#the football blog seemed the most appropriate i guess

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I love that all you have to do to learn about what’s going on in the UK right now is google the word “lettuce”

[theycallmebeccawrites]

Chris & Ellie Series: Episode 13

With Tumblr holding my original writing blog @beccaheartschrisevans captive (aka flagged as explicit), I have made a secondary writing blog and may end up closing the other all together. In the meantime, I am reposting all of my stories on my new blog.

Pairing: Chris Evans x Ellie Spencer (OFC)

Rating: PG

Warnings: n/a

Episode Summary: Thanksgiving 2013, Ellie makes an important decision

Disclaimer: This work of fiction is not to be reposted, used or translated without my permission.

This episode can also be read on AO3.

The Chris and Ellie series is primarily chronological.  It begins with a flash forward to 2016 and has a few other scenes in the future.  However, the majority of their story is told in chronological order starting in 2013 and going through 2017. Each episode starts with a date to help you place it within the story.

The Chris & Ellie Series Masterlist | Chris & Ellie Masterlist

Episode 12

Episode 13: Texts & Confessions

November 28, 2013 - Thanksgiving

In a quiet corner of her aunt's house, Ellie sat staring down at her phone, reading the latest text message from Chris. It had been just about a month since she'd left him and Scott in Boston and returned to LA and she and the brothers had texted nearly every day, Scott more so than Chris, but he always reached out at least once a day to ask how she was. Today, however, he had been texting her nearly non-stop and giving her the play-by-play of Thanksgiving with his family.

So far, his nephews had been caught trying to sneak pie and he'd had to change shirts twice thanks to his niece's keen ability to either spit up on him and/or have a diaper explosion when he was holding her. He had had to change his shirt a third time, he'd admitted, after getting in a wrestling match with some of his cousins during flag football.

Chris's texts had started about eight am and Ellie had responded to each one with a tidbit of her own or an appropriate response to whatever he'd shared with her. A part of her wished she was back east with him and his family, especially since she suspected that his phone call last week, in which he'd casually asked what she doing for the holiday, had been partially to find out if she might be willing to come out to Boston. If it hadn't been for her revealing that she was scheduled to work both Friday and Saturday, she was certain he would have invited her, but she had and he hadn't.

"There you are."

Looking up, Ellie smiled when she saw her cousin Phoenix walking towards her. "Here I am," she said with a shrug.

"Texting Chris again?" her cousin asked, nudging Ellie over so she could sit down on the bench with her.

"How'd you know I was texting Chris?" Ellie asked. She hadn't told her cousin that and she hadn't let her cousin, or anyone else for that matter, look at her phone.

"I can always tell when you've been texting Chris," Phoenix replied, rolling her eyes. "Ever since you got back from Boston, you get this silly little grin on your face when you are reading texts from him."

"How do you know they're texts from Chris?" Ellie prompted. "They could be from some other guy."

"Yeah, but they're not," Phoenix stated. She opened her mouth to say something else, but stopped when Ellie's phone dinged. She watched as her cousin brought the phone up and then saw the telltale grin spread across Ellie's face as she read the message.

Absorbed in Chris's newest text, which included a detailed description of the pie he'd just eaten and how he was trying to convince himself not to have another slice of pie so he wouldn't have to work out for the rest of the weekend, Ellie forgot all about Phoenix's presence until she was blinded by a sudden flash.

"What the!?" she exclaimed, blinking furiously as she tried to recover. Glancing at her cousin, she glared and said, "What was that for?!"

"Photographic evidence," Phoenix replied and turned her own phone around, showing Ellie the photo of herself smiling at her cell phone.

"Oh," Ellie said softly as she stared at the photo. Her cousin was right, she had been grinning as she'd read Chris's message. Her phone went off again and she looked down to see Scott's name. She read his message, but even she knew she wasn't smiling the way she'd smiled at Chris's message.

"So, tell me, favorite cousin of mine, what happened in Boston?" Phoenix asked and then narrowed her eyes. "And don't even try to get out of this conversation again. There is no one and nothing that needs either of our attention for at least the next thirty minutes."

Ellie sighed and raked her fingers through her hair. Phoenix was right, she had been avoiding having this conversation with her cousin, her sisters, everyone really. It wasn't that she was ashamed of what had happened between her and Chris, it was just that she and Chris had left things so open ended. They were taking things slow, which was the wise thing to do since she was in LA and he was back east for the holiday and getting ready to direct his first film.

"Ellie, talk," Phoenix encouraged, placing her hand on Ellie's arm to force her from her thoughts.

So, Ellie did. She told her cousin about her and Chris's first kiss and how it had happened at Fenway Park right after the Red Sox had won the World Series. Then she'd confessed to the fact that she had avoided Chris most of the next day, but how they had cleared the air that evening at a Halloween party and how they'd made out a bit more that night, too.

Much like the confessional she'd had with Chris's sister on Halloween, once Ellie had started talking, she couldn't stop. This time, however, she didn't hold back like she had with Shanna, knowing her friend was Chris's sister and therefore bias. Phoenix, though... Phoenix was her cousin and Ellie trusted her opinion. She expressed her concern over the fact that Chris was her employer, one of her best friends, the guy she liked and the fear that arose in her because of all of those varying relationships she had with him. Not to mention her own friendship and trust-based relationship with his mom; she didn't know how Lisa would feel about her dating Chris.

"Do you like really like Chris?" Phoenix asked, once Ellie finished talking. "I mean elementary school 'like like' like him." They both laughed at her phrasing. "I guess, what I'm asking is do you see yourself having a future with Chris? More kissing? Dating? Sex? Marriage? Babies?"

Ellie gulped at the onslaught of questions. She wasn't sure just how far she saw herself and Chris going; she certainly wasn't ready for marriage and babies, yet. But she had enjoyed kissing him, a lot. And she always had fun when they were together, with or without anyone else. She felt her face redden a bit at the memory of their first meeting and her first, and only, look at his dick. She knew personally that he was a great kisser and she couldn't imagine him being disappointing in bed.

She relayed these thoughts to her cousin, carefully not mentioning the fact that she had already seen Chris naked. As she spoke, she felt some of the fear leave her as she realized that she wanted to take that leap with Chris into the unknown. There was a chance that it would go sideways, but there was also a chance that she had met the man she was supposed to share her life with.

Before she had a chance to relay those thoughts to her cousin, however, they were called to dinner. She followed Phoenix into the dining room and found herself seated between Phoenix and a friend of her aunt's. It was during the usual “get to know you” conversation between herself and the woman, and interruptions from her aunt, that Ellie learned that the woman worked for a small publishing company. It was her aunt who had told her friend that Ellie had studied editing in college and had asked if they were hiring. They weren't, the woman had told them, but she had told them they often contracted work with independent editors.

That evening, when Ellie left her aunt and uncle's house, she had the woman's business card in her hand and a tentative job interview with the publishing company. She also had a more positive outlook on the future for herself and Chris. Over text, she was very open about telling Chris about the possible job and her aunt's busybody methods that had landed her the interview. However, she couldn't bring herself to tell him what she had decided regarding taking a chance with him. It just didn't seem like the kind of conversation to have over the phone when they were going to be thousands of miles apart for at least the next month, if not longer.

Episode 14

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Socks Through Time: History of Top-Stripes

If you've been paying attention to fashion trends for 2018, you may have noticed that top-striped styles are currently a must-have. Being the nerds and amateur historians that we are, we decided to look into the history of this look, and the results were both surprising, and reassuring.

But what is surprising about the history of top-stripes? Well, in this day and age we tend to associate the look with sporty styles, and for most of the 20th century that's really what a top-striped sock was: athletic. However, in our research we were excited to find some super-elegant top striped stockings, such as this beautiful "clocked" style (for more info on clocking, see one of our previous blogs, Historical Costuming Part 2!) from the late 17th century.

Image under public domain, sourced from metmuseum.org, a Gift of Henri-Marcel Cadgene, 1955

Here the top stripes appear to tie the gold clocked design into the overall composition of the stocking, and may also serve to provide a reinforced/more textured area for era-appropriate ribbon garters to grip, since the blue body of the stocking would have been a fine silk. This is really just an assumption on our part, but we think it's safe to say that these were not intended for athletic wear.

