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Posted on 06/26/2004 8:07:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Understood.... There are moments where I walk into my house and I am glad no one is there to see it but us. You have pride you'd like to have in your place, and it wasn't ready for guests. Even though the guests probably don't judge as hard as you do.
If you knew she was coming sooner you might have stood a chance and felt better about it. But my place stays clean about 15 minutes. After that, all bets are off.
There is ~nothing~ you can do about someone with allergies.
What'd you think of her, anyway?
My apartment's approved, yay! I have a place!
Allergies are not something I fully understand - none of us were allergic to anything, that I know of, except one brother who can't eat shrimp (more for us!)
I mostly worry about pet smells and hair that I probably am not even aware of at this point.
But...I guess there's not much I can do at this point.
Dad's got dinner ready. I'm heading out!
I haven't seen enough of her to know! She seems nice.
Yeah - I am not an allergic person either.
"Right, manga is my kind of weird. American and Japanese comics are really too different to compare, IMO. I haven't figured out American comics yet..."
From what I've read so far, the main difference I've noticed is format: American comics are published in monthly installments with stories about 18-22 pages long (plus ads), which requires you to adjust the storytelling method accordingly to fit the panel space; Japanese comics are published in huge collections, which gives you more panels to play with and affects the storytelling methods accordingly (for instance, you can take more panels to focus on a certain event that you might have to sum up in one panel in an American comic). Also as far as content goes, American comics stand in a superhero tradition which dates back to the 1930s and has its own conventions, Japanese comics have some relation to this tradition but also have distinctive elements from Japanese SF, martial arts, etc. So I see some differences, but also a lot of similarities, and a lot of crossover between the two traditions since esp. the early 80s when Frank Miller injected some Japanese influence into US comics through "Daredevil", "Wolverine", "Ronin", and "Batman".
"am trying to get myself to do some writing other than opinions in the livejournal or other stuff and keep finding other things to do, like cleaning house. Plans this week havent turned out the way I want them to.
in a word, I am bit bummed today."
I can relate to that. I have some fiction writing I want to do but first I have to get some "work"-related writing out of the way before I can do my "fun" writing.
I had to deal with the same thing at my old apartment when I had a cat and my sister-in-law was allergic to my cat. She and my brother wanted to visit but could never stay long because after about 15-30 minutes her symptoms would start kicking in.
Have you ever heard of Michael Eaton?
One of the programs we used was Eaton & Associates, "Math That Works!". Up to third grade it was Saxon, then 4th and up was Michael Eaton. It is difficult if you're not used to it, but if the kids used Saxon, they can transfer over to the Eaton without too much complaint.
No, we've never used Eaton. What's the focus of it?
Those were fun! I used to subscribe to that, from about issue #12 on. I had everything up to about issue 80 at one time. Now I've only got like the first six plus a few scattered ones.
Everything is WORTHLESS now, because no one wants to go near the SW stuff.
Have you tried here? My brother put this together last year:
"My apartment's approved, yay! I have a place!"
Congratulations! Does that mean they decided you're un-dead? :)
But thank you thank you. Ebay is HOPELESS.
Either that or they have a really strange anti-discrimination policy.
There are of course several things I will never sell : my SW (Jung) and ESB (GWTW-style) marquis posters, the Marvel comics, one or two plates, and my ceramic figure of Han Solo (the SIGMA one for ROTK). Those are my PRIZED possessions. Oh, and my Hallmark glowlight M. Falcon ornament.
Han Solo was in Return of the King?
/obnoxious
"THANK YOU!! I take it I can maybe sell some stuff there?"
I believe so, but I've never tried it. I'll ask my brother for the details.
"Either that or they have a really strange anti-discrimination policy."
LOL! Maybe that'll be the next PC cause: equal opportunity housing for the undead :) "Non-breathers have rights, too!"--ROFL!
It starts out with vocabulary, and daily sentences, then teaches the new concept. After that there are 14 questions/problems, all on learned material ~ no new stuff. It goes through all the mathematical domains in each lesson The new material is practiced with 2 sets of 5 word problems, each set in resopnse to a separate article. The math session ends in probability and problem solving games.
The company is really trying to break into the public school arena, so they are advertising with all the standardized mumbo jumbo. I only know of a couple of public schools around here that use the curriculum.
When I was teaching 6th graders, the first lesson, first day of school, was f(x)=y.
ummmm....he was the third orc on the left...you know those guys...they look all alike...especially with those helmets...
HA! I meant ROTJ...*mutters* stupid lucas....
Speaking of SW, have any of you ever seen THIS SITE before? I ran across it a long time ago, and still find it absolutely hilarious. It was the same kind of thing I wanted to do for LOTR., but again, I am no great artist.
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