Our school generally chose the valedictorian strictly on GPA. There were 4 of us with 4.0s my year, so they held a competition and let each us submit a speech. I didn't submit one, but my best friend did, and she won. The graduation theme was "Dawning of a New Day" so in her speech she compared high school to one long, tedious night. hee hee.

I just got an email from a client with the following signature line:

God delights in taking the arena of our greatest fear and putting us in a position to face it. This is how He trains our hands for war and our fingers for battle.

That's one client you don't wanna tell you're not gonna make the deadline.

The obsessing continues.... I think it is telling that I'm measuring every other place against this one and they're not quite setting me on fire. I think I'd be really disappointed if I don't end up with all that for whatever reason.

(I'm afraid to say that out loud.)

It's the space, the floors, the charm, the street, the possibilities. There are things about it that will probably make me swear, and some I know already. But.

I really hope it isn't just because it was the first one we saw...wait! It wasn't! The first couple we walked in and I went nope! ...but they were fixer-uppers who made no such claim in the listing. So.

That's one client you don't wanna tell you're not gonna make the deadline.

Heh. Her note was basicly, "Our IT people think they found the problem, and it has nothing to do with your software."

So, yay!

The graduation theme was "Dawning of a New Day" so in her speech she compared high school to one long, tedious night. hee hee.

Oh my this sounds familiar. My son is doing the battle of how HS is all irrelevant busy work. So he doesn't do it, and does not have a 4.0 as a result. It sincerely would be so much less effort for him to just do the damn work.

Tommyrot! Happy Birthday to you!

Happy birthday, tommyrot!

Corwood, how awful. I'm sorry.

Gud, someone (Plei?) pointed out elsewhere that "gifted" often means "doesn't learn quite like others" and the skills required to be successful in honors/AP are very normative - no quirky learners. The definition of "gifted" seems to vary a lot, but it doesn't necessarily coincide with smart or intelligent. Edit: badly phrased - you can be hella smart but not gifted, and you can be gifted, but not succeed in AP Chemistry, is what I am trying to say.

Yeah, that was me. Given how spotty my work was in a gifted class, I am scared to think what it might have been in a normal one.

This was my kitchen this morning: [link]

Our school generally chose the valedictorian strictly on GPA.

What else would you choose it on?

We didn't have a valedictorian in HS. We also didn't have GPAs; we used number grades that varied widely from subject to subject. I remember that it was next to impossible to get above 90 in English, or many other subjective subjects.

Thanks again for all the b-day wishes. Now I get to go home....