My high school had similar dropout and college numbers, but we were at least 85% white, and most of the rest Asian.
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'Safe'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Aug 10, 2011 7:44:10 am PDT #20004 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2011 7:45:26 am PDT #20005 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
95% is amazing. My high school achieved close to 100% by encouraging people not going to university to switch schools at 16. Cheating, but effective. *Everyone* intended to go to university. It was like a higher education mill. Obviously I have nothing against higher education, but anyone who wanted professional training instead of a degree was strongly looked down upon.
Side business: Oxbridge. They were fucking obsessed. I fought against a lot of things in high school, and won everything except avoiding an Oxbridge application. They just wore me down and broke me. I dropped social studies and French and Christian assembly, but I couldn't get out of applying to Oxford. I'm still kinda mad.
Strix - Aug 10, 2011 7:48:07 am PDT #20006 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2011 7:48:44 am PDT #20007 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This is precisely the website of the Persian restaurant bon likes to order from near my house. Why, restaurants, why?
DavidS - Aug 10, 2011 7:52:18 am PDT #20008 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What if male superheroes were posed like Wonder Woman? [link]
How come WW is shorter than the other members of the JLA? She's supposed to be taller than Bats and Superman. At least in the Diniverse. I like my amazons Amazonian.
Strix - Aug 10, 2011 7:52:26 am PDT #20009 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, ita. I've been researching websites of other freelancers, some who claim to be very successful, and my eyes! my ears!
Shitty flash, tiny script, no white space, MUSIC.
I know a good-looking site (I'm still frothing over my theme's update that fucked my site all to hell, and destroyed a good month of work) doesn't guarantee an adept writer, but my god! If you have a website, make it at least inoffensive.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2011 7:53:50 am PDT #20010 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
She's supposed to be taller than Bats and Superman.
I'm pretty sure she's not taller than Superman in regular DC continuity, and Bats is a tossup. I'd place her at 6', and Supes at 6'2.
DavidS - Aug 10, 2011 7:56:38 am PDT #20011 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oooh, apparently we're good at science bowl:
Albany participates in many local competitions, including NAQT, NOSB's Otter Bowl (which they won in 2006 and took fourth nationwide), and the National Science Bowl, in which they also took fourth place nationwide. Albany High won its 2008 Science Bowl regional competition, defeating academic rival Mission San Jose High School. Traditionally, both schools went to different regional competitions, but in 2008, due to a desire to participate in both the Otter Bowl and Science Bowl, whose regionals coincided, Albany was forced to attend MSJ's regional competition for Science Bowl. In 2009, their NOSB team did not fare as well. However they fared much better in National Science Bowl, placing 5th nationwide.
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I'm pretty sure she's not taller than Superman in regular DC continuity, and Bats is a tossup. I'd place her at 6', and Supes at 6'2.
I know she's definitely modeled to be taller in the animated verse.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 10, 2011 7:57:14 am PDT #20012 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
What is Otter Bowl?
meara - Aug 10, 2011 7:58:17 am PDT #20013 of 30001
OMG WORK IS MAKING ME CRAZY.
OK, fine, require the "XYZ Certificate" be sent in or your own course be done.
But when my people send in the "ABC Certificate" and I point out that ABC includes EVERYTHING on the XYZ course and more, don't then tell me that's unacceptable and they either have to do XYZ or your course. They've DONE XYZ. They've ALSO done A and B in addition. WTF?!? They are not going to spend another 8 hours doing the same thing again, and for me to tell them they need to is BULLSHIT (and the reason I am coming to hate my job)