competition shows?  He would be a great contestant on one of those.  Still hoping to see one of the other guys on DWTS or The Masked Singer at some point!  I don't watch either of those shows anymore, but I would if they had a BSB on it.

Yay, you're less than a month away!  Arriving the night before sounds like a good idea, just in case of traffic or anything else.  Have you started making a packing list yet?

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