I guess you are why the name of the town seemed vaguely familliar, then, Corwood. I can't imagine...
Prepare to uncouple -- uncouple.
Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
erikaj - Mar 11, 2009 11:12:42 am PDT #10187 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Gudanov - Mar 11, 2009 11:12:56 am PDT #10188 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
One of the odd things at my high school was that the kids in the G&T program and the kids in the Honors and AP classes didn't have a lot of overlap. I don't know how normal that is, but I remember it striking me as odd. I didn't qualify for G&T, not even close as I recall, but I was in all the advanced classes after moving from the remedial to the advanced track, literally overnight, in middle school.
Trudy Booth - Mar 11, 2009 11:13:22 am PDT #10189 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Oh Corwood, that's just horrible. I'm so sorry. It hurts so much when someone attacks your home.
Gudanov - Mar 11, 2009 11:14:25 am PDT #10190 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Gads Corwood, that would freak me out. It's a horrific event anyhow, but I can't imagine it happening right next to home.
Strix - Mar 11, 2009 11:15:24 am PDT #10191 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Corwood, that's awful.
§ ita § - Mar 11, 2009 11:16:56 am PDT #10192 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Corwood, that's a horrible violation. I hope that everyone can get on a path to healing as soon as possible.
Theodosia - Mar 11, 2009 11:17:26 am PDT #10193 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
So sorry, Corwood. That's truly 'too close to home' for comfort.
Kathy A - Mar 11, 2009 11:19:14 am PDT #10194 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That's so scary, Corwood.
I remember the summer that Joliet was dubbed by the National Enquirer as "Murder Town"--we had 17 unsolved murders that summer (in addition to the solved ones), and a lot of them were just unusual killings. Five people were murdered in a craft store one Saturday morning (a friend of my mom's was driving by it about 30 minutes before the murders and debating if she was going to stop, but decided not to, thank God). Later that month, someone was pulled over to the side of I-55 near I-80, and when the state trooper pulled behind to see what was wrong, the person came out with guns blazing and killed the trooper before driving off.
Those were the two that stand out in my mind--I don't know if they ever solved either of those cases.
Gudanov - Mar 11, 2009 11:18:57 am PDT #10195 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Mrs. Howren, you bitch, I still hate you -- accused me of lying about having finished some baby book we were assigned. She wouldn't even ask me me questions about it -- she humiliated me in front of the whole class, told me no one could have read it that fast, I was lying to get attention, and that I should never contradict her.
Bad teachers suck. I don't recall having any really bad teachers, just a sucky middle school counselor, but you don't have to deal with a counselor every day.
JenP - Mar 11, 2009 11:19:48 am PDT #10196 of 30000
I learned to read in school. I remember learning to spell my name. The teacher pointed to her eye for the I in Jennifer. It cracks me up that I was in school but couldn't spell my name??? That wouldn't happen today, would it? Eh, I was a quick study once I got the hang of it. Blew the rest of those little kids away, I did. Except for Melanie. She was my frenemisis academically during kindergarten. Always neck and neck.