I honestly think this is how it went with them:
J: Huh. Aimee's going to the midnight showing of New Moon tonight. We're supposed to see that together at some point, too.
S
t in his head
: OMG!! My wife is sad and upset that her friends are shunning her! I must put on my cape and run to her rescue but wait! I must make sure the person I am asking to rescue her will not tell her that I planned this whole thing for fear she will get mad at me because she was just making an offhand comment that I have taken too seriously and have now gone too far in and I probably should have just waited a monute because my wife is off playing a video game and looks as though she could care less and fuck.
I applied for 10 jobs today and am not holding my breath about hearing from any of them.
Examples, Shir? (I'm not as widely read in general sociology as I should be. I'd like to explore this idea further, if you have papers or similar that you find apologetic.)
It's the lecturers, not the papers. As in, entire class in which the lecturer tried to apologies behalf of quantitative-method sociology whenever he feels it's not "scientific" enough.
Is Teppy around?? There's been a wee discussion of names in the reality tv thread and it reminded me that I wanted to share a name of a student....
Batman.
Yep. 8th grader named Batman. Seriously, how cool would it be to have this conversation:
Random person: What's your name?
B: I'm Batman.
It might work against bullies: "Don't hurt me! If you do, I'll go get my friend Batman!"
Hee. That makes me think of Abed dressed as Batman on Community.
I'm sad for them, but this made me laugh.
Jeanne-Claude met her husband, Christo Javacheff, in Paris in 1958. At the time, Christo, a Bulgarian refugee, was already wrapping small objects.
Aww, I remember well when they wrapped the islands in Miami in pink. It was much fun.
