Posts made by hedgehog

@Tinuviel

Oh, I see you've met Gwydion at CoH.

@EmmahSue

I literally buy Telepathy to at least 2 just to be able to respond to that sort of thoughtposing.

Alas, this is probably less easy if you aren't playing a PC type capable of learning it or something equivalent.

There was one when I lived in Hollywood that played an off-key rendition of Brahm's 'Lullabye'.

Make of that what you will.

@surreality

And, hiliariously enough, if those provincial snobs actually knew fucking anything at all about fashion at that point, they'd know that all of the cleverest, most interesting designers were all thrift shopping/vintage shopping up a storm, save for the shoes.

Granted, I knew nothing about fashion other than what I felt comfortable in. Remains as such.

It's good to know that I am, once again, at least fifteen years ahead of the curve on all these trends.

I wore camel-colored hiking boots in junior high, years before Timberland.

I had an undercut in the mid-90s, well before it ever became high fashion

I am a non-Jewish person who has done seders and shabbat for the past eighteen years.

WHATEVER IS MY SECRET?!

@Ganymede

GANY THINKS I'M COOL!?!?!?!?!?!

I'm honestly surprised as hell!

Thank you. You too, you ambiguously-gendered-on-the-Internet bundle of awesome and snark!

@Autumn

Me neither. And you missed the guy who came in later looking for maritime coastal maps of Prospect. Because those get filed with the Swell Maps and Paul Schutze's 'New Maps of Hell', or something.

@Autumn

I quite enjoyed your RP. For one thing, it was refreshing that you actually read the desc of my fucking shop and got what I was going for. I should +nom you just for that.

And, actually, Thenomain - the Final Quest arc of Elfquest has been pretty good, so far.

https://www.amazon.com/Moonshadow-complete-set-DeMatteis-Muth/dp/B01EXD0QZ8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1489452357&sr=8-2&keywords=complete+moonshadow

@ZombieGenesis

Which was just an Americanized version of Lars von Trier's TV miniseries 'Riget', which was actually based around a new, hyper-modern hospital in Copenhagen.

https://www.rigshospitalet.dk/english/Pages/default.aspx

@Misadventure

Also Bloodnut. Also Australian, if I recall correctly.

Junior High/High School: I was essentially a free nanny for the lady that gave birth to me.

Summer after High School: switchboard operator in the main bakery plant for a local chain of bakeries.

College: Bakery staff in one of the retail outlets for said bakery/deli staff in a local supermarket chain.

Not-College: Phone operator at an answering service that also monitored burglar alarms for a couple of small local alarm companies. Receptionist in a salon. Cashier at a car wash that was likely mob-associated.

Not-College but after I got a clue: Optician and volunteer DJ.

Career: College radio marketing manager for Cleopatra Records/associated license-acts.

Bump in career after having to leave Hollywood: Optician. AA for an ISP that mostly was a network provider for businesses, not consumers.

Return to career after moving to Chicago: Classified ad rep for Digital Chicago Magazine. Office manager for two different web development firms. Marketing associate for Invisible Records/Underground Inc.

Now: Parent. I let my husband bring in the big bucks while I luxuriate in avoiding this year's crop of bitches on the PTA. It's a tough gig, but someone's gotta do it.

@Auspice

I would concur with that. At least the one writer/developer I know isn't at all happy about it.

@Ganymede

We'll see what happens - the Remick reunions might not be happening now that Grandpa Russ is getting kinda into the swing of dementia and bad short term memory loss. But if it does, it's usually the last weekend in June or so.

My first college roommate used to keep her room key to the shared room we had on top of the light fixture in our suite bathroom, then leave the suite door unlocked so her boyfriend could come into our room whenever he fucking felt like it. She did not inform me that they were doing this. I found her key, tossed it into our room, locked the room, and locked the suite door. She had the ladyballs to go to the RA about it - who wrote her up and told her that if she'd been in the same position, she would have flushed the fucking key instead.

Turned out that 3 of the four other women in the suite didn't care that they did this because they all shared a suite together the year prior; only myself and the woman in the single were noobs in the situation. Suffice to say. the following semester the woman in the single and myself had three new suitemates.

@Ganymede

He wants to be a robotics engineer.

@Auspice

To be fair, his penmanship is atrocious and unreadable, but it's all something that needs to be solved with OT and additional help in the classroom, which I don't think he gets much of, outside of grip tools for the pencils. That said, when I was a kid we did a ton of penmanship drills, rather than just being shoved towards writing essays at age 7.

@TNP

Unfortunately, this is all part of some new literacy initiative in the district. The poor kids are doing reading and writing for the vast majority of the school day, with some math and fine arts thrown in, but there's next to no science or history or social studies going on. Don't get me wrong - I want literate kids - but it's really excessive. They're going to churn out a bunch of kids who hate reading and writing because it's all in the name of increasing standardized test scores, and not for instilling an actual love of the written word. I can't wait until next year, when I can opt him out of the PARCC, in spite of the fact that his scores would help skew things positively.

Fairly mild in comparison to constant migraines and debilitating chronic illnesses, but...

There is no reason for second graders to have multiple-paragraph writing assignments every week. And to expect my son to finish his in one day after being sick for a week from tonsilitis (which included an emergency room visit to a private hospital in fucking Nassau - no, a vacation it was decidedly not) is absolutely ridiculous. Especially since you spent the majority of our parent-teacher conference last week deriding his penmanship rather than bothering to mention that he's probably eligible for accelerated math next year, other than as an aside towards the end of things. Having to slow down and take his time is antithetical to your desire for him to do a rough draft and final paper in one fucking night.