Random conversation and thoughts

[Adelaide]

1. No politics
2. Be nice

We used to have one of these. I think it's good for the community.



So, I just paid like $700 for fall textbooks, which is obscene. I already have a couple of the books so I actually saved about $250. I'm glad I have a stipend but it's still shocking. One of the issues is that I have a personality assessment seminar which means purchasing highly proprietary assessment guides and tools, which are normally more expensive. Typically practices will purchase licenses/passes that cover all psychologists at that practice, but students have to fork out the cash for them. Criminal. Who even knows how long they will be valid for since they'll probably have 8 new editions in the next 4 years.

Also, it needs to stop being super warm and humid. I don't know how to defog my car when it is this humid.

[Lummy]

Criminal? Yes, I'd say so.

https://gogamr.com/lord-of-the-files-pdf/

[countryboy]

1. No politics
2. Be nice

We used to have one of these. I think it's good for the community.



So, I just paid like $700 for fall textbooks, which is obscene. I already have a couple of the books so I actually saved about $250. I'm glad I have a stipend but it's still shocking. One of the issues is that I have a personality assessment seminar which means purchasing highly proprietary assessment guides and tools, which are normally more expensive. Typically practices will purchase licenses/passes that cover all psychologists at that practice, but students have to fork out the cash for them. Criminal. Who even knows how long they will be valid for since they'll probably have 8 new editions in the next 4 years.

Also, it needs to stop being super warm and humid. I don't know how to defog my car when it is this humid.

Defog on the outside, or inside?

[Adelaide]

Criminal? Yes, I'd say so.

https://gogamr.com/lord-of-the-files-pdf/

I refused to read that in grade 10. I wrote an essay about why it was stupid and communist to make us all read the same stupid book. Aced it. Had a funny teacher, though - that wouldn't have been okay with my other English teachers. It probably helped that I wrote in the essay "I could just use spark notes but I will not cheat" and then half the class got caught cheating and got zero. Should have just admitted they had no intention of reading it...

[Adelaide]

Defog on the outside, or inside?

Outside. Heat helps, but it's too warm out to blast it like that.

[Calypso Jones]

I read LotF in Highschool and later on as an adult. And found it more disturbing the second time.

HERE is a real Lord of the Flies story different than Golding's.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...d-peter-warner

[HawkTheSlayer]

I refused to read that in grade 10. I wrote an essay about why it was stupid and communist to make us all read the same stupid book. Aced it. Had a funny teacher, though - that wouldn't have been okay with my other English teachers. It probably helped that I wrote in the essay "I could just use spark notes but I will not cheat" and then half the class got caught cheating and got zero. Should have just admitted they had no intention of reading it...

I read LotF in Highschool and later on as an adult. And found it more disturbing the second time.

HERE is a real Lord of the Flies story different than Golding's.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...d-peter-warner

Lol. Look at the link in post 2 carefully.

[countryboy]

Outside. Heat helps, but it's too warm out to blast it like that.

Take it off defrost and lower your fan setting. Slowly raise the temperature a little at a time until it stops fogging up the outside. Keep your wipers on intermittent setting to keep your windshield clear in the meantime. I use the setting which blows on the windshield, and my feet, seems to work the best for me.

[Cotton1]

1. No politics
2. Be nice

We used to have one of these. I think it's good for the community.



So, I just paid like $700 for fall textbooks, which is obscene. I already have a couple of the books so I actually saved about $250. I'm glad I have a stipend but it's still shocking. One of the issues is that I have a personality assessment seminar which means purchasing highly proprietary assessment guides and tools, which are normally more expensive. Typically practices will purchase licenses/passes that cover all psychologists at that practice, but students have to fork out the cash for them. Criminal. Who even knows how long they will be valid for since they'll probably have 8 new editions in the next 4 years.

Also, it needs to stop being super warm and humid. I don't know how to defog my car when it is this humid.

Their treatments may cost them the joy one knows from
feelings of mood swings, delusions and general psychosis at full throttle while suppressing emotions

[Standing Wolf]

I refused to read that in grade 10. I wrote an essay about why it was stupid and communist to make us all read the same stupid book. Aced it. Had a funny teacher, though - that wouldn't have been okay with my other English teachers. It probably helped that I wrote in the essay "I could just use spark notes but I will not cheat" and then half the class got caught cheating and got zero. Should have just admitted they had no intention of reading it...

Why did you not want to read 'Lord of the Flies'? I mean, did you really think that it was "communist" to be made to read an assigned book? I'm not judging - God knows I did some pretty clueless things as a teenager. And that was in the late '60s early '70s. I tell younger people that if they think there is a cultural and philosophical divide between adults and kids today, you should have been around fifty years ago.

I read 'Lord of the Flies' in either my freshman or sophomore year of high school, as well. I remember loaning my teacher a copy of Jessamyn West's 'The Chilekings' - a fantasy/sci-fi novel about the day children and adults trade statures - which explores some similar themes.



I was a voracious reader as a teenager, as were most of my friends, and I enjoyed having read a book my teachers hadn't and feeling, with all the self-importance of youth, that I was one up on them. When we read 'Of Mice and Men' I recommended 'All the Little Animals', which was little known at the time but thirty years later was made into a movie with John Hurt and Christian Bale.