Hooray askye and Owen!

I'm getting ready to head out to my juvenile hall girls. I have lots of new books/requests from the book drive and am trying to figure out how to dole them out. I don't want to bring them all in one shot as that might get them thinking it'll always be that way. Still, it's tough not to bring them all in and have a big old book part-ay! Some of the requests I have are the Nicole Richie book, a Tookie Williams, Coretta Scott King bio, Bob Marley bio, and a couple of graphic novels (Spiderman Loves Mary Jane, Astonishing X-Men, and Young Avengers). Love these girls!

What's she arguing you about, Susan? I'm curious, and also, that way we could laugh at her here so you don't have to stress about it over there.

Cash glad things went well for Owen, hope htey continue!

thanks to Mark, I have a iPod charger, which means I can cruise net again. Yaaaay.

Still in hospital. Now labeled as "partially blocked". There is talk of discharge, but since belly sounds like a bass drum, there is a call into the doc if I should go home.

{{omnis}}

No, no, those are kids' names. Also Mami, Canberra, Chin, Arm, Everest

You have a Canberra in your class? That's awesome!

re: Raq's proposal.

A company that actually provides better customer service? Well, as MM says you have to spend more money to do customer service right. And I can't visualizing

Fuckhead Customer 1: You know, it really is time to sign up for the exciting new service we've been reading about for a year. Should we go with Company A or B?

Fuckhead customer number 2: Well company A really screwed us last year on basic phone service, and I hear that company B has the best customer service ever.

Fuckhead Customer 1: But company A is 50 cents a month cheaper.

Fuckhead Customer 2: Company A it is then...

What's she arguing you about, Susan?

Well...it's obscure. We're debating the social composition of the officer class in Wellington's Peninsular War army and how promotion worked. She's saying mostly aristocratic and commissions and advancement were almost always by purchasing commissions and successive steps in rank. I'm saying that was true for socially prestigious regiments like the guards and most cavalry units, but in line infantry and artillery, the officers were more likely to be minor gentry or from the more educated/prestigious end of the growing middle class, and that over half of commissions weren't purchased but were instead awarded by recommendation, with promotion coming largely through seniority.

I'm aware that this is splitting hairs, but I'm confident in my research, you know? And it wasn't so much the importance of the detail as being dismissed and condescended to over it.

I'm aware that this is splitting hairs, but I'm confident in my research, you know? And it wasn't so much the importance of the detail as being dismissed and condescended to over it.

That sure as hell would do it for me.