Ball of flame in sky! Aaugh!

The best description of Springtime in Vancouver ever!

Sun? Is that sun? I've cracked the blinds on my office window for the first time in months, and my eyes are watering in the light. Will my fragile melatonin levels be violently disrupted, thrown into chaos at the first burst of light in ages?

I can picture the denizens of Vancouver: in Dunbar, students are crawling out of damp little basement holes to peer with cautious optimism at the sky, murmuring "is it real? Is it spring?" to each other in hushed tones. In Stanley Park, desperate rollerbladers are strapping on their blades to make a fast-as-lightning trip around the seawall before the rain returns. Everywhere, new Vancouver arrivals from elsewhere are being prodded by locals who gloat, "I told you the sun comes back someday. Vancouver is beautiful in the sun."

Only three more months to go before this is a reliable, common event.

Blogthings

You Are 60% Boyish and 40% Girlish

You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch. Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes. You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them. You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be.

How Boyish or Girlish Are You?

Your Personality Profile

You are pure, moral, and adaptable. You tend to blend into your surroundings. Shy on the outside, you're outspoken to your friends. You believe that you live a virtuous life... And you tend to judge others with a harsh eye. As a result, people tend to crave your approval

The World's Shortest Personality Test

Get your priorities straight: who needs field trips?

I was more or less told off today, in the parking lot, by a parent - her son was in my class last year, and is a wonderful little guy. Not so his mother, it seems...

Mabel : I've heard that the grade 5's are going on a field trip tomorrow?

Pistâche : yes....

Mabel : Well, it would be REALLY NICE if we knew this ahead of time. Don't you know it's Subway Day tomorrow? It's been ON the CALENDAR for MONTHS... we can't cancel, nor can we offer refunds. Grade five parents are NOT going to be happy to be paying for lunches when their kids aren't getting it.

Pistâche : Well actually the kids said they wanted to have their sandwiches when we return at 2 pm. The VP said she'd make sure they were put in the fridge until then.

Mabel : Oh... WELL!.... That just won't do - sandwiches with ham and mayo left sitting hours after they were made? No, we have to have them fresh. You realize that I now HAVE to waste my WHOLE DAY doing ths? I'll have to make a trip to Subway at 10 for the grade sevens who are going early to Kits, and then at 11:30 for the rest of the school, and then again at 2 pm for YOU. We have hot lunches every friday, either pizza or Subway... so either way, SOMEONE's going to be put out: me, or Martha, the pizza lady. Can't you just avoid Friday's for field trips? We're FUNDRAISING.

So much for the value of what WE do at school... Evidently I've again managed to get my priorities mixed up. Selling soggy sandwiches is clearly more important. How silly of me.