Go Taylor! That's great news, sarameg.
Though I do get to see Cass soon
You coming down south soon? I have a vague memory.
Yes, there is. There's a hurry, Xander. I'm dying...I may have as few as fifty years left.
Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Burrell - May 31, 2013 7:28:54 pm PDT #24442 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
sarameg - May 31, 2013 7:37:42 pm PDT #24443 of 30001
I need to go to bed, like an hour ago, but I have to admit I'm kinda wrecked right now and can't wind down. Partly late night and not eating dinner until 10, partly dealing with graduated seniors' exhuberence (fuck you spellcheck, I can't tonight,) part the LAST MONTH.
Oh well, I'm solo for market in the am, so it will be short and sweet, I can get my errand and cleaning done (extra special for the appraiser, wash off the porch floor) and OH BY THE WAY, Sunday is a going away party so I have to swim early and drive for an hour.
Cass - May 31, 2013 7:40:57 pm PDT #24444 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Yay, Taylor! I've never met her but I'm so very proud of her.
Yes, I get a Lee soon. We're about as organized as "hey, a plane is dropping you off, we'll start from there." So far.
§ ita § - May 31, 2013 7:50:34 pm PDT #24445 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
OMG, that is amazing about Taylor. I'm so happy for her. You are clearly beside yourself, as you should be, because you've got it all going on for her between cheerleader and mentor and shoulder.
One of the guys at work wants me to talk to his tween daughter. She's got the chance to do a great-sounding long course in web-related development (it's long enough that the syllabus will probably change with the times). He figures a black woman in IT is what she needs to see right now, and it doesn't hurt that I have a cheap haircut.
Um, flattering? But meeting people's kids, even for good involves that whole line-y thing and some crossing and stuff.
Just finished my first week's homework for the coursera art class. There are two tracks--normal which means you pass the quizzes, and "with distinction" that means you did 2 out of the 6 art assignments on top of it. I don't think they should call it " with distinction". It should be "with pictures." Otherwise--value judgement (there's an art joke in there I'm too tired to make).
I don't know if a remote course with no one on one interaction is enough to help me over my big hurdles. But at least I'll get better vocab.
sarameg - May 31, 2013 7:53:44 pm PDT #24446 of 30001
I really really really really want the funeral home heir to really hook her up with the Under Armor CEO. Because it'd get her so much more. She's an awesome kid, still learning how awesome she is. Guilco saw that, it just wasn't enough $$ for their reality, but it was a monumentous percentage (of Guilco's ridic private college costs.) But the March scholarship might do it, both monetarily and in the confidence. And I think I need to email the Under Armor CEO about her financial situation. Which is CRAZY, but...hey, I don't lose anything.
brenda m - May 31, 2013 8:04:24 pm PDT #24447 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
Do it, Sara.
DavidS - May 31, 2013 8:05:26 pm PDT #24448 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Seriously, all the major sports are looking at concussion injuries right now. It's very ripe for research investment and breakthroughs.
sarameg - May 31, 2013 8:06:38 pm PDT #24449 of 30001
OTOH, ita, meet the kid and see from there. Taylor's parents, well, I have to warn people how enthusiastic Charles is. And how unfiltered. Effusive! LOUD. So not me at all, but I'll hug him in a second and defend him to the end. He did a fucking amazing job raising an amazing daughter and he was a single parent (with a badly injured wife in long term care) from basically the time I met them. He thought I was a teacher (courtesy of the school stickers I never took off my car from the previous owner) or a journalist (because I was always reading mags and papers out on the balcony.) That lead him to approach me. When I was not that, but good at math and my mom was a teacher, she was handed to me when he wasn't home. And I adore her.
I get Mother's Day thanks/gifts from all of them every year. The first year I got it from T's mom? For being there when she couldn't? Ooof.
sarameg - May 31, 2013 8:10:19 pm PDT #24450 of 30001
Her multi-year project was with some sort of foam and concussions. At Johns Hopkins. She was sent to INTEL International Science Fair the past 2 years. It's not beansprouts in the closet, it's real science. She's not quitting the work she's doing no matter where she goes.
Christ, I need to go to bed.
§ ita § - May 31, 2013 8:39:15 pm PDT #24451 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
OTOH, ita, meet the kid and see from there
It's not that I haven't mentored before--as well as one on one I'd give talks at high schools and shit like that in Detroit. But I don't want one of the guys who's always been yay close to the line when dealing with me to get entangled in me off hours.