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That comes with age.
Same with forgetting your clothes.
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Well, that sounds familiar. And this is why the kidlet has a giant binder full of papers...and a mom who checks around where he was doing his homework to make sure that he put all of the papers back in it. I know this pain. I was also bad at organization at his age. Not as bad...Yes I would do all the homework then lose it and start panicking in class.Depends on the class. Sometimes stuff can be turned in through google classroom, sometimes they have to turn in paper copies. But the assignments all have to be listed online, so it's a lot harder to lose track of things than it would be otherwise.You mean kids theese days don't even have to turn it in in paper copies anymore. That was the hardest and scariest part.Yeah, lynora, I know what it's like. ALL I need is to be informed of Impus Major's assignments, because he is utterly incapable of bringing them home himself.
"Oh, no. We won't do that. He needs to learn responsibility."
As I think I posted on FaWtL before, can anyone name a job where you can't ask your manager, "I'm sorry, but what was it you wanted me doing right now again?"
Once? Most managers are fine. 100 times? Yeah, I see that as being an issue. But just, "When you assign homework, include me on the list" doesn't seem like a hardship on the teachers.
OMG, yes! Thank goodness for Google Classroom and Power School or I swear that child would be flunking out of high school instead of getting mostly A's. I have to check every freaking night or his grades take a nosedive because of all the crap that doesn't get turned in! That's one thing our school does right and the principal at the high school is really passionate about making sure that stuff is updated frequently.
Edit: But they did not do that at the middle school and that was a whole other kettle of fish with very uncooperative teachers, so I definitely understand that pain.
your dad threw out your homework? That's awful!!
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Though we did leave out Option 3.
my favorite.
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Yes, exactly. Unfortunately my offline name is subject to....we'll just call it creative spelling. And I'm like, come on, I already gave you the shortened version which eliminated like twelve of the most common mistakes right off the bat! :PSince the kidlet has karate this afternoon I am at a cafe while I wait. The karate school has no wifi these days, and I do not have it in me to sit and watch karate lessons for 45 minutes. I just don't. Anyhow, I just noticed that the barista has really beautiful handwriting when I glanced at my cup. And spelled my name correctly. That, like, never happens. :)lynora is easy to spell. Its just like it sounds.
people have been putting extra rs into my name forever. Pisses me off.
I still have not watched it but do not watch movies much.Inconceivable.I didn't see Princess Bride until I was 19 >_>You make it sound like I wasn't raised on that movie.Therein lies the differences in our upbringing =)I was thinking this instead.I'm making a Skittermander Solarian named Buttercup.Watch out for Humperdink.
consider yourself lucky.
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people have been putting extra rs into my name forever. Pisses me off.Yes, exactly. Unfortunately my offline name is subject to....we'll just call it creative spelling. And I'm like, come on, I already gave you the shortened version which eliminated like twelve of the most common mistakes right off the bat! :PSince the kidlet has karate this afternoon I am at a cafe while I wait. The karate school has no wifi these days, and I do not have it in me to sit and watch karate lessons for 45 minutes. I just don't. Anyhow, I just noticed that the barista has really beautiful handwriting when I glanced at my cup. And spelled my name correctly. That, like, never happens. :)lynora is easy to spell. Its just like it sounds.
Garrrrry?
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10 hours to Star Wars seeing...
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What have you got for me today, Spam Temptress?
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Proof that mating is the best action in life.
Sly dolls. Natural Dormative. Sly girls. Love Harbor. Nice dolls.
Taste pleasure. Weasel breath
Air is literally burning when these ladies are in play.
This is how you return your rock hard back.
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Huh... Suddenly my wishlist feels... Empty ?
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Missed one bus, missed another bus, missed the next instance of the first bus...
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consider yourself lucky.I still have not watched it but do not watch movies much.Inconceivable.I didn't see Princess Bride until I was 19 >_>You make it sound like I wasn't raised on that movie.Therein lies the differences in our upbringing =)I was thinking this instead.I'm making a Skittermander Solarian named Buttercup.Watch out for Humperdink.
....... Don't tell me this is yet another thing you hate.
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....... Don't tell me this is yet another thing you hate.consider yourself lucky.I still have not watched it but do not watch movies much.Inconceivable.I didn't see Princess Bride until I was 19 >_>You make it sound like I wasn't raised on that movie.Therein lies the differences in our upbringing =)I was thinking this instead.I'm making a Skittermander Solarian named Buttercup.Watch out for Humperdink.
Yuuuuuuuuup
Very low ranking, however.
This was the only movie my friends could agree on on weekend movie days.
Princess bride just about every weekend for roughly 2 years.
