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[vnud29]

Welcome Mec and norsebard


And dont feel like an idiot verrath...I didnt know what it meant for a long time either lol I just went with the flow...just nod and agree lol it usually works.

I'm currently reading The growing...and I'm stunned. It's really really good and addicting I recommend it to everyone. I'm surprised I haven't heard much of it up until last week.

[IloveUbers]

Hello new people!!!! *waves!!*

I have to admit, I STARTED to read "The Growing"... and by started, I mean skimmed through most the chapters, but my eyes and hand got tired because IT'S SO FREAKING LONG!!!!! LOL! I love long stories, but "The Growing" is just... wow. It's like running a Marathon or something! But yes, I agree, it's a really really awesome story.

I've been to Sweden! I was drugged for the first day or so (thank you xanax for getting me through that 6 hour flight O_O), but I do remember that the country was very beautiful. I was visiting my GF, she was doing study abroad at the University of Uppsula (excuse my spelling, I doubt that was correct). They even had a CASTLE!!!!! And chandelliers in their Pizza Huts! And a museum for a sunken boat!!! YAY VIKINGS!!!!

*cough*

But yea, travelling can be fun, but I wish I had longer then a week. Now, I need to get home since work is over and I'm ALLLLLL BYYYYYY MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYSELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLF!!!!! DON'T WANNA BEEEEEEE, ALLLLL BYYYYYYYYYYYY MYYYYYYYYYYYYSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLFFF.... ANY-MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREEEEEEEEE!!!!!

[mec]

Welcome Mec and norsebard


And dont feel like an idiot verrath...I didnt know what it meant for a long time either lol I just went with the flow...just nod and agree lol it usually works.

I'm currently reading The growing...and I'm stunned. It's really really good and addicting I recommend it to everyone. I'm surprised I haven't heard much of it up until last week.

Sorry ... the industry I work in tends to make everything into acronyms, and makes me too lazy to spell things out.

I started The Growing a few months ago, but I tend to find things written in the present tense jarring at first (see my comment about lazy and add adverse to change). I think I ended up reading some other pieces and forgot to pick it up again. Time to reload my e-reader and give it another try.

[hickcrone]

I’ve been reading these posts all along, lately with the thought to check on what the children are doing. You all seem between young and very young. My birth year was Sputnik’s launch year, it early fall, me early spring. My first memory of a national event was watching JFK’s funeral on black and white tv. My first NASA memory was the fire that killed Grissom, White and Chaffee.

I spent two weeks in Sweden 29 years ago next month, an ancestral tour, in a way, as both my grandfathers were first generation Americans of Swedish immigrant parents. We visited the area they left, southern Sweden, only to see it greatly resembles the area they ended up, western Oregon.

I’ve enjoyed the weather discussions. Do any of you know the NOAA site for official weather data? This URL http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/OR_cc_us.html gives a starting place for Oregon weather but allows you to select another state. The closest station to me is http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/KMMV.html. I am hoping some of you will want to share the address for your area. If you international posters have something comparable, please share. I would like to be able to check weather in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Belgium, Finland, Denmark and Sweden, too.

[pippinfluff]

I'm in Britain and here are some sites that will give you the UK, Europe and Global weather. WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK/ , UK.WEATHER.COM/ and NEWS.BBC.CO.UK/WEATHER/FORECAST/10209.

[mec]

For Canada, try Environment Canada's weather office (probably the most accurate) http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca. You can click on the map to narrow down on the province and then another map to narrow down to the city. There's a drop down list if you're looking for a smaller city or town.

Someone at Environment Canada is enjoying their job writing up the weather warnings - I suspect that someone is a frustrated blogger. Its not often that you would run across an official severe winter storm alert that starts:
"Humdinger may not be a scientific term but it may very well sum up the weather that mother nature has in store for eastern Ontario."

[Verrath]

I’ve been reading these posts all along, lately with the thought to check on what the children are doing.

Sputnik was before my time I admit. But I only missed the first lunar landing by about a year.

[cobbler3]

My birth year was Sputnik’s launch year, it early fall, me early spring.

Not all of us are that young...you only have me beat by two years...

Nancy

[frostline]

Nancy you have me by one. Thought I was the old timer.
This is only my second post. Guess I am a natural lurker.

