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i suppose if you'd never been to the place you couldn't understand what i'm saying. but like i said, it was like going to school in a warehouse, the outside walls were cinderblock and steel i-beams, the celings were i-beams and concrete slabs. it had all the curb appeal of a dimly lit home depot.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

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― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breck_School

Hail to Breck, our alma mater -
To her we'll be true!
Honor God and country -
Flag of gold and blue!

Our strong band will ne'er be broken -
Though we stray apart!
Friendships formed within these walls
Will live within each heart!

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

lol @ idea of me reproducing

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

so did the idea of kenan reproducing scare everyone away or are you all still at lunch?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't post, it keeps timing out.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Until now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm reading papers. :/

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

crap, i should've bought some coffee at lunch. i'm crashing.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i've heard rumors of a lot of other things like that, the vast majority being older female teachers taking on younger dudes

One of my female teachers in HS got engaged while I was in her class, and took tons of time off. I later found out that she was also sleeping with a student (brother of a friend) right around that time.

The record store dude said DJ Shadow isn't out until next week. JT sounds pretty good in the car though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I am TOTALLY crashing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I was crashing, but I headed that off with some caffeine.

I'm really gassy though.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

All of this talk about teachers getting busy with their students is GROSSING ME OUT, y'all.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm leaving in 30 minutes to get FIXed.

One of my coworkers keeps offering me a xanax to take before my next drilling/filling dentist appt. Thoughts? Comments? Concerns? I've never had one before. I'm pretty wary of DROGAS because my body is wussy, but also, going to the dentist makes me want to start popping pills.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

You're getting fixed? Like a cat?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, my posts kept timing out, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

No, Kenan. You are thinking of YOU. I'm going to see a physical therapist about my back.

Hi, Amanda. Long time no see. Isn't the new ANTM starting soon?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Taking non-prescribed pillz (phaaarmies) freaks me right the fuck out. There is no way to know what the dosage is like, or if it's right for you.

That said, Xanax is supposed to "turn your brain off" and/or "stop your mind from racing" according to those I've talked to about it. I've never taken it.

I bet, if you really wanted to, you could get some sort of anti-anxiety medicine prescribed if the dentist makes you nervous.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

would the xanax interact with the anaesthesia for fillings though? i suppose that could be looked up...

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

if you took a low dose or cut it in half, it would probably be okay. seems like lots of people take anti-anxiety stuff like xanax before dental work...

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll do more research. I doubt I'll try it. This coworker got them from a friend whose husband is a doctor.. or something. So they weren't even prescribed for her.

I have high anxiety in general. My brain should be turned off every morning.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Ta Ta. It's time to go try out this zen doctor of wonders.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

and if your brain was turned off, you maybe wouldn't have to deal with the annoyingness of your coworkers!

xp good luck with the doc

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd get the drogas from the dentist, if I were you, just to make sure you don't encounter any interaction/dosage problems. While I've never asked for it, I have been told that dentists prefer to have calm patients and will dope your ass up if need be.

xpost - good luck indeed!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

My dentist gave me Valium and it worked wonders, but I had to take two. I'm sort of difficult to sedate. Anyone who knows me can see how this might be true.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Tee hee.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I take to sedatives like a duck to water.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Girl, you know it's true.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Today, one of those Save the Children assholes talked to me through a traffic cone. I suggested that he cram the traffic cone up his ass. He said, "Oh, come on now! Have a good day!"

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never taken sedatives...wait, I took one for dentist-related stress once but instead of putting me to sleep it just made me feel really tall and the wrong size. I walked into the corners of things for a few hours, and kept looking at the floor like it was too far away.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

neat!

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

...made me feel really tall and the wrong size. I walked into the corners of things for a few hours, and kept looking at the floor like it was too far away.

This very much describes how I see things without my glasses on.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Recipe for total happiness: 1 Valium + 1 glass red wine. Just lay back and let the fuzziness take over.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Re traffic cone guy: Jenny, can we kill that man at the same time we kill everyone who has ever said to me "C'mon, let's see more of that pretty smile"?

I would have enjoyed the flakey feeling more if I weren't having multiple teeth extracted.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Also how I walk into things. Worse, I tend to trip on curbs, or overcompensate so much trying to step on them that I look insane.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

A little light afternoon reading. You know, I used to think that funeral parlor employees having sex with corpses was all a big joke, or something that never actually happened. Apparently, not only does it happen all the time, but has happened all throughout history.

Ew.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link

there was some sort of ill. pirg lady on my street the other day, she asked if i paid my utility bills or my landlord did. i told her in a very huffy tone that i was homeless.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Re: Re traffic cone guy: Jenny, can we kill that man at the same time we kill everyone who has ever said to me "C'mon, let's see more of that pretty smile"?

yep, same goes for random folks (esp. in elevators) who tell you to "smile!" when you apparently look down. I've never had the courage to say, "go fuck yourself. i always look like this."

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

This does not happen to men. Huh. Go figure.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

One of the greatest waitresses at the place I worked in college had a great one once. We were all out after a particularly brutal night of work, and she was venting about some asshole customer. A drunk jerk in the bar said something to the effect of "If you smile pretty, honey, you'd get better tips." She turned around, put on a beautiful, beaming smile (she was very attractive) and said "Fuck you, buddy!"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

OK all you "I punctuate the British way" freaks:

wtf is "ipod music?"
-- hstencil (hstenc!...), September 12th, 2006 2:52 PM. (hstencil) (later) (link)

Agree this is wrong? (We can always come together on question marks and exclamation points.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i think it is wrong. but i'm morally superior to all of you so get bent.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

wrong to my eyes, anyway. i had no idea that was standard american punctuation. fuck if i know these things, i don't bother to capitalize.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not standard American punctuation. I'm just saying I disagree with Kenan, Julia, and Otto on the period outside the quotes, but I agree with you on question marks outside the quotes.

This is standard:

This is "iPod music."
WTF is "iPod music"?
OMG it's "iPod music"!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i like being non-standard.

it's "ipod muisc". it just looks right that way.

or music, even.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm sure you know more about what's proper than i do when it comes to punctuation (truthfully, most 4th graders probably do too) but it seems to me that the quotation marks become part of the phrase and therefore must come before the punctuation mark. but, like julia, i can't be bothered to capitalize so take that with a grain of salt. or a gram of coke, whatever.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i enjoy snorting coke and discussing punctuation.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

let's hang out!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

UCP style says that if the punctuation (question mark, in this case) is part of the quote it goes inside the marks, and otherwise outside. I am not sure how this works for parentheses.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

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