Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise? A world of ewwwwww.

My high school had weighted rankings. We didn't have enough students to have different levels in every subject (foreign languages generally had only one class for each year, and sometimes French 4 and French 5 were combined into one class), but certain classes had honors levels, and there were some AP classes offered, and those would count for an extra .5 added to the grade. It usually ended up that the top 20% or so of the class would have higher than a 4.0 average, and they had to calculate out to about 3 or 4 decimal places to figure out who would be valedictorian.

Huh. According to imdb, Katie Holmes is 26. And also the same height as I am, which at a rough guess makes her taller than the former Mr Nicole Kidman.

I wish. My GPA would've been much better if we'd had that option.

Now that I think about it, I think that the fourth and fifth year of any foreign language were designated as honors classes. There wasn't any non-honors option for those, but I guess they figured that, since we were only required to take one year, and most people stopped at three, they'd give the honors credit to people who stayed with it for five.

The state of Florida sticking their noises where they don't belong again. They have already delayed the child 2 weeks and may end up delaying her until it is too late.

The plight of a 13-year-old Palm Beach County foster child, who is pregnant and wants an abortion, is pitting children's advocates against Florida's child welfare agency, which has custody of the girl and has asked a judge to forbid her from ending her 13-week pregnancy.

The Department of Children & Families, which has been responsible for the girl for many years, argued to a West Palm Beach judge Tuesday that the girl is too immature to decide for herself whether to carry the pregnancy to term.

DCF has done such a great job caring for her so far in her life. It has to be child cruelty to make this girl carry a baby to term. [link]

Gronk. Too early to have already been up for close to three hours.

NYC is fun, starting teaching an Advanced SFX class in about 20 minutes.

So. Tired.

I think I just skipped about a bazillion posts in here.

The knife holder that was perfect for ita, now for sale: [link]

That's inhumane. I have deep philosophical issues with abortion, but forcing anyone--particularly a child of thirteen--to carry to term and deliver is hateful. Folks, if she is too immature to make the decision, shouldn't that raise the question of her being too immature to endure a pregnancy she doesn't want?

Katie Holmes, overheard. (I bet it's a joke, but still funny.)

Edit because this isn't worth another post: I just heard on the news there's a traffic backup because of a woman giving birth! Eek!