So, is it, like, Steph's birthday or something?
::slides over a four-way::
In honor of your birthday, I think I'll have Skyline for lunch.
Oh, look at the pretties!
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[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.
Ailleann - Jun 23, 2006 5:53:39 am PDT #1344 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
erikaj - Jun 23, 2006 5:55:15 am PDT #1345 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Some people have loved ones. So sad for BB.
Fay - Jun 23, 2006 5:58:33 am PDT #1346 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
We didn't do any of that where I grew up -- graduation was after high school, with attendant pomp and circumstance. The kindergarten and fifth grade and eighth grade graduations kind of diminish the big one, in my opinion.
nods
Among my people, Graduation means you finished University. I don't know, maybe some people talk about finishing High School as 'Graduation', but I've never heard it called that. And as for Junior School and Infant School and Nursery...well, no. None of the wee mortar boards and scrolls business.
I'm in two minds about it. A big part of me thinks 'what a load of silly American nonsense! Bah humbug!' but another bit of me thinks 'Well, I guess it's nice for the kids to have something to celebrate...?'
erikaj - Jun 23, 2006 6:00:52 am PDT #1347 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
At the time, dressing up to graduate eighth grade seemed right. Now, maybe it was Too Much. But I wore the dress for years.
Amy - Jun 23, 2006 6:06:48 am PDT #1348 of 10001
Because books.
'Well, I guess it's nice for the kids to have something to celebrate...?'
Some of the kids (and parents) were very excited. But if they grew up in this town, it's something they've anticipated all year.
At the time, dressing up to graduate eighth grade seemed right.
It was *casual dress* and most of the boys took that very literally. Except for the one stone-faced boy whose mother obviously made him wear a suit and tie. I hurt for him. And the girls! Most were dressed nicely, but some of them... Is it wrong to look at a fourteen-year-old's dress and think, "That would work really nicely on Avenue C at 2 a.m.?"
Trudy Booth - Jun 23, 2006 6:09:34 am PDT #1349 of 10001
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 always thought 8th Grade Graduation was over the top, but then they told me that in my home town two generations ago a lot of kids went into the mines instead of High School. I was suitably chastened.
brenda m - Jun 23, 2006 6:12:19 am PDT #1350 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I remember being a little agog at the level of fuss for my sister's middle school graduation, with whole families and practically formal wear and all.
Thing is though, in urban publics anyway, for more of those kids than I like to contemplate, that is the one and only graduation. Not a thing of the past by any means.
sj - Jun 23, 2006 6:13:31 am PDT #1351 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We had caps and gowns for our 8th grade graduation. It is a little over the top. I didn't have a kindergarten graduation, but I did have one in nursery school, which mostly consisted of a little talent show.
Amy - Jun 23, 2006 6:17:22 am PDT #1352 of 10001
Because books.
Thing is though, in urban publics anyway, for more of those kids than I like to contemplate, that is the one and only graduation. Not a thing of the past by any means.
Even here, I'm not sure how many of these kids are going to make it through high school. Which is just unbelievably sad to me.
Sparky1 - Jun 23, 2006 6:35:24 am PDT #1353 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Happy Birthday, Teppy! Forget the phone calls, we should have sent you a stripper.
Yesterday I left my 90+ degree workplace at 4 and walked downtown with my DH to see Thank You for Smoking. It was very amusing. By the time we got out, Berkeley had cooled considerably, and the vegan sushi place had a table next to an open window so we ate there. Then the DH went home an made himself a "real" dinner. Veggies and tofu only ever amount to a snack for him.