My gelato maker and I give Alton the finger.

So does my frozen pizza cooker.

And I'm sure they have temples they wouldn't sell. I was being snide.

Possibly due to the fact that I am student teaching at a Catholic high school. Haven't started yet, but I'm find the idea QUITE hilarious.

My gelato maker and I laugh and laugh and laugh at P-C's frozen pizza cooker. Because we are mean.

I just spent five minutes setting up a meal for Annabel while she squawled in her playpen. Toward the end, as I was carrying the food to the table by the highchair, she got mysteriously quiet.

Naturally she's asleep.

I hate to be all cold and shit, but I've got to stand over in the laughing corner with Betsy and the gelato maker. Because, gelato.

Whereas, frozen pizza.

-t, congratulations! More Buffistababies!

Do people even take the ACT anymore? I never hear about it and I thought I'd heard at one time that they'd quit giving it. I took the PACT as, I think, a sophmore. The numbers 14 and 16 spring to mind, but I couldn't tell you which was which when it came to verbal and math. I never took the SAT or ACT for some strange reason. Fortunately, as a person in the military, it usually wasn't required to attend any of the colleges providing evening courses. And by the time I was going to regular universities, I had a substantial transcript to throw at them and my GPA more than sufficed. I wonder sometimes just what I would have gotten on the SAT or ACT. I was not a great believer in studying back then.

They're completely reworking the SAT now. I think the new one will be totally in place within the next year or two. Pretty much, they're making it more like the ACT.

Do people even take the ACT anymore?

Yeah. From what I've seen, it's mostly in the midwest and west, though. I don't think it was even offered anywhere near where I went to high school (in NJ), but everyone I knew at college from anywhere west of the Mississippi had taken it.

Did someone upthread say you get 400 SAT points just for showing up?

Q: Is it true that you get a 200 on the SAT just for signing your name?

A: Theoretically speaking, if you just sign your name and don't complete the answer sheet, you would get a score of 200. That's because we don't report scores that are lower than 200. In reality, if we received an answer sheet that wasn't filled out, it would be considered an automatic request to cancel scores and no scores would be reported.

Also, if you get every question wrong, you get 0 points. So showing up doesn't guarantee you anything.

Back in 1984, I knew one girl who took the ACT because the college she wanted to go to didn't accept the SAT. She spent the same Saturday the rest of us who took the usual in a room by herself.

Score yak... I took the PSAT and got 65 verbal, 57 math (score was 20-70 scale for those unfamiliar with it). On the SAT, I got 700 verbal, 570 math. Some of the other geeks wanted to know how I managed to do so well on the verbal section. I wished I had their math scores.

delurking to say:

Cindy-- what kind of stores give you anxiety attacks? I find that store that smmll (perfume, candles) and/or stores that are very hot are just something that need to be avoided. Or in the case of HOT stores, I do not wear my coat into them. Otherwise-- meltdown city.