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Post by garnetblack on May 6, 2009 23:36:24 GMT -5
But I like the spirit of the song...because I don't want to become a boring, frumpy old stick in the mud who wears sensible shoes and elastic-waist polyester pants and can't remember what it was like to be young. Which might be part of why I hang out here. I'm afraid my parents have been that way for the past decade. Of course, having to raise me has a lot to do with that.
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Post by Lord FunkyHoof on May 6, 2009 23:52:41 GMT -5
I keep forgetting to ask, but who is that in your avatar? I know I've seen that person somewhere before... She's Nova from Star Blazers (or Yuki Mori from Yamato if you prefer the Japanese name and title). It was a show I watched after school and loooved when I was little...like maybe 6 or 7 years old. I thought Nova was too cool...I mean, she got to be in space...and there was a little romance between her and Derek, who I thought was cute, despite his lame Beatles haircut. I had forgotten about the show until a conversation with CJS from here reminded me of it. Ooohh okay. Hm I don't think I've seen the anime, but I love the old retro style of shows of that era. Which reminds me of this video.
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Post by Charlotte C on May 7, 2009 11:57:47 GMT -5
But I like the spirit of the song...because I don't want to become a boring, frumpy old stick in the mud who wears sensible shoes and elastic-waist polyester pants and can't remember what it was like to be young. Which might be part of why I hang out here. I'm afraid my parents have been that way for the past decade. Of course, having to raise me has a lot to do with that. Lots of people are...I think if you're not careful, it just sort of happens. But it doesn't have to. And I'm not just talking about appearance (despite my polyester pants comment) but more a way of thinking.
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Post by Charlotte C on May 7, 2009 11:59:37 GMT -5
She's Nova from Star Blazers (or Yuki Mori from Yamato if you prefer the Japanese name and title). It was a show I watched after school and loooved when I was little...like maybe 6 or 7 years old. I thought Nova was too cool...I mean, she got to be in space...and there was a little romance between her and Derek, who I thought was cute, despite his lame Beatles haircut. I had forgotten about the show until a conversation with CJS from here reminded me of it. Ooohh okay. Hm I don't think I've seen the anime, but I love the old retro style of shows of that era. Which reminds me of this video. Yeah, the style looks the same. Funny video...I like the repeated " Aaaaaah"'s.
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Post by Mickey on May 7, 2009 12:19:28 GMT -5
Where did you get the picture in your signature? I stumbled up on one similar (which I posted here once I saw yours) and I'm thinking there is a stockpile of them somewhere.
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Post by Charlotte C on May 7, 2009 12:27:26 GMT -5
Where did you get the picture in your signature? I stumbled up on one similar (which I posted here once I saw yours) and I'm thinking there is a stockpile of them somewhere. I had seen it on a calender, so I typed the quote into google and it came up with an image of the inside of the same calender I had seen...so, it was just a random find on google images. But the calender I saw had other, similar saying with those retro 1950's pictures.
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Post by Mickey on May 7, 2009 14:04:51 GMT -5
Where did you get the picture in your signature? I stumbled up on one similar (which I posted here once I saw yours) and I'm thinking there is a stockpile of them somewhere. I had seen it on a calender, so I typed the quote into google and it came up with an image of the inside of the same calender I had seen...so, it was just a random find on google images. But the calender I saw had other, similar saying with those retro 1950's pictures. So, what you're saying is I will have to research it?
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Post by eclogite on May 7, 2009 16:01:40 GMT -5
Looks a lot like the sort o thing they illustrated school books with when I was in grade school. It seems to have been a pretty common style from the 30s through the 50s, you see the same thing in WPA murals in older public buildings. I'm not a student of art history but I imagine that there is a name for it, given how common it was.
