TWISTEDCHERUB

I have no life (just quit my job, no husband or kids--thank God), so keeping up should be no problem. MYSPACE.COM/BURNEDBYFOX is ready for friends. Hopefully lots of them. We will be giving suggestions for boycotting and also have links to a petition to keep Drive on.

JANE0904

I am in kinda seventh heaven right now ... the QMX blueprints I ordered arrived today - and they are amazing!) - and yesterday I got my copy of White Noise - The Light! The blueprints are sure to inform lots of us fanfic writers out there, if not least because we now know where the EVA hatches are, and that there is a toilet on the bridge (very essential, particularly during those long voyages ... or when being chased by Reavers!) White Noise, on the other hand, is just a Nathan wallow. If you buy it, watch all the deleted/extended scenes in one go. It's like watching all the best bits of the film, and makes Abe's inability to cope much more poignant and understandable. I also [b]love[/b] the alternative end ... but then that's the sentimental slush in me ... Anyway, enjoy!

JERAXUS

Torchwood is the title and it is a crossover with Doctor who and Torchwood - it may take a fewe months before i can start posting it onto the net though

MSG

Ok here is the perfect analogy for No Child Left Behind. A used car dealer goes to a car sale and randomly buys 25 cars. Then returns to his lot and instructs his salespeople to sell the cars. When they have sold the cars for a total of $400,000 he goes back to the car sale and randomly buys 25 more cars( with different makes, models, mileage, and options and completely different price values than the first set) and goes to his salespeople and says" Ok since you got $400,000 for the first lot you need to sell this new lot for even more money" His salespeople point out that the cars are worth different amounts, have different flaws and COMPLETELY different values making it impossible to guarantee they will sell for more. The car dealer responds " WEll if you don't sell them for more, I'll just cut your pay. That should motivate you. Because if you just worked hard enough and did your job right, you could sell each batch of cars I buy for more money than the last one no matter what shape they are in or how much they are worth." This is the central premise of No Child Left Behind. My 7th grade students need to score higher on the test than last years 7th graders. Even though they are different kids with different abilities and problems, I should, if I was teaching right and working hard enough, be able to make them score higher than a totally different group of kids. And I should be able, each year, to make each new group of kids score higher than the kids the year before. No matter how different they are in ability or problems. Even though I didn't teach them before and have no control over what they learned previously and what concepts they've been taught. I should still be able to make them smarter and teach them so that they get even higher scores than some other kids they have nothing in common with.

STEAMER

It's weekends like this past that make me wish I could be a full-time Browncoat. (No, you needn't tell me that I'm not alone in that 'verse. ;)) Seriously, yesterday I dragged my pi-gu back to work lamenting the not-so-sudden but inevitable end of the New England Browncoats' Big Damn Shindig. I think it actually gave Moonlight Rising a run for its money as the best weekend I've ever had - quality hangout with 40-odd other 'Coats, meeting the Bedlam Bards (who, by the by, are two of the shiniest of all Browncoatdom), myself as Mal, our 'security chief' cosplayed as Jayne, a gal with a severe Kaylee complex, and shindigging well into the wee hours of the morning - what wasn't to enjoy? (Well, there was some stuff not to enjoy, but I'm leaving that alone...) I don't know how our House Priestess managed to pull it all off, but oh, the success and the fun and the overall exhilaration of the thing. The Bards played a new and deucedly high-larious song dedicated to Kaylee, and I don't know about anyone else, but I could have just sat there and listened to them jam with a couple of our local musicians for days to follow. Amongst other Bard novelties was the T-shirt: "I Want My Big Damn Trilogy." Well, we do, don't we? Think now I got a notion regarding that: I say we each toss in a few coin and pick up one of those shirts. Then we talk a few pillars of the Browncoat community into organising a Million Browncoat March past Universal Studios. Anybody else on board? (Also have to say it was a dandy bit of funnin' to have everybody who didn't know my real name calling me Mal. ;) *snicker* Somebody actually came up and said she was sorry about my show being cancelled....) Methinks we definitely need to do this again next year. Or better yet, next month. Next weekend??

ELDRITCHSANDWICH

Wow. Okay. Sorry. School and other writing projects just sort of conspired with two false starts on Episode 106 to keep my Firefly muse down. Now that I've finally managed to get over my block for the first part, however, expect to see the episode (if not the series in general) move along at a brisk pace.