While I may have to simply hand out grades... those are a tad high for this bunch.
We'll see how many of them did the responsible thing and retained their own copy of the assignment.
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While I may have to simply hand out grades... those are a tad high for this bunch.
We'll see how many of them did the responsible thing and retained their own copy of the assignment.
Which is what? Plagiarism? Publish America? Being photographed with a pipe and tweed jacket with leather elbow pacthes for the book jacket photo?
The last one. Darn you elbow patches!!!!
The only reason I can identify a Keurig is because a coworker of mine has been entertaining me with her frustrations of trying to diagnose the problem with hers... then replicating the problem for tech support... then repeating it the next day....
I think she's just getting a replacement one. Me, I go back to sipping my tea.
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You see, that's exactly where you're going wrong. If you're going to darn your own elbow patches then at least don't use such lurid colours. fluorescent yellow is never going to show your best angle. (Insert innuendo here)
My husband has used that phrase the entire sixteen years we've been together.
I have now found my afternoon activity. Good day, Cantina!!
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Well, maybe so you don't feel all alone there in Appalachia, my mate from Oz says, "Useless as tits on a bull" and it's something I've just picked up. Same kinda thing, I guess. I reckon many of those sorts of sayings originated here in England. I could totally see an Anglo-Saxon saying either one of those phrases.
Speaking of, I remember seeing a documentary once about Appalachian speech patterns and how they hearken back to Elizabethan times. I've never heard anyone from there talk (although a friend from Uni had a proper hillbilly grandma called memaw in Kentucky that I met once). What's your take on that? I find it a really fascinating idea! I love etymology, though, especially of English and the roots of English words in older languages. One of our academics does linguistics and I love hearing all the recordings she has of very different English accents. And, being an American, I love hearing the difference between the local Cambridge accent and the posher accents you get at my work. Anyway... Rambling. I'll shut up now.
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I got the results of Timber's x-ray and ultrasound today. He has cardiomyopathy, which means his heart muscle is deteriorating. Even with meds, the vet says he has less than a year to live.
I probably won't feel like posting for a while.
I probably won't feel like posting for a while.
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Friend just forwarded me an article with the subject line: Your husband's future. Article was about men owning minivans. I was confused why she associated it with my hubs (we don't have kids yet, which is the crux of the article), and then I read this:
That's my husband's goal in life. And to get to be an asshole to people without them complaining. He's fun.
That's my husband's goal in life. And to get to be an asshole to people without them complaining. He's fun.
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Friend just forwarded me an article with the subject line: Your husband's future. Article was about men owning minivans. I was confused why she associated it with my hubs (we don't have kids yet, which is the crux of the article), and then I read this:
That's my husband's goal in life. And to get to be an asshole to people without them complaining. He's fun.
Forget the cats, I'd be aiming at the neighbors.
Stupid kids... ruining my lawn
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Speaking of, I remember seeing a documentary once about Appalachian speech patterns and how they hearken back to Elizabethan times. I've never heard anyone from there talk (although a friend from Uni had a proper hillbilly grandma called memaw in Kentucky that I met once). What's your take on that? I find it a really fascinating idea! I love etymology, though, especially of English and the roots of English words in older languages. One of our academics does linguistics and I love hearing all the recordings she has of very different English accents. And, being an American, I love hearing the difference between the local Cambridge accent and the posher accents you get at my work. Anyway... Rambling. I'll shut up now.
The Elizabethan thing is a discredited theory nowadays. The current belief is that our grammar and speech patterns are more closely related to Scots Gaelic. Which makes sense: fully 90% of Appalachia's population (at least this far south) is Scots-Irish, with a little German and Cherokee thrown in for flavor.
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Best boss I ever had grew up in rural Kentucky.
My $.02, this country (and every country) is full of all kinds of wonderful and interesting (and occasionally scary) subcultures, and every time I get to know someone who didn't grow up in the same one as me, my world gets a little bigger and richer.
Hey, my ancestors were Newfoundlanders. Same things are said about them. Sometimes it really nails a truth, sometimes it's just stupid asshattery at someone else's expense.
It's official. "The computer ate my homework" is no longer a lame excuse. The Uni's software/server that is used to record grades, attendances, etc and serve as a drop box for homework assignments just *ate* everything in a two week period.
Um... no backups? Seriously?
I can't wrap my head around that. The "Author's Big Mistake" is responding to negative reviews in a defensive/hostile/batsh*tcrazy way. I don't know if Anne Rice started it, but she was certainly the first big-name author I was aware of who did it (googling "Anne Rice Amazon Rant" should get you right into it.) Lots of authors have done the same thing since then, and a few editors, not wanting to be left out, have also jumped off that bridge.
I hope that at least, the two of you will still have some good times ahead, and when the end does come, that it's peaceful and quick. Many, many hugs to you both.
... I really need MOAR Coffee today.
If I ever have a meltdown like in the II thread, please hit me with a clue by four. No need for a pass code.
Yeah me too.
Thank you! You know, I really hate posting in areas like that because most of the time, people won't listen to what you have to say. But the deleted post was so nasty, I had to.
A few years ago, there was huge drama in my RL friends circle. One of them, an Americorps-trained volunteer, organized a get-together where we would all be essentially locked into a room together and could hash out our difficulties and be supportive and civil, with her laying out the ground rules and moderating the thing. One of the activities we did was go around in a circle and everyone give one "best thing I like about you" and one "biggest difficulty in our friendship" to whoever was sitting in the 'hotseat' at the time. Sort of a safe, controlled way to air grievances and allow them to be addressed.
Now, because said moderator was also a writer, she knew how critiques should be taken with a grain of salt, and told us, "If one person says your tie is ugly, that's an opinion. If many people say your tie is ugly, you have an ugly tie."
After that, "ugly tie" became our code word to bring people back to earth if their particular problem/issue started to rear its head inappropriately. We would simply take them aside and say something like, "Your ugly tie is showing".
I offer it here as a potential code phrase, but we can modify it to suit the Cantina
*hugs* I'm so sorry to hear that, 10!
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That's kind of a pity, but Gaelic is interesting, too. I used to be able to count to 20 and say "My name is" in Gaelic...heheh.
I'm going to have to go dig up that web site that had recordings of all sorts of American accents on it and have a listen again, because I have a feeling my perception may change about some of them after living here so long. I know I have a hard time telling standard east coast from standard west coast, now, and I grew up in California! *wanders away mumbling 'now, what was it called...'*
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Big hugs 10 to you and your furbabies.
Don't you hate it when you realize a story that you are working on isn't started in the right spot.
*wonders off muttering about useless outlines.*
Don't you hate it when you realize a story that you are working on isn't started in the right spot.
*wonders off muttering about useless outlines.*
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"Your ugly tie is showing".
I offer it here as a potential code phrase, but we can modify it to suit the Cantina
Please can we include the word 'monster' or something monster related. Hmm, thinking...
Hugs, hugs, hugs to 10s. Aw.
ETA: 207 words today.
Also, there's a report on the NY Times website and the BBC news that eating chocolate helps you to stay thin. Hurrah!
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207 > 0!
Hmm, maybe...but the point of the ugly tie thing was to use a phrase that was a gentle reminder, nothing that could come across as an insult or a public dressing-down.
But something whimsical, like "Hey, you've got a monster on your shoulder" could work?
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