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Post by Ninnik Nishukan on May 9, 2009 15:53:40 GMT -5
You didn't know? Kids love to play things where adults stand in long lines and get annoyed. Batman and the Joker...together. Hmm. Well...they hate each other; they fight anytime they're in the same area; they're on opposite sides of the law; the Joker frequently tries to kill Batman (and means it)...obviously they're meant to be together. Probably best not to give that pairing a 'title' using their initials like D/S though. Hahah, yeah, exactly. Kids love the DMV. XD I'm sure that DMV figurine was more designed to sit on the shelf of somebody in their 20's or 30's and not be played with. Me, I kinda dislike figurines and stuff that do nothing but collect dust. Oh, Joker/Batman is old, OLD stuff. I'm sure it has some kinda weird hybrid name already. And looking at some of these comics (yes, those are real comics, not fan comics) it seems to make more sense than some other enemy ships, but yeah, you won't find me shipping it, anyway. XD Getting to see them have some weighty discussions about their weird lives in a non-romantic fashion would've been interesting, though. I don't really ship anything in Batman per se-- I find all sorts of different and often contradictive pairings interesting, like Harley/Ivy, Harley/Batman, Batman/Catwoman etc. Joker/Harley is interesting, too, but it kinda mostly makes me wince and feel bad for Harley. Don't get me wrong, she's basically just as crazy, violent and crime-loving as the Joker, but the way he brushes her off and talks down to her and even beats her up and almost kills her contrasted with her enthusiastic affection for him just makes me cringe. I'm gonna be tacky and paraphrase myself from Maslow now-- within a villain/villain relationship, either party should accept the other being evil to everybody but them. I guess the fact that she keeps coming back to him after all the crap he does to her just shows how crazy she really is. Me, I'm a sap and have from time to time entertained the notion of Batman attempting to redeem Harley á la what we saw glimpses of in Harlequinade and Harley's Holiday(which even had Harley kiss Batman twice), but as for them ever becoming a couple-- yeah, no, don't think so. Batman has to remain the brooding loner, that's his thing, and Harley probably wouldn't get any better by going from one emotionally distant guy to another, anyway. Why am I here when I have an exam to study for, you ask? Why, because I'm currently stuck at the Denial stage, of course! Exam? What is this...exam you speak of?
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Post by Charlotte C on May 11, 2009 10:11:50 GMT -5
I had seen it on a calender, so I typed the quote into google and it came up with an image of the inside of the same calender I had seen...so, it was just a random find on google images. But the calender I saw had other, similar saying with those retro 1950's pictures. So, what you're saying is I will have to research it? 'Fraid so, yeah. I did some looking, and the only place I found a few similar ones online was a website that sells condoms...which seemed weird to me. I mean, I guess the two things kind of go together... Anyway, it also had some definitely R-rated things, so I can't link it here. I couldn't find anything that had all the pages from that calender or anything.
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Post by Charlotte C on May 11, 2009 10:13:02 GMT -5
Looks a lot like the sort o thing they illustrated school books with when I was in grade school. It seems to have been a pretty common style from the 30s through the 50s, you see the same thing in WPA murals in older public buildings. I'm not a student of art history but I imagine that there is a name for it, given how common it was. Yeah, it sort of reminds me of the 'Dick and Jane' readers.
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Post by Charlotte C on May 11, 2009 11:02:58 GMT -5
Hahah, yeah, exactly. Kids love the DMV. XD I'm sure that DMV figurine was more designed to sit on the shelf of somebody in their 20's or 30's and not be played with. Me, I kinda dislike figurines and stuff that do nothing but collect dust. Probably so. And eventually to be sold on ebay as 'mint in box'. All the action figures we have here have been lovingly played with, and often chewed on. For some reason both my kids used to love to chew on their legs when they were young. I just hope they didn't ingest too much toxic paint. My husband would take them to a big comic store in Charlotte to buy some of the more obscure figures they wanted (the ones Walmart didn't carry). The people at the comic store would probably be horrified that as soon as they got to the car they ripped open those carefully preserved packages and started - gasp - playing with them. Oh, Joker/Batman is old, OLD stuff. I'm sure it has some kinda weird hybrid name already. And looking at some of these comics (yes, those are real comics, not fan comics) it seems to make more sense than some other enemy ships, but yeah, you won't find me shipping it, anyway. XD Getting to see them have some weighty discussions about their weird lives in a non-romantic fashion would've been interesting, though. I don't really ship anything in Batman per se-- I find all sorts of different and often contradictive pairings interesting, like Harley/Ivy, Harley/Batman, Batman/Catwoman etc. Joker/Harley is interesting, too, but it kinda mostly makes me wince and feel bad for Harley. Don't get me wrong, she's basically just as crazy, violent and crime-loving as the Joker, but the way he brushes her off and talks down to her and even beats her up and almost kills her contrasted with her enthusiastic affection for him just makes me cringe. I'm gonna be tacky and paraphrase myself from Maslow now-- within a villain/villain relationship, either party should accept the other being evil to everybody but them. I guess the fact that she keeps coming back to him after all the crap he does to her just shows how crazy she really is. Me, I'm a sap and have from time to time entertained the notion of Batman attempting to redeem Harley á la what we saw glimpses of in Harlequinade and Harley's Holiday(which even had Harley kiss Batman twice), but as for them ever becoming a couple-- yeah, no, don't think so. Batman has to remain the brooding loner, that's his thing, and Harley probably wouldn't get any better by going from one emotionally distant guy to another, anyway. Oh, everything that's new to me is old news. But those comics do show Joker having an obsession with Batman that could