The earliest appearance of something like top-striped athletic socks that our internet sleuthing skills could unearth happens in the 1910's, which seems to be about the time that sports teams began adopting them as uniform socks. Interestingly, the two or three stripes on these styles weren't placed at the very tops of the socks, but when you look at the way the members of the 1912 West Point football team (can you spot the former US President in their line-up?) wear pants that come to just below their knees, overlapping with the tops of the socks, it begins to make sense. In this context, the stripes are about as high up as you can see on the sock, creating the illusion of "true" top-stripes. On the other hand, the North Carolina Tarheels Men's Basketball team of 1911 wore shorts, which gives us a better look at their socks!

West Point Football Team, 1912. Public Domain via wikimedia commons.

North Carolina Tarheels Men's Basketball Team, 1911. Public domain via wikimedia commons.

But American Football is not the only football at play here, and the top-striped sporty sock style was definitely not confined to the 1910's! Enter Dick, Kerr's Ladies Football Club of Lancashire, England! This team was wildly popular from 1917 until 1965, when women's teams were banned by the Football Association, supposedly because women were too delicate to play sports, but most likely in reality because the women's games regularly outsold the men's games that were held on the same days. While we don't have photographic evidence of every iteration of their uniforms, we have got these lovely photos of their team from the early 1920's sporting thick, ribbed black socks with top stripes, not unlike our Sporty Stripe OTKs!

Dick, Kerr's Ladies F. C., 1921. Photo is US public domain, via wikipedia.

For a better look at those nice thick turn-cuff socks, we present you with this (incidentally adorable) photo of the team captains kissing.

The team captains, 1920. Public domain, via wikimedia commons.

Now, some of you sports enthusiasts might be wondering about a certain other ballgame with a long history of sock-related superstition, as well as multiple teams named after socks. If that wasn't enough hints, we're talking about baseball! Though the earliest uniforms used solid colored socks, by the 1930's these sporty little details had worked their way into baseball uniforms too! As you can see from this photo of the American League's 1937 All-Star players, different teams used different numbers of stripes, while the Yankee's stuck with solids (maybe because they're already wearing pinstriped uniforms). Of course the Red Sox are the sock-themed team, so it makes perfect sense that their socks would have the most stripes!

From left to right Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg. Image sourced via Library of Congress, Harris & Ewing photograph collection.

Taking a closer look at the above image, you might also notice that those socks are lacking certain socky features... things like heels and toes. It appears that these were a sort of stirruped over-sock, which covered the white socks that you can see peeping out of their shoes. While we weren't able to find much information about this particular feature in our researching, our best guess is that this allowed for consecutive wears of the uniform "socks" without washings in-between, as the more generic foot-covering under-socks could be traded out for clean pairs each day -- it's the same reasoning behind this author's love of our Long Cuffable Scrunchable Leg Warmers. It's like my favorite socks, but I can wear them every day for weeks without washing them!

But ball sports weren't the only sports to get in on this trend! What about puck sports? You know, hockey! Introducing the Preston Rivulettes of Canada! We were delighted to discover photos of this women's hockey team  in what looks like something akin to our Super Long Ribbed Leg Warmers, only with sporty stripes! Now, like the early rugby socks we looked at, the stripes aren't at the top of the sock (or sock-like garment), but their sparseness is what gives them that distinctly sporty look. Somehow two stripes just looks more aerodynamic than a whole sockful of stripes!

Preston Rivulettes  Postcard, 1940. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Now let's get back to football. Or is it soccer? You know -- the one with the spherical ball! Foot(spherical)ball is by far the most popular sport internationally, and like any sport their fans are passionate. We mention this only as framing for the following image, because we want you to really feel the excitement of the moment captured! The year is 1966, and Club Atlético Peñarol of Uruguay has just won the Copa Libertadores de América -- the premier South American football club tournament. Though Peñarol had won the first two editions of the tournament in 1960 and '61, this was their big comeback after other teams took the title in 1962 - '65. You can tell from the spirit of the photo that this was a big moment for the team, as they run across the field celebrating. Possibly even more exciting is the fact that they appear to be wearing almost the exact same socks as the Dick, Kerr's Ladies Football Club circa 1921! To our minds, this firmly places the top striped athletic sock is the Classics category, along with the Doric column.

Club Atlético Peñarol's 1966 Copa Libertadores victory. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

And because we just can't get enough of those groovy soccer uniforms, it's time we took a look at what's been lauded as one of the most attractive uniform designs in football history, belonging to the Peru National Football Team. The white jerseys with red horizontal "sashes" are designed to reference games played between schools, in which both teams would wear white shirts with a removable colored sash, to easily distinguish team members. The uniform also features white socks with red top-stripes, to match.

Peru 1970 National Football Team. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

You may have noticed that the era we most associate with top striped socks is the 1960's and especially the 1970's. Another big trend that emerged at around the same time, and which coexisted beautifully with the aforementioned socks, was skating. Roller skating had already been around since 1760, and in a way it was roller skates that gave birth to the first skateboards in the late 1940's, which consisted of wooden planks with added roller skate wheels. The early 70's saw the invention of  polyurethane wheels, which made for a smoother ride, better traction, and generally a more enjoyable experience. This precipitated a sudden rise in popularity for skating, and brought us the iconically 1970's skater fashions that we know and love today!

From the first Tokyo Bombers: Yasuko Sasaki, Tiger forest, Yumiko Horii, Rikki Endo, Kazuo Kono, Keiko Ayabe, Mickey Kakuda. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

For whatever reason, we found it next to impossible to find public domain photos of 1970's skateboarders, so while we aren't able to post the great photos we looked at here, we're happy to link you to them! We were really into this collection of Los Angeles skateboarders by photographer Hugh Holland. You can also find some interesting background information on how the skateboarding trend was influenced by a severe drought!

House Brand Top-Stripes

At last we have arrived at the point in our Sock Journal where we show you what we've got! Options for recreating this ultra-sporty look are luckily quite plentiful, so let's start out with some of our house brand options! While we only have two top-striped styles in our Dreamer Socks line, they're some heavy hitters! With 12 different colorways and 28 inch top-stretch, our Dreamer Americana Thigh Highs have rocketed into our top sellers! At a more classic length, the Retro Sport Socks come in three sporty colorways -- depending on your favorite team, we might even have your colors!

Dreamer Americana Thigh Highs * Retro Sport Socks

Our DreaM Stockings line includes a pretty great variety of top-striped styles, some of which are particularly good for that thicker, vintage vibe. Some are even authentically tube socks!

Dreamy Striped Over the Knee Tube Socks * Dreamy Knee High Tube Socks * Top Striped Over the Knee Tube Socks

The Skater Stripes (which are discontinued, so get yours while the getting's good!) and Sorcerer Socks are very similar beasts, only the skater stripes are a cotton blend and come in more stripe variations, while the Sorcerer Socks are nylon and feature colors for the Hogwarts houses.

Skater Stripes * Sorcerer Socks

The Skater Stripes are being phased out in favor of some of the newer options we now carry, including the taller, ribbed Sporty Stripe Over the Knee Socks, which I previously mentioned are a pretty good match for those 1920's soccer uniform socks.

Sporty Stripe Over the Knee Socks

The final styles on our tour of house brand top stripes combine two of our favorite things: marled yarn and top-stripes! If you've been following our company over the years, you may have noticed our obsession with marled socks. There was an era when we couldn't find any marled yarns and had no marled socks (after years of carrying O Marleds - the precursor to our M45s and Confetti M45s, which are made on the same machines the O Marleds used to be knitted on) but we found ways of getting around that issue, which is what happens when you're utterly determined to have your favorite pattern. We think the marriage of these two patterns is a match made in heaven!

Top-Striped Marled Slouch Socks * Top-Striped Marled Scrunchable Socks

Other Suppliers's Top-Stripes

Of course we also carry lots of top striped styles from our other suppliers! For instance, most Gumball Poodle socks, which are made in the classic "cheer sock" style, come with top stripes, but some go above and beyond, incorporating the top stripe into the design, or in the case of their PRINCESS socks, turning it into a crown.

PRINCESS Knee Highs * Stormy Weather Over the Knee Socks * Bored AF Crews

Stance is another supplier that features a lot of top-stripes, and it's not too surprising given that their styles are geared towards skateboarders and surfers! We enjoy the way they mix it up with wild patterns from time to time, too!

