and I would have bought it but I'm a wreck when it comes to mailing things. I have just today put my brother and SIL's xmas gift in the mail to them. I suck. (Cash, btw, the book is now boxed, not yet addressed, and allegedly going into the mail this WEEK, by god).
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Feb 23, 2010 6:41:28 pm PST #10295 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Barb - Feb 23, 2010 6:44:20 pm PST #10296 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Aw, Kat, in this case, it's definitely the thought that counts. It's brought a smile to my face on a day when not much else could.
Amy - Feb 23, 2010 6:45:17 pm PST #10297 of 30001
Because books.
What's up, Barb?
Also, do they make the ladies or men do compulsories anymore?
Hil R. - Feb 23, 2010 6:46:50 pm PST #10298 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Also, do they make the ladies or men do compulsories anymore?
Nope. Got rid of that around 2000 or so. I think 2002 was the first Olympics without them, but it might have been 1998.
Hil R. - Feb 23, 2010 6:48:11 pm PST #10299 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, wikipedia says compulsaries were eliminated from competition in 1990. I could swear I remembered them lasting longer than that.
SuziQ - Feb 23, 2010 6:48:50 pm PST #10300 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
They had a "piece" about it and how current figure skating is not as technical without the school figures.
I remember tracing figures long, long ago. Tedious, but I did learn a lot from it.
Amy - Feb 23, 2010 6:49:35 pm PST #10301 of 30001
Because books.
They used to show them, too, didn't they? Or am I remembering skating movies?
SuziQ - Feb 23, 2010 6:50:09 pm PST #10302 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Oh, and earlier today, they had a "piece" about how the winter games involve lots of waiting. Seriously. Someone got paid to talk about how the skaters and such have to wait to see if they won or not.
Hil R. - Feb 23, 2010 6:51:05 pm PST #10303 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I remember tracing figures long, long ago. Tedious, but I did learn a lot from it.
Yeah. I kinda liked it, actually. It required precision, and precision was something I could do, much more than I could do speed or strength.
And now that I think about it, I definitely remember figures in competition in at least 1993, but that was ISIA, not USFSA.
Hil R. - Feb 23, 2010 6:51:45 pm PST #10304 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
They used to show them, too, didn't they? Or am I remembering skating movies?
They'd usually show them at weird times, not during the prime time broadcast.