be interpreted as some sort of romantic fascination pretty easily. I'm strictly a casual fan of Batman...as far as the well-known superheroes go, he's my favorite, but I've only seen about a dozen episodes of Batman:TAS, and maybe the same number of Justice League, as well as a few episodes of The Batman,. I've seen some of the older Batman movies, but haven't seen the new ones. I remember watching the Adam West show in the afternoons as a kid, and there was some sort of animated Batman adaptation that came on TV then, too, which I liked. Other than what I've seen here, I haven't read any of the actual comics. I like the stories in comic books, but I prefer a standard narrative structure (paragraphs! please!) so I never sat down and read them. Anyway, all that to say...I don't really ship anything in Batman either, but I've always liked the idea of Batman and Catwoman, probably because I liked Catwoman growing up. She seemed to be the most frequent (only?) female villain in the animated Batman of my youth. I don't remember Harley or Ivy being in it. So she was one of the few really intersting female 'action' type characters (like we talked about before, it was all Princess movies then). Princesses were okay, but I liked someone who did something. So that left Wonder Woman, Catwoman and a few others. I had Wonder Woman underoos, but I always secretly preferred Catwoman. But I don't really see Batman and Catwoman settling down and living happily ever after...one or the other of them would have to change too much. And he does have to stay the emotionally unavailable loner, like you said. I haven't seen either of those episodes with Harley and Batman, but will probably look for them now. I hadn't ever really thought of them together, but it's an interesting idea. Wanting to redeem her fits his character, and she seems more pliable and willing to change than Catwoman to me. Although, again, like you said, not in a 'live happily ever after' kind of way because, well, he's Batman. I find the Joker/Harley/Ivy triangle interesting. I like Joker and Harley in the comic Dippy posted above, but, yeah, in some things I've seen she is too close to the real-life battered woman, which makes me cringe and wince. However, the portrayal does seem realistic. In fact, I think that's why it makes me cringe at times. Sometimes, she reminds me too much of my friend from high school who had an abusive boyfriend.(My friend wasn't insane or a criminal, just abused). Why am I here when I have an exam to study for, you ask? Why, because I'm currently stuck at the Denial stage, of course! Exam? What is this...exam you speak of? So, why am I here writing ridiculously long posts when I have papers to grade? Because I'm done! I'm done! I'm done!!!! (Dances around gleefully) ;D And my husband and I are going to the beach, alone, for three wonderful days this weekend! ;D Yay! And good luck with the exams!
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Post by eclogite on May 11, 2009 16:17:53 GMT -5
Turning in the final grades is always a high point of the semester. Now for three weeks idle speculation about what the next bunch will be like......
I think grading was my least favorite chore when I was teaching (there were exceptions, sometimes I'd have somebody who was really sharp or funny, preferably both, whose stuff I'd anticipate. Conversely there were the folks who labored under the delusion that and essay consisted of a single sentance or never got the distinction of concepts such as 'compare and contrast' or 'discuss'). I brought a lot of it on myself by trying to write an exam where folks that paid a modicum of attention could pass with reasonable effort but where an A or B demanded a good understanding of the course material.
My stock answer to "will this be on the test' was "sure, why not?".
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Post by Mickey on May 12, 2009 8:02:12 GMT -5
So, what you're saying is I will have to research it? 'Fraid so, yeah. I did some looking, and the only place I found a few similar ones online was a website that sells condoms...which seemed weird to me. I mean, I guess the two things kind of go together... Anyway, it also had some definitely R-rated things, so I can't link it here. I couldn't find anything that had all the pages from that calender or anything. But it's finals week. I don't have time to look anything up that won't be on a test.
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Post by eclogite on May 12, 2009 9:59:20 GMT -5
Ah, then I will gift you with one of my other stock answer: "Poor time management and preparation on your part does not comprise a crisis on my part" or as one of my Navy instructors put it many years ago: Proper prior planning and preparation prevents p**s poor performance.
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Post by Charlotte C on May 12, 2009 21:30:20 GMT -5
Turning in the final grades is always a high point of the semester. Now for three weeks idle speculation about what the next bunch will be like...... I think grading was my least favorite chore when I was teaching (there were exceptions, sometimes I'd have somebody who was really sharp or funny, preferably both, whose stuff I'd anticipate. Conversely there were the folks who labored under the delusion that and essay consisted of a single sentance or never got the distinction of concepts such as 'compare and contrast' or 'discuss'). I brought a lot of it on myself by trying to write an exam where folks that paid a modicum of attention could pass with reasonable effort but where an A or B demanded a good understanding of the course material. My stock answer to "will this be on the test' was "sure, why not?". Yep, such a relief to turn those grades in and be done! Grading is not my favorite task either...especially at the end of the semester, because in my classes there's such a huge pile of it. Most of my classes do portfolios instead of exams (no scan sheets for me, unfortunately). Yeah, after a few assignments I know which student's paper I am looking forward to reading...and on the other side of that, which one I just groan when I see. Lucky for me, I don't teach summers, so I don't have to worry about the next batch until August. One thing I noticed this semester: all of my classes started off full or over the limit, but I had way more drops than usual. I'm not doing anything different. I think it has something to do with the economic situation...maybe people who lost jobs thought they'd go back to school, but then didn't like it once they got started? Or maybe they found new jobs. Anyway, it was a noticable difference.
