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Yes, at a regular school.

No, I didn't qualify.

No, my school didn't have one.

I went to a school for gifted kids.

Other (explain below).

[CortJstr]

I did the GT thing and also went to a summer camp where we took 3 hour classes every morning. I really pitied the suckers going out in row boats or sitting it crappy tents while I was in a nice air conditioned university classroom learning to write my name in Mayan or reading e.e. cummings or whatever.

[AlohaDawg]

I was a spontaneous reader at 3. Bored all through elementary school (also, to carry the trend forward, lousy at math and especially times tables, and crappy handwriting to this day.

I did take AP classes in HS and successfully tested out of a year of core classes in college. I managed also to get a degree with two major concentrations having taken not one math class in college. Yay me.

Now I'm 40 years old and in the worst shape of my life financially. Like AW, I'm taking it philosophically and one day at a time.

I wish my family was around, though. Even Hawaii blows when you're pretty much alone all the time that you are not at work (and even more so when you pretty much hate your job...)

[KeithHernandez]

Inev:  That is a Thing for Jon Stewart he always says it when there is a long name.


The most recent example I saw was when he was talking about the American Motion Picture... (whatever the writers are striking against) or NAMBLA.

[littlefallsmets]

I'm pullin' for ya, Dawg, if that means anything.

Lord knows I'm kinda in a similar situation, just tryin' to start a Just-A-Job-Job, nearly broke. Be strong, man, and in the very least you will be hanging in there in case the luck-winds shift.

I don't know if just nose-to-the-grindstoning it actually works or not, hasn't worked for me lately, but I know that everyday we're breathin' is another day that some luck can fall in your lap.

Maybe the point of life has something to do with getting to the point where just bein' strong is where the joy and the meaning flows from, not whatever we're working for but... I don't know, I sure as hell have not gotten there yet.

I hold up my fist in solidarity with you, Dawg. I hope that, in some cosmic way, it helps.

[pmcd9]

I got street smarts.

[wombat]

Sure.  I'll write to my congressman about my support for the RETARD (Righteously Exterminate Tons of Acronyms Retroactively Devised) Act.

Edit: It occurs to me that this could be interpreted as me calling you a retard.  I would like to make it clear that this is not the case; that contrived acronym was just the first one that came to mind.

No, this was interpreted as you being the sort of person who ought to come around here more often.

[KeithHernandez]

No, this was interpreted as you being the sort of person who ought to come around here more often.

[Dexter]

No, this was interpreted as you being the sort of person who ought to come around here more often.

See what I mean about the paralyzing self-consciousness?

Either way, even if you didn't think that, someone else might have.  Which would be almost as bad.

[jaydub]

Forgiveness/permission

[KeithHernandez]

Sure.  I'll write to my congressman about my support for the RETARD (Righteously Exterminate Tons of Acronyms Retroactively Devised) Act.

Edit: It occurs to me that this could be interpreted as me calling you a retard.  I would like to make it clear that this is not the case; that contrived acronym was just the first one that came to mind.

Uh... http://www.citizensunitednottimid.org/