I vote for JZ's letter, too. Attached to a copy of the Actual Book which can then be riffled through to prove that you're not just an awesome letter-writer should be a slam-dunk then.
Zoe: Captain will come up with a plan. Kaylee: That's good. Right? Zoe: Possibly you're not recalling some of his previous plans.
'Safe'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
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.
Theodosia - Jun 20, 2007 3:54:27 pm PDT #4056 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Jesse - Jun 20, 2007 3:56:24 pm PDT #4057 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In random news, I bought some of that Greek yogurt that people are always on about, and I wasn't that psyched with the yogurt, but I got the one with the side of honey, and I forgot how awesome honey is! So now I need to go get regular old yogurt and a thing of honey.
Pix - Jun 20, 2007 3:57:31 pm PDT #4058 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Dear Jon,
You give me bees.
Love,
Allyson
Scrappy - Jun 20, 2007 4:03:24 pm PDT #4059 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I think the dork dumptrucks sentence is hard to understand. The rest of the letter is rocking.
Anne W. - Jun 20, 2007 4:07:08 pm PDT #4060 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I did finally hear back from Mom. Glen's going to be in the ICU for a few days, and then they'll be coming back here a few weeks earlier than planned so he can recuperate. Mom's worried about him, as am I. The appendix completely ruptured, so all sorts of nasty stuff wound up in the abdominal cavity and so they're trying to get the infection under control.
Pretty much what I assumed from the (brief) earlier conversation.
erikaj - Jun 20, 2007 4:21:45 pm PDT #4061 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Allyson, I hope you get on. Of course I'll be So Damn Jealous. Oh! What about "Countdown"? KO cannot live by Musto alone(even though I *like* Michael Musto getting his bitchy queen on.) Of course that will push my jealousy up to 11.
sarameg - Jun 20, 2007 4:26:25 pm PDT #4062 of 10001
Oh, Anne, I hope it all gets cleared up!
Spent another hour tutoring. OK, so her teachers have not introduced, or at least she didn't understand: the concept of units, cancelling or really explained the relation of fractions to division. And we're having places issues with decimals. I'm really not the best to teach this, having not had though about it since I grasped it years and years ago so will have to do some internetting.
I think I've got the places thing sorted out for her. I make her draw columns.
Oy.
Allyson, I'm sure you're coming up with a great letter. You writes good.
sarameg - Jun 20, 2007 4:38:38 pm PDT #4063 of 10001
And, um, dur, I just was reminded there are math teachers among us. If there's any good site out there for explaining 5th gradish intro to algebra and those skills, lemme know. I mean, I can't download your brains, but maybe just having examples of explanations that don't involve me going "ok, so if I cut off my finger, what am I doing? Adding, subtracting, dividing, multiplying? What if I chopped it into many pieces?"
As soon as that came out of my mouth, I knew I needed help. And T probably did too...
Hil R. - Jun 20, 2007 4:46:42 pm PDT #4064 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I usually like Dr. Math for that kind of stuff [link] but the mathforum website doesn't seem to be loading for me right now.
Allyson - Jun 20, 2007 4:47:13 pm PDT #4065 of 10001
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'm trying.
I feel terrible plagiarizing JZ, though.