[scottigrl]

Sputnik is a bit before my time, I was born the month of "The Kennedy Assassination" Gosh where did the time go? They have brought back everything from our bad fashion choices to our bad hair style choices. I think it would be a laugh if they started remaking the movies from our generation. Such as

Footloose
Adventures of Buckaroo Banazi
Fame
Eddie and the Cruisers
oh oh oh Howard the Duck----- right on a Classic
Xanadau
Blade Runner
Ladyhawke===== with X&G archtype heroines I'd pay for that show..
Desert Hearts... oh and of course The "Abyss"

I'll pass on the "Brat Pack" titles tho, well cept for The Breakfast Club, thats a keeper.

BTW born and raised in Arizona where it is freaking HOT!!

[mec]

Uhm ... they are already casting for the remake of Footloose. (cue the dancing feet)

Buckaroo Banzai would be a cool remake ... and perhaps they might redeem Howard the Duck with better special effects.

Blade Runner and Desert Hearts, however, should never be touched.

Sputnik is a bit before my time, I was born the month of "The Kennedy Assassination" Gosh where did the time go? They have brought back everything from our bad fashion choices to our bad hair style choices. I think it would be a laugh if they started remaking the movies from our generation. Such as

Footloose
Adventures of Buckaroo Banazi
Fame
Eddie and the Cruisers
oh oh oh Howard the Duck----- right on a Classic
Xanadau
Blade Runner
Ladyhawke===== with X&G archtype heroines I'd pay for that show..
Desert Hearts... oh and of course The "Abyss"

I'll pass on the "Brat Pack" titles tho, well cept for The Breakfast Club, thats a keeper.

BTW born and raised in Arizona where it is freaking HOT!!

[subtextfan]

I'm baaaack! LOL

Hello all,

What was I thinking - signing up for Facebook - ugh! I've been neglecting my favorite forum. It's so cool that more "lurkers" are coming out of the ether. It's even more exciting that we've got a few folks from over the pond to join in. Gotta say, love Canada and England. I haven't been to England in so long. I think I need to schedule another trip! LOL. Haven't been to Sweden, but if it's cold AND beautiful...gotta get Wm. Shatner to book me on Priceline.

Oh Yuri, get that computer going girl! When my computer decides to mouth off or shut down I just about have a melt down.

BTW I was born during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Being in West Palm Beach we aren't that far from Cuba. Yes, I know most folks think Miami is little Havana, but no it's not the same. LOL Seriously though, an interesting tidbit during that terrible time...the hospital turned off the tv's so the pregnant and new mothers wouldn't get anxious or depressed. Don't think it worked for my mom though. I think her exact words were, "I need a cigarette and a drink."

Ciao,

Andy

[vnud29]

I'm trying Andy! I'm trying. lol It's still being stupid. I have to be outside to get an internet signal...and at the moment it's raining lol Sorry about my absense, but it would seem this thread doesnt need me to keep it alive. Which is a good thing means it's a success.

Sputnik, JKF, Cuban missle crisis, and all that jazz is way way...before I was ever thought of being conceived. but Hey..I've seen xanadu! It's good lol

I've had a pretty horrible day today, so please don't mind the rant you will be reading. Ok, so for the past two weeks i've been in and out of school due to Ap Testing. My school allows us to leave after we take our test, which means we are excused from school. Now, today was my first real day back. And what do I get??? Two Tests! Spanish wasn't too bad but my trigonometry teacher needs to burn in...umm..sorry. what was I saying? Oh yeah, well about 95% of the class was out for the past two class periods(for Ap testing) and she decides to give a test on the day we come back. So, my A that I had in that class is shot to hell. No one looked at the material for at least a week. And the last section of the chapter most didnt get notes for, and we weren't there when she went over the homework. And! the last ten problems of the test were on that section. And! no one finished the tests cause they are way too long. Apparently, according to my teacher we should have "come before or after school" (on days we had Testing for three hours) " and get help and get caught up so that we would be prepared for a test". Then she refused to review before the test because people were telling her how unfair she was being and she said "Everyone's gonna take the test, you are all annoying me so I'm not going to review". We all failed. What I'm assuming from this is that it's our fault that we are too smart and had the audacity to enroll in college level courses and even more, dared to be gone from school to take a test!!!! And EVEN on top of that, follow school policy of not going to school on the day of the test!! *gasps*

So, right now I'm imagining bad...and...unpleasant things happening to my teacher. Is it wrong of me to be upset? Am I overreacting? honestly...someone tell me.

