Graduation is today.
I am required to participate in this the grard ceremony to hand out diplomas to ten students, one of whom is an absolute gem, in the most positive way possible.
But I'm tired just thinking about it.
Fred: The size and depth of the wound indicate a female vampire. Harmony: Or gay! Fred: Um…it doesn't really work like that.
'Harm's Way'
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.
Kat - Jun 05, 2013 12:37:45 pm PDT #24896 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jesse - Jun 05, 2013 12:40:22 pm PDT #24897 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG Kat, what a clusterfuck.
Maria - Jun 05, 2013 12:40:41 pm PDT #24898 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Kat, I don't have any words for that. Take care of yourself, and to hell with her.
sumi - Jun 05, 2013 12:41:35 pm PDT #24899 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
What Maria said.
That kid doesn't even know that she's screwed herself.
Kat - Jun 05, 2013 12:43:12 pm PDT #24900 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Typo Boy - Jun 05, 2013 12:45:25 pm PDT #24901 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
That kid doesn't even know that she's screwed herself
This. She probably will never know, because when fails to be admitted to UC or somehow gets admitted and fails her first quarter/semester/trimester (whichever UC uses) she will blame it on someone else.
Amy - Jun 05, 2013 12:48:01 pm PDT #24902 of 30001
Because books.
Oh, jesus, Kat. That's disgusting. Entitlement like that turns my stomach.
Kat - Jun 05, 2013 12:48:50 pm PDT #24903 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
le nubian - Jun 05, 2013 12:49:40 pm PDT #24904 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Kat,
that is so bad. How big of a dipshit is she to cheat on an SAT? Those Long Island kids did that last year and they were in deep shit.
Kat - Jun 05, 2013 12:55:03 pm PDT #24905 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
This is the first time I've actually sat down to write about all of this. Partly because I've been living it and just trying to exist above the fray.
One of the kids started in January. He had dropped out of school for 2ish years. When he walked into AP, I was wary. I asked him the last three books he had read and we had a great discussion about Cormac McCarthy's The Road. He's a wonderful, bright person with a mind designed for college. He wasn't going to graduate because of his crazy transcript, but we came up with an independent study for him and he read 5 books in a month (The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Botany of Desire, Thinking Fast and Slow, Hope in the Unseen and Outliers -- all nonfiction for a nonfiction course) and we had great exchanges via a composition book on what he read.
I'm so excited that he's graduating.