Well, they called in the parents, suspended the boy for three days, and moved him to another gym class.

They also said they'd keep an eye on him for any further trouble.

Ugh.. having problems with my daughters' high school. This guy in Brenda's gym class keeps assaulting her - first he grabbed her rear while pretending to read the back of her shirt to get around behind her (he grabbed her all the way up to her crotch, she said), then today he pushed her into a corner and was touching her and saying "What are you going to do about it?" , and when another girl came over to help Brenda, he touched her too. She was too upset/embarassed about it to say anything at the time (or to tell us about the prior incidents until just now).

So today when she came home and told me about this, I called the school and told them about it. I was referred to the Vice Principal's office. His secretary said he was in a meeting, she'd take my name and number and have him call me back as soon as he came out of the meeting. I waited. And waited. And... finally, called them back. Turned out he was given my message, he ignored it, and instead chose to just go home for the day. That made me very upset. The secretary said that Brenda could go into the office tomorrow morning and that the VP would 'likely do something about it then'. I asked if I could/should file a police report, and she said that since Brenda only knew the boy's first name it was unlikely a report could be filed until they know the boy's full name. They have a state trooper at the school, she said, who would be brought in to the situation tomorrow if needed.

I'm very angry and upset with the way this is being handled and that this occurs in school in the first place. Where was the teacher while this was going on, that's one of many things I'd like to know. Also, why did the vice principal not take the two minutes or so that it would have taken to call me back and assure me that they were taking this seriously and would do something about it?

Kids went back to school today- lots of filling out paperwork, and some shopping for the last minute things that they found out they needed. Now I'm just lying in bed, relaxing , and watching some Rilo Kiley concert videos. We've got a new one up at the download page ( www.labarc.com/Sennett/Rotation.html ).

I have an idea for a new poem, that I might actually try to write before Friday (Friday afternoon being the once-a-month poetry thing at the Cherry Hill Library, the only poetry thing I'm still doing at the moment). I also really want to get some editing and recording done (once I can get the mic and stuff hooked up). I finally got some blank cds today- four for a dollar at the dollar store, woo! Now if only I could get some dvds and printer ink.

Really need to get around to selling more stuff on Ebay.

This week -
Tomorrow - doctors
Thursday- doctors, D&D ?
Friday - poetry, D&D

Hm.. how can it be that someone all the way in Florida on vacation can still manage to be irritating to his family who was cheerfully at home in NJ?

Well, my father managed. He sent us the keys to his car (which is safely parked at the airport) so that we could go get it (even though he's coming home on Thursday, and this would take an hour drive and involve my brothers being her to help go get it) , because he wants it to be home and not at the airport now for unknown reasons.

Then someone's going to have to get him from the airport on Thursday (oh, want to bet they're going to try and make it -me-? ) , instead of him just conviently arriving and then taking his car (which is already there) home with him.

Does anyone see the logic here? I don't .

Furthermore, we're all feeling ill due to this virus that's making its way through our family members, so no one really feels like dealing with this to begin with.

I'm still trying to get our ARC Newsletter out and working, too. And then I'll be organizing that free online writers workshop thingus after as my next big project. I wonder how much intrest there will be in it? I've always got to have a project. I think it makes me happy.

I helped the kids make a mask today for their school project. It's of the queen of Narnia (they're reading those books) . I think it came pretty good.

I've been happily watching daily Buffy reruns on FX. I think I might peer into that Hellmouth thingy that I read about in Mystra's journal. Probably no room for another writer (and I've never really wrote fanfiction, heh) but something intresting to take a lookie at.

Yay. Elvis impersonator. That was like.. the last straw for my ears on an already loud night at the kids school. At least all the proceeds from eating the badly cooked caffeteria food went to the Red Cross- and we won a free pizza. Sweet.

RP was fun, though a but stunted, due to us having been gone for a bit longer than usual today.

I got another back pillow from the doctor this morning- so Aus and I don't have to share. It's spiffy.

My dad is leaving in the middle of the nightish to go to his vacation. No dad is good.. but... I dunno. I'm sort of actually worried about him traveling so far and going to Florida durring the anthrax thing. Despite the fact he can be a real pain sometimes, I guess somewhere deep down I do sort of kind of love him. Yucky.

Anyhow.. that's about it. Isn't my life exciting today? =)

A couple of newbies wandered in to the inn tonight, who sort of restored my faith (albeit mostly temporarily) in new people. They politely asked questions and listened to the answers and roleplayed fairly well for beginers. If only every night was like that!

