There are entrance exams for kindergarten?
And remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Mar 16, 2011 4:17:49 am PDT #28642 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Hil R. - Mar 16, 2011 4:20:25 am PDT #28643 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
There are entrance exams for kindergarten?
The ERBs. They test if the kid knows letters, numbers, shapes, colors, stuff like that. And also, since we're talking about four-year-olds here, they also test how willing the kid is to sit in a room with a stranger and show off what he or she knows. Most of the private schools in NYC require them as part of an application. Lots of parents enroll their kids in prep courses or even get private tutors. (My mother still brags about how my older sister got a great score on them even though she hadn't had any of the prep stuff. I never took them, since we moved to the suburbs, where I would go to public school, the year before I started kindergarten.)
Hil R. - Mar 16, 2011 4:24:46 am PDT #28644 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My sister also, during the tour of a school at her entrance interview, walked into the library and exclaimed, "Oh, look, a library! I love books!" My mother also still brags about this.
sumi - Mar 16, 2011 4:36:17 am PDT #28645 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I heard from my uncle - and he was at work so that seems very normal.
It turns out I had the wrong email address for him.
Jesse - Mar 16, 2011 4:39:59 am PDT #28646 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Glad to hear that, sumi.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 16, 2011 4:41:10 am PDT #28647 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Thank goodness sumi.
I have skimmed, but I want to offer up good thoughts to Kat's Grace's surgery, and to anyone with relatives and friends in Japan and to anyone else who needs it!
sumi - Mar 16, 2011 4:46:34 am PDT #28648 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
He says that my cousin Sawako is still in Sapporo and will remain there until her students come back to the university. (She teaches at Iwate University at Morioka - so who knows when that will be.)
beth b - Mar 16, 2011 5:28:29 am PDT #28649 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
hoping today is a better day for Kat
and everyone really.
It is rainy ad good for staying in bed. however, I should go to work
Jessica - Mar 16, 2011 5:46:18 am PDT #28650 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
've been watching Junior Masterchef Australia. It is inCREDible. 8-12 year olds who are basically 5 star chefs. Creative, poised, skilled and cordial.
Somehow, I can't imagine that show making it in America.
You know, I'm pretty sure the majority of Australian 8-12 year olds are not budding 5-star chefs.
§ ita § - Mar 16, 2011 5:47:09 am PDT #28651 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I called in sick today because I was up most of the night with a peculiar implacable stomachache. It feels like the sphinctre at the top of my stomach is hurting. It just hurts and hurts and nothing I can do eases it. No pills, no burping, nothing.
I said "stomach flu" on the message because I wanted to be clear it wasn't my headache.
And then I went to lie back down. But that didn't last. I had a sudden and overwhelming urge to puke. I don't puke. Puking isn't my thing. Boy, did I ever puke. I'm not sure if it helped the pain any, but I sure do feel dizzy and spent. Did I mention I never puke? Because I totally don't. Why is my stomach at war with me?
Also, why did Skype change their interface? Don't want change.