Hump Day Hotties #13

I can't help it. The more I watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the more I grow to love Spike. It's not just James Marsters (though he doesn't hurt, right), but the character is just so bloody brilliantly written! Well written characters who are also easy on the eyes are quite possibly the best kind.

 Damn right, I'm impure. I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow.

You'll find her just in the nick of time. That's what you bloody hero-types do.

Don't forget to catch him when Caprica returns this fall. Also, at Dragon*Con. *squee* 

Hump Day Hotties #5

I was inspired by Amber over at nostomaniac, and all of her nostalgia for the 1990s, so I decided to go back in the day and post some of the hotties I was in love with when I was, like, 14.


Was there not a teenage girl alive in the mid-nineties who didn't want a piece of Jordan Catalano from "My So-Called Life"?!

And when it came to "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer," it wasn't Angel who caught my attention, as he does now. It was the awkward, geeky, best friend who was at the center of an unrequited love triangle. Yes, friends, Xander was my Buffy hottie crush.

Enjoy your flashback, nostalgic hotties today. (And luckily, Jared Leto, at least, grew up nicely and is still hot! Yeah, I like guy-liner. What of it?)

And Then My Head Exploded...

So, last night, I was on the verge of an anxiety-induced breakdown.  I've been stressing out waaaaay too much over the past three weeks on whether or not I'm gonna get this third grade job I interviewed for. Our school system is so large and bureaucratic, that I can't exactly call up and ask what the status is.  With two weeks left in this school year, I'd like to know where I'm gonna end up next year. Will I stay where I am or do I need to pack up my entire five-year accumulation of teaching stuff in my current classroom?! I about lost it last night when I got home based on a really small, ridiculous, and most definitely inadvertent trigger from another teacher.

And this is how I've been able to deal over the past twenty-four hours:

Snuggling on the couch with my sick hub watching old episodes of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer Season One while he reads me random tweets from Wil Wheaton.

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Chatting with fellow 20sbers Alex, Mel, Jen, and Risha. Little does Risha know, but she totally talked me down last night. She's so awesome!

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NyQuil. Yeah, I know. I have allergy problems. Sometimes I live off this stuff. And last night, I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep without something...

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Playing Yahtzee with some of my students this afternoon. Instead of doing something productive in my last class today, I pulled the board games out of storage. I really need to do that more often. And they got such a kick out of me playing, too.

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Selling tickets at our school's annual carnival after school. Watching the faces of 5 and 6 year-olds light up when you hand them a strip of paper tickets is priceless. It can pretty much melt any heart. This is one of the reasons I want to teach the younger ones.

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Coming home to a surprise order from ThinkGeek that my hub got for me!

 

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And watching THIS!

I'm definitely looking forward to relaxing this weekend and hopefully seeing Iron Man 2. Any of you have great, unconventional ways to destress or calm an anxiety freak-out? Other great, lazy weekend plans?