Durango Midcalves * Mega Babe Crews * Me Vs. You Kids' Crews

Another supplier that tends to surprise us with their top-stripes is Leg Avenue. Their offerings tend more towards the hosiery and lingerie end of the spectrum, and yet they manage to work some elegant top stripes into that wheelhouse, which is appropriately "full circle" given that we started out with those fancy 17th century stockings!

Sheer Stockings with Striped Tops * Over the Rainbow Thigh High * Lurex Anklets

Of course we have plenty of other top-striped options, but to feature all of them would make for a very long blog indeed. Instead, we encourage you to check out the entire top-striped collection, because there's a reason this look never seems to go out of fashion. As a style that has been around for centuries, top-stripes are truly timeless.

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Inside France review of 2019

This is my one and only article for this year and as I write I am struggling to know what to say, a reflection no doubt of how I feel, a bit lost for words. My blog is for offering interesting uplifting insights into life in France and unfortunately, I haven’t experienced any recently and I vowed at the outset not to write articles just for the sake of it. But an end of year summary seems important all the same.

“Suffering rises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.”

Alexandra David-Néel

This year has been all about survival and I’m not sure how much of it I wish to share. Those who know my French wife have been aware of her difficulties from last year and that was our major concern this year too, making the likes of Brexit seem trivial. All our focus was on getting her fixed and there was no hint of what I was about to experience, though maybe the two were connected.

In May I discovered that I had a life-threatening condition which required urgent treatment of a very heavy and difficult nature, to the extent that I was unable to eat normally, totally lost my sense of taste and required a food pump directly into my stomach. I will spare you any more details. In November I learned that I had made a complete recovery thanks to the local French medical system and staff who were absolutely brilliant and to whom I am eternally grateful.

If there is anything, I would like to pass on from my experience it is the importance of leading a longstanding relatively healthy lifestyle, not drinking too much alcohol and above all not smoking. My full recovery was linked one hundred per cent to these factors. If I hadn’t adhered to them, according to my specialist doctor, I probably wouldn’t be writing this.

As good fortune would have it my French wife has also recovered from her plight though as much due to her determination and tenacity as anything else. Demonstrating that with enough desire a solution can be found to even the most obscure medical conditions. After over a year of medicinal treatment and being told there was nothing more to be done she went and found a specialist who eventually operated and removed a two-centimetre nodule which was compressing her nerve and rendering life near impossible. A minor miracle which she richly deserved.

We are no spring chickens but hopefully, we still have plenty of good active years ahead of us, though we have both had serious shots across the bows, which if anything has made me appreciate life all the more.

Brexit rumbles on

Some clarity has finally emerged on the Brexit front and I can’t help thinking that despite all the rather cringeworthy parliamentary goings-on the outcome is much clearer and a more informed reflection of what the citizens of the UK really want at least in the near future. The last vote was very convincing, and Brexit now seems totally appropriate.

From a personal point of view, it will involve applying for residency which I propose to do at the end of January when the Brexit formalities should be complete. I’m very wary of bureaucracy and the potential for setbacks but feel that if everything is concluded on a reasonably amicable basis then I should be able to continue my life here in France.

This is the link to the official residency application for anyone needing it.

The mood in France Well, it's still not great, to be honest as many people’s lives are currently plagued by striking rail workers and lingering yellow vest protesters. One can but hope that things will calm down once the pension reforms are agreed and finalised but as in the UK, it will probably take an election for things to settle as people now know better what they will be voting for. It makes for quite a cocktail when a new political party suddenly takes power as happened with En Marche.

Best cultural moments There have been no new cultural moments for us as we have been so restricted by health issues, but we have taken great pleasure in seeing our family enjoy the riches of the area during their visits. My youngest daughter and her partner loved their stay in Nice and discovering the perfumeries of Grasse and the Rose festival and my brother and his wife also stayed in Nice and mastered the tram and rail system so expertly and they were pleasantly surprised at what a marvellous modern art museum the city has.

The importance of taste When I was ill losing my sense of taste was a real shock. It never occurred to me quite how important it is. It affects life from the moment we get up, starting with the taste of toothpaste and goes on throughout the day until toothpaste time again before bed. I enjoy food, for me, it is one of the great pleasures of life, but when you can’t taste it or when it actually turns into a revolting taste an everyday thing which we take for granted becomes a trial.

Best experience There is no contest here. For some time, I had in my mind the idea that it would be something special to be still playing fairly competitive football when I reached the age of 60. I guess it was my dad who inspired the thought as I always thought it remarkable that he was still playing tennis at the age of 80. So, when I scored a header with my first touch of the ball after a lay off of over six months on the day of my 60th birthday under the floodlights at Saint Cezaire I was made up like you can’t imagine. None of my teammates had any idea I had only just recovered from life-threatening illness as it wasn’t something I particularly wanted to share. It was a sweet sweet moment for which I am very grateful.

Precious family moments After nearly two years of being unable to travel it was a special thing when we got on the plane to Strasbourg just before Christmas to spend a week with family and see the latest addition take her first tentative crawling steps. For lifting the spirits and getting in the Christmas mood there are few places which can compare with Alsace, it's absolutely magic. On our return just time to catch our breath before a drive over to Salon-en-Provence where we followed the donkey and the Christmas procession through town at midnight and shared present opening moments with the grandchildren there who are growing up quickly.

Best of all it is my eldest daughter who is now enjoying a real adventure on a humanitarian month in Nepal assisting teaching English at temperatures of -17º to be followed by a week or so in Tibet following in the footsteps of one of the first real feminists and adventurers Alexandre David Néel who’s house in Digne near here where she wrote her books is now a museum. It is a joy to know that my daughter managed to get a copy of her book My Journey to Lhasa from the travelling library at a village in south Wales and laughed out loud at the audacious exploits of a truly remarkable human being.

Best wishes.

Peter H.

[bizarrebird]

As mentioned, I’m still on my Buffy kick, so I’m gonna continue with my live blogging. Fair warning, I may skip some episodes because they’re... not great or too Xander centric for my tastes. But I don’t think anyone’s gonna read these who isn’t familiar with the series so you probably know why I’m skipping the ones I am.

Anyway, onto Season 2, Episode 2: Some Assembly Required

First, I just wanna say, I’m really dumb cause I thought this was the episode where Spike and Dru show up and stuff gets good but SURPRISE THAT’S NOT TILL EPISODE THREE FFFFFFUUUUUUUU

So we start with Buffy in a graveyard (we start here a lot, idk if it’s the same graveyard all the shots here are so fucking dark you can’t tell what anyth) waiting for a new vamp to rise from his grave. Angel appears out of nowhere, startling her because, as Buffy points out, he never learned to approach people like a normal person. Angel makes a comment about how he expected Buffy to have Xander or someone with her.

And okay, there’s a lot to unpack in this conversation, the parts that happen before and after they get interrupted by random vampire of the week. Don’t wanna spend the whole liveblog on this, so I’m gonna bullet point the important things

Angel giving Buffy shit for dancing with Xander, but refusing to admit he’s jealous cause Angel is a tool (this is a recurring theme)

Buffy saying she just did it to make Angel jealous, probably cause he’s a tool and never wants to talk about his feelings (also a recurring theme)

Vague slutshamey talking about the dancing which is super uncomfy

Angel calling Xander ‘just a kid’ which has a lot of just... super creepy implications, which are like almost addressed when Buffy asks if that means she’s a kid too, but we don’t get an answer to that (for the record she’s 16 and Angel is super fucking old, yeah I gotta talk about this later in another post)

Angel just tries to go cause he’s a little shit baby who makes Buffy do like 80% of the work in their relationship

Alright, there’s a lot of expansion that can be done on all this, but a lot of it’ll probably happen in liveblogging future episodes.

SO ANYWAY as Buffy goes to chase after Angel (like he always makes her do), she falls into an open grave and they realize the body has been dragged away, starting this investigation into the ‘monster of the week’ as we go to OPENING CREDITS

As the cool music fades we go to Buffy and Xander walking into the library to find Giles talking to an empty chair, practicing how to ask out Jenny Calendar. It’s actually pretty cute and I love awkward nerd dad Giles and Buffy sasses him in a charming way... which Xander then makes super weird, leading to the very, very warranted line from Buffy: “I fear you.” You should fear him, Buffy. You and every other female character in this show. Buffy goes on to give Giles some advice about asking Jenny out, which is sweet, while Xander is a tool.

