On the Streets story arc -

Title: At the Creche
Follows Facts of Life (Part 1) & (Part 2)
All in the Animal Shelter series - "On the Streets" story arch
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 298

Kitten bathing wasn’t too terrible, almost fun really, Poof thought, they squirmed trying to get away. It was a game to the kittens, who’d try to escape and hop away as fast as little springed legs would take them. He’d learned to plop a fast paw down on a kitten and apply tongue starting wherever was handiest. It wasn’t all that important to lick with the grain of the fur, the fur wasn’t that long on most of them anyway.

“Many-legged prey toy!” a small squeaky mew brought about a short statured wave converging over to one side of the room. Slightly older kittens took up the cry when they got close enough to see the center of the cautious circle of furry little bodies, “A Spider! Yea!”

“Eeeek, it’s on Hithy!” one voice cried, “and it’s big!” There was a kicking roil of tiny combat centered in the middle of the circle of kittens.

“Kill it, Kill it, Kill it!” the mewed chant rose.

“Oh Lord, who let a spider into the Creche?” one of the adult parents complained.

“It’s only a pretend spider,” was answered.

“Why would you do that,” was asked in irritation by a different parent of wizardly persuasion alighting from atop a chair.

“Because IiiiiT’s SPIDER DAY!” was cheerfully replied by a kitten, old enough who should have known better.

“That’s in March, Felix !” an exasperated adult voice told him.

Poof went over and retrieved one of the kittens, carrying it back in his mouth to its family's nest of blankets to recommence an interrupted naptime. Dropping it into the box, he went back to separate out another of its siblings and as he passed Kormier he couldn’t help asking around a mouthful of kitten, while eyeing Kormier’s tummy, “Only one right?”

Chunky Apple Molasses Muffins

This was in a book about the State of New York. I liked that it gave metric measurements for those that do their recipes that way. And Okay my mind was thinking, 'food?' Felt like a very long week. My Librarian crawled back to work today or she'd have to have come back with a doctor's note stating she was well enough to come back. 2 days they allow you, after that you need a note from your mommy doctor. She stayed in her office coughing which had to be boring as all *shifty eyes* hell. It's a virus. don't let me get it. don't let me get it. don't let me get it. Last day of book circulation for the school year.

Chunky Apple Molasses Muffins

The Apple muffin became New York’s state muffin in 1987. New York ranks second in the country in growing apples. A deliciously sweet way to start the day.

Makes 12 muffins

Prep Time 10 min Cook Time 14 min Prep Time 10 min Cook Time 14 min

Ingredients
2 cups (480mL) all purpose flour
¼ cup (60 mL) sugar
1 Tbsp. (15 mL) baking powder
1 tsp. (5 mL) ground cinnamon
¼ tsp. (1.2mL) salt
1 cup Crunch Pak sweet or tart sliced apples, finely chopped (1 apple peeled, cored, and chopped)
½ cup (120 mL) milk
¼ cup (60mL) molasses
¼ cup (60 mL) vegetable oil
1 large egg

Instructions
1. Heat oven to 450°.
2. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl. Add apples and stir to distribute evenly.
3. In a small bowl, beat milk, molasses, oil and egg in a small bowl. Stir into dry ingredients and mix until just blended.
4. Lightly grease 8 3-inch muffin pan cups and fill with batter.
5. Bake 5 minutes in preheated 450°F oven, then reduce heat to 350°F and bake 12 to 15 minutes longer or until centers of muffins spring back when gently pressed. Cool in pan 5 minutes.

Huh. There really is a link between some monitors and 'interesting' room air quality?

In "It's getting close to the end of the year" where I mentioned:
Last evening during the afterschool program that I did not attend there was an incident in the computer lab. Some people started feeling a burning sensation in their throats and airways. One student who has asthma went to the hospital and the school nurse after looking in peoples mouths said that there were white spots in the backs of throats of those complaining of burning. Has anyone heard anything to substantiate a parent's info that some new monitors give off a gas that causes these type problems?

The Computer lab is now closed until the school district can do an investigation. Which is not of high priority right now per what is being said. Of course this is the busy computer usage time when every students NEEEEEEDS to type up their year long project reports. Usually the district's computer servers go down about now too. It is going to get interesting.

The Computer Science Teacher sent out this......
Fellow colleagues:

The air quality in the computer lab tested great! We took the suggestions and advice from the air quality guy from the district which was to change the monitor out to a different monitor. I believe all is good.

The computer lab printer does work. Before printing, please come see me and I’ll show you what you have to do to make the printer work.

Please do not allow students to put paper in the tray. That is one of the parts of the printer that is on its last legs. It has been repaired twice.

Things do work… we just have to be patient and try to be smarter than the equipment…. which I’m not most of the time. I get lucky sometimes.

12 minutes later

…. Never mind…. Printer is dead…. Putting in a heat ticket now….

Sorry…. Have a nice day….

Too:

Found out today that there's a student who has an again 'interesting' quirk. He and his identical twin are in the same class period of a certain class. Maybe one of them is made of negative matter to the other's positive matter but they have to be seated away from each other. So one is seated by the classroom's computer color printer. Everyday; until the teacher taped closed the paper loading draw of the printer and put a note on it that specifically read, Do NOT open the drawer student's name; that student would open the paper loading draw and stick his hands inside. Even when the teacher caught the student before he'd done it one day and told him not to do it and then watched as he pushed the button to open the drawer while looking at the teacher to then stick his hands inside.

These Twins will be in the Library to complete a project next week. They've somehow lost their individual project for this 6 week grading period and have nothing to show for it. So the teacher is giving them a special project that she can then give them their grades on.


Our computer printer is behind the counter where I sit.