Lady in a Small Town

You paid attention during 100% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don’t get scores that high! Good show, old chap!
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Mamacita posted a list of 100 words the editors of the American Heritage® dictionaries believe all high school graduates should know. She bolded the 2 she had to look up. I am going to bold the ones I don’t know (19); italicize ones I have heard, but couldn’t use in a sentence (20); […]

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In second grade we are writing acrostic poems with our names (I wrote one too). The best of the day was the little girl who wrote this (different name to protect the Illiterate):
Buttflies
Energetic
Thankful
Happy

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I didn’t do as well in this second half of Round 1. I only got 9 of this set of 16 for a grand total of 22. I didn’t do the best or the worst, but I am not going to come close to winning as several of my second and third round […]

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Godard and Kurosawa Regions Round 1 results are in. So far, the higher seeds have been victorious (except Mr. Smith, who got blasted by The Deer Hunter).
How you doing so far?

I got 13 of the 16 matchups.

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The deadline to entry was 5:00 ET and my email was postmarked 4:57! I haven’t seen a lot of the movies (I was in such a hurry I didn’t count), so I picked based on what I know about them.

March Movie Madness

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Paula atUltrablog commented here today! So I swung by to read her latest post (it hasn’t appeared in my Bloglines yet). She is participating in March Movie Madness (through Boiled Dinner). So here is me, being a joiner.
My picks will be posted here as soon as I have finished.

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I named them all, can you?

Occasionally during downtime on a particularly slow photo shoot, I’ve played this game with my assistants. Everyone takes out a piece of paper, and numbers it from 1 to 50. Then you get 10 minutes to write down every state you can remember. Finally, you compare it to the master […]

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