Buffy then starts talking about the grave she and Angel found. Xander of course has to comment on her being there with Angel, y’know the guy Buffy has a legit on and off again thing with, who she has every right to hang out with without you judging her Xander, shut your gross mouth. Buffy continues to explain stuff and they decide to get Willow to look into the missing body, cause I guess this was the 90s and no one else knows how computers work

Willow we find being adorable and signing up for a science fair where random creepo of the week (I think he’s called Erik???? idk he’s gross so I don’t wanna acknowledge him more than I absolutely have to. Isn’t it wild that a feminist show has so many just casually creepy dude characters? I wonder what that’s about, Joss) Less creepy rando of the week, Chris, shows up and has a nice chat with Willow (too bad we’re going to forget he exists after this episode) Then light of my life, queen of my heart Cordelia shows up to also do the science fair cause the writers needed to find a reason to get her into this plot where she’s gonna get creeped on a whole bunch, great. Buffy shows up for Scoobie bizz and Cordy and Willow go with her, conveniently missing the super cryptic lines the episode randos drop in the middle of a crowded school hallway, but I guess none of the extras can hear so no one calls the cops

Cut to the library where everyone except Willow is scared of the witchcraft that makes the computer work, so she looks up the missing dead girl. Cordelia doesn’t care what they’re doing, but follows along anyway cause the writers kinda want her to be in the Scoobie gang but can’t figure out how to make it happen. She also drops some big foreshadowing that no one listens to because no one in this show appreciates her the way I do. Willow finds that their missing dead girl was killed in an accident with two other girls, so they decide to see if their bodies are gone too as Giles runs through creepy theories about flesh eating demons or zombies. Buffy briefly mentions Angel and Xander shoves his own foot up his ass in protest

We then go to the graveyard where Giles and Xander dig up the grave while Buffy and Willow talk about boys (will we pass the bechdel test this episode? we just don’t know) Buffy gets shamed more for her ‘sexydance’ with Xander and then she asks about the foreshadowing Cordelia dropped earlier and Willow turns into an exposition fairy to talk about Chris’s dead brother, who totally isn’t related at all to the dead bodies being dug up now. Buffy opens up the coffin and we cut to--

Cordelia heading to her car after cheer practice, only to be stalked by a mysterious pair of shoes in the most ripped from a horror movie scene this episode. She hides in a dumpster only to realize the creep following her is actually Angel, who still doesn’t know how to not terrify people he’s trying to talk to. As she’s getting out o the dumpster, Cordelia finds a severed hand trying to cop a feel

The gang gets back to the library where Angel and Cordelia are hanging out (probably planning their spin off already) and Xander and Angel are stupid at each other because that’s the only kind of interaction these two can ever have. Angel tells them about the body parts in the dumpster, which apparently he looked at enough to know some bits are missing, throwing out all the theories the scoobies came up with. He says that the stitching was super good and Giles makes the (very justified) point that high schoolers shouldn’t know how to do that, but apparently they like to stitch up bodies in the science club, so it’s time to break into some lockers. Cordelia asks Angel to take her home and it’s weird for everyone (also Angel’s wearing a really weird jacket right now, it’s khaki and makes him look like a business man who just got laid off and is super bummed that means he can’t sneak around with his secretary anymore)

We then go to Chris’s house where his mom is clearly grieving, but still awful. Now okay, this scene is super short, but very good at establishing everything we need to know about Chris’s homelife, so points there. Back to the school for breaking into people’s lockers. Chris and creepo are found to have lots of medbooks and the creepiest fucking frankengirl made out of pictures from magazines or something. We then go to Chris and creepo in their secret lab where they’re frankensteining the girl bits together

And now we go to the school where Buffy rightly says how messed up this is and Xander opens his mouth to word vomit about love and it’s so weird how his mouth moves but Whedon’s words come out and shit all over female characters. Then we get some cute flirting with Giles and Jenny and he stutters a whole bunch and she asks him out and it’s a genuinely sweet moment (this is when we feel the Whedon destruction of happiness hammers looming. Remember kids, Joss Whedon hates happiness)

Willow tries to do research while Xander’s a dumbass, then Buffy gets there and they discuss the possibilities of frankengirl already being shambling around, only for Giles to get there and say that all three dead heads have been found, so Chris and creepy haven’t finished the job yet. We go to them, talking about how they’ve gotta move fast cause there’s a time limit before the limbs start being extra super dead. Creepy wants to kill a girl and Chris is like ‘dude what the fuck, I’m not doing that’ and it’s revealed that his super dead brother is now a frankenjock and these guys can just... bring people back from the dead??? For a show where people drop like flies, you’d think this would get a little more focus, but no. Super dead bro just wants an equally horrifying lady friend and manages to football talk Chris into agreeing to murder. Dead guy looks at creepy’s pictures and he picks Cordelia (cause it’s been almost an episode since she’s been kidnapped, gotta tick that box again)

The Scoobies meanwhile realize that Chris and creepy have to kill a new girl to get a head and Buffy’s the only one appropriately enraged by this. Willow tries to argue sympathy for Chris, which Buffy doesn’t seem to go for until she goes to Chris’s house and gets an idea of how shit his situation is with his mom. Buffy goes to check out Chris’s weird basement room while dead bro looms, she finds a creepy cut up picture of Cordy and rushes to the rescue. Meanwhile Cordelia gets menaced and kidnapped in the locker room but Buffy shows up just in time to save her. Then Cordelia, cause she’s a fucking pro, insists on going out for cheerleading stuff, gotta lead all those fuckin cheers

Buffy realizes Chris is still there and does try to sympathize, but tells him he’s gotta knock off the creepy shit. Chris plays the pronoun game saying he has to do this for “him” until Buffy realizes he means his dead brother. We briefly see said brother smashing everything and attacking creepy until he says he can make him the lady friend on his own. Buffy and Chris get back to the hidey hole too late and realize dead bro and creepy are still going after my sweet Cordelia

At the football game we see Giles and Jenny on their date, her actually calling it that and making Giles go all awkward. But then the cockblock crew shows up and Willow and Xander steal Giles’s food instead of... y’know, worrying about the potential frankenteen stuff going on. Cordelia gets statched by the dead guy and dragged off while the crowd is distracted by the bizarrely shiny yellow pants the football players are wearing. Buffy and Chris get there a little too late and then we see Cordelia with the creeps and she screams a lot, which... fair Cordy, me too

Chris tells Buffy where to find Cordelia. Apparently they’re just doing this in an old science lab??? .Chris goes to get backup and Buffy goes for the save. She real quickly tries to talk things down, cause she does sympathize with Chris, but when deaders goes to attack Cordy, Buffy goes for the ass kick. The fight goes on for a really, really long time cause this guy won’t get staked. The lab starts catching on fire as Xander gets there and (being useful for the first time this episode, no this season) goes to get a tied up Cordelia out (or he tries to, he can’t undo the fucking straps holding her down on her weird gurney thing, just ignoring all the knives and cutting tools like a foot away cause why use his thinkerbox for anything other than petty quips)

Giles and Willow get there and remove an unconscious creepy. Xander just... he fucking throws himself onto a still screaming Cordelia, giving up getting her untied and just wheels them out because the lab is on too much fire now. This knocks the gurney where the rest of the bits of the would be frankengirl are into the biggest fire. Dead bro is about to super smash Buffy when Chris gets there and yells at him.

