That pig is awesome!
Jayne: That's a good idea. Good idea. Tell us where the stuff's at so I can shoot you. Mal: Point of interest? Offering to shoot us might not work so well as an incentive as you might imagine.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
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 - Jun 16, 2008 10:26:14 am PDT #3407 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Jun 16, 2008 10:30:28 am PDT #3408 of 10003
I didn't have a graduation until I was 17.
§ ita § - Jun 16, 2008 10:33:38 am PDT #3409 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Prep school transition in Jamaica was pretty huge, but this was the deal for which they'd printed every student's results nationwide in all the papers. The ceremony itself was...well, I don't know. I didn't get to graduate, since they were trying to hold me back and my mother pulled me out of school instead.
Jessica - Jun 16, 2008 10:35:11 am PDT #3410 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I had a graduation ceremony from elementary school, but not (I think) middle.
msbelle - Jun 16, 2008 10:37:52 am PDT #3411 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
As 8th graders we had a full mini-ceremony like the 12th graders. They do a big 5th grade one at mac's school which I think is idiotic. Yeah, you are changing schools, you do not need a ceremony for that.
Ugh, which reminds me, I need to get teacher gifts. I did not like the teacher this year, grrr. 2 more weeks thoug, only 2 more weeks. mac is getting 2 more Justice League action figures, one of the Encyclopedia Prehistorica books and maybe a shirt.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 16, 2008 10:38:34 am PDT #3412 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
We had kindergarten, 4th grade, eighth grade, and high school graduation, but we changed buildings every time, so it sort of made sense. My eigth grade graduation was memorable because a student in my school died that day after having skipped school, stolen my neighbors moped, and gotten run over by an 18 wheeler.
Jesse - Jun 16, 2008 10:38:54 am PDT #3413 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I didn't have middle school (or junior high), so it was just whatever that was in 8th grade, and then Actual Graduation from HS. Oh, and I think paper caps and gowns in K.
Jesse - Jun 16, 2008 10:41:01 am PDT #3414 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My eigth grade graduation was memorable because a student in my school died that day after having skipped school, stolen my neighbors moped, and gotten run over by an 18 wheeler.
Yikes!
Burrell - Jun 16, 2008 10:45:06 am PDT #3415 of 10003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I haven't read Obama's fathers day speech yet, I know I should. But I'm struck by what I've read about it esp in light of his earlier speech on race in America.
Ooh, speaking of politics, I was listening to NPR this morning, not sure what show, maybe Which Way LA? Anyway Scott McClellan was on it. Listening to him is like whoa. He carefully parses the word "lie" in such a way that he can differentiate lying from being "untruthful" and "deceptive." Fascinating. Also fascinating was hearing him hint at his support for Obama. It all felt very Alice Through the Looking Glass to me.
Kathy A - Jun 16, 2008 10:48:11 am PDT #3416 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Full-fledged graduation ceremony in 8th grade which made sense to me since, at our school, the class split off so a significant minority (including me) ended up at one of the Catholic high schools, and the rest went to Joliet West (public school). As a result, it really felt like a new phase of my life was beginning.
Then the standard high school and college graduations, but no kindergarten one (or any other grades).