Much exam~ma, Shir.
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Calli - Aug 13, 2009 1:20:42 am PDT #19560 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Shir - Aug 13, 2009 3:38:45 am PDT #19561 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Post-exam.
I maybe, just maybe passed it. I hope so.
Barb - Aug 13, 2009 3:40:18 am PDT #19562 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Yay, Shir! And here I was about to offer you some ~ma.
Shir - Aug 13, 2009 3:45:31 am PDT #19563 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Hey, the "please let me pass it!"~ma is still necessary!
Will yay or get desperate after I'll know the grade.
Anything above 60 (or 56 - I'm not sure what the pass grade is) goes.
Barb - Aug 13, 2009 3:46:22 am PDT #19564 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
All yours, darling!
erikaj - Aug 13, 2009 4:49:54 am PDT #19565 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Sometimes I have ruled people out because the dog didn't like them, Seska. Gavin de Becker says she is just picking up my vibes, but either way, it has worked.
WindSparrow - Aug 13, 2009 4:56:32 am PDT #19566 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Exam results~ma for you, Shir.
And finding the right person ~ma to you, Seska.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Aug 13, 2009 6:08:06 am PDT #19567 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Results~ma, Shir! (The waiting is definitely worse than the exams. For me, anyway.)
erika, I know what you mean. I always interview with The Girl, or I end up picking the wrong person or turning people down who might actually be good. I do not have a dog to help choose, and the hamster is about 120 in human years so he doesn't do anything except sleep anymore. Not that he was ever that much help.
omnis_audis - Aug 13, 2009 6:23:20 am PDT #19568 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
results~ma for ya Shir. I'm positive you did awesome. So I guess it's more comfort~ma and confidence~ma for you. Either way, tons-o~ma your way.
Seska, good luck with choosing the right person.
ION, and this might come as a surprise, I haz the gronk. Blaaaahhhh.
Trudy Booth - Aug 13, 2009 7:21:18 am PDT #19569 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
(Although it did take them a while to acknowledge her publicly. After she was institutionalized, they explained her disappearance by saying that she'd gone to be a teacher, or joined a convent, or a few other stories, until 1962, after a few reporters had found out the truth.)
I think Eunice means acknowedging her before she was so seriously disabled. They didn't stick her in a home when she was a child, she went everywhere her family went. There was general knowledge, I believe, that the one daughter was a bit "slow" or "different".
The "they were all overachievers except her" comment seems to be the same quote re-quoted everywhere, I don't know if we can assume its the best assessment.
My own surely not best assessment is that she looks, in comparison to her siblings, like mildly retarted kids I grew up with looked in comparison to their siblings -- a little softer, a little less-focused.
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It's funny, this page has the heading "Does This Young Woman Look Retarded To You?" [link] and I think, "Yeah, she looks like Billy D."
And if being with Billy in marching band is any sort of indicator, you don't need Papa Joe screaming at you to get pretty darn frustrated and frustrating if you're even only 'mildly' retarded.