first day at school just home now ask me things too

[JohnKleeb]

I was greeted to history class with John F Kerry on the TV, I didnt hear what he had to say because the volume was down. No one asked me about my Kucinich button :(. The good news is Ive already done my history homework and didnt realize it, we have to get a primary source, and my DK button is just that to represent the summer and how it was memorable I may use the thank you card the nice folks at Dulles Tower gave me. In my classes I have some people I havent met, some old faces who I havent seen in years well talked to or had classes. I talked to one of my good friends at the end of the day and left listening to all along the watchtower by hendrix. What a great day :).

[Aristus]

1. Hope you had a good first day, Johnny.

You don't know how lucky you are. I wish I'd had DU when I was your age. I was a doofus Reagan worshipper, like a lot of people who didn't know a thing about politics. It's too bad I didn't have DU to straighten my politics out!

I would have loved to be able to come home to DU at that time in my life.

[JohnKleeb]

2. You were a Reaganite bummer dude

I am not lucky at all I am just doing my job ;). LOL that sounds like when they tell WWII vets they are heroes. Heh.

[Aristus]

9. You're telling me! I was stupid enough to believe that

whichever candidate waved the flag the hardest MUST be the most patriotic. Seven years in the Army and a few years of college changed my mind and my politics. Anyway, my whole family is solidly liberal, so I would have come around sooner or later anyway.

[SOteric]

3. Any feel for how you'll like your teachers yet?

[JohnKleeb]

4. They seem cool

As for politics I think my physchology teacher is a dem, I dont think republicans think too highly of Elanor Roosevelt. I dont know they all seem like they could be democrats. No one asked about my DK button. My friends thought it kicked ass I worked at the airport though, all though I felt young not driving when I saw others arriving driving. Thats ok, the scenry at the creek was beautiful today.

[Tinoire]

5. Yes! And sorry Summer's over but what an exciting year for you!

John I am so proud of you and everything you've done for DK!

What subjects do you have this year and are you going to be involved with any clubs?

Journalism, school paper.... Hmmmm.... That would be nice :evilgrin:

And are you taking French?

[JohnKleeb]

7. No I am taking Spanish

I may get involved with young dems but you know knowing who I support and this area is conservative so they may be for holy Joe I may wanna start a socialist youth club :) :evilgrin:, I am according to tests a moderate one. I wanna take journalism which enables you do school paper but I cant because I thought you could just go on and do newspaper as a club bummer :(. I will do young dems, and the like. Also on DK, I may use the one button as a primary source and I am gonna be using my arguements in philosophy. I think I am gonna be less shy this year.

[thom1102]

6. What grade are you starting?

[JohnKleeb]

8. 11th same as Goob

and yes I am younger than him.

[Aristus]

10. Younger than HE.

Sorry for correcting you, young feller, but I go through this with my step-son, too.

[JohnKleeb]

11. whateva I didnt join for grammar lectures

[Aristus]

12. True enough.

Take it for what it's worth. :-)

[JohnKleeb]

13. yeah it will be better

Maybe people will ask about my button in philosophy tommorow. That said that class will be cool.

[starroute]

15. Not necessarily

Following than and as the American uses the objective form of the pronoun, as in “he is taller than me” and “such as her.” He also uses it following like, but not when, as often happens, he uses the word in place of as or as if. Thus he says “do it like him,” but “do it like he does” and “she looks like she was sick.” What appears here is an instinctive feeling that these words, followed by a pronoun only, are not adverbs, but prepositions, and that they should have the same power to put the pronoun into an oblique case that other prepositions have. Just as “the taller of we” would sound absurd to all of us, so “taller than he,” to the unschooled American, sounds absurd. This feeling has a good deal of respectable support. “As her” was used by Swift, “than me” by Burke, and “than whom” by Milton.

http://www.bartleby.com/185/pages/page302.html

Your mother is just as proud as me, said the father to the child with good grades. But should he have said, Your mother is just as proud as I? As with similar constructions using than, there is a traditional rule stating that the pronoun following as … as … constructions must be in the nominative case, demonstrated by the fact that She is just as proud as I is really a truncated version of the sentence She is just as proud as I am. Another way to put it would be to say that the second as functions as a conjunction, not as a preposition, in these sentences. Whatever the merits of this logic, the as me construction is very common in speech and appears regularly in the writing of highly respected writers. Moreover, you can argue that the second as is really a preposition in these constructions and demands the objective case. And there is the objection that as I constructions are overly formal, even pretentious. In short, both constructions are defensible and both are subject to attack. When you want to play it safe, use the as I construction, but throw in the verb to make it a clause: She is just as proud as I am.

http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/052.html

[eyesroll]

14. Are you on block or flex-mod scheduling?

You mentioned you have philosophy tomorrow. Did you not have it today?

[JohnKleeb]

16. I have block scheduling

Yessum. I do.