This makes him notice the burning body and he just... really awkwardly climbs on top of it and gets redeaded in the fire. And it’s kinda sad but he’s been super creepy this whole episode and no one will remember this later

Outside the fire department gets there a little before Angel does (still wearing his weird khaki outfit like he forgot his middle and last names are “I’ll stop wearing black when they invent a darker color”) And he just... stands there for a bit until we cut to Giles and Jenny talking about a second date. I’m sure that will go well and there won’t be any drama

Xander and Willow talk about how they’re sad and dateless for some reason. Well, Xander says that because he’s a clod and Willow humors him because she’s a soft lovely lady who hasn’t realized there are better options out there yet (soon, honey, soon) Cordelia, who has been temporarily possessed by Joss Whedon, tries to flirt at Xander a little, but he’s dumbass and just brushes her off

Cordelia makes the greatest face ever and is temporarily released from the mild insanity that makes her think Xander is anything more than a terrible worm boy (this won’t last and I hate that)

Now we close out on the same graveyard where we started (wow, neat, such closure, much meaning wow) There’s also this weird cut to a closeup where Sarah Michelle Gellar is clearly standing on a box as Angel talks about how he is in fact jealous of Xander. Progress! I guess. He talks about how being a vampire is suffering cause it makes dating a teenager hard

I joke, but okay, this is a sweet scene and a nice way to bookend the episode, and this is coming from Bangelhater69 over here

FINAL THOUGHTS: In terms of advancing the plot, not a whole lot happens, but there are some good character and relationship moments here, so it’s definitely not all bad. But hey guys SPIKE GETS HERE NEXT EPISODE!!!!

[shortqueershakespeare]

Aw man :( What's up? Also do all the 5 times tables for all the questions posts! Alternatively (or additionally, up to you) do all the even numbers!

i love my anons so much you guys make me feel loved

i just saw some posts from my exes and it was a shock because I didn’t realise I was following them

imma do both these suggestions so here we go its gonna be a long one

2. How old are you? - 21 4.What’s your star sign? - Pisces 5. What is your favorite color? - Blue 6. What’s your lucky number? - 14 8. Where are you from? - The UK 10. What shoe size are you? - UK 3/4 12. What was your last dream about? - My ex apologising (idk why since he wasn’t really in the wrong but we were friends again in the dream so i woke up sad) 14. Are you psychic in any way? - don’t think so 15. Favorite song? - rn either wonderland by Taylor Swift or Midnight Love by girl in red 16. Favorite movie? - Legally blonde immediately comes to mind 18. Do you want children? - Yes 20. Are you religious? - nope 22. Have you ever got in trouble with the law? - nope 24. Baths or showers? - showers as regular, baths as a treat 25. What color socks are you wearing? - no shit I’m wearing rainbow socks why am I always so on brand 26. Have you ever been famous? - nope, nor do i want to be 28. What type of music do you like? - pop, indie pop, indie, alternative, folk, rock 30. How many pillows do you sleep with? - depends on thickness, one or two  32. How big is your house? - 4 bedrooms, a kitchen, living room, a bathroom, a shower room, a toilet, a pantry and another room 34. Have you ever fired a gun? - no 35. Have you ever tried archery? - yes! 36. Favorite clean word? - squiggly 38. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleep? - i think i ended up hitting 52 hours in second year it was terrible 40. Have you ever had a secret admirer? - i don’t think so?? 42. Are you a good judge of character? - HA! when it comes to judging if people are good for one another, yes, for me, no 44. Do you have a strong accent? - i don’t think so, i guess its quite southern 45. What is your favorite accent? - irish 46. What is your personality type? i think i’m an enneagram 2 do with that what u will 48. Can you curl your tongue? - yes! 50. Left or right handed? - right 52. Favorite food? - avocado 54. Are you a clean or messy person? - messy 55. Most used phrased? -  that’s so on brand 56. Most used word? - gay 58. Do you have much of an ego? - don’t think so 60. Do you talk to yourself? - yes its the main way i practise languages 62. Are you a good singer? - i’m decent but am not used to my voice drop 64. Are you a gossip? - yeah 65. Best dramatic movie you’ve seen? - call me by your name is that dramatic?? pride?? idk 66. Do you like long or short hair? - god i’m never having long hair again 68. Favorite school subject? - drama n languages 70. Have you ever been scuba diving? - no but i’d love to! 72. Are you scared of the dark? - no, i actually love the dark, i find it really calming 74. Are you ticklish? - yes 75. Have you ever started a rumor? - don’t think so 76. Have you ever been in a position of authority? - yes, i’ve been director of a play when i was 18 78. Have you ever taken drugs? - no 80. How many piercings do you have? - zero 82. How fast can you type? - NOT VERY 84. What color is your hair? - i don’t think anyone ever expects my answer, but rainbow lol 85. What color are your eyes? - blue 86. What are you allergic to? - as far as we know, nothing 88. What do your parents do? - mum is a teaching assistant, dad used to be pilot, his current job is too complicated for me to understand lolll 90. What makes you angry? - being taken advantage of, my friends being treated unfairly. 92. Have you already thought of children’s names, and if so what are they? - i love the name archana and scottie for girls, i like archie, ash or Dan for boys 94. What are you strengths? - I’m empathetic, generous and caring. 95. What are your weaknesses? - i’m stubborn, self-sacrificing and ruthless. 96. How did you get your name? - I picked it myself! i had a shortlist of ten, got mum to veto some, tried them all out with my two middle name options and narrowed it down from there 98. Do you have any scars? - most notably one from a fishhook, and then lots of pet/chicken wire/falling over scars 100. Color of your room?    - white 2: Tiny house plants or huge house plants?

- Tiny 4: Do you prefer painting or drawing? - drawing

What's your favorite type of sweets/candy? - flying saucers (i’m losing the will to format and honestly i’m impressed if u get this far this is mostly just therapy at this point)

Do you fold laundry or hang it up a closet?

- fold

When's the last time you saw a duck?

- two days ago

What's your go to comfort movie?

- moana

How old were you when you stopped sleepign with stuffed animals?

- bold of you to assume i stopped

Would you rather have Ice cream or a popsicle?

- ice cream

Dogs or cats?

- dogs purely because i have a puppy and i could never betray her

Do you have any tattoos/peircings?

- no

Would you rather live in a library where you can read all the books or a theater where you can watch every movie that shows?

- library

Do you consider yourself artistic?

- creative, yes, artistic, no

Do you have any siblings?

- 3

How long have you been on tumblr?

- since 2013 i think

If you had to live in the same world as movie or show what world would it be?

hogwarts

Vine or tik tok?

- vine

Do you sleep in matching pjs or just random clothes?

- random tshirt

Who's your favorite fictional character currently?

- draco malfoy or merlin

What was your first fandom?

- merlin

What place do you want to visit the most?

- spain or south america i think

If you could change one thing in history with no negative consequences, what would you change?

- eradicate genocide??

What was the first ship you obsessed over?

- MERTHUR

What's an appropriate guilty pleasure of yours?

- fucking vanderpump rules

Do you have any collections?

- washi tape

Do you have any specific kind of style?

- gay

Are there any conspiracies you believe in?

- no

How many blogs do you follow?

- 896

If you had to describe your tumblr with only 5 words what would they be?

- gay, pets, chaotic, writing, art

What hemisphere do you live in?

- northern

What's something from you loved your childhood that you still proudly like now?

- harry potter or football or spiderman

02:Ever been in love?

- yes

04:How tall are you?

- 5 something

05:How much do you weigh?

- no idea

06:Any tattoos do you want?

- yeah, some transition ones, some lyrics, some watercolour, some langauges

08:OTP?

- merthur

10:Favorite bands?

- stornoway, panic! at the disco, fall out boy

12:Favorite song?

- take care of yourself by maisie peters

14:Zodiac sign?

- pisces

15:Hair Color?

rainbow

16:Favorite Quote?

- “the world is seeming really huge right now. i need something to hold on to”

18:Favorite color?

- blue

20:Where do you go when you’re sad?

- my bed or outside

22:How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?

- 20 minutes

24:Turn on?

- lip biting

25:Turn off?

- being too passive i guess? i’m a big sub

26:The reason I joined Tumblr?

- harry potter fandom i think

28:Last thing that made you cry?

- unexpectedly seeing photos of my exes

30:Meaning behind your url

- i’m a slytherin and a friend called me the shakespeare of insults

32:Last song you listened to?

- the good side, troye sivan

34:Last person you talked to?

- school friend

35:The relationship between you and the person you last texted?

- friends 

36:Favorite food?

- i swear i’m gonna change my answer every time, pancakes

38:Last place you were?

- WE’RE IN QUARANTINE

40:Last time you kissed someone?

- september i think

42:What color underwear are you wearing?

- blue w/ bananas

44:What color bottoms are you wearing?

- black and white

45:Wearing any bracelets?

- 4 rainbow, 2 trans

46:Last sport you played?

- tennis

48:Last prank call you made, doing?

- n/a

50:Favorite movie?

