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Of course, I never had any problems after general anesthesia.
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I found my birth father!
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It was DD's 12th and it was at Claire's. Do it.
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My old narwhal tends heather.
ABAFT
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My DD is so sweet-hearted. I said "shut the front door, please," and she just did it.
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Either way, the back story of Goldiblocks is kinda cool -- Girl goes to Stanford for engineering, encounters the geek ceiling, etc. Worth a look:
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As an English major who did time in retail purgatory, perhaps I should keep my mouth shut. On the flip side, HS friends are an English major / history major power couple. She went to Cornell Law, he's a bank VP. Liberal arts degrees still have worth, even as stepping stones.
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Why do you think that happens, Tom?
Couple things....
One is expectations vs reality. There are kids who absolutely must get into (pick a school) or their lives are crushed, and there are parents for whom anything less than a name-brand private school is failure. I had a mom whose son got into RPI but not MIT, and she said, "well, it's really the graduate degree that counts." Um....yikes. In these cases, banging a kid's head against the wall with multiple tests is more about parental ambition and expectations.
Two is the oddities of the score curve. As you get up into the 700's, scores are more at the mercy of shifts the Board will put in after the test. Missing one question might drop a score from 650 to 640, but that shouldn't radically change your choice of schools. That same one question can drop an 800 to a 750 and figure into admissions at, say, Yale. You can prep all you want too, but you can't predict the curve.
Either way, there does seem to be an upper limit, a terminal velocity for any given student. Prepping and taking more than three tests leaves the student searching for that one little missed thing, only adding to the psychological baggage. Doubt and second guessing will kill a great score, and prior assumptions about what that mythical great score must be feed more doubt.
I had one student who did a complete Kaplan course, a complete PR course, then did 12 weeks with me -- almost a year of prep. She was fried. I don't take students like that any more.
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I always tell parents - one or two tests. Three if you must. After that, the score just crashes. Sad but true.
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After struggling for years, I asked for, and got a really big restructuring of our second mortgage, dropping the monthly payment by a grand. That was immensely satisfying the way only a heavy FedEx envelope can be.
Little satisfactions this week:
Now that we're in the last year of Nebel science, I figured out how to halve the time it takes to put together a Nebel science lesson.
My King Arthur cinnamon swirl bread didn't come out flat again yesterday because I tripled the rise time.
I quickly jumped on some very latent side effects from last November's treatment and prevented a trip to the ER, which is good.
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Just got a supermarket gift card from DW's students, and THAT is why the universe has prevented me from finding a fresh turkey up to this point.
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I've seen the tagline about keeping Christ in Christmas pop up in some letters, and always think it's a smidgen over the top, as if the previous seven paragraphs were just a tease to get to the what-I-really-want-to-say.
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Is it between two leaves? That might make the repair easier. A woodshop might be able to slip discs in there and either try to match it, or go the other way and do a contrasting inlay thing. Worth a look.
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Feezable, but you might grow ice crystals, and the beans can reheat to a different texture. That may or may not be bad, though. I freeze all casseroles, but they aren't always, ahem, photo-ready on reheat.
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Non stick, but I could be persuaded by some really bangin; stainless. I suppose If the money fairy flew into my chimney, I'd splurge for something like Allclad, but without such skinny handles.
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I don't like the ones that never change....Bobby is still on the swim team at the pool. Sally and Bob are still working for the same company, even in the same cubicles! Please. I appreciate a smooth year without drama, but without interest?
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Staff.
Reserve-able study rooms.
Robust children's and media sections.
Access to a larger network or lending library system, and beyond that, university libraries.
Bean bag chairs. Gotta have squishy reading spots.
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George Jollily Killed Only Yeomen.
LPIUN
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I live in a city. Not saying I couldn't get it, but it seems far less likely. I live in an area where it's nearly an epidemic. I was once in a homeschool group (filled with hiking loving folk) and like half the people had contracted Lymes. It's just gotten to the point where I'm too freaked out because of knowing that.
Natrapel is a staple in our van. Great anti-tick and no DEET.
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Because I have eschewed following my neighbors onto the train to be slowly ground into powder in the city, but instead get to witness, and maybe contribute to my daughter becoming a startlingly strong woman.
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We all color. The only thing is that the really good crayons, like silver, get all stubby and buried in the box...
S/O, S/O - How do you define middle class?
in The Chat Board
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I heard/read somewhere that far more people, on either side of the bell curve, identify as middle class than actually are in terms of straight $$. Since pols of every stripe trot it out at rallies from barns to banquet halls, I suspect it's one of those vaguely aspirational, non-threatening terms way more political than objective.
But that's just me.