[Erin G.]

So, right now I'm imagining bad...and...unpleasant things happening to my teacher. Is it wrong of me to be upset? Am I overreacting? honestly...someone tell me.

You asked for honestly... You're overreacting. Enormously. To put this as gently as I am able, as a junior in H.S. you have great freedom, with nearly zero responsibilities placed upon you. That won't happen ever again in your life, so enjoy it while you can.

[hickcrone]

Yuri,

You won’t like my perspective on your rant. I was a high school teacher for a bit. First, did you know about the AP testing ahead of time? Second, did the entire teaching staff know about the testing ahead of time? I am assuming yes to the first and probably to the second, only probably because I recall times when I learned about excused absences for my students on the day they happened, not any before. As a teacher, I would have expected my responsible students to approach me BEFORE the missed class to get the material ahead of time. In fact, that even happened a few times. I always found it easier to be compassionate when my students owned and owned up to their behavior. The blame game never played well with me.

[IloveUbers]

I'll post something in defense of the poor student XD It's possible some of us have been out of high school so long that we have forgotten what it's like.

In defense of those good, even great students, like Yuri, here's my take on high school.

While in high school sometimes it honestly felt like the teachers just didn't care. I know some people may have had really excellent experiences in high school. I had a mixed experience, some good some bad. But I do remember several times where I felt like my teachers were out to make our lives a living hell! Now, I understand that teachers themselves were/are facing stress and pressure to do their job, while meeting educational expectations (on many levels), and having to deal with not only the good students but the not so good students. Let's not forget the rash of school violence that has errupted nationwide the past 10 years.

But when you're 16, 17, and 18 years old, you just don't see all that. Kids are dealing with so much, from multiple exams happening right on top of each other, homework, sports, activities, stress at home, stress with friends, stress to apply to college (starting for most people your JUNIOR year), proms, raging hormones, SAT's and other national tests.... The list goes on. Most teenagers, myself included, just don't see outside their own bubbles. All we see is "OMG MY TEACHER IS A DOUCHE-BAG! OMGWTFBBQ?!" The joy of being a child on the cusp of adulthood!

So yes, while in school most kids don't face the "adult" responsibilities and stress which await them in the "Real World" (and no, not the TV show ), they face some very real problems and stress while in school. If only the teachers could remember what it was like to be a teenager in high school again, and the kids could realize that high school is temporary! RELAX!!!! ^_^

Just my 2 cents!

[vnud29]

Thank you for your honesty, I probably was overreacting a little. But I'm still upset. Not because of what she did, but because she wouldn't try to understand our position. I would have been fine with her giving the test on monday and giving us the weekend to study and catch up on the review material and have the time to go over our questions before the test, but she refused to acknowledge the possibility. Also, it was not like we all were out having a party skipping school. We were taking a test, and if we weren't doing that we were studying for our next test. It's a highly stressful two weeks for everyone.

Yes, we know the schedule weeks before the exams, and yes all the faculty know of the schedule as well. Even the teachers who do not teach Ap classes know it. I understand that we could have come to her for the material we missed before the days we had to be absent, but there was nothing to get. The assignments due-we didn't have notes for, and the textbook is impossible to understand. We can't get an in-class review session she did on one of the days. Also, she's obviously not going to give us a test to take home.

In that class, it is extremely difficult for me to get an A in. I've worked really hard all quarter in order to get that A, and in an instant it's gone. There is no possibility to bring my grade up so late in the year and it will mess up my GPA and my accumulative GPA. I understand that grades and such are not very important in the grand scheme of things, but at this moment, my life revolves around school. I need to get the good grades to even think of going to college in such a competetive field, which is getting even harder to do now with the present economy.

[darkenedkarma]

OMGWTFBBQ?!"

Huh?

[cobbler3]

OMGWTFBBQ?!"

Huh?

Me too huh? I got the 'OMGWTF'...but then ya lost me...

Nanc

[IloveUbers]

*giggles*

it's an old geeky gamer expression I first heard of several years ago online. Mostly used by really young gamers, it's to express the ultimate "omg what the heck is going on OMG!" situations. Or just a general "... that's kinda screwed up". I swear, I didn't make it up!

Or, as it would be used ingame "JOO NOOB OMGWTFBBQ KS KS KS KS KS KS KS!!one!!1one!"