John Stanning @10: Where did you get that the administration is trying to combat online bullying? The example the administrator gives is a student who mentioned on his MySpace account that he drank alcohol on weekends, and had the school's name listed in his info. He's concerned about policing the image of the school, not about the welfare of the students.
Even if I were okay with the trend of schools punishing students for behavior that takes place outside school property (which, oh my god am I ever not), this would still be the wrong way to go about it.
Will @15: Ah, I see. Thank you for clarifying.
Will @10: While it doesn't mention Arnstadt specifically, the video does say that the East German guards didn't move to help Fechter because they were afraid of being shot.
Xopher @32: Everyone I know in real life who watches (or watched and abandoned) Dollhouse has criticized Eliza Dushku's acting ability. I've seen a lot of such comments online, as well. I'm not much of a fan either, I have to admit. Her performances in Dollhouse have had a kind of 'exercises in acting class' feel to them.
But then, I didn't like the show itself at all until the season finale, which may be coloring my opinion of the star.
Oh, that's wonderful. Congratulations!
Daniel @7: As far as I can tell, the goosebumps don't ever stop.
Today is my best friend's birthday, so at least one good thing has happened on this date. Lists like this one and birthdays spent staring in horror at news reports have left her with a sense of unbearable doom about her birthday. She has been known to swear that the terrible events that occur around but not actually on her birthday are simply scheduling errors. That they were all intended to take place on the 19th. Poor girl. It makes me kind of glad nothing interesting ever happens on my birthday.
I don't know what to say. I'm so overjoyed. I think I just heard fireworks somewhere down the street.
My birthday is on Saturday. I choose to believe this is a gift from the nation. Thank you, America.
Count me as another who had never heard of this incident. I was not yet 11 months old and living, as I do now, just north of NYC when he saved my life. СпаÑибо, СтаниÑлав Евграфович. Heroism indeed. We could use more like you, sir.
Mary Aileen @ 300: Maybe that's what went wrong... The first time I tried to bake a cake, I could've sworn I followed the recipe exactly, but instead of a nice, fluffy cake, I wound up with... The Cake Slab. It was a flat, dense block of cake. It still tasted yummy and cakelike, just rather... heavier. It was intended for my older brother's birthday. He's never let me live it down. I'm amazed at the amount of material he gets out of that one failed cake.
I've mostly been making lots of resumes and rather bad cover letters, in hopes that someone will see through the dreadfulness and hire me anyway. (This would, I suspect, be a little easier if I knew what I actually want to do with my life.) I also make mix CDs to pass the time. And I make dinner for my family, in exchange for their patience while I look for a job. I'm not a very good cook, but I'm improving slowly. Last Thursday I made a surprisingly successful chicken dish, having slightly modified the recipe myself.
Otherwise, I'm not very crafty. I sort of know how to knit, but am not yet good enough to follow an actual pattern and have it come out as intended. I'd like to get good enough to make socks at some point, because I have a strange obsession with socks, but it'll be a while yet.
I've begun planning out the resizing of some old t-shirts from my baggy clothing phase so that I can make them fit me. This is complicated by the fact that I haven't touched a sewing machine since I had to take Home Ec in middle school, a decade and a half ago. But I figure I'll start with some t-shirts I don't actually like that much, so I won't cry if I butcher them. I'm most worried about the sleeves. That strikes me as difficult.
Having read a bookbinding tutorial yesterday (and having been ogling Abi's work for some time now), I'm dying to try my hand at that, but I'm not sure where to begin. I'd really like to take a class, but I'm broke and I don't know where one looks for such things anyway. I suppose I could always try it with scrap materials first just to see if I even understand how it's supposed to work. And it would give me an excuse to clean out the dining room, which we don't use for dining, so that I could have a dedicated workspace.
Huzzah indeed! And boo for the stress test results. Though a little bit of huzzah for that as well, because at least now you'll have treatments that will help prevent another incident in the future.
Best of luck with the recovery and the forthcoming Lifestyle Changes. (These things always sound so ominous, don't they?) If it's any consolation, you've inspired me to take much longer, more vigorous walks with my dog (who needs them just as much as I do). Maybe I should give jogging another go.
Holy hell. Well, that's certainly the wrong kind of excitement. You're both in my thoughts. Speedy recovery, Teresa.
Serge, I am unreasonably excited about that movie. While it's partially because I like the X-Men, I have to admit it's mostly because of the eye candy.
Air Force One came out when I was just shy of 15, so of course I saw it on the big screen. All I really remember about it is that I had ("Had." Ha. Still have.) a crush on Gary Oldman and that it was the first movie I remember seeing where it was pretty damn obvious that Harrison Ford was slowing down too much for action movies. Also, there was a bit with some parachutes.
I tried to watch it on TV a couple of years ago, when I flipped it on in the middle. I think I managed about 10 minutes, despite Gary Oldman.
(Also, Carrie S. @74: Word. Every movie would be improved by shirtless Hugh Jackman. Even Casablanca.)
Translucent jellyfish from Djibouti. I wasn't trying to be a smartass or anything. I see I have company, too. Maybe it's the sleep deprivation, but I had a devil of a time coming up with animals whose names start with J.
Lila @6: Now that you say it that way, it sounds familiar. I think I've heard the of Drunkard's palsy before, but I don't think I ever knew what it meant. Thanks for that. Crutch palsy I've nearly encountered in person, though no one called it that at the time, when an injured friend started having some trouble with tingling in one of his hands. I believe it eventually cleared up. I don't think he was using the crutches for very long. I just remember him worrying that he'd done something terrible to his spine.
Oh god. I can't even look at the word "degloving" without freaking out. I adore these medical posts and reread them fairly frequently, but I'm going to have some trouble eating dinner tonight. Evisceration? No problem. But show me the "d" word and I curl up into a ball and whimper.
That bit about drug overdoses leading to crush injuries is fascinating. It never occurred to me that passing out on your arm could do that much damage, but of course it ought to be obvious. I fall asleep on my arm all too often, but I invariably wake up sometime shortly after it's gone completely numb. Feeling returns (painfully) quickly. I suppose I just never thought about what would happen if I couldn't wake up.
What a lovely idea. Thank you, Patrick. Email sent. Back to lurking.
I'm getting unreasonably stressed out about my vote today. I still don't know who to support and I expect I won't decide until I'm in the booth. I dislike and distrust both candidates approximately equally, for different reasons (Xopher @37 nailed my feelings on Obama pretty well), and I'm at a loss. Since I fully expect Clinton will pretty much sweep New York, I could vote for Obama because he's the underdog. Or I could vote for Clinton because, hey, what's one more vote?
I'll support whichever Democrat wins the nomination, of course, because I still vividly remember crying myself to sleep around 4AM back in November '04 after spending hours watching the results come in, and I don't think I can face that again. Since I'll never have the perfect candidate, I don't know which compromise to make, and I just don't know which vote is the best way to ensure that '04 election night sobfest doesn't happen again.
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