Heh. No, I was out of the office, and the cupcakes were in the office.
Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?
Willow ,'Lessons'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
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.
Jesse - Nov 14, 2007 6:03:52 am PST #2192 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Glamcookie - Nov 14, 2007 6:04:25 am PST #2193 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Happy b-day, ChiKat!
amych - Nov 14, 2007 6:06:21 am PST #2194 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Heh. No, I was out of the office, and the cupcakes were in the office.
I have this all the time. My department is in the next building or a bus ride away, depending on which location I'm in today. They're very good about sending out an email that says, hey, everyone, there are cupcakes, but are there ever any left...?
Nutty - Nov 14, 2007 6:08:14 am PST #2195 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
The real question is, what makes these parents think that a lawsuit against the school is the best way to educate their children? "Junior, nobody can stop you from acting out Scarface if you really want to! Go ahead and call your little sister a bitch, too!"
Thanks a lot, mom and dad.
And I admit, there's a part of me that thinks, "You're under 18. You have no free speech yet."
Right. There are a jillion court cases to the effect that while the under-18 do have some rights, most of those rights are adulterated by a school's interest in being safe and orderly.
(There's also the "you're a dumbass" angle, by which I mean I could only laugh at you harder if you joked about being a terrorist in an airport security line.)
Sue - Nov 14, 2007 6:10:45 am PST #2196 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Happy birthday ChiKat!
Aims - Nov 14, 2007 6:11:30 am PST #2197 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The real question is, what makes these parents think that a lawsuit against the school is the best way to educate their children?
And that's huge part of it for me, too. I don't know what went on in the homes of these kids. Maybe they got the Red Foreman Foot Up The Ass, but even so, the school district is NOT TO BLAME for your child being an idiot. These parents are asking for monetary compensation for having raised idiot children.
shrift - Nov 14, 2007 6:13:31 am PST #2198 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I am really not into being at work today.
Dude, seriously. Mentally I am totally in bed watching MythBusters. I wish reality matched my brain.
I am going to need lunch in about an hour. Mm. Lunch. Foooood.
Dana - Nov 14, 2007 6:16:14 am PST #2199 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm trying to decide what to do for lunch. I'm sort of craving a salad, but with a hot component. Alarmingly, there's a salad at Applebee's (right down the road) that looks kind of good, but I'm dubious about paying $10 for it.
Kat - Nov 14, 2007 6:17:06 am PST #2200 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
tell me not to go next door and appropriate some cookies. They'll just make me feel sick. I have no idea why I want them.
To make up for my lack of cupcakes?
Sara, i'm so excited that it's now only 4 days!
apparently I missed two different sets of cupcakes yesterday! WTF.
TRAGEDY!
Gudanov - Nov 14, 2007 6:17:34 am PST #2201 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
On the surface my reaction too is one of thinking the parents are a bunch of dumbasses suing the school because their kids got suspended for being dumbasses. But it often seems like when I read a story where it seems certain there is major dumbassery on one side, if I later read a more detailed account, then asses weren't quite as dumb as I first thought. Of course sometimes the details reveal the dumbassery is actually epic dumbassery. I just don't like to jump to conclusions.