That's fantastic news, Brenda! Makes me smile.

My LJ/DW username is so unpopular I never had a conflict with other users, so I just used it for Tumblr as well. It was already in use on Twitter, though--how rude!--so I came up with something silly on the spot. Not that I tweet much, or at all, really. The fic LJ is something else, and I didn't get my preferred spelling. But that turned out in my favor after all, so I'm pleased. Here, DWS, and FB are all my real first name, so.

St. Francis de Sales

Random, my sister went to St. Francis de Sales High School, in Utica though, not Cincy.

Oh, fish frys at the Grange hall! So damned good. The history of the Grange is interesting, collectives for farmers. I wonder if the Grange hall is still there back in my old township.

Ha, I was told the West Side was the only place to go for real fish fry! DeSales is a good lead, though. (There is a nice, really cheap house right off Woodburn that I've been admiring, but I am really undecided about that neighborhood, too. If we didn't have kids... but then, if we didn't have kids buying a 6br house would be very silly).

The Grange hall where I grew up was in the old opera house, and had a stage. They built a kitchen on it, and put in a window! I put on a performance of Steel Magnolia there, and just used it as the set!

The SATs are getting rid of the guessing penalty? What's the rationalization for that?

First they come for the analogies, now this:

Instead of arcane “SAT words” (“depreciatory,” “membranous”), the vocabulary words on the new exam will be ones commonly used in college courses, such as “synthesis” and “empirical.”

Mormons do very little with Easter, no observances other than, I think, some notice on Easter Sunday itself. Lent would baffle a lot of people in Utah

But Mormons already operate on a deprivation model -- no caffeine, no alcohol....

The SATs are getting rid of the guessing penalty? What's the rationalization for that?

It has little net effect on scores. CollegeBoard gave up the guessing penalty on AP Exams 4 years ago. I'm not surprised.

First they come for the analogies, now this:

Again, I'm supportive of this. There is a big move, especially among people who do not come from English dominant homes to spend strategic and focused attention on the words in the academic corpus and not the Martha Stewart decorative words.

I'd like to get rid of the collective reliance on the SAT altogether. But whatever. I am shouting at the sun on this point.

I think I am going to have a fish fry.

I kind of wish they would just get rid of the SATs, but it is weird to think of the things you particularly excelled at as being obsolete.