[Slade]

The good: I finished my paper, and I think I did fairly well!

The bad: I burnt the cookies I baked in celebration because I never heard the timer beep. :-(

[Bond]

My favorite book series has ended, and I am content with that.

[Mirithorn]

Bad: I started a 42 hour drivers education course today. It is way more boring than I expected.

Good: It's also much more hilarious than I expected. The first thing the teacher did was ask everyone why they wanted to take the class. Reasonably enough, most people answered "to learn how to drive." To which he responded "To learn how to drive. Good answer. But you can't drive if you're DEAD!" And from there he proceded to make sure the entire class knew how to spell "steering" (s-t-e-a-r-i-n-g, as he explained three times), and illustrate his points with bizarre examples such as: "Always leave yourself an out. That means, make sure you always have an emergency exit. We have an emergency exit right here in the classroom, so that if a car comes and crashes into the door, and then catches on fire, we have a way out."

There were also videos, which were sort of on the line between entertaining and surreal. It featured about 12 kids,including the obligatory black girl in a wheelchair, an instructor, and their exciting and educational series of field trips, over and over again. "Hi again! Gee, it sure is fun here at FRANKLIN PARK ZOO. What a beautiful african savannah! This is the perfect time to review some driving information! Samantha, how can you sober up quickly to drive?"
"The only way to avoid driving drunk is not to drink before driving."

"Hi kids! It's me, (insert name here) from (insert radio station here). Driving drunk isn't cool!"


Plus, the textbook used the phrase "you silly fellow" more than I consider healthy. And I get to do it again tomorrow!

[Bond]

To which he responded "To learn how to drive. Good answer. But you can't drive if you're DEAD!"

Does that mean I'm dead, you silly fellow?

[Jane Sherwood]

"Always leave yourself an out. That means, make sure you always have an emergency exit. We have an emergency exit right here in the classroom, so that if a car comes and crashes into the door, and then catches on fire, we have a way out."

I wish I had that kind of driving instructor when I was fifteen. Maybe then I wouldn't have slept through all those classes that started at an obscenely early time before the regular school day. (I'd have started MSTing the movies about three minutes in, though)




(No wait, age fifteen? Nah, I would have slept through it anyway. I could have fallen asleep on a roller coaster then.)

[Bond]

Really? My goodness, were you just a big sleepyhead, then?

[Emu]

"Always leave yourself an out. That means, make sure you always have an emergency exit. We have an emergency exit right here in the classroom, so that if a car comes and crashes into the door, and then catches on fire, we have a way out."

oh man, that's too good! ninja turned driving instructor. I bet he already knows all your licence plate numbers, everyone's handedness, and has eyeballed how much everyone weighs and who can handle themselves in a fight.

[Jane Sherwood]

Really? My goodness, were you just a big sleepyhead, then?

And messed up from various anti-depressants prescribed a quack psychiatrist. (Honestly, what kind of doctor tells you to stop taking that kind of medication cold turkey? "But won't I go into withdrawal?" "What? No, no, you'll be fine!") So I was either more depressed, an absolute bitch at war with anyone who even looked at me the wrong way (which was quite a lot of people at that point), or passed out sixteen hours a day.

But anyway...

Good Thing: I made grits! HOORAY!

Bad Thing: I put waaaay too much salt in them. Boo...

[Emu]

alas! salt is one of those ingredients that it's really easy to put in too much, but really hard to correct the mistake. like, what do you do? take out the salt? put in twice as much of every other ingredient?

[Jane Sherwood]

I'd try to rinse them off a bit, but that would just make them soupy and gross...

[Slade]

You take it easy on the salt when cooking, and if you need more, add it when you eat your meal.

[Deepsycher]

"Some places oversalt their meals just so you can buy drinks off of them. Bring your own they kick you out."

So pleased to see my heatsinks arriving early this week. I am not falling for someone else's idea of what the mass majority should do. Unfortunately I don't know how they are going to accept the payment as my card doesn't card on their payment processor.

I am feeling very bored. Better go and do something.

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 06 August 2007 - 03:45 PM

[Bond]

Good Thing: I made grits! HOORAY!

Oh, so you're from the Deep South, then?

[Jane Sherwood]

Just over half my life spent in Columbia, South Carolina, and the past ten years in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

I'm not sure if I'd call it "Deep South", but I tend to classify "Deep South" as, "closest to the southern stereotype" south rather than actual geographic location. We're certainly not a deep southern-ish family. My dad, eh, so-so, but my mom's from Charleston, and from the way she talks about it that place has a category all to itself. (My own thoughts and memories are more than a little fuzzy, so I really can't say, myself.)

[Mirithorn]

What are grits?