My school didn't have science fairs. They believed that academic competition encouraged elitism. (They did not have the same opinion of athletic competition.)
I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Mar 03, 2010 4:11:59 pm PST #12987 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
brenda m - Mar 03, 2010 4:12:35 pm PST #12988 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Thank god we don't have that communist Canadian style healthcare.
Jesse - Mar 03, 2010 4:12:56 pm PST #12989 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm pretty sure I only had those two science fairs, in seventh and eighth grades.
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2010 4:14:13 pm PST #12990 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I used to have a massage a month. It was marvellous. I think the last one was very useful, but I want to wait and see if I have another procedure on my neck before I schedule my next one.
Never done a science fair project. Not part of the Jamaican/UK educational system.
Steph L. - Mar 03, 2010 4:18:21 pm PST #12991 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Zenkitty works for IEEE! That's cool!
I know! I feel like I get extra geek points just for knowing her!
IEEE, as in Spectrum magazine? Cool!!!
Steph L. - Mar 03, 2010 4:20:39 pm PST #12992 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Also, yesterday's Groupon was 6 yoga classes for $30, and you can pick any class from 4 locations. I jumped on it in lieu of a 7-week Feldenkreis class for $105 (not a Groupon; just a bodywork class option I was considering, but since the yoga is so much cheaper, I went with that for now).
Today's Groupon is for amazing Belgian waffles. I should get it, too, but I'm trying to not be so spendy.
brenda m - Mar 03, 2010 4:21:13 pm PST #12993 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh nice. I do have a massage Groupon I haven't used.
Zenkitty - Mar 03, 2010 4:27:30 pm PST #12994 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I have a much better sense of how to help her
Brenda, that's rough. Good luck. I think it's awfully nice that you're concerned with helping her, and not just tossing her back in the pool to learn to swim on her own. (A personal issue may have crept into my metaphor there.)
My school didn't have science fair projects. I do recall once participating in some regional or statewide science fair. I designed a self-sustaining geosynchronous space station. I got an award from the Air Force for it. I wasn't allowed to collecxt my award because no one else had won anything and the teacher wanted to go home. I'm still pissed about that.
Zenkitty works for IEEE! That's cool!
I know! I feel like I get extra geek points just for knowing her!
IEEE, as in Spectrum magazine? Cool!!!
Hee! Yes. It is kinda cool; I like working there. I don't work on the magazines, though; I work with the technical journals.
Lots of Buffistas can provide contact geek points; we are a geeky people.
Jesse, go for a massage as often as you can! I'd get one every day if I could.
The anti-flammable ones just melted, which seemed less than optimal to me!
How the hell is that an improvement?! Never mind, rhetorical.
Scrappy - Mar 03, 2010 4:29:39 pm PST #12995 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Kat--that's where I go to Pilates. It's a very nice, welcoming place.
Steph L. - Mar 03, 2010 4:31:14 pm PST #12996 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I don't work on the magazines, though; I work with the technical journals.
Spectrum is my only point of reference; The Boy and his father are both electrical engineer-type people, and at some family holiday at his parents' house I needed something to read in the bathroom, and Spectrum was handy. It's a nifty-ass publication!