I really liked tonight's episode of Buffy- lots of nice Spike scenes. Spike is the main reason I watch Buffy, I think (even though the show is otherwise fairly entertaining, Spike just rules). I think it's because he reminds me a lot of characters that I have made- the mannerisms and the whole attitude. Plus, he has funky hair. That's always a plus.

My dad is going on VACATION. I know my other post meantions this, but hey. Here it is again. NO DAD! Heh, yeah, I know.. I'm 30some years old, and I live with my 'rents because they're in their seventies and it's cool to do the family thing while we've all still got time to spend together, and we should all be happy to be a family but shit. He's an asshole sometimes. I hate to put it that way, but it's true. It's most likely not even his fault because he's manic depressive, but he's like the poster child for the Denis Leary Asshole song.

I don't want to go to the doctor tomorrow- mostly because the last time I was there, people prodded me too much and it made me cranky. I also don't want to go to the children's school dinner tomorrow night- mostly because they expect us to wear something red white and blue and bring a dessert to share. I'm wearing a red sweater and blue pants and digging up a bag of animal cookies from the cabinet. They can deal.

I'm pretty happy though, all things considered. Kara drew this most excellent picture of Smedley (complete with his mismatched man juppies and his crossdressing fire faerie costume), Franco and Vlad. It's an illustration, more or less, from the series I've got running in the Times called Harry Halloween. I'm going to try sending it in when she paints it, and see if they'll add it to the two illustrations that Ry and Lindy whipped up for me (also both very cute- but both those are of Harry, so hey- ) for the final part.

There's not much of intrest here, so feel free not to read it. Just L babble.

Well, we got to talk to Ry again today- she's doing well, but tired of being at the hospital. Hopefully, she'll get to go soon. We're going to call Jolene tonight because she offered us a ride around Philly to go see Ry in said hospital. Keen.

Josh needs to learn some capitalization and punctuation and grammar skills. I mean, he's a great guy and all that.. but considering his profession, one would think it'd be a requirement. Ah, well.

I filled out the anal retentive form from hell today to try and get covered by the kids medical insurence so I can take care of my non accident related issues. Joy.

Air faeries need to be shot. Just so you all know that (if you've read down this far).

The new episodes of Buffy start tonight. I shleped a post-it note to the computer so I wouldn't forget to watch-- but what are the odds when the proper time rolls around ,I'm going to miss part of it by being busy with something else and then doing that last minute "Darrgh!" thing. I'm guessing - high.

Life has been relatively quiet lately. Which is usually a fairly good, if boring, thing.

We need to go to the bank and the store today, and probably get some red white and blue stuffs... the kids volunteered us to speak about the tragedy at their school with a bunch of other kids and parents durring this dinner thing they're having to benifit the red cross. We were planning on going to the dinner, but I wasn't planning on doing any public speaking, heh. Maybe I'll bring a poem or two, if I manage to write anything on the whole thing without falling into a miserable heap of depression.

I get to go see the neurologist tomorrow. My hopes and expectations of that meeting are that he will give me more pain medication. Pain medication is my special friend right now, yes it is.

I'm craving candy right now. In particular, things with nougat .. .like those Three Musketeers bars. The odds of me getting candy today - very low.

I learned a few things from watching Letterman tonight.

One is that ass almost rhymes with hat. But not quite.

Two is that Denis Leary is a very compassionate person.

Three is that Bryant Gumble is quite probably one of the most boring people on the face of the planet.

We had a confrence with the kids school teachers today. Turns out they were being little miscreants and not doing their work in school, and manipulating us into doing it with them. In an odd way, I'm sort of proud of that. "Aww... it's my kids first getting over on the establishment moment". Of course, being older and smarter (and having done such things many times in my own youth) we found out about it and busted them and laid down the law. But stillf. It was a nearly cool moment.

It was funny being back at my old school, where I graduated 8th grade from about.. oh.. almost 20 years ago. The music teacher remembered me fondly, even though I never could quite play that clarinet. My kids teacher was also my 5th grade teacher, and she was as strong willed and intresting as ever. Some people who taught me had retired, or even died... one the very year after I left, of cancer. That was pretty sad. There was a new addition on the school, so it was bigger than when I went there.

The school is having a meal on the 10th of October to benifit the Red Cross. I might not be healthy enough to donate blood, but eating, I think I can manage. =)

There's also a clothing, food, and hygenic products drive going on at the ambulence hall that I'm going to see if we can rumage some stuff up for. Never know,even though we're sucking empty on monetary suplies until Aus returns to work or the government's disability program gets off it's arse and sends a check- there might be some things we can do to help. I'm certainly going to try.

