The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part nine — Page 196

I don't know who else has seen the tour, but Jed really really impressed me. He was a great Mark, I thought. Better than the last several times I've seen the show.

Yay, Em! What are you getting?

I had chicken lo mein. So good, yet so bad for you.

Em, I have no idea what determines who can take APs in what grades and such. I know teachers have to be certified AP teachers, but still.

It's weird though. My school was one of the poorest in the county, and had a very bad reputation...well in every aspect but especially in intellect (to give you an idea of this reputation...when I went to a party of a friend at another school, probably the richest in the county, when her friends who went there found out my high school, they asked me if I've been shot yet.

Anyway, my point is, despite our reputation and...ill resources, we had the best AP program in the county. We offered the most AP courses at the lowest grades. A lot of high schools had weird rules--the forementioned richest one required students to take honors classes and regents' exams before taking the APs. And that has benefitted me immensely.

ETA: I love chicken lo mein! It's basically what I always get when I get Chinese food.

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Updated On: 5/1/06 at 07:09 PM

I had a salad. Woo. And 2 pieces of grilled flatbread.

I consider myself to be rather socially awkward; my ADHD makes it...not difficult per se, but I do kind of stress myself out over stupid stuff that I say when my mouth works faster than the rational part of my brain. Some of y'all know about these discussions.

At the same time, I'm baffled as to how I can tear myself up over minor missteps in conversations, and yet there are people out there that do things that are just *wrong* and get away with it, because no one has ever bothered to tell them how incredibly rude they are. Or worse, people tell them they're rude and they brush it off as not being that serious, when it *really* is. I'm even embarassed that people like that act like that can even exist in our society. It's just completely unfair that they can get away with behaving like this for so long without remorse or humiliation just because they're too dense to figure out how incredibly wrong their behavior is.

Sorry for the random rant, but I really needed to get that off my chest.

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I'm just painfully self-conscious in general. I hope it's something that will fade with age, because I can't stand living with a little voice in the back of my head wondering what everyone else is thinking of me at any given second.

My mother and I are fighting again. How fun.

Count me in with the self-conscious, always overanalyzing everything crew.

I'm really upset right now over the decision about my summer plans that my parents basically made for me. I need more chocolate.

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