There was a time I could quote the movie verbatim.
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....... Don't tell me this is yet another thing you hate.consider yourself lucky.I still have not watched it but do not watch movies much.Inconceivable.I didn't see Princess Bride until I was 19 >_>You make it sound like I wasn't raised on that movie.Therein lies the differences in our upbringing =)I was thinking this instead.I'm making a Skittermander Solarian named Buttercup.Watch out for Humperdink.Yuuuuuuuuup
You+5=Dead to me+5
Solve for you.
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people have been putting extra rs into my name forever. Pisses me off.Yes, exactly. Unfortunately my offline name is subject to....we'll just call it creative spelling. And I'm like, come on, I already gave you the shortened version which eliminated like twelve of the most common mistakes right off the bat! :PSince the kidlet has karate this afternoon I am at a cafe while I wait. The karate school has no wifi these days, and I do not have it in me to sit and watch karate lessons for 45 minutes. I just don't. Anyhow, I just noticed that the barista has really beautiful handwriting when I glanced at my cup. And spelled my name correctly. That, like, never happens. :)lynora is easy to spell. Its just like it sounds.
MLA format requires the instructor's last name in the name block at the top of the first page. One of these days, I'm going to start statistically tracking the variety of creative misspellings of my name...which is at the top of Google Classroom, on their schedules, on my door, in my work email, and for which I've given them a foolproof mnemonic to spell it properly...
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By "foolproof," I mean I use it on them every year when they ask me how to spell it, and they tell me "...oh my God, Miss, that's horrible, and I can never unsee it."
And then continue to misspell it. Sigh.
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....... Don't tell me this is yet another thing you hate.consider yourself lucky.I still have not watched it but do not watch movies much.Inconceivable.I didn't see Princess Bride until I was 19 >_>You make it sound like I wasn't raised on that movie.Therein lies the differences in our upbringing =)I was thinking this instead.I'm making a Skittermander Solarian named Buttercup.Watch out for Humperdink.Yuuuuuuuuup
You+5=Dead to me+5
Solve for you.
^2
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Sometimes I wonder if they're doing it on purpose.
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I still have not watched it but do not watch movies much.
I'm just going to mention that, while over-hype can be a thing, and it can cause a lack of enjoyment for many, The Princess Bride is a film that really should be seen by most; I say this even while things like Monty Python and the Holy Grail are not - while the latter is a solid film, it is surreal enough that it is likely to rub up weirdly against the sensibilities of many (though, if you're a gamer - and I generally presume you are, if you're reading this, seeing 'Holy Grail probably becomes semi-mandatory for dealing with your fellows' weird and continuous use of catch-phrases).
There was one guy I knew - younger than me by about a five-to-six years - who absolutely refused to watch The Princess Bride because, and I quote, "It's obviously a girly film, and I'm way too manly for that sort of thing."
While he was half-joking (he was not really the excessively macho type), he had genuinely never seen it, and did, in fact, refuse to watch it, when given the opportunity. I think he really did think that it was probably "girly" in some way (), and otherwise not his interests (). I will suggest that while it's fine if it's not your interests, it is still one of those films you should probably see, as you'll be so heavily exposed to it throughout your life, if for no other reason - and it's nice to have a vague idea of what everyone is talking about.
... of course, I'm one to talk, as I've never seen Love Story and have exactly zero interest in doing so.
#totesahypocrite
#dealwit'it
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....... Don't tell me this is yet another thing you hate.consider yourself lucky.I still have not watched it but do not watch movies much.Inconceivable.I didn't see Princess Bride until I was 19 >_>You make it sound like I wasn't raised on that movie.Therein lies the differences in our upbringing =)I was thinking this instead.I'm making a Skittermander Solarian named Buttercup.Watch out for Humperdink.Yuuuuuuuuup
Very low ranking, however.
This was the only movie my friends could agree on on weekend movie days.
Princess bride just about every weekend for roughly 2 years.
There was a time I could quote the movie verbatim.
As Talesin said, most people I know can.
It's one of the few movies I would not mind at all seeing that often, myself.
I think if further proof was needed this would be the final nail in the coffin of "we cone from completely different realities".
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The Princess Bride had a major hand in shaping my sense of humor, along with Animaniacs and Looney Tunes. These are probably not the things to show your impressionable child if you want them to grow up to not be a sass elemental.
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There was one guy I knew - younger than me by about a five-to-six years - who absolutely refused to watch The Princess Bride because, and I quote, "It's obviously a girly film, and I'm way too manly for that sort of thing."
Marketing is a hell of a drug. Any movie that doesn't fit neatly into a set genre is going to struggle to find an audience. Stardust and Sweeney Todd also had that problem.
