This is a time of celebration, so sit still and be quiet.

Snyder ,'Chosen'


Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.  

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.


Topic!Cindy - Jun 25, 2006 2:27:25 pm PDT #3954 of 10002
What is even happening?

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?


Topic!Cindy - Jun 25, 2006 2:29:45 pm PDT #3955 of 10002
What is even happening?

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.


Jesse - Jun 25, 2006 2:32:39 pm PDT #3956 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Sophia, mine (the NCLB report) was linked from the school system's web site, not the school's. FYI.

Total Count 1,734

African American 40.9%
Asian 8.9%
Hispanic 14.6%
Native American 0.4%
White 33.9%
Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander 0.0%
Multi-Ethnic 1.3%

Gender (%)
Male 52.3%
Female 47.7

I'm pretty sure that's less white than when I went there, but not by much.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 25, 2006 2:33:50 pm PDT #3957 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

1?

That's about right! Which is actually a big change from my school years, as there were many poor farming families then, but my school is now an "ex-urb" of Rochester.


Steph L. - Jun 25, 2006 2:36:52 pm PDT #3958 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

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.

Man, that author owes me royalties....


askye - Jun 25, 2006 2:41:05 pm PDT #3959 of 10002
Thrive to spite them

My high school is actually a K-12 school that's part of the University's college of education, it's a public school, but you apply and they look for a specific demographic breakdown.

Which is (for the entire school) Gender
50.4% Female
49.6% Male

Ethnicity
58.53% White
24.32% African-American
9.75% Hispanic
2.12% Asian
.75% Native American Indian
4.50% Multicultural

Free and Reduced Lunch
Elementary 24.1%
Middle 20.9%
High 10.9%

oh! They have an Anime Club.


Topic!Cindy - Jun 25, 2006 2:46:28 pm PDT #3960 of 10002
What is even happening?

Here's our town's high school enrollment by Race/Ethnicity

American Indian/Alaskan Native: 1
Asian/Pacific Islander: 9
Hispanic:18
Black, non-Hispanic: 16
White, non-Hispanic: 951
Total students: 995

Our elementary school:

Hispanic: 2
Black, non-Hispanic: 2
White, non-Hispanic: 171

I think that last data set (which came from another page) might be from two of years ago, because I know that at least for one grade, the total number of students is quite wrong.

Our locale is characterized as "Urban Fringe of Large City"


billytea - Jun 25, 2006 2:49:34 pm PDT #3961 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Man, that author owes me royalties....

Does the book also define 'Bumfriend'?


§ ita § - Jun 25, 2006 2:49:41 pm PDT #3962 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

that author owes me royalties....

You were the first person I thought of when I read it.

Okay, I'm sitting at home waiting for a guy to call me...so I can go spar some tired people. Is this something wrong with my life, or something right?

Hmm. Either way, I hate the waiting. I'm killing time by watching Hex. Small blonde high school girl fated to save the world, and a lesbian best friend with otherworldly powers. I don't think the show's much like Buffy, but it'd take a Herculean effort to not compare the two in a short review.


Jesse - Jun 25, 2006 2:55:29 pm PDT #3963 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I just have to share my OMG awesome dinner tonight, only partly for Burrell's benefit: Blueberry clafouti and chicken salad with avocado, both of which I made myself! OK, each thing only took five minutes to throw together (leftover chicken), but YUM.

The clafouti is really mostly egg. That makes it appropriate breakfast food, right?