I feel kinda bad, I commented on the certificate I got yesterday, but never thanked Erik.
Erik, You kick so much ass. Not many people would go to the trouble you have. Thanks a bundle, I've already got that sucker framed.
And as far as spelling bees go, in 7th grade I actually won the spelling bee for my Junior High, and had to go and compete in the next city's bee, Junior High/High School mix. I was out on generosity. I figured, if generous had a u, why not "
generousity"
(that looks kinda silly there, doesn't it)? I never forgot.
eytanz wrote:
Heh. I made a point of being dreadful in every sporting event - partially because I was naturally bad, but partially because our classes were large, and if I made sure that no-one called on me, I would be extra and could sit out all the games. Seemed much more efficient than putting a whole lot effort into the ballgames and then still sucking at them, like most my friends.
In every gym class I was in since grade school, everyone hated me. I was more concerned with my "
buk-lernin"
to pay any attention to the sweaty games everyone played. But because I was forced to at least stand in the field, I pissed everyone off. One of my favorite things to do was during Mattball (a kickball variant) if a fly ball were coming toward me, I'd get right under it, and if it were slow enough, I'd let it hit me in the face, or if it were too fast, I'd punch it out of the way. If it wasn't up in the air, I'd let it roll all the way to me before doing anything, then pick it up and punt it further away. Sometimes our classes would do a 20-minute run. Every two minutes, we would alternate between running and running-or-walking. If you ran all 20 minutes, you got an A. If you ran 10, you got a C. Now, this I participated in, usually got a B, B+. But what irked everyone was that instead of running around the track, I'd run in a 15-foot diameter circle. Usually got pretty dizzy. Ah, I loved gym class.
It didn't occur to me to tell him it had changed. Or maybe I did but I don't remember doing so. I only moved last month, so the forwarding will work fine, but I am leaving town for the weekend anyway. Hopefully it will be waiting for me when I get back!
/dy