I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it. Don't hide behind Mal 'cause you know he'll shoot it down for you. Tell me.

Wash ,'War Stories'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

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.


JZ - Aug 21, 2015 9:36:49 am PDT #3798 of 30003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Go Thai, choose Thai!

Huzzah, Suela! About damn time.

I love arithmetic and multiplication and division and fractions and all the fun little patterns you can make playing with 3's and 9's, but I am hopeless at higher math. Worse than hopeless - my geometry teacher used to tutor me every day at lunch for free, because he couldn't believe that someone so smart could be failing so hard, and every now and then I'd have a marvelous flash of getting it; some explanation would hit home, something would click, and it'd be like I'd suddenly stumbled across the switch to a brilliant floodlight in the dark dank tunnel I'd been crawling through and now I could see it was a perfect Aladdin's cave of sparkling jeweled logic. Then the light would snap out and I'd bark my shin on a treasure chest and smack my face into a rocky wall, and I could never find the same switch twice.

And yay shrift for having a couch and a bed! (Which for some reason I initially typed as "a couch and Abed".) You've got a spot to slounge on, a spot to sleep in, and you've been through an earthquake and a miserable two-day heat wave followed by a week of biting fog. All you need is a shot of Fernet in some disreputable-looking bar far away from the Marina and you will be a true San Franciscan.


Sue - Aug 21, 2015 9:37:01 am PDT #3799 of 30003
hip deep in pie

Hooray Consuela!

Burrell, I have no advice on the math tracking, but if F being in the "normal" track at a gifted school is going to cause issues down the road for college (acceptance), then we collectively need to rethink what the hell we are doing to our children via the educational system. Challenging them is great; demoralizing them? NSM.

What Maria said.


Gudanov - Aug 21, 2015 9:46:36 am PDT #3800 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping

Congrats Consuela!


Steph L. - Aug 21, 2015 9:59:33 am PDT #3801 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Way to go, Consuela!

I read someone earnestly arguing that the people who registered for Ashley Madison using their work email addresses HAD TO use those addresses, because their spouses probably monitor their personal email. Okey dokey then.

Finally, I am frequently amazed how authors of huge long complicated articles with a ton of editorial changes have NO problem with the changes and are a delight to work with, while authors of 2-page editorials (i.e., no hard data, no tables, no figures) are the biggest pains in the ass EVER about their papers.


EpicTangent - Aug 21, 2015 10:03:35 am PDT #3802 of 30003
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Congrats, Consuela! Long overdue!


Burrell - Aug 21, 2015 10:05:01 am PDT #3803 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Thanks everyone for the support and reassurance.

Burrell, I have no advice on the math tracking, but if F being in the "normal" track at a gifted school is going to cause issues down the road for college (acceptance), then we collectively need to rethink what the hell we are doing to our children via the educational system. Challenging them is great; demoralizing them? NSM.

I have lots of opinions on the subject, as you might have guessed. But yes.

Congratulations Consuela!


sj - Aug 21, 2015 10:05:45 am PDT #3804 of 30003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Congratulations, Consuela!


-t - Aug 21, 2015 10:09:21 am PDT #3805 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Waiting for my periodontist to hopefully give me the go ahead to get my permanent crown. Last night I dreamt he te me to get a root canal, hope it wasn't prophetic.


Laura - Aug 21, 2015 10:12:41 am PDT #3806 of 30003
Our wings are not tired.

Huzzah, Suela! About damn time.

This! Woo!


shrift - Aug 21, 2015 10:14:40 am PDT #3807 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

We need pictures of your swanky apartment.

It's not terribly swanky right now, but eventually it'll get there!

Which for some reason I initially typed as "a couch and Abed".

It's funny you should say that, because my wifi network name is Troy and Abed in a Cable Modem.

And now I shall venture outside for Thai.