- moana 2. cloudy skies or clear blue

4. coffee pot or tea pot

5. matching or mismatched dinnerware

6. lambs or calves

8. wheat fields or cattails

10. picking apples or strawberries

12. comfy sweaters or flowing sleeves

14. trimmed hedges or overgrowth

15. piglets or foals

16. daffodils or tulips

18. yellow or green hues

20. crows or owls

22. hanging baskets or pots

24. pancakes or scones

25. birch trees or oak trees

26. toadstools or chanterelles

28. straw hats or dungarees

30. crackling fire or babbling stream

🎨 do you have any hobbies you regret quitting? would you consider starting them again?

- lots of sports, yeah

🎟 what are some artists/bands whose music brings back childhood memories for you?

- kelly clarkson, show of hands, basshunter, avril lavigne

🎻 if you began learning a new instrument today, which one would you pick?

- guitar

🔭 what’s your go-to topic to learn about when you’re bored?

- lgbt history, languages

🎞 what movie(s)/TV show(s) do you find comforting to watch?

- parks and rec, b99, the good place, cxg, chuck, one day at a time

🕯 do you have any self care activities you do routinely?

- writing

☕️ what’s your favourite hot drink?

- chai latte

💌 what’s something you love about the last friend/family member you texted?

- i could literally text her being like “i have not done anything ever” and she’d be like “i’m so proud of u tell me everything”

📆 what are you looking forward to in the next year?

- going to viennaaaa

2. Are you outgoing or shy?

- outgoing

4. Are you easy to get along with?

- yes

5. If you were drunk would the person you like take care of you?

- yes

6. What kind of people are you attracted to?

- either people who need fixing (disastrous) or people who care as much as i do (excellent)

8. Who from the opposite gender is on your mind?

- my best friend

10. Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with?

- everyone i drunk texted tonight

12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now?

- clean (taylor swift), wonderland (taylor swift), midnight love (girl in red), place we were made (maisie peters), she (dodie)

14. Do you believe in luck and miracles?

- yes and no

15. What good thing happened this summer?

- i fucking committed to putting myself first

16. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again?

- fuck no i respect myself

18. Do you still talk to your first crush?

- no

20. Do you like your neighbors?

- i don’t know them well but yes

22. Where would you like to travel?

- baby we’re in quarantine i would settle for going back hom or visiting a friend

24. Favorite part of your daily routine?

- my late nights with the puppy

25. What part of your body are you most uncomfortable with?

- wow, my chest

26. What do you do when you wake up?

- grumble that i have to be up, play animal crossing til i properly wake up

28. Who are you most comfortable around?

- oscar, jules, umme, katherine, char

30. Do you ever want to get married?

- yes

32. Which celebrities would you have a threesome with?

- okay well ben platt immediately appeared in my mind but i think there would have to be someone dominant to balance it out so maybe ryan reynolds?

34. Do you play sports? What sports?

- okay so currently nothing really, but tennis and i used to play rounders, football, netball, gymnastics, judo, swimming, sailing

35. Would you rather live without TV or music?

- without tv, youtube exists

36. Have you ever liked someone and never told them?

- welcome to my life right now

38. Describe your dream girl/guy?

- compassionate, caring, independent but likes to spend time together, plans fun dates

40. What do you want to do after high school?

- go to uni so well done me

42. If you’re being extremely quiet what does it mean?

- usually i’m sad or concentrating real hard (or reading a fic)

44. Trip to outer space or bottom of the ocean?

- ooh, ocean because definitely life??

45. What makes you get out of bed in the morning?

- puppy

46. What are you paranoid about?

- being unloveable

48. Have you ever been drunk?

- yes

50. What was the colour of the last hoodie you wore?

- white and navy

52. One thing you wish you could change about yourself?

- my body?? or my self confidence

54. Favourite store?

- tiger or lush

55. Favourite blog?

- ballym

56. Favourite colour?

- blue

58. Last thing you ate?

- oreo chocolate

60. Ever won a competition? For what?

- i think for writing when i was younger

62. Been arrested? For what?

- no

64. Tell us the story of your first kiss?

- okay so context, my ex was about a foot taller than me so when i went for a kiss i totally missed and hit his chin and it was very sweet and utterly hilarious

65. Are you hungry right now?

- nah

66. Do you like your tumblr friends more than your real friends?

- equal

68. Twitter or Tumblr?

- tumblr

70. Names of your best friends?

- okay i’m just gonna go with who i drunk texted tonight so, oscar, umme, char, katherine, jules

72. What colour are your towels?

- blue, purple, grey

72. How many pillows do you sleep with?

- one or two

74. How many stuffed animals do you think you have?

- in this house, at least 10, at my childhood house over 100

75. Favourite animal?

- tiger

76. What colour is your underwear?

- blue w bananas

78. Favourite ice cream flavour?

- clotted cream vanilla

80. What colour pants?

- black and white

82. Favourite movie?

- moana

84. Mean Girls or 21 Jump Street?

85. Favourite character from Mean Girls?

- gretchen

86. Favourite character from Finding Nemo?

- crush

88. Last person you talked to today?

- kat

90. Name a person you love?

- hannah

92. In a fight with someone?

- no

94. How many sweaters/hoodies do you have?

- at least 10 in my room rn

95. Last movie you watched?

- johnny english reborn

96. Favourite actress?

- rachel bloom

98. Do you tan a lot?

- a bit

100. How are you feeling?

- a lot better than i was when i started this tbh

102. Do you regret anything from your past?

- yes but lets not rn

103. Can you spell well?

yes

104. Do you miss anyone from your past?

- yes

105. Ever been to a bonfire party?

- yes

106. Ever broken someone’s heart?

- yes

108. What should you be doing?

- taking the dog out and sleeping

110. Have you ever loved someone so much it hurt?

- welcome to my life

112. Who was the last person you cried in front of?

- my sister i think

114. Have you ever been out of your province/state?

- yes

115. Do you play the Wii?

- no

116. Are you listening to music right now?

- yes

118. Do you like Chinese food?

- yes

120. Are you afraid of the dark?

- no

122. Is cheating ever okay?

- i would say no, but i don’t think things are black and white

124. Do you believe in love at first sight?

- eh not really

125. Do you believe in true love?

- i believe in many true loves

126. Are you currently bored?

- nope

128. Would you change your name?

- already did

130. Do you like subway?

- yes

132. Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with?

- oscar

134. Can you count to one million?

- i could but i have the attention span of a goldfish

135. Dumbest lie you ever told?

- oh who knows

136. Do you sleep with your doors open or closed?

- closed

138. Curly or Straight hair?

- curly

140. Summer or Winter?

- winter

142. Favourite month?

- september

144. Dark, milk or white chocolate?

- dark

145. Tea or Coffee?

- both

146. Was today a good day?

- yeah i think it was, i just got overwhelmed

148. What’s your favourite quote?

“the universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to”

150. Get the closest book next to you, open it to page 42, what’s the first line on that page?

okay its a russian grammar book we don’t need that energy at ten past 1 in the morning

[vtcollegecounseling]

What’s the best high school for my kid (and should I move now)?

I am of the age when many of my friends have babies or toddlers, and are already looking ahead to high school since choices they make now might influence their kids’ options for high school. More urgently, those with students in middle school might be freaking out about their choices, knowing that they ideally should choose now and never look back. I revel in helping families navigate the nuances of this precipice and specialize in options in the Portland, Oregon area.

most important

No school is "better" than another, and there is no such thing as the best school in town. Pedagogies and institutional philosophies vary greatly. One school might offer the most excellent traditional academic programming in terms of rigorous classes and homework, and tough grading. Another school might outshine in terms of community, support, experiential education, and/or cocurricular programming. Perhaps the most important factor for your student is a celebration of various learning styles. I'm a firm believer that appropriate fit and happiness beget success. Whatever you do, do NOT get caught up in guessing what the "best" school is considered to be in your area.

how to choose

Define your goals. This process will be complex! Before you weigh the factors of cost, location, and offerings, decide as a family what your priorities are among the following: excellent traditional academics, progressive or holistic academics, life-skills/learning development, community standards, character and moral development, quality arts programming, quality athletic programming, robust parent involvement, high-caliber college placement, student and family diversity (ethnic, socioeconomic, cultural), differences in learning support and accommodation.

