I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.

Simon ,'Safe'


Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Sparky1 - May 04, 2009 4:09:30 am PDT #8684 of 30000
Librarian Warlord

Very neat, Shir!

Maybe your professor would grade/comment/tear apart some of the logic that vw's brother is using.

In other news, it's my DH's birthday today and he was hoping for a baby. I don't think he's going to get one, and I have reminded him of the fact that I speak from experience that sharing your birthday with someone else in the family isn't all that much fun.

ETA: Backflung, Bev! You da bestest!


vw bug - May 04, 2009 4:21:04 am PDT #8685 of 30000
Mostly lurking...

Maybe your professor would grade/comment/tear apart some of the logic that vw's brother is using.

No doubt! I just...I try to understand where he's coming from, then he says stuff like that!


Sparky1 - May 04, 2009 4:30:52 am PDT #8686 of 30000
Librarian Warlord

vw, I don't really know what your brother is like, but for some people the first year at law school is humbling. Everyone in law school was at the top of their class and has been told they're smart all their lives. But the math dictates that 90% of them will no longer be the top 10%. I actually find it really interesting to see how the dynamics of a class changes after the first set of grades come out. I hope he finds some people there who challenge and engage him intellectually, and don't just exchange a lot of hot air (because there are always those people, too, who think the professors know nothing and don't appreciate their smarts).


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 04, 2009 4:35:07 am PDT #8687 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

I got 100.

Congrats! That's fantastic.

Must... find... more... essay... motivation...


vw bug - May 04, 2009 4:36:15 am PDT #8688 of 30000
Mostly lurking...

Yeah, I imagine it will be.

I took out what I really wanted to reply to him in that e-mail. He applied to George Washington, Northwestern, Harvard, and one other place other than the state college where he is going. The only place he even heard back from was George Washington.

So, he's going to the state college...has accepted a scholarship and financial aid. The guy talks a nice talk but does not walk the walk...


Barb - May 04, 2009 4:42:13 am PDT #8689 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

(because there are always those people, too, who think the professors know nothing and don't appreciate their smarts).

Heh-- replace "professors" with agents and/or editors and you have much of publishing in a nutshell.


Sparky1 - May 04, 2009 4:48:06 am PDT #8690 of 30000
Librarian Warlord

I imagine the agents & editors pretty much handle them the same why I do when they end up in my office, "No, I won't change your grade/my decision." Elaborating any more than that isn't generally worth my time, unfortunately.


Cashmere - May 04, 2009 4:50:31 am PDT #8691 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.

So, he's going to the state college...has accepted a scholarship and financial aid. The guy talks a nice talk but does not walk the walk...

I wonder who he's going to thank for making all that more available in this economy?


Sparky1 - May 04, 2009 4:56:32 am PDT #8692 of 30000
Librarian Warlord

I wonder who he's going to thank for making all that more available in this economy?

He's going to thank himself, because he's a good citizen who has paid his taxes and is therefore deserving of the subsidy. It's the subsidies that go to all the people who somehow don't deserve them that are the problem. (vw, give me the smackdown any time here for seeming to put thoughts in your brother's head)


vw bug - May 04, 2009 5:00:11 am PDT #8693 of 30000
Mostly lurking...

No, you're fine, Sparky. That is how he would probably answer.

Oh, Sparky! I need your snail-mail addy. I have a leetle something to send!