I've been trying to find a friend of mine named Mary Johnson. Not making much progress.

Emily, I used to ship stuff on Greyhound for real cheap, but that was years ago. And you have to pick the stuff up at the station.

The thing I was gonna make for dinner is supposed to marinate for 2-3 days. I haven't bought the ingredients, yet. Back to the meal planner...

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Interesting. I looked up my HS - currently it has:

Total 1,474
Gender Male 36%
Female 64%
Ethnicity Asian 6%
Native American 1%
African American 60%
Hispanic 5%
White 25%

Special Education 11%
English Language Learners 1%
Free/Reduced Lunch 37%

I don't remember there being such a gender disparity when I was there, but otherwise that seems about the same.

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It is 99 degrees outside. I do NOT care how expensive it is, I have the air conditioner on, and on it will stay until the wackiness stops.

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So I read that Dianne Farr marries link, and it seems the young lady has written a book. It's called The Girl Code : The Secret Language of Single Women (On Dating, Sex, Shopping, and Honor Among Girlfriends). I decided to take a look inside on Amazon, with my normal nose in the air attitude towards Girl Power! books, but have stopped dead on this:

THE BOY: If you change suitors so fast that they rarely achieve name status, a man must be around for at least six weeks before you make your friends bother to learn his first name. Until such time, he should be referred to by this generic title.

For Women Who
Need to explain to numerous people what's going on in their love life,
Are between theages of sixteen and twenty-one or over twenty-seven,
Have overbearing mothers and aunts in their life,
Have called off more than one engagement.

Close enough, I have to admit.

I wonder...are they going to remember to call me to come in and spar, or should I get naplike or do any of my chores?

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My High School:

Total Students 736 students

% Male / % Female 52% / 48%

% Asian 4%
% Black 69%
% White 26%
% Unknown 1 %

% Eligible for Free Lunch 43%
% Eligible for Reduced Lunch 4%

That's almost twice as many total students as I remember. Otherwise, not much difference. Might have gotten whiter.

I took a look at the Alumni Info page while I was there. Not one drop of information. I guess I'm not missing a reunion.

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I think I heard that Diana Farr used to be a radio call-in sex therapist. For whatever that's worth.

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Diane Farr was on Loveline with Dr. Drew and (at some point) Adam Corolla. I guess it started out as a radio show but then it was on MTV for awhile with a live audience, they'd either take calls or take questions from the auidence.

Plus they'd have guests on. Alyson Hannigan and Seth Green were on once and Henry Rollins was on another time.

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OMG! THAT is where I know Diane Farr from!!! When I first started watching her on Roswell I thought her voice sounded familiar!

Also, I cannot find the demographics for my high school, neither on their website or by googling demographics. I can tell you how many people were eligible for free lunch...

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Every time I've ever seen a clip from that program, it's made her look CRAZY. This is just the poorly sung icing on the cake.

I've never seen one, before. I just remember her appearances on Letterman, and her reporting/anchoring. It made me sad.

There is a back story on this. Connie's husband was cheating with one of the interns on this crappy show that failed. So I guess that song was her "fuck off and die world" moment.

Are you sure? I see their show was canned, and reports that this was a giant self-parody on Chung's part, but I'm so out of the loop. Are they getting divorced?

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I can tell you how many people were eligible for free lunch...

1?

I was looking at our elementary school's NCLB report card. They can't give any of the statistics for the MCAS (Massachusetts' standardized testing) for minorities, because we so non-diverse, it would amount to revealing the scores of individual students, or narrowing them down to just a handful of choice.

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