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Post by Charlotte C on May 12, 2009 21:32:26 GMT -5
'Fraid so, yeah. I did some looking, and the only place I found a few similar ones online was a website that sells condoms...which seemed weird to me. I mean, I guess the two things kind of go together... Anyway, it also had some definitely R-rated things, so I can't link it here. I couldn't find anything that had all the pages from that calender or anything. But it's finals week. I don't have time to look anything up that won't be on a test. How do you know it won't be on the test? Wait until after exams...whatever's on the Internet now will most likely still be there next week.
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Post by eclogite on May 13, 2009 20:08:57 GMT -5
I was pretty much stuck with it, we got paid by the contact hour, so summer classes were kind of important to maintain cash flow. It was something of a relief to return to school myself and start spending my summers doing field work.
One unfortunate aspect of the summer teaching schedule was that the high school and college semesters got out of sync. This was mostly due to semester creep, the public school year kept starting earlier and earlier, it was after Labor Day when I went to high school and in early August by the time #1 kid was in high school. Since her birthday was around then, we used to have a family vacation the two weeks before high school started. Typically I'd go down to the coast with the girls the weekend the vacation started, then go back home Sunday night, repeat and rinse for the next couple of weekends and haul their stuff back when they came home. They drove down in the sports car and I drove down and back in my pick-up (given the volumn of stuff a teenage girl, especially one in the stage of experimenting with personal hygene products, required for two weeks, the pick up was vital for more than my commute).
I think the semester creep had something to do with the schools getting extra federal money for more class days. The state finally came to it's senses, unfortunately years after #1 kid had graduated, mandating that no public school could start before Labor Day or stay in session past Memorial Day. As far as I was ever able to determine, the longer public school year didn't result in either more contact hours or improved scholarship. Most of the extra time seemed to go to in service days (oddly, when I was in public school, the teachers managed on one in service per semester, of course they only had one principal and two vice principals. The councilors actually helped the kids do what they needed to do to get into college, rather than just deal with the trubled kids, times change.
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Post by Ninnik Nishukan on May 15, 2009 15:35:03 GMT -5
Hay thurr. Exam done, I now await whatever betas you wanna send my way. Have a fun weekend with the hubby! Do everything I would do!
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Post by Charlotte C on May 18, 2009 19:15:58 GMT -5
I was pretty much stuck with it, we got paid by the contact hour, so summer classes were kind of important to maintain cash flow. It was something of a relief to return to school myself and start spending my summers doing field work. One unfortunate aspect of the summer teaching schedule was that the high school and college semesters got out of sync. This was mostly due to semester creep, the public school year kept starting earlier and earlier, it was after Labor Day when I went to high school and in early August by the time #1 kid was in high school. Since her birthday was around then, we used to have a family vacation the two weeks before high school started. Typically I'd go down to the coast with the girls the weekend the vacation started, then go back home Sunday night, repeat and rinse for the next couple of weekends and haul their stuff back when they came home. They drove down in the sports car and I drove down and back in my pick-up (given the volumn of stuff a teenage girl, especially one in the stage of experimenting with personal hygene products, required for two weeks, the pick up was vital for more than my commute). I think the semester creep had something to do with the schools getting extra federal money for more class days. The state finally came to it's senses, unfortunately years after #1 kid had graduated, mandating that no public school could start before Labor Day or stay in session past Memorial Day. As far as I was ever able to determine, the longer public school year didn't result in either more contact hours or improved scholarship. Most of the extra time seemed to go to in service days (oddly, when I was in public school, the teachers managed on one in service per semester, of course they only had one principal and two vice principals. The councilors actually helped the kids do what they needed to do to get into college, rather than just deal with the trubled kids, times change. I get paid by the contact hour, as well, so I won't get a paycheck for the next three months. I'm usually able to budget enough that I have money until I get paid again, and if not, my husband takes up the slack. I've also resorted to selling stuff on eBay (mostly baby items that the kids have outgrown) or cleaning out the bookshelf and selling books on Amazon to make extra cash over the summer. One year I babysat for a friend...I had my 1-year-old, her 1-year-old, her 3-year-old, and I was pregnant. I didn't do that again! Our public school semester runs from the end of August until mid-June; the colleges around here tend to run mid-August until mid-May, so my schedule doesn't quite match with the kids either. It's nice in May, but a pain in August when I have to beg relatives to babysit for those first few weeks in August.
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