And, on a different topic, this is done to be funny, but is actually a really good analysis of what happiness is, and how to maximize it: [link]
(From a hardcore economic journal)
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Volans - Nov 18, 2005 8:48:57 am PST #5562 of 10003
move out and draw fire
Kat - Nov 18, 2005 8:50:12 am PST #5563 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Raq, random question I could google but am google broken. What was Ceaucescu's first name?
beth b - Nov 18, 2005 8:51:17 am PST #5564 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
wheee! yay for CaBil !
§ ita § - Nov 18, 2005 8:55:25 am PST #5565 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My experience with foreign schools probably has more detail than my experience with American schools. Not having been to one here. But from helping kids with homework, etc, accounting for time slippage, the average expected level of kid education seemed higher both in the UK (richer, natch) and in Jamaica (third world, and why do people try to argue with me on that point?). I'm not pointing at the schools, so much, though. More that the attitude to education, the pervasive attitude, was different, and I don't know if the school structure, even before you get to quality, was cause or effect.
In Jamaica, school's important because it can get you from too poor to wear shoes every day to the floor of the UN, or professor.
Like it did with my parents. I don't know if the US recognises or encourages that sort of potential mobility.
Volans - Nov 18, 2005 8:55:46 am PST #5566 of 10003
move out and draw fire
Kat, Nicolae.
Kat - Nov 18, 2005 8:56:33 am PST #5567 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
THANK you! I kept think Andre, but I knew it was wrong. you rock.
P.M. Marc - Nov 18, 2005 8:59:11 am PST #5568 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
WOO!
My friend had her baby this morning! I'm so freaking excited, even though I won't get to see them until tomorrow.
I'll have to bring them chocolate. She brought us chocolate, and it's the in-hospital gift I remember most fondly.
Cass - Nov 18, 2005 9:06:00 am PST #5569 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Whoooo hoo for the good news, Plei.
Am off to shower, pack and pick up DebetEsse. Then off to Joshua Tree for us.
Aims - Nov 18, 2005 9:07:44 am PST #5570 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
ita, people try to tell you Jamaica is NOT a third world country?
§ ita § - Nov 18, 2005 9:10:12 am PST #5571 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
people try to tell you Jamaica is NOT a third world country?
The last two times I said it. "Isn't it more like...a second world country?"
Which is a plain daft thing to say. Especially to a Jamaican. Apparently we don't get enough famine press to count.