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Dragon Lady wrote:

vorpal blade wrote:How did it turn out?

It's this coming Saturday. And now we've got morning sickness to add to the math. Funtimes!

Among all the things you need to worry about, don't forget the font. Sometimes it takes hours to fill the font. Sometimes someone forgets to turn on the heater to make the water warm. It isn't much fun to try to conduct the meeting with the loud noises of the water running in the background. It isn't much fun to try to baptize someone in 6 inches of freezing cold water. These things happen.

Don't worry. We called someone super awesome specifically to be in charge of the font. And I get there at 7:30 and the first baptism starts at 9. So if they flake out, I still have time.

Dragon Lady wrote:Don't worry. We called someone super awesome specifically to be in charge of the font. And I get there at 7:30 and the first baptism starts at 9. So if they flake out, I still have time.

No Papyrus in the programs? Phew!

Hahaha. The font as in .... the place people get baptized. Not the typeface.

Kids these days are such wusses. 68 degrees is not an "unbearable" indoor temperature. When I last had a place in Provo, that sucker was in the 50s, max, if not the 40s. I would dart from the sleeping bag, like I was camping, shivering uncontrollably, brush my chattering teeth, and throw on a coat and go to class. (Not addressing the other parts of that question. That's the great part of being an old retired person.)

Why not just turn the heater up??!?!?!

mic0 wrote:Why not just turn the heater up??!?!?!

Heat = money

It is a bad idea to have your thermostat THAT low, though. That's the sort of temperature that causes pipes to freeze, which is significantly more expensive than the heat in the first place.

Still, 40-50 degrees is like... literally what it is outside this time of year. Just turn the heater off altogether why don't ya! Plus what Marduk said.

Anyway, I'd rather pay a few more dollars and not be overly cold? We all have our preferences. p.s. i am glad I married someone who likes the heater turned up as much as I do.

vorpal blade wrote:

Dragon Lady wrote:

vorpal blade wrote:How did it turn out?

It's this coming Saturday. And now we've got morning sickness to add to the math. Funtimes!

Among all the things you need to worry about, don't forget the font. Sometimes it takes hours to fill the font. Sometimes someone forgets to turn on the heater to make the water warm. It isn't much fun to try to conduct the meeting with the loud noises of the water running in the background. It isn't much fun to try to baptize someone in 6 inches of freezing cold water. These things happen.

Oh man. One time in the ward I grew up in, a lady with severe asthma joined the church and the water was freezing because it was winter and for some reason they had filled up the font the day before and not ever turned on the heater. She ended up having a really bad asthma attack and had to go to the hospital and never came back to church. I wasn't there, but I heard about it. It didn't do good things for the church's reputation in a small town filled with a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment.

mic0 wrote:Still, 40-50 degrees is like... literally what it is outside this time of year. Just turn the heater off altogether why don't ya! Plus what Marduk said.

Anyway, I'd rather pay a few more dollars and not be overly cold? We all have our preferences. p.s. i am glad I married someone who likes the heater turned up as much as I do.

I'm not saying I'd do it. I personally think it's a little bit extreme.

I am not good at keeping quiet and doing what I'm told. Hopefully this isn't going to get me fired.

Don't worry, everyone. I survived baptisms today. We ran out of baptismal clothes and had to do laundry halfway through. We ended copying 200+ programs one at a time because the copy machine kept eating them. The font got cool (though not that cold) because of temperature issues that we never did figure out. Plus a few other minor things. But I didn't throw up, need to lay down, or have to leave my responsibilities to someone else (though I did prepare for the worst, just in case). We even got compliments from family about how wonderful the baptisms were and how we did a great job.

And then I came home, ate lunch, and took a nap. So, so glad that's over.

I resisted correcting my neighbor's kanji mistake in her son's ninja makeup so what if he's going around with "person" on his cheek?

人 for the win!

Whistler wrote:I resisted correcting my neighbor's kanji mistake in her son's ninja makeup so what if he's going around with "person" on his cheek?

Well, is he a person? Does the symbol correctly identify him as such?

Where's the problem?

Crimes against fashion among BYU males, written in the overwrought style of a young Scott Fitzgerald or something. It made me laugh.

Emiliana wrote:I am not good at keeping quiet and doing what I'm told. Hopefully this isn't going to get me fired.

I know you teach in Texas, so I have to know 1) what happened and 2) are you in the union? They can't bargain for us, but they can fight for your job.

Imogen wrote:

Emiliana wrote:I am not good at keeping quiet and doing what I'm told. Hopefully this isn't going to get me fired.

I know you teach in Texas, so I have to know 1) what happened and 2) are you in the union? They can't bargain for us, but they can fight for your job.

Nothing has happened yet, but there is a district-level mandate that affect my students in very negative ways, and I am not going to be following that mandate to the letter. Furthermore, I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure one of my student's first amendment rights were violated last week, and I am considering making a stink about it. But yes, I am in a union, so if I get in trouble for any of this hopefully they can back me up.

I don't know the specifics of the situation, so I can't comment on that directly, but unless your students are adults, legal precedent is that they do not, in fact, have full constitutional rights.