I showed Mom a picture of Georges Danton. Her reaction?

"He looks like a fat George Washington."

Title of my history paper? I think yes.

I have found that which will certainly prove my undoing ( Read more... )

Another upside to living in the 1900s:

There would probably be a set of complex yet specific rules governing how to behave in this situation.

I just caught the last 45 minutes or so of a History Channel documentary about the Christmas truce of 1914. Anyone in Ms Goebel's history class, I'd check the listings (History Channel usually shows things twice) because it was really interesting, especially after having seen the movie we watched ( Read more... )

Also, I'm really into Whistle Down the Wind right now, which we could maybe do at SMA if it weren't so darned religious. I mean, we're more likely to be permitted to do a religious show, but we'd be made fun of for it. It really is a shame, though, because I'm basically born to play Swallow. Basically ( Read more... )