Comments on: Friday Happy Hour: November Buffet, II

By: captain

captain — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:39:29 +0000

1. Heinous (Whenever law and order: svu starts I cringe)

2. Self-destruction for the morally and socially inhibited.

3. I know of only one (whose mother was sexually and physically abused from early childhood to adulthood and too afraid to let her daughter experience the world) Don’t know how it’s going, but I know the world is going to eat her alive one day. (She only just recently ate something with sugar in it, accidentally at that, and she’s 7.)

4. The 9-11 commission report: omissions and distortions by David Griffin.

5. The first time I moved to a new town.

6. Any flat roof of any stading structure. Office buildings, Apt. buildings, etc. or abandoned places. (Anyplace I can be safely be sure no one will just happen across)

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:38:32 +0000

1. “Y’all.” Never use, never will. I grew up in Chicago and moved to Birmingham when I was 14. I took such heat–and still do–for my “Yankee accent.” Dealing with frigid “old southern” customers in the food industry has always been the worst! I cannot tell you how many times older women took offense to my greeting of “How are you guys doing today?” I wasn’t calling them MEN!

Oh, and to JaneM: “irregardless” not actually a word; it contains two negative elements (-ir and -less). It’s redundant.

2. Common Sense Defense

3. I was home schooled for 7th and 8th grade. The school systems in the area I lived at the time were, suffice it to say, not the best (think Dangerous Minds). I went through an accredited school in Baltimore (Calvert), and did most of it on my own; my mom was working two jobs at the time. I was already awkward and shy before I was home schooled, so I doubt much would have changed before I entered high school. I liked being on my own time table and in solitude. Shrug. I don’t regret it.

4. The Story of Philosophy. I know it’s an introductory book, but I find the whole of philosophy both alluring and intimidating.

5. I sure as hell didn’t want to move to Alabama when I was a teenager, but have acclimated to the area over the years. There’s no way I’d be able to survive a Chicago winter now.

6. Typically, I concentrate better if I’m anywhere else than my house. It feels like I’m here all the time… Gets rather monotonous and deadening after a soon.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:11:31 +0000

1. Any word people can’t say or use properly, including the ones listed above such as “supposably”. (Being an elementary school teacher makes this difficult)
2. Random Trivia 101: How to fill your brain with seemingly useless facts, quotes, and concepts.
3. I have to agree that the parents/teachers have a lot to do with how a homeschooler turns out. I’ve taught previously homeschooled kids with no social skills or understanding of the right way to deal with others. But I’ve had friends who were homeschooled and were bright and popular. I plan to homeschool my children if the circumstances allow, otherwise I will school them at home in whatever their school fails to teach them.
4. Any of the hundreds of books that are already in my bookcase but unread.
5. I wasn’t thrilled about the idea of being sent to Israel in high school, went cause my grandma wanted me to. Ended up being an amazing experience.
6. Bathtub or quiet coffee shop. Something about getting me away from my desk allows me to actually get some work done. The back porch is nice too.

By: B

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:54:05 +0000

1. Ointment.

Game over

By: margaret

margaret — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:33:35 +0000

1.Word I hate: seen
Why? Because people don’t know how to use it properly!
2. Advanced Procrastination
3. No homeschool experience
4. I’m a librarian.. the list is endless!
5. How about a place I really wanted to go and ended up hating: Mexico, specifically, Nogales.
6. In college it was my bed, with music playing. Silence distracts me!

By: FISHLEGBOOTS

FISHLEGBOOTS — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:20:30 +0000

1) Banal. It’s just so…blah.
2) Turd Ferguson and Sanjaya Malakar Control the Universe-The Study of Pop Culture and America’s Life in Front of the Television
3) Homeschooled kids had the best narcotics.
4) Crime and Punishment
5) Delaware
6) When I was a child and had talked out of turn, Mother would put a bean bag in the bathtub and I had to think about what I had done for exactly 1 hour. A lot of answers came to me in that bathtub.

By: Molly

Molly — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:18:47 +0000

I’m with Jenny (comment 23) – I don’t understand what the problem is with the word moist. It just makes me think of delicious cake or perfectly cooked turkey!

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:36:22 +0000

1) I have several words that I really dislike, but the F word is pretty high up there.

2) How to Have Fun Being Yourself, I think…

3) I was home schooled all the way through grade school and high school, and now attend a public university. I think home schooling helped teach me to teach myself, and how to study on my own. I don’t think it hindered me socially, for the most part, but part of that is because I’m a born “people-person,” so I probably wouldn’t have had an issue with that, anyway. One of the advantages I have seen for home schoolers is that you can learn more at your own pace–faster than normal, if you want to and are able to do so, or slower, if you need to. I had a lot of home schooled friends, and honestly, I think you have just as big a variety of personalities, temperaments, gifts, and difficulties among home schooled students as you do among students who attended more traditional schools.

4) Book 12 of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time! I know, I’m a nerd… :) I haven’t read it yet for the simple fact that it hasn’t been written yet.

5) I really like traveling, so I’m hard-pressed to think of a good answer for this one. Actually… I didn’t really want to go to the university I’m attending now, but my parents talked me into it and I came here mostly to make them happy (and because they offered a better financial deal than anywhere else I was considering)–however, I love it here now! I have had so many wonderful experiences and made some amazing friends here that I wouldn’t trade it for anything!

6) A tree. There’s a really good climbing tree on my university’s campus, and sometimes I take a book and sit in the tree to read it.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:20:02 +0000

1. Irregardless – as mentioned previously, this is not a word and it just grates on every one of my nerves when people say it!

2. Learning To Think For Yourself 101 – covering an array of topics ranging from politics and religion to music and fashion.

3. I’ve known homeschooled kids who were very intelligent and well adjusted, but I’ve also known those who did not seem to actually get an education and lacked most basic social skills. I agree with earlier comments that it really depends on the parents and their motivation for doing it.

4. Lolita – it’s one of those classics I feel I really need to read, and I have actually tried to recently, but the subject matter is just so creepy that I had to put it down.

5. I’m having a hard time thinking of a place for this one. I usually am just excited to go anywhere!

6. I seem to concentrate and think best while driving (unless I’m stuck in crazy traffic). This is also what I do when I’m upset, although it’s probably not very safe!

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:46:53 +0000

1. Unbeknownst.
2. Letting the Laundry Go, or Finding Your Inner Feminist
3. Homeschooled my kid for one year after pulling her out of 7th grade because the school was so bad they had armed security guards and she was getting groped regularly in the stairwells. I semi-taught her, gave her plenty to read, saved my money until we could move to a better neighborhood. She entered high school the next year and tested well enough to enter honors classes in three subjects, but I think that was more her doing than mine.
4. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth.
5. A baseball game, long time ago.
6. On the bullet train to Stockholm. I always sit in first class to escape the ill-behaved children (nine out of ten in Sweden) and there is something about the quiet in the car and the soothing swish of the rails slipping past at 200 kph that really clears my head.