Yes, albeit is correct. However, did you mean percentage? Or is precentage correct in this usage?

I was reading this article [link] about a woman who gives lectures on class and came across this quote:

She had already explained why rich people don’t eat casseroles, why poor people hang their pictures high up on the wall, why middle-class people pretend to like people they can’t stand.

I am confused by the poor* people with the picture high on the wall-- because I am poor and I always hung my pictures low because I didn't know the rule about hanging things at eye level.

• for values of poor that don't seem to exist now- working class, I guess.

However, did you mean percentage? Or is precentage correct in this usage?

Thanks! I didn't spell-check yet, and now you saved me that, as well! The hivemind is the best.

I think KHepburn's annoying character is part of what makes the movie so darn funny. Plus leopards and Cary Grant in a frilly bathrobe!

God I just want to smack her. And I have to keep explaining to mac that yes, is lying about things and tricking people and no nothing she is doing is very nice.

I think msbelle's put her finger on why I've been unable to watch more than a few minutes of Bringing Up Baby despite it being a classic and all famous and like that.

Wow, that article just punched me in the gut. I have class issues all the time. I'm the first person in my family to graduate college. My parents were the first to own their own home. My grandmother and grandfather on my dad's side were were raised by people who had starved. My mother grew up in poverty.

I'm the only one in my family to sort of transcend the class thing by getting a book published and having casual conversations with nobel laureates and people who have emmys on their mantels.

There's a straddling disconnect, and it is awfully weird. I never shared with them that I was writing a book until I had an agent and it just about sold, because I just couldn't find a way to explain it to them. Even when i did, my mother immediately became suspicious and wondered how much I was paying "this woman" to sell something I wrote, because obviously, I was being taken.

ION, I have to have a meeting with my boss on Monday about the future of my job, which is bleak. I go from very calm, to angry, to sad in five minute cycles.

Tim said there's no way this situation isn't going to be traumatic, but it isn't tragic, and yes, I will panic about money. And yes, I will yell and cry for days about it. But in the end, he says, I can find another job quickly and I won't be homeless or starving. Maybe uncomfortable. But I'll work it out. And then he said my children's book is made of gold, and this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

I'm still scared, my hands are still shaking. And I'm hoping that after this meeting I will still have a job through the holiday season, because it's going to be impossible to find one in mid-October, when this symposium is over.

That's what I have to work out. If I left now, I could find a job much easier than I could if I left after the symposium. But I'm committed to the symposium, it's nine weeks away.

I'm just really scared, you guys.

That's what I have to work out. If I left now, I could find a job much easier than I could if I left after the symposium. But I'm committed to the symposium, it's nine weeks away.

...if they're trying to screw you over, why should you care? Do what's best for you.

Seriously.

Look for a job now. If you get offered something, it might have taken a few weeks and you could maybe set the start date for after the symposium.

But you have worked there for many years, and if they are being assholes to you now for no good reason, there is no good reason for you to handicap yourself in finding a job out of some misplaced loyalty.

IJS.

I think it's completely normal and expected to be scared in this situation, Allyson! If anything, you should be complimented on how well you're holding up, seriously.

I'd start looking now, Allyson. Yes, it would be great for them to have you around through the symposium. But it would be great for you to still be employed. Your needs totally trump theirs right now.