I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.

Dawn ,'Beneath You'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DavidS - Mar 14, 2005 8:41:51 am PST #7033 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Doesn't Emmett attend a private school?

Dude, don't you think my hypocrisy filter would've prevented me from posting that if it were true? No, he does not.

However, he does go to school in the best public school district in northern california, a little sub-city which exists solely for the school district. His elementary school sits right next to University Village where UC Berkeley warehouses their grad students who have families - so his school is particularly overrun with high achieving smartypants.

eta: which is just to say I don't have to worry about the quality of this education, which is, without question, orders of magnitude higher than what I received.


Nutty - Mar 14, 2005 8:43:51 am PST #7034 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Why is she getting married?! She's twenty-one for Christ's sake!

A number of my college friends did that upon graduation. I decided it was as close to being betrayed in favor of The Man as I was likely ever to see in my humdrum existence.


Almare - Mar 14, 2005 8:43:56 am PST #7035 of 10002
"My drink preference does not indicate my sexual preference. "

ginger, i didn't realize i didn't have it up. It's salt_water_tears@yahoo.com.

Okay, hi hon's, homeschooling has it's positives and I'm sure it'll go fine.

settles into the nest....hugs her Cheerleader!Lex

Okay, like, guys, I still have the catapult. And the city's orden is that it can stay up for one week.

Who has any childhood issues that they need help solving with? Come on?

Can we attack Quebec? Or Maybe arizona? We Floridians are half a step away from amphibians.

Well, anyways, whoever we attack (AKA those who denied Cashmere her boob reduction), I will be prepared with water and puppet!Angel.


Liese S. - Mar 14, 2005 8:45:09 am PST #7036 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

It is now snowing here. I am getting karma'd for having mocked the easterners last week. I repent of my taunty ways.

Also, the SO has a cold, so my week just got way, way busier. In fact, I dunno what I'm doing on here.


Topic!Cindy - Mar 14, 2005 8:45:47 am PST #7037 of 10002
What is even happening?

Dude, don't you think my hypocrisy filter would've prevented me from posting that if it were true? No, he does not.
Hee. It was probably his after-school program I was thinking of. How are you feeling? I had the most violent stomach thing last week. I thought it was food poisoning, but am thinking now it was just a virus. I felt so bad you were away from home for that.


Susan W. - Mar 14, 2005 8:46:24 am PST #7038 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Not all parents who homeschool do it because they're in a craxy religious group. Sometimes public schools SUCK and are actively dangerous, and private school is cost-prohibitive.

What Teppy said. In the next four years, DH and I know we need to either move to a place with excellent public schools or put ourselves in a position to afford private ones. But if that doesn't work out, I feel like homeschooling Annabel rather than enrolling her in a subpar school is the only responsible thing to do.


-t - Mar 14, 2005 8:48:38 am PST #7039 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

If we stay in New Orleans, I will probably homeschool the sprog, because the public schools are mostly very bad and getting one's kids into the few good schools requires jumping through many rings of flaming bureaucracy while contortng oneself into unnatural shapes. And the reasons the public schools here are so bad is because people routinely put their kids into private schools, and there's no way I'm going to contribute to that particular vicious circle.

But that would be a rather surprising turn of events, on the whole.


Betsy HP - Mar 14, 2005 8:48:57 am PST #7040 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

A number of my college friends did that upon graduation. I decided it was as close to being betrayed in favor of The Man as I was likely ever to see in my humdrum existence.

I actually had a friend try to talk me out of getting married because I was betraying feminism.

The way I saw it, I had found the guy I could imagine living with for the rest of my life. What was I supposed to do, say "Go away for four years, I'll catch you when I'm 25?"


Jessica - Mar 14, 2005 8:49:16 am PST #7041 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I decided it was as close to being betrayed in favor of The Man as I was likely ever to see in my humdrum existence.

Um?

I got married at 22, and only waited that long because neither of us wanted to deal with planning a wedding until we were out of college.


§ ita § - Mar 14, 2005 8:49:52 am PST #7042 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jessica, please stop betraying Nutty this instant.