When I left the workmen at my place this morning, they were getting ready to do something with tar. Anybody know what? They are working on a bathroom.
Simon: Captain's a good fighter, he must know how to handle a sword. Zoe: I think he knows which end to hold.
'Shindig'
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.
Glamcookie - Nov 21, 2007 8:23:28 am PST #3526 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
Scrappy - Nov 21, 2007 8:25:28 am PST #3527 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Probably putting in the shower pan--the floor of the shower that is tiled over needs to have a specific slope as well as being waterproof. They usually cut it from sheet metal and stick the seams together.
Kristen - Nov 21, 2007 8:29:55 am PST #3528 of 10001
Well, okay, I just tended to slack HARD instead of doing my work. And yet I tested highest of all the gifted kids in my gifted class.
This was me. (Except the part about gifted class. We didn't have that.) I tested through the roof but I was a super slacker. I used to joke that my epitaph would read, "Kristen is very bright but does not apply herself."
Yes, I was morbid even as a small child.
P.M. Marc - Nov 21, 2007 8:37:29 am PST #3529 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
"Did you get labeled as gifted in kinder just because you drew an interesting picture?" There are plenty who do well on IQ type tests but still can't read and comprehend a paragraph of text. I dunno how, but it's true.
Wild. Labelled and coddled, maybe? Or possibly another intersection of gifted and learning disabled?
Glamcookie - Nov 21, 2007 8:42:34 am PST #3530 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
Thanks, Robin. GF said the same thing. Whee for shower tile!!!
Kristen - Nov 21, 2007 8:46:59 am PST #3531 of 10001
I'm trying to remember if I ever had to take an IQ test. I remember all sorts of standardized tests but I don't remember an actual IQ test.
Gudanov - Nov 21, 2007 8:56:02 am PST #3532 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
The news seems to be saying that in Iowa Obama is gaining on Hillary and Huckabee is threatening to overtake Romney and maybe move to being a first tier candidate. I need to find out more about Obama. I found out a bit more about Huckabee and a lot of his ideas make me wonder "How would that actually work?" and I worry about blurring of church and state.
Allyson - Nov 21, 2007 8:56:23 am PST #3533 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
"Kristen is very bright but does not apply herself."
ahhh ha ha
I'm totally tagging that shit.
Also, please please please let us out early so I can get home, do a load of laundry, make mashed taters and my sooper seekrit fabulous place settings, and get to Kat's to schnuggle Noah.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 21, 2007 9:18:55 am PST #3534 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
WHAT will it take for my Big! Boss to understand that I can't just tweak a few things on a website page and have it be a poster/flyer. Especially since I didn't a) design the website and b) don't have any access to updating the web-site or any of the files.
This is the second time in 2 days where I have been handed a sheaf of pages that literally pieces of our website cut and pasted to form a flyer. That she wants in about 10 minutes. (And we are the only people here, so I can't even get the web master to help me!)
Atropa - Nov 21, 2007 9:19:02 am PST #3535 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I own my apparent waste of potential, and suspect it's made me a happier person.
This is one of the many reasons why we get along so well, Plei.
"Kristen is very bright but does not apply herself."
Oh, the ever-familiar "But does not apply herself" comment. Yeah, I saw that pretty often. But you know what? I had no burning drive or ambition to Do Something or Make Something Of Myself (other than, y'know, becoming the Wicked Witch of the West), so I saw no point to exerting myself to get straight As when I could get Bs with not a lot of effort. (Well, and Cs with a lot of struggling in math classes, but we won't speak of that.)