It's good to see you, Strix, I was wondering how you were doing. Hang in there.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
How would sports have anything to do with being valedictorian?
In our school, it was well known that if you weren't on a sports team, you'd get no better than a B in phy-ed.
(Sports were a big deal--we had numerous state championships to our credit.)
Oh- our phys ed grade wasn't counted in our academic average. It was a letter grade and all the other grades were number grades/
sophia went to a commie hippe school, pass it on.
What is this? I am intrigued and also feel shortchanged by my education.
It was a variant of shop class. I also took mechanical drawing. But this was hydraulics, which was super fun, and meant building stuff that moved with tubes and cylinders and valves and whatnot. But required social interaction and cooperation. I got a C. The horror!
...And then I ended up working for five years at SMC Pneumatics. Hahaha.
Oh- our phys ed grade wasn't counted in our academic average. It was a letter grade and all the other grades were number grades/
Lucky ducks. A lot of us non-jocks thought we should have the same system.
Power is still browned-out. I'm just surfing the intertubes on my MacBook Pro. Meanwhile, my boss went home to get a power meeter to see what's going on. (He's an engineering geek, but otherwise outside of geek culture.)
I do know people who think like that, I've run across a few in online.
Like the guy who said passing Obamacare meant people would stop working because they were getting something for free and it's like feeding birds.
They keep using that word-- I don't think it means what they think it means.
Just got back from taking the kids to see Brave. I bawled like a baby. And Olivia is Merida. I swear, she looked up at me and said, "see what happens when you boss people around."
*facepalm*