[Sca-cooks] Spawn was Oops, I forgot...
Olwen the Odd
olwentheodd at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 22 09:31:55 PST 2003
I was too. Took all the IQ tests and talked to every counselor over and
over in each school. Sure I was bored stiff, but it would have actually
helped if they had figured out early on that I am dyslexic. Didn't find
that out till 11th grade! How was *I* supposed to know that wasn't how
everyone else saw stuff??
Olwen who insists on first writing owlen-EVERY time!
>
>Oh, your Spawn has my sympathy. I was in the same boat, at his age...
>Partly, I was sometimes understimulated (read - bored silly) and partly
>teachers seemed to think I should understand everything at a glance, and
>thought I was acting up if I didn't understand something, or asked a
>question. Well, you know, I ask questions... a lot of things aren't obvious
>to me because I see problems they don't. And there really are things I do
>have trouble with... Oh, yeah, I did stop working hard after finding that
>it didn't help me with many of my classes... I mean, I wasn't stupid... :-\
> I don't really know the answer to how to fix it. Wish I did. And
>you therefore also have my sympathy...
>
>AEllin
>
>Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>
>>...I picked up my hunks-o-chocolate (and some hulled, roasted cocoa bean
>>nibs, too) at The New York Cake and Confectionary Supply Co., (or some
>>close variant on that name), on 22nd Street, off Sixth Avenue, in
>>Manhattan.
>>
>>I've dealt with them for years, and they are nothing less than the
>>confectioner's Disneyland.
>>
>>But, after years of having to actually go there or deal with a smudgy
>>catalog, they now [finally] have a viable web site. I haven't investigated
>>it fully yet, but they can be found at http://www.nycake.com
>>
>>
>>Maybe this'll help someone someday.
>>
>>Adamantius
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