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[Blzer]

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I won't lie that the schedule is a great perk about being a teacher. Gets me to still coach softball and such as well.

Though I also teach summer school, so it's not like I have that off... and you can forget thinking about the fact that it's not an 18-hour job per weekday when you consider grading, prepping, and responding to the influx of e-mails from students, parents, and department heads. It's not like it's an ongoing thing, but you certainly have to consider yourself "on call" at any given moment. That's why I'm always by my computer (and why I can always be on OS haha).

I just love the teaching. There are some kids who take away from it at times, but they are also the ones you want to impact the most, so it's a bittersweet inclusion for sure.

[mike24forever]

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At times I wish I was a teacher, but those times are only during Spring Break, Winter Break, or Summer Vacation...

Best profession ever. I miss it everyday and I hate that it was stolen from me because of my accident. It can be a thankless job, but also the most rewarding job ever. The time off was always a time to recharge my batteries. I ran the student council, coached basketball and baseball and was the regional conveyor for boys baseball, so needless to say it was exhausting on top of teaching.

Side note. I actually coached the last female athlete to play baseball with the boys team. They grandfathered it in for her. See was a decent ball player and a very good person. Loved her family and also coached her younger brother.

[slickdtc]

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How do you pronounce the word “avatar?”

I say it like A-vatar. My buddy made fun of me because he says it Av-atar.

I suspect most people didn’t know or use the word before social media and the movies.

I don’t know what the correct pronunciation, but that’s how my brother said it back in the day playing that old ***, text based computer game Avatar (originally from ‘77 but more mid-80s and 90s) and it stuck with me.

[Scott]

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How do you pronounce the word “avatar?”

I say it like A-vatar. My buddy made fun of me because he says it Av-atar.

I suspect most people didn’t know or use the word before social media and the movies.

I don’t know what the correct pronunciation, but that’s how my brother said it back in the day playing that old ***, text based computer game Avatar (originally from ‘77 but more mid-80s and 90s) and it stuck with me.

Mark it down for Av-atar for me.


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[Fresh Tendrils]

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Av-atar.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/avatar

[av-uh-tahr, av-uh-tahr]

[Majingir]

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How do you pronounce the word “avatar?”

I say it like A-vatar. My buddy made fun of me because he says it Av-atar.

I suspect most people didn’t know or use the word before social media and the movies.

I don’t know what the correct pronunciation, but that’s how my brother said it back in the day playing that old ***, text based computer game Avatar (originally from ‘77 but more mid-80s and 90s) and it stuck with me.

For me, Avatar sounds like how you say the movie title. Though I've heard of/pronounced the word Avatar before the movies happened, only because of message boards. I never watched it, but I think it Avatar was also some anime show(unrelated to the movies).

lol, we could have a whole discussion on pronunciation of words people mostly read but rarely say. GIF seems to be a popular one.

[dickey1331]

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Av-atar for me


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[countryboy]

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Av-atar for me as well

[slickdtc]

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Well I know what that makes me...

[countryboy]

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Circuit City is planning a comeback.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/circuit-city-to-relaunch-online-next-month-with-stores-on-the-horizon/ar-BBIaoPY

[Boltman]

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Circuit City is planning a comeback.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/compa...zon/ar-BBIaoPY

We already have Best Buy.

Let Circuit City stay dead I say.

[Scott]

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Circuit City is planning a comeback.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/compa...zon/ar-BBIaoPY

Lol good one

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[dickey1331]

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Does anyone actually want them back?


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[Blzer]

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I want Radio Shack back.

Every time I needed a little piece of something, they were a couple of minutes drive away and always had it.

[countryboy]

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Does anyone actually want them back?


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If it means a possibility of competition that lowers prices, then I'm all for it!

I actually liked Circuit City back in the day.