Then visit. Open Houses and other visit programs are the best. Don't be afraid to ask for more, though. Every school will be able to accommodate special meetings and visits anytime, during which you're likely to receive better attention. See me for more ideas and protocols.

Chose as individuals. Your kid is unique. So is your family. It's soooo easy to be influenced by what your neighbors are doing, but it's essential to assess your goals based on the list above, and then consider factors of cost, convenience, reputation, size, etc.

There may not be a totally ideal school. But don't get hung up on finding the perfect synthesis of all your criteria. There won't likely be a school the reportedly distance from your home, with the ideal academic programming and activities for you. Prioritize.

Assess how much support you can offer your kid. If you are able to drive to activities elsewhere in town, then perhaps a robust arts or athletic program isn't necessary. If you are willing to pay for standardize test prep, then maybe you can sacrifice traditional academics for progressive. If you have little time beyond your own work schedule and commuting, perhaps a school that offers strong community and advising will help you rest assured your student is being looked out for.

Investigate sticker price. If you're considering private schools, it will be daunting to face tuition, especially with college cost on the horizon. My general belief, based on decades of observation, is that investment in education in the earlier years yields returns on that investment down the road. It may or may not be worth it to take out loans or re- budget elsewhere in your life to ensure a quality education and community during your child's formative years. That stated, it rarely makes sense to struggle, economically, when your student could also thrive in you public school option. In general, the best choice for your family should trump minor differences in tuition. Whatever you do, investigate the real cost of attendance (COA). Is there financial aid available? Are there hidden costs in fees and community expectations? Is there a current family you can ask? What would be your opportunity cost of commuting or buying your kid a car to ultimately drive herself/himself? Again, it may or may not be worth it.

Listen to your kid. She or he may not be able to articulate why one option is more appealing than another, so gently try to determine what is behind their opinion. If it's only friends and social concerns, we adults know that factor can and will change ("nobless oblige"). If it's something deeper like community size, programming, or activities, it's worth further, patient conversation.

You won't be locked-in. Albeit ideal to remain in one school as long as possible, students are transferring high schools more than ever in the past few decades. Transferring makes no impact on college admission, and this acceptable trend should take some weight off your decision.

PDX options and corresponding strengths

Public schools Most offer very impressive and robust IB programs or AP courses. Their strengths also rest in large, dynamic, diverse, and exciting populations. If you have a choice, I advise against splitting hairs about what classes are offered and especially what college credits might be accrued. You should focus on the community vibe, guidance, cocurricular programming, and general cultural feel of the school.

ACMA Public funding with the most advanced curricula in arts and communication.

Catlin Gabel Often viewed as the most elite independent school in the NW. Outstanding writing prep, incredible advising system. and extreme experiential education.

Central Catholic A more affordable option for a larger, faith-based education with many befits of a private institution. Families have often selected CC over other for their broad academic offerings, deep athletic rosters and opportunities, and social vibe, in general.

Jesuit - A dynamic faith-based community with particularly rich programming in athletics and community service. The community at Jesuit is by far the largest and most vibrant of the major prep schools: think filled football bleachers.

Language immersion/international schools - Exceptional communities that empower global citizens and celebrate diversity in an otherwise homogenous city.

Metropolitan Learning Center - awesome. More on this one to come...

Northwest Academy - Extremely small, intimate, and tight-knit community with remarkably devoted faculty and a progressive curriculum.

Oregon Episcopal - Excellent college preparatory education with robust offerings, strong advising, and a surprisingly diverse community.

Pacific Crest - An intensively supportive, small environment with adaptive education.

Portland Waldorf - A wonderfully holistic approach to educating the whole student and drawing connections across the curriculum.

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Three Stars of Comedy

The third star: "Please don't die" – That's a really polite chant. Being a hockey fan just makes everyone 20 percent more Canadian.

The second star: Lynda Carter – Yes, Wonder Woman. This is the time of year when random celebrities start showing up to support the remaining teams, and it's easy enough to dismiss them as PR stunts. But Carter seems like a diehard – especially when she's taking sides in the Capitals' fan blog wars.

The first stars: Ryan Zimmerman and Max Scherzer – They're baseball players for the Washington Nationals, but they've gone all-in on the Capitals' run. Like, really all-in.

As an added bonus, Nationals' star Bryce Harper is also a big hockey fans so this is probably a great team-building exercise for the whole… oh. Oh no.

Be It Resolved

Capitals fans, we need to talk.

But maybe not right now. Because with the Caps taking the ice tonight with a chance to capture the first Stanley Cup in franchise history, we're going to talk about what should happen if they win. I completely understand if you want no part of that discussion. Feel free to skip this section entirely, and then come back if and when they close out the series. Do a CTRL+F right now for "obscure" and keep going. No hard feelings.

But the Capitals are probably going to win. That's not a knock against Vegas; it's just basic math. Teams that go up 3-1 in a series win an overwhelming amount. And even factoring in the Capitals' historically awful performance when up 3-1, they still have a better than 50 percent chance of closing this out.

So it's probably going to happen. We're mere days and quite possibly hours away from a world in which the Capitals are Stanley Cup champions. And normally, this is where Caps fans would be told to act like they've been there before. But you can't, because you never have.

So I'm going to tell you how to act: However you damn well please.

That's it. It sounds simple, and it is. But I promise you that the second that Alexander Ovechkin's hands touch the trophy, you're going to start getting lectured by other fan bases who want to rain on your parade.

You're going to hear from Penguins fans about how you still have four more Cups to go to catch up to them. You'll hear from Flyers fans who say you're only halfway to their total, and from Islanders fans who say you're only a quarter, and if you're under the age of 35, you'll just have to take their word for it. You'll hear from Devils fans. You'll hear from old school fans in places like Detroit or Montreal who have lots of Cups, and from new fans in places like Carolina or Anaheim wondering what took you so long. God help us, you might even hear from a Rangers fan or two.

I want you to listen to me very carefully: Screw those people.

You have earned this. It's been 44 years of misery, from being the worst expansion team ever to the league's most notorious playoff chokers. If you stuck around for all of it, or even most, then this is your moment. You have endured more of Those Games than just about any fan base in pro sports. But one more win, and it's bonfire time for all those memories. And when it happens, you get to react however you want.

If you're the gracious sort, then fine. If you want to run through the streets, do it. If you want to cry, nobody is judging you. If you want to return a few shots at anyone who's spent years taking them at you, by all means.

And if anyone tells you that you're doing it wrong, or that you're too excited over one title in 44 years, or that there's some cutoff you have to reach before you're allowed to feel as happy as they once did, tell them to get bent. Laugh in their sad little faces. Flex. Spike the football. Literally. Go out right now and buy a football, then spend the days after a Caps win running up to random fans of other teams and spiking it right in front of them. Preferably into the birthday cake their child was about to blow out the candles on.

There are no rules. After 44 years, you deserve at least that much. If the fun police try to show up, flip over their cars and set them on fire and then keep going. It's basically The Purge for Washington fans until October, because nothing will matter except that the freaking Capitals finally won the freaking Stanley Cup.

(Unless they don't, in which case you should probably never watch hockey again.)

Obscure Former Player of the Week

Garth Snow was fired as the Islanders GM this week, ending a 12-year reign that had been in jeopardy as soon as Lou Lamoriello was put in charge of hockey ops. That's got to be frustrating. Snow probably feels like repeatedly punching somebody. This week's obscure player is Andrei Trefilov.

Trefilov was a Soviet goaltender who'd played for Dynamo Moscow and made international appearances at the Olympics and Canada Cup. He was a long shot pick by the Flames in the 12th round of the 1991 entry draft, the 261st selection out of 264 made that day. It would turn out to be a decent gamble, as Trefilov made his way to North America in time for the 1992-93 season, spending most of it with the IHL's San Diego Gulls. He made a single appearance for Calgary that year, making 34 saves in a 5-5 tie against the Canucks.

He'd spend two more years doing spot duty with the Flames, playing a total of 17 games before becoming a free agent in 1995. He signed with the Sabres, where he played a career-best 22 games while backing up reigning Vezina winner Dominik Hasek during the 1995-96 season. That was also the year that saw him accomplish the two things most fans might remember him for: Starting the last ever game at the old Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, and getting pummeled by Snow during a bizarre line brawl.

