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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
budget?
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Reasonable, which I guess at the most is somewhere in the $100 range. Is that too little...too much? I'm not sure on the ettiquette....
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Originally Posted by lankrypt0
What about grade tracking software? Something practical that will her job a little easier?
Or if you are good with excel or computers, you can make one.
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She's already got this fantastic piece of software for that. It tracks grades, stores lesson plans, all that jazz. All of the teaching students are required to buy it from what I understand.
The spa thing is a nice idea. She could probably use it now as she's a very tightly wound bird, but, yeah, we're talking real rural. Like Dogpatch rural, which coincidentally is literally right down the road from this place. No. Seriously.
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Originally Posted by mal
Since teachers are often stuck wtih providing their own school supplies, a gift basket of various school supplies...
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First of all, maybe I'm just a schmuck, but I haven't 'seen' you around lately and it's nice to hear your voice--or at least the voice in my head that is 'you.' Second, that is an excellent idea.
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Originally Posted by shani
what about a gift cert to a store that sells teacher's supplies? I know they have them here, either the ABC store or the School Box, I would assume they have something similar in your area?
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To be honest, I'm not sure either, but she could always shop online, right? I thought about things like this (gift card, school supplies, etc), but immediately discredited because I thought it was an excellent idea and well, I know how that usually turns out. I do want to get her something practical and useful....
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Originally Posted by soma
If you know this person well enough, and it sounds like you do, invite her over for dinner and cook her something nice. So it doesn't seem like you're trying to woo her, invite some friends to share the occasion with. As long as you can cook decent, the gesture will be much appreciated.
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Ah, the dinner party. I like her well enough and we get along great, but I can count on my two hands the number of times we've mingled outside of work, so, it might be a little odd if I were to suggest this out of the blue. Good idea for something else I've got on the back burner, though...
Thanks all. This is good, keep 'em coming.