Mal ,'The Message'
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OH, I forgot about that creepy Vows! I was like "He met her when she wasn't quite yet 18?!? And now that she's 21 they're getting married, and he's in his 30s? CREEPYDUDE!"
How can there be 3000 kids in the 99th percentile and only 200 slots? Maybe they need to change their percentiles...
Just accept the gratitude and chocolate as your due.
Now I want it from everyone. Now.
Legal question: We got a contract that said something about "24 hours." We changed it to "24 business hours." That means three days instead of one, right?
I feel like my MBA should have prepared me for this issue. Maybe it did and I forgot.
Eta: ita's chocolate expectations, not Jesse's ambiguous time
How can there be 3000 kids in the 99th percentile and only 200 slots? Maybe they need to change their percentiles...
What we need is higher property taxes so the city can afford to open more schools. I guess they could make the tests harder so fewer kids qualify, but that doesn't really solve the root problem, which is overcrowding.
It's not really my problem, but I realized that my coworker and I were assuming it meant different things.
In grad school, I met a grad student in a different department who seemed like a really charming man. When we had dinner out, he revealed to me that he thought his soulmate was his best friend's sister who was 7 years when they met (I think he met her when he was 15 or 18 so there was a 10-12 year age difference. He said he was planning to wait for her, let her grow up and experience the world, but he always thought they would end up married.
I was so creeped out by that that I never wanted to speak to him again.
Eta: ita's chocolate expectations, not Jesse's ambiguous time
Hee! I thought you meant mine!
he thought his soulmate was his best friend's sister who was 7 years when they met (I think he met her when he was 15 or 18 so there was a 10-12 year age difference. He said he was planning to wait for her, let her grow up and experience the world, but he always thought they would end up married.
Isn't that part of the plot of the last sparkly vampire book? Like, the werewolf falls in love with the newborn vampire? (That last question is one of the weirdest ones I've ever asked.)
he thought his soulmate was his best friend's sister who was 7 years when they met
Yuck.
I just hate the whole idea of soulmates. I mean, the version where there's one person in the whole world for you. I think that idea can really fuck someone up.