Ooh. I could not have survived a teacher that didn't want me to read ahead. I read ahead in every class I ever took. Come on, some of that stuff was interesting!
I was a "set parameters beforehand" kid too, though, most definitely.
Haven't you killed me enough for one day?
Mal ,'War Stories'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Liese S. - Sep 24, 2009 4:00:02 pm PDT #10805 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2009 4:06:32 pm PDT #10806 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Come on, some of that stuff was interesting!
You'd think it would be a vote of confidence!
My next class teacher was absolutely wonderful and brought in books from her home for me to read when she saw me getting bored and was my favourite prep school teacher evah, so that salved my wounds.
sarameg - Sep 24, 2009 4:13:17 pm PDT #10807 of 30001
I will always love LaJune Smith in third grade. She figured out I was bored with the math, so started throwing me harder stuff (fractions? Long division? I don't quite recall) on the side, and eventually just had me doing that exclusively, even though the testing wouldn't let me get bumped up to 4th grade for math. HAD to be extra work for her. She also warned my 4th grade teacher, and she kept me up a level off the books, too.
Neat thing is she's still in district, though part time. She's got to be near 80 now. She seemed old to me back then, but was probably just late 40s. She was very 1950s grandmotherly looking. Mom still runs into her, and she always asks about me, which tickles me to death.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2009 4:15:55 pm PDT #10808 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When I was in fifth grade another kid and I got to be in our own advanced math thingie. But the next year there was no advanced math and we were with the rest of the class. That bugged the hell out of me - why let me go ahead if only to put me back with everyone else?
Jesse - Sep 24, 2009 4:16:51 pm PDT #10809 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Someone offered me free tickets to a taping of SNL tonight...I wonder if they relize it's Thursday.
They do have a Thursday night thing going on, but I thought it was clips -- maybe not?
bon bon - Sep 24, 2009 4:34:13 pm PDT #10810 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
They do have a Thursday night thing going on, but I thought it was clips -- maybe not?
It's a live show, basically weekend update (the same format, just on Thursday). Last week they had a sketch, too.
Jesse - Sep 24, 2009 4:34:37 pm PDT #10811 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There you go, then. Sue, you missed out!
sarameg - Sep 24, 2009 4:35:46 pm PDT #10812 of 30001
My weekend is so incredibly booked, I have no idea how that happened. No sleeping in for me.
Jesse - Sep 24, 2009 4:41:04 pm PDT #10813 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm just excited I don't have to "volunteer" for a work thing on Saturday.
sarameg - Sep 24, 2009 4:45:57 pm PDT #10814 of 30001
All my stuff is voluntary. Just due to scheduling: farmer's market and my long walk& swims and then I have to shop at some point and a bbq at my boss's down in Columbia and laundry and hair dyeing and visit with T and the timing is whacky. AND I really need to bra shop for like, over 3 weeks and just haven't managed to do that. And need to go through my closets to cull and then figure out what I need to get and then shop and then...I need a few more days off.