Home schooling? You know, it's not just for scary religious people anymore.

Buffy ,'Beneath You'


Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!  

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.


Sue - Dec 16, 2005 10:09:36 am PST #2671 of 10002
hip deep in pie

Then there are guys who make you mixed tapes who have no interest at all! Make up your minds!!


Emily - Dec 16, 2005 10:11:17 am PST #2672 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

So my final was (knock on wood) not too bad. I managed to answer all the questions (ah, what a difference having 3 hours instead of 1.25 makes) and I wasn't totally befuddled by any. Though a little befuddled, and on one I wrote down something that was on my reference sheet even though I'm not quite sure what it meant (well, I knew what it meant, I'm just not sure why it's true). But with that many questions, I must have done some of them right, right?

Anyway, semester over! And I poked my head into the placement coordinator's office and said, hey, I got this note that said you folks haven't gotten my letter of agreement for my placement yet -- the placement that you haven't set up for me yet, WTF? And it turned out nothing slipped through the cracks, they're still working on it. But it's a good thing I turned up, because they were trying to place me way south of the city where the T doesn't go, having apparently ENTIRELY forgotten that I don't have a car. So it looks like I may end up at Boston Latin after all, and you know? That's okay.

Also, I screwed up my dad's address on an order yesterday but managed to reach them and correct it today before it shipped, so YAY.


Jesse - Dec 16, 2005 10:11:54 am PST #2673 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I think the mix landscape is irretrievably changed by iTunes.

It still takes some doing and thinking and CRAP that reminds me I have some doing and thinking wrt gift mixes. Argh.


sarameg - Dec 16, 2005 10:12:08 am PST #2674 of 10002

I never knew mixes were so loaded!

I'm getting a little high here. Someone is using a whiteboard nearby and man, is that marker pungent. My eyes are watering.


Allyson - Dec 16, 2005 10:12:43 am PST #2675 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I know it can only result in heartbreak. I want ANYWAY.

But, you know, can't have. 3000 miles. There's no reality there.


aurelia - Dec 16, 2005 10:13:21 am PST #2676 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

But he's sending me a mix, ita. HE'S SENDING ME A MIX.

Oh dear.

I think the mix landscape is irretrievably changed by iTunes.

Things must have been simpler when they had to write poetry.


Emily - Dec 16, 2005 10:13:46 am PST #2677 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Then there are guys who make you mixed tapes who have no interest at all!

Yeah, the mix tape is not an unambiguous signal. I'm making mix CDs for my family for Christmas, and maybe some friends, with no innuendo attached.

Is Hil around? I'm busting with mathiness that I want to share before it all drains out of my head. I'm really bummed that I can't take the second half of this class -- all this information is just going to go to waste.


Emily - Dec 16, 2005 10:15:59 am PST #2678 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

But, you know, can't have. 3000 miles. There's no reality there.

Well, are you finding it ego-soothing and reminding of your essential lovability? That is to say, ability to be loved, not... lovable-ness, which is what puppies have.


Trudy Booth - Dec 16, 2005 10:16:46 am PST #2679 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I've received chaste mix tapes.

And there is the existing mix/created mix factor to consider.


§ ita § - Dec 16, 2005 10:20:14 am PST #2680 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It still takes some doing and thinking

But at minimum, you can set up bulk burning of the same playlist for multiple people, maybe switch out one song with really little effort.

When I was making krav mix CDs, they took about five minutes to assemble, and burned unattended.

It's not that you can't spend a million minutes fine tuning. It's that it's really easy not to.