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Skriven 2007-05-07 14:39:48 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
     Kommentar till en text av LYNN SACERDOTE
Ärende: Nasty Ramen - Alfredo
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HI Lynn,

RH> Rumors are nasty things, especially in a school.  I presume you know
RH> most all of the kids in your high school; some are big enough you
RH> hardly know your classmates.

 LS> Yeah, my class has about 175 kids in it; the grade below me has
 LS> 160-something in it, the sophomore class has 180, and the freshman
 LS> class is just shy of 150. So, when rumors flew around, everyone
 LS> knew within the hour who was the moment's suspect.

But, even the suspects are innocent until proven guilty.  I don't know
if you saw anything about a "bomb" being brought to one of the local
private schools here last November.  Kid gave it to a friend who stowed
it in his locker and took it home.  That night he got cold feet & called
the principal who told him to bring it in the next day. (Can you say
dumb?) It ended up being a fireworks concoction not capable of doing
much harm but several kids got suspended or expelled because of it; the
principal is still there tho.


->  LS> We have a new stage, though, and new curtains, and they're in the
->  LS> There IS a good side to all of this. It just took a lot of
->  LS> hardship to see

RH> How old a school building is it?  The central school I went to
RH> was built in the 30s; when I graduated, it still had the original
RH> stage curtains and suchlike.

 LS> The school building it's in now was built in 1959, but the school
 LS> has been occupying buildings hither, tither, and yon since
 LS> 1860something when it was established. The seats in the auditorium
 LS> haven't changed...they're that typical 50's teal color, as are all
 LS> the lockers, and our curtains were this really ugly gold color.
 LS> Now that we have new ones, they're a burgundy. They're very pretty.

Sounds nice to me.  BTW, has the prom site come up with a better menu
yet?  Last year in Hawaii, one of the meetings we had with the battalion
group leaders (company commanders, first sergeants, battalion commander
and immediate staff plus spouses of all the above) we got to chose the
foods for one of the big functions.  We were given a list of categories
with number allowed per and voted (like Meats; pick 3 (prime rib, baked
chicken with lemon sauce, ahi [tuna] with macadamia nut cream sauce and
pork medallions in something or other sauce).  Some choices ended up
being better tasting in reality than others but we weren't stuck with
taking whatever the place decided to fix.

RH> How many days until graduation?

 LS> One month come May 8th. =) I'm so excited

That's tomorrow; enjoy the last month, despite the craziness of it.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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