I wonder if they need books anywhere? We're trying to clean out the library room (to put our books on the shelves - we had tons we brought from KC when we moved- and get rid of books that we've all already read and don't want to read again, or that are of subjects no one likes all that much around our house).

I hate to just throw out books (what a terrible thought!) so I really want to find a home for them. There'll probably be close to a hundred, or maybe more, when I'm done sorting. We have -alot- of books.

Roleplay went well today, for the most part. Had a very intresting Colby/Mirri vs Troll fight. Always amusing. There's been a fuller house lately, now that Summer has faded, and people are wandering back from the great outdoors to play inside again. Heh.

I've got to get some more of my writings together for the Halo site. I've got maybe a quarter of my total works up there now, I just know it. And the rest is so scattered, I'm afraid I might lose some. For the first time in a long time, I want to hold on to everything I've written.

I can't believe our Neopets guild is up to almost 1100 members. Spiffy. And I thought it would just be a few friends. Heh. Almost every day we get some request for free stuff, or graphic design, or something equaly inane that we don't have time for. Advice is free. Stuff isn't. =) Another funny thing is due to the high number of users on Neopets (which numbers in the millions) ,most of my fan mail and exposure comes from people who have read my stories in the Neopian Times. Huh. Go figure. Not bad, not bad.

I'm going to go to bed now and stop rambling in this. Heh. Well, one more thing.

The chiropractor says I need to stop watching the tragedy coverage and avoid other stressful things as its impeding the healing in my back. Huh. Well, I guess that would involve moving to a comune or learning to meditate, or having my father suddenly become un-arseholic. All of those are fairly unlikely.

Well, yeah, its been a while. Life is like that sometimes.

Jeanette just had one of her papers marked as a 74- but when we checked the paper over, six problems that had been marked as wrong were right. They had been graded by a little bitch-goddess child who decided to mark them wrong to be spiteful (anyone who's been to school remembers the stupid, snobby, stuck up bitch child type, heh.).

So we had to write a note to her teacher and argue the grade. I personally think that its just plain stupid to have children exchange papers and grade each other's work anyhow. Its simple laziness on the teacher's part to not take them home and grade them properly.

I ran into an old friend in an unlikely place yesterday. Joey Z. (who's last name I can't spell =) ) was my brother Ron's friend, really- but he's always been like a really close friend of the family. I haven't seen him much in the past five years or so, though- once at his brother's funeral, and twice at my house, heh. But yesterday, there he was, helping the contractor build our room. Joey was always kind of one of my heros. He was the guy that didn't look down on me for being Ron's kid sister, and he played guitar, and was really amused by my "valley girl" impersonation I did when I was 14 or so (he still meantions it every time I see him to this day,hehehe.). When his brother died in a house fire, Joey tried to save his life, Ron said. He got singed up, and couldn't get in there in time. It was very sad. Now, he takes care of his aging mother who has Altzimers. Joey isn't rich, or famous, or successful by any of society's measures, but to me, he's still a hero. There's just some people that are like that- you can see them just every now and then, but they still give a special something to your life. Funny thing is, he ran into Aus today at Wal-Mart =). So there's twice in two days we saw someone I haven't seen for years before. Odd, no?

Another one of my heros, of course, is Aus. He takes care of me, and three children that are mine from a previous marriage, and loves us all. He's helpful, kind, and wonderful (and pretty much restored my faith that there are some good men out there.

Another person I admire is my brother Ron. He's a very kindhearted person, who knows a lot about history and does talks for the city he lives in, and he takes care of his sick wife. He and my brother Joe and my niece Jolene come over every Sunday for family dinners.

I saw a thing in the paper today about some poetry reading contest they were having in a cafe for cash prizes, and another one just for fun. I was thinking of trying my hand at one or both of them, but I don't know. There's just something about getting up and saying "here's my work, give me money if you like it" that's sort of disturbing. But still, it could be fun.

Aus brought home a DVD from work today, and we all watched it. My parents are amazed by DVD technology, hehe. They just can't believe that the little disc can hold so much movie, and be such a fine quality. Then again, they were pretty stumped by VCR's, too (at least there new one doesn't continually blink 12:00 at them, though).

The kids get off of school on the 12th. I have some activities planned for them so hopefully they won't get too bored and rammy over the summer.

We got a postcard from Kara in Washington , DC today! I miss her ={

Worked halfheartedly on some webpages, blech. I need to get my computer in a regular room so I can actually work on that stuff a bit better.

Got the phone bill today, and there were no horendous "You called fivethousand hours of long distance" surprises on it, so I think this internet access number is indeed local (Dang conflicting reports). NJ has one of the most flucked up phone systems around.