So good, Jesse!
Spike: We got a history, him and me. Fred: What? Spike: It was a long time ago. He was a young Watcher, fresh out of the academy when we crossed paths. It was a, what-you-call battle of wills and blood was spilled. Vendettas were sworn. It was a whole-- Fred: My God you're so full of crap. Spike: Yeah. Okay.
'Unleashed'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Nov 01, 2014 10:13:41 am PDT #9434 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hil R. - Nov 01, 2014 10:44:54 am PDT #9435 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm taking some online classes to improve my coding skills in Python. I can make things! I can make the computer do things! Now I just have to figure out if there's something I want to make it do.
Jesse - Nov 01, 2014 10:49:34 am PDT #9436 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
AND I went to the library and the supermarket! And now I can stay inside.
ION, pretty disappointed not to see Lori in this video: [link]
JenP - Nov 01, 2014 11:13:51 am PDT #9437 of 30000
That's great, Jesse (choir/dad, not lack of Lori).
Bacon and sexy bacon makes me laugh.
Hil, have it take over the world. Why not?
It's rainy and windy, but I'm going to walk to the store anyway. I need cream and stuff. And half-price candy. I only had a single piece left. Curse my precision buying.
Jesse - Nov 01, 2014 12:43:26 pm PDT #9438 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh hey, remember my whining about my toe? It's mostly better! So maybe it was a sprain of some kind afterall. It's a mystery.
aurelia - Nov 01, 2014 1:25:51 pm PDT #9439 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
If it hurts again the next time the weather changes, you'll know it's something else.
My parents' church choir went to sing for/with my dad this morning, and it was so great! He was super into it, talked more than I've heard him in forever, and everyone generally had a great time. So nice!
Very nice!
Hil R. - Nov 01, 2014 1:51:10 pm PDT #9440 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil, have it take over the world. Why not?
Well, so far, the biggest thing I've learned how to do is make a really crappy version of IMDB. Now I'm trying to come up with an idea for something to do for the final project for this class. (I didn't pay for the class, so my project won't get graded or feedback or anything, but I want to try it. I'm thinking I might try making a really basic genealogy program, if I can work out how to do it.)
Burrell - Nov 01, 2014 2:14:01 pm PDT #9441 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Ah, that's so lovely, Jesse!
Frances is so fabulous to me, I just wish her teacher could see her. He has so given up on her, but she has been plugging away at math for well over an hour today, and acing it, and then going on to review things she thinks she has been weak on historically. And when she talks about her classes, she claims to like math and science. She's just uncertain if her teacher wants her to pass. That last part breaks my heart because if he could see her working... I don't know why he doesn't get her!
Calli - Nov 01, 2014 2:53:10 pm PDT #9442 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
That sounds fun, Hil!
sarameg - Nov 01, 2014 3:10:09 pm PDT #9443 of 30000
I had a teacher for algebra 2 who basically thought we were all stupid. It was only due to my parents intervention and a wonderful student teacher that I and others got back into the advanced track. Most of us later did really well on the AP Calculus exam, 3 of us on theBC.
For algebra 1, we had a teacher who admittedly barely could do algebra. No idea why she had the position. Anyway, we got lucky because her student teacher had a Masters in Engineering. So she taught the first semester. Second semester, I spent one hour every night, working through the math book with dad (and anything else that popped into his head.) And then I'd spend an hour on the phone, or over at Nicole's, teaching that to her and Val. That was middle school. Principal got an earful that spring.
Next year, in high school, the fuss about it had made it to the administration's ears. But instead of putting all of us from O'Hara's in the hands of an experienced teacher, they dump us all on a new guy who'd never taught algebra 2 before. He knew it, just hadn't taught it, and clearly resented us.
There was more fuss, which just made him pretend harder, but not teach any better. So the sessions at home continued. I started to test terribly at this point (probably due to all the bullshit.) There were lots of tears, because I knew I could do it and I was tanking exams and I was a kid who would get upset by a B!
At the start of the next year, none of us were in the calculus track, and my parents were pissed. Luckily, my student teacher had just joined the staff (taking the place of the A2 teacher, go figure.) When my parents found out, they contacted her and she went to the department head and basically, they ended up meeting with all the students and assessing our level at the start of the year. About half the class were put back into the calc track. And the former student teacher got the rest. Most of them were up to speed by the end of the fall.
I majored in physics, Val's a surgeon and Nicole, a CPA. Clearly stupid at math. @@
So keep supporting her and make sure she knows you have her back.