Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.

Anya ,'Potential'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

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.


Jesse - Aug 30, 2010 11:56:15 am PDT #21142 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yay, Perkins.

Phew, msbelle. Can you get the teacher to give you more support with clarity about what's due when?


SailAweigh - Aug 30, 2010 11:56:41 am PDT #21143 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I give you pom-poms! *\\0/*


Daisy Jane - Aug 30, 2010 11:56:55 am PDT #21144 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Congrats Perkins!


Dana - Aug 30, 2010 11:58:33 am PDT #21145 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Woohoo, Perkins!


Amy - Aug 30, 2010 11:58:35 am PDT #21146 of 30001
Because books.

Perkins! Whoot!

We have our first gum-in-hair emergency. Any tips aside from cutting?


Calli - Aug 30, 2010 11:58:43 am PDT #21147 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

That's great, Perkins!


Lee - Aug 30, 2010 11:59:28 am PDT #21148 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I am glad things are better now than they were this morning, msbelle. I hope tonight is better as well.


lisah - Aug 30, 2010 11:59:29 am PDT #21149 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

Good news, Perkins!

And my sympathies, msbelle. Wish there was an easy solution for you guys.

I am in my new office. It has a window! First office with a window I've had in over 10 years! It looks out on the driveway and I don't get any direct sunlight but still! Window! I can figure out the weather for myself.


megan walker - Aug 30, 2010 12:00:29 pm PDT #21150 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Awesome news Perkins!


Strix - Aug 30, 2010 12:00:55 pm PDT #21151 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Talk with the teacher, and ask him/her to go over it and sign it. Most teachers will not blink an eye. This is one of the skills that teachers need to be working on with kids, so it is not an unusual request.

Other than that, obviously, I don't know all about how Mac relates to issues, so I don't have great advice about incentives/consequences. It just rips my heart out, msbelle, that you just wanted to be a parent so bad, and even though having Mac in your life is fulfilling, it's so much damned harder and painful than was hoped for. OTOH, I am SO glad that Mac has you -- imagine how utterly awful his life would be if you were not in it.

You have my respect and my hopes for shit gettin' better.