Now, Mr. Benny?

[copied from dland]

As I mentioned in my tiny little post of a couple of hours ago, I have been getting nasty spam on my comments since last night, so I just set up a HaloScan thing and seem to have gotten it installed. It looks like it works, and I'm astonished that it went up so easily. For tonight, I'll keep the link to the dland comments there, but it's only taking comments from dlanders. I guess I'll take that out tomorrow.

Meanwhile, I went back today to see my new best friend, Dr. Gary The Audiologist, and here's the newest development. I told him that the problem that had been "repaired" when he sent the hearing aids back was fine for a few days after I picked them up, but had started acting up again on Friday, and was just awful all day Sunday. I had to reset the hearing aid (turn it off and on again) dozens of times. He sighed. He shook his head. He said he saw no point in sending it back again, since clearly, they didn't know what to fix. He said I should keep it for now, but that he would make a new mold of my ear -- which he did -- and tell the company that they had to build me a new one, from scratch.

YAY!

I didn't even have to complain or threaten or anything. He just said right out that for this much money, they'd better work, and he'd make sure that they did. In the meantime, he put in the two new programs, one for crowded situations and one for ... well. The setting is called "House of Worship," which is pretty funny, but it's the setting that will help me hear the speaker in an otherwise quiet auditorium, where the speaker is not close to me and the sound reverberates. Like when you're watching a play. Ahem.

My stress of the day today is mostly diet related, since I've gained two and half pounds since Friday, and then I saw an article that said diets don't work (a new "scientific" study) and that the most reliable predictor of who will gain wait in the future is whoever's on a diet now. Oh, swell. And I also had some nonsense with ordering stuff for the library, but I won't go into that.

I had my five classes in again today for the next stage of the Internet history project, though, and they were just great. Oh, there were a few stinkers here and there, but really, I enjoyed them very much. Although I have to tell you, teaching the identical lesson five times in one day? You could lose your mind. There are very, very few high school teachers who have one "prep" like that. A prep is a preparation; if you teach two classes of English 11 and three classes of English 12, you have two preps. Two is probably the best you can do because you don't have to say the same thing five times, but yet you only have to prepare two lessons for each day. Three is most common in my school, although four is not unheard of. My friend the Other Chai has had years where she has had five preps by her own choice, because she was happy to teach as many A.P. (Advanced Placement) classes as she could get, and there would be only one of each of them, so that was four, and then she would take one regular history class at any level they gave her. Anyway, I digress. I taught five classes today, one prep. By 8th period, even I didn't think my jokes were funny anymore.

Okay, now I just got a weird dland note. So the notes link is going, too. I never cared for that anyway; I have no idea why I've left it there all this time.

It looks like the prediction of snow for tomorrow has changed since Monday, and is now rain, or at worst, a "wintry mix." It'll be the first day I've worn real shoes in weeks.

Okay, time to figure out the points for one Kosher hot dog and a half a pastrami sandwich, no bread. (Just the Russian dressing. And I only ate half. Not that it makes any difference.)


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