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Also an excellent series of NWN events. Complete with item rewards with referential names. It was a blast.
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...now I want to listen to Sweeney Todd.
Screw it.
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Ah yes, having a teenage daughter is like a lesson in dramatics every day.
Today's lesson, realizing her "winter coat" she insisted that was a winter coat and would totally keep her warm all winter is in fact just an ordinary leather jacket without any special warming powers.
Also, forgetting her poorly assembled lunch so she can get to school early to hang out.
Well, that sounds familiar. And this is why the kidlet has a giant binder full of papers...and a mom who checks around where he was doing his homework to make sure that he put all of the papers back in it. I know this pain. I was also bad at organization at his age. Not as bad at organization as my parents, but that level of chaos takes time to develop. (The number of times my dad threw away my homework before I could turn it in was staggering. As if I needed the help losing my homework!)
I am badly organized. I have night-terrors at times about doing this. So far, at least, I have never done this ().
And my homework? Oh it's somewhere in that pile of...clutter...someplace...
This is more my speed.
DAGGUMMIT MICROSOFT I SAID NOT TO DO THAT
... and so, while I was putting my youngest to sleep, my computer goes on an hour+ long automated shutdown and update while my phone is on ~4% battery. Dang it.
>:(
That is why I switched to Linux. I had that happen before going to classes. Scary as hell and windows tends to start up shout down because of large binaries and lots of disk io which was bad on my old hard drive.
I don't have the luxury of switching because, frankly, I lack the technical knowledge and, even if I did not, the rest of my family would. There is no way I'm dragging the three (well, four, but my Youngest doesn't count - he's too small) through that learning curve - even if it is simple (as it still counts as a substantial learning curve, for which I lack the time). There are simply too many things that I've learned how to do on Windows that I'd have to relearn for other things - ranging from games I play, to how I interface with the internet.
I firmly believe that Linux is superior, as pretty much the majority of my friends who are even remotely attached to computer sciences agree that it is - with the (possible) exception of the "big-corporation"-style professionals who deal with programs related to Windows-specific implementation all the live-long day, who generally have as little exposure to/familiarity with Linux as I do, as a result (though NH could share his particular thoughts, too).
But my point is that this is the problem with Microsoft's whole mega-presence. It irritates the heck out of me, and I want to quit it, but I really can't. It's the "sunk cost" fallacy at it's finest, because I've got a life, now, and unfortunately, Microsoft has managed to worm its way into it, complete with their aggressive updating policies, which I hate. I'd proooooobably drop MS like a hot potato if other things were as user-friendly and inexpensive, but I've also a huge host of word documents, pdfs, computer organization, and games - and I'd kind of like those to work*, and not have to relearn how to access all of them. Alas.
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people have been putting extra rs into my name forever. Pisses me off.
"Frrshold DM"?
Eh, said outloud, it actually sounds kind of right, what with you're whole cold/weather dominator thing.
I'm making a Skittermander Solarian named Buttercup.Watch out for Humperdink.
I was thinking this instead.
Therein lies the differences in our upbringing =)
You make it sound like I wasn't raised on that movie.
I didn't see Princess Bride until I was 19 >_>
Inconceivable.
I'm gonna be in the same boat as Orthos or worse. I'm 19 and I still haven't seen it
... "Inconceivable."
Can most fans of it not do that anyway? I guess it would be annoying if you don't like it though
I'll suggest that most can't, though we can endlessly use snippets of the film at each other.
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Just an extra r, is that all.
My first name starts with a J and my last name is Welsh.
I can't tell all the different ways people butcher my name.
"I'm just gonna call you Joe" - Every other old person I tell my name to.
The Princess Bride had a major hand in shaping my sense of humor, along with Animaniacs and Looney Tunes. These are probably not the things to show your impressionable child if you want them to grow up to not be a sass elemental.
Indeed.
There was one guy I knew - younger than me by about a five-to-six years - who absolutely refused to watch The Princess Bride because, and I quote, "It's obviously a girly film, and I'm way too manly for that sort of thing."Marketing is a hell of a drug. Any movie that doesn't fit neatly into a set genre is going to struggle to find an audience. Stardust and Sweeney Todd also had that problem.
Indeed.
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Just an extra r, is that all.
"Frreehold DM"? Dooesn't seeem sso baad.
I can't tell all the different ways people butcher my name.
We don't have to - it's Welsh, it does so for us~! Ah-HAH~!
"I'm just gonna call you Joe" - Every other old person I tell my name to.
... I'm not. I'm gonna call you, "captain yesterday"~! :D