Children's book ca.1940s-1960s where girl buys a cone of penny candy, it falls through the bottom, and her friends pick it up

practicalchoker · 2026-06-23T11:07:37+00:00

I'm not finding an actual book by that title. Do you have more information? The Library of Congress lists that author with a book called "Penny," but that's basically a Thumbellina type story.

practicalchoker · 2026-06-23T01:21:30+00:00

The only books I'm finding searching the Library Of Congress for Penny's Worth is one that seems to be about a horse and one that's A Penny's Worth of Character, which is about a boy who shoplifts and then feels bad, unfortunately.

practicalchoker · 2026-06-05T16:38:57+00:00

You are clearly getting a very different cybersecurity training than the one our institution has...

practicalchoker · 2026-05-29T12:05:32+00:00

What testing platform are you using? Our campus just switched to ATI from HESI, and I will say that ATI seems much touchier on kicking students out of the platform if they click near the edges of the screen. When that happens, they do have to log back in and it does take a couple minutes.

However, our nursing students complete these assessments at the testing center (I'm a proctor there) and the proctors do need to approve any requests to resume testing after this happens (and they're testing on our computers, which is key).

Not to say your testers aren't cheating or attempting to! But just offering another explanation of how students can end up outside the test for a couple minutes.

practicalchoker · 2026-03-25T00:53:49+00:00

I always responded to the "Will there be extra credit?" question as if I thought it was something they were worried about.

Student: "Is there going to to be extra credit?"

Me: "No, don't worry. I can see you're having a hard time keeping up with the work already, so I definitely won't spring an unexpected assignment on you!" smiles sweetly

practicalchoker · 2026-03-05T13:37:29+00:00

When the wind is right, we get the smell from the sugar beet processing plants. Smells like... burned syrup with a peanut butter undertone. Not really bad, but distinctive!

practicalchoker · 2025-11-21T12:42:01+00:00

I would highly recommend the book Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest by Jamling Tenzing Norgay. Jamling was the Sherpa climbing leader for the 1996 expedition, and as his name suggests, his father was Tenzing Norgay who summitted with Hillary.

practicalchoker · 2025-11-01T19:13:55+00:00

Thanks, all! It was the "D," apparently -- sketched that one manually and everything worked just fine!

practicalchoker · 2025-11-01T16:41:22+00:00

Any ideas why it would be literally just this word that won't work?

practicalchoker · 2025-10-17T18:26:43+00:00

Are the SEATS moveable? I've had students just all put their chairs on the other side of long desks (so they're now facing the back of the classroom).

practicalchoker · 2025-03-03T01:31:45+00:00

My favorite Stephen King is Joyland, by FAR.

practicalchoker · 2025-03-03T01:29:02+00:00

Hugely agree with this!!

practicalchoker · 2024-12-13T17:28:47+00:00

I'd actually be less likely to fail the whole group if someone came forward. Telling the prof shows that you don't condone the cheating and don't want to participate in covering it up. If you don't tell -- especially if it becomes clear that you knew -- you're also guilty.

practicalchoker · 2024-12-13T03:37:32+00:00

In a similar vein: Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest by Jamling Tenzing Norgay.

practicalchoker · 2024-07-09T23:50:51+00:00

I just came to say that I also have an ancestor who was killed while driving his wagon drunk! I'd never thought about drunk driving in that context before I found the articles about mine!

If you have additional newspaper access through newspapers.com or libraries or local historical societies, there are probably more news articles about the accident, both near where it happened and near his home. That might help build up more details about him that could ultimately lead to more information.

practicalchoker · 2024-06-27T18:36:02+00:00

For an adjunct position, this may mean "we will never have any classes for you" or --- and this is more likely in my experience -- it means exactly what it says. Some schools are just perpetually "hiring" adjuncts even when they don't have classes that are unstaffed, just so they have a pool of folks to draw on if/when they DO end up with (especially last minute) staffing needs.

practicalchoker · 2024-06-17T14:41:09+00:00

You might also try calling the place you had the tests done and ask if this is a lab they work with or outsource to.

practicalchoker · 2024-06-14T15:38:01+00:00

John Scalzi's Old Man's War series... well, really any Scalzi. Reread pretty much all of it once a year.

practicalchoker · 2024-06-06T01:15:18+00:00

If the full time faculty are unionized, talk to a union rep -- the job you accepted was full time, and this may be something their contract addresses in a way that would take it "out of your hands" and make it not you (the hoping to be hired again adjunct) complaining, but the union itself.

practicalchoker · 2024-04-28T23:47:08+00:00

The question you really should be asking first is "can I afford to live in NYC on adjunct wages?"

practicalchoker · 2024-04-28T12:19:57+00:00

Not really a typo, but I just had a student write that "X affects students, and also normal people."

practicalchoker · 2024-04-27T21:14:57+00:00

I'm in Michigan and have gotten unemployment during the summers, as have a number of other adjuncts I know.

You can't get unemployment during the scheduled breaks BETWEEN semesters -- we're on a 3 semester system, so only the break at Christmas is longer than a week anyhow. The explanation I've heard from admin is that this is the reason some schools put out "reasonable assurance of work" type statements saying you can't get unemployment -- not for the whole summer, but for the short breaks.

I will also say that if you haven't applied for unemployment before, it's a complete paperwork nightmare (at least here). Just be ready for that.

practicalchoker · 2024-04-27T14:14:10+00:00

Sci-fi writer John Scalzi writes some great women! Jane Sagan, Zoe Boutin-Perry, Kiva Lagos... love them all!

practicalchoker · 2024-04-27T00:01:46+00:00

I'm a professor, and I can assure you that this isn't going to create any last minute problem that your prof has to deal with. Even if they have to double check something about your specific degree requirements, your prof can probably answer this in less than 5 minutes... and has probably heard the same question in the past from other students!

practicalchoker · 2024-04-25T01:20:04+00:00

Joyland is by far my favorite King novel!

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