(This is of course the infamous Matthew Barnaby fakeout brawl, which we previously broke down here.)

Trefilov spent one more year in Buffalo but only appeared in three games. Early in the 1997-98 season, he was traded to the Blackhawks, where he played seven games over two seasons before being dealt to Calgary, where he played four. That was it for his NHL career, which spanned seven seasons but only included 54 actual games. He played another year in the IHL and five more in Germany before retiring. He appears to have since gone into business as an agent.

Debating the Issues

This week’s debate: The Stanley Cup will be in the building tonight in Las Vegas, and a Capitals win would mean we'd see Gary Bettman perform his annual presentation duties. If he does, should Golden Knights fans boo him?

In favor: Yes. Hockey fans should always boo Gary Bettman. This isn't a hard question. Boo him, Vegas.

Opposed: But just because everyone else does something doesn't mean you have to, too.

In favor: But sometimes it does, because despite our differences, some things are integral to the human condition. Everyone eats. Everyone sleeps. Everyone boos Gary Bettman on sight. What are we even debating here?

Opposed: OK, but can we at least agree that if there was ever a time when cheering Gary Bettman would be appropriate, this is it? He's the reason the Golden Knights are in Vegas in the first place. If you're a Vegas hockey fan, and you've enjoyed all the ups and downs of the last year, Bettman is the guy you have to thank for it. Booing him would seem like a weird way to do it.

In favor: Oh well. Sometimes life takes us in expected directions. Boo the man.

Opposed: Imagine trying to explain that to a Vegas fan. Hey everyone, here's the guy who became the first commissioner in major pro sports history to believe in your market enough to put a team there. He shrugged off the countless naysayers who said it would be a disaster. He made sure you had at least a decent chance at being good in year one. And then that first season ended up being far better than anyone could imagine. And now you're supposed to boo him?

In favor: Yes. Yes you are.

Opposed: But why? Seriously, why do hockey fans do this? There have been times where it made sense, like when Devils fans in 1995 thought Bettman was actively working to move the team to Nashville, or when Carolina fans booed him immediately after the season-long lockout. But why does he get booed in Pittsburgh, even though he helped steer the team out of bankruptcy? Or other non-traditional markets that he's stood by? Or even Original Six markets like Detroit that he's never done anything but support? Is there any point to all of this?

In favor: Gosh, you mean other than the constant lockouts, the almost total lack of progressive solutions to the game's many problems, the decision not to go to the Olympics, the mishandling of concussions and CTE, and the steady stream of condescending media appearances in which he can barely disguise his contempt for his customers? Yeah, once you get past all that I guess there's no reason at all.

Opposed: OK, but again, most of those haven't impacted the Golden Knights. Their fans have never lived through a lockout, and it's not their job to worry about the problems of the past. They've just enjoyed one of the best seasons in the history of any sport, and it's because of Bettman. They should be looking forward. They're the new guys.

In favor: Yes, they are. And when you're new somewhere, it's a good idea to take a look around and figure out what the customs are. Real hockey fans boo Gary Bettman. You want to be one of us, you know what you have to do.

Opposed: That's silly. You're asking a team that has pregame knight fights and laser shows to be bound by tradition?

In favor: Not tradition—respect for your fellow fan. We boo Bettman because it's our only chance to express our frustration with how this league is run. Many of us have been fighting this fight for decades. You come along, and everything is perfect in year one. OK, great, many of us are very happy for you. But you're part of a bigger picture now. And here's a chance to show the world that you're hockey fans, not just Golden Knight fans.

Opposed: And if they do, will the rest of you forgive them for the Twitter account?

In favor: We'll consider it.

The final verdict: Vegas fans are under no moral obligation to boo Gary Bettman. But you'd impress the hell out of the rest of hockey fans if you did.

Classic YouTube Clip Breakdown

Tonight could be Gary Bettman's 25th Cup presentation, and it's fair to say that some have gone better than others. But by now there's a pretty standard process: Bettman arrives, makes a half-hearted joke to the fans who are booing him, he congratulates the losing team, talks way too long about the winning team's owners, calls over the captain, and then forces him to awkwardly pose for photos instead of just handing over the Cup and getting on with it. Typical stuff.

But it wasn't always that way. So today, let's conclude our recent bout of 1993 playoff nostalgia by heading back to Bettman's very first Stanley Cup handoff. We've done a different version of this moment years ago, but this clip is a better and longer version than we had back then, which makes it feel worth revisiting on its 25th anniversary.

It's June 9, 1993, and the Canadiens are facing the Kings in Game 5 of the Final. We're in the final minute of the third period, but I don't know the score because back then it wasn't on the screen at all times. Does anyone else get a form of low-level anxiety when they watch old clips that don't have the score bug? Just me? Great, good to know.

Whatever the score is, it's clear that the Canadiens have this one in the bag as nobody really cares what's happening on the ice. The fans are on their feet, and Bob Cole is (of course) killing it with his countdown call. The clock hits zero, and the celebration is on.

Wait, I'm confused, this is a 1993 Montreal Canadiens playoff game, why is it ending after regulation?

We get our first view of a little guy in a suit who'll become a recurring character for this clip. That's Denis Savard, the future Hall-of-Famer who's in his third season with the Habs and 13th overall. He's not the player he once was, and has been scratched for much of the playoffs, but everyone still loves him and this is his first Cup, so it's a big moment.

We also get a shot of Wayne Gretzky congratulating Habs coach Jacques Demers and then giving him his stick, presumably so the Canadiens can secretly measure the curve like a bunch of dirty cheaters.

That leads to the handshake line, which just kind of happens organically in the Montreal zone instead of at center ice. The Kings only had 19 shots in this game, so they probably just wanted to see what the Montreal end was like.

We get another shot of Demers carrying around Gretzky's stick. He's probably wondering why it has Doug Gilmour's blood all over it.

Ron MacLean interviews Patrick Roy, who doesn't really say anything interesting, and then moves on to Demers. Hey, quick question: why isn't Demers in the Hall of Fame? He coached 1,000 games, won a Cup, is the only coach to ever win the Jack Adams in back-to-back years, and once tried to fight Herb Brooks. That's good enough for me, let's get him in.

Bettman is introduced, and you'll notice the crowd doesn't boo. Montreal: not real fans. Who knew?

Roy is announced as the Conn Smythe winner and Bettman grabs a microphone, at which point MacLean interviews Savard. That's right, there was a time when Bettman's pre-presentation ramble was treated as background noise, not something that had to be the focus of the entire broadcast. Call me crazy, but I feel like that was a good system.

It does cost us a good look at one important moment here, though, as we miss the part at very beginning where Bettman tries to speak French. You'll have to trust me when I tell you that it was one of the funniest moments in modern hockey history. He shows up, pulls out a tiny piece of paper he tries to hide in his palm, and proceeds to pronounce each word phonetically while clearly having no idea what he's actually saying. As someone who got through high school French classes with the exact same method, I respect it.

Bettman only talks for about 30 seconds before calling the Canadiens over to get the Cup, which is funny because it's clearly quicker than MacLean was expecting and causes Savard to bolt away mid-interview.

We didn't know it then, but this was the very last time we'd ever see two things that had long been Stanley Cup traditions: The Canadiens winning, and the trophy being presented to the whole team at once. Bettman hands off to captain Guy Carbonneau but is quickly surrounded, and has to Homer Simpson his way out of the crowd. It wouldn't be until next year in New York when Bettman and Messier would establish the one-on-one captain handoff template that's still used today.

There's a funny moment during the skate around the rink when Roy goes for the Cup and Patrice Brisebois ends up playing keep away like he's holding a toy over his little brother's head. Roy responds to this bout of mild adversity by immediately quitting the team and demanding a trade.

We close with the team photo, and maybe my favorite moment of the whole clip: Demers just bolting right to the front of the group. He's practically stiff-arming trainers out of the way to get there. If that doesn't get you in the Hall of Fame I don’t know what does.

And that's it—Bettman's first handoff. Not bad for a rookie. In fact, I think we can learn from it. So whether it's tonight or in a few days, Gary, consider going old school. Keep it short, skip the photo poses, and escape quickly. And also, maybe work in a second language. I hear the guy you'll be handing off to may know some Russian.

Have a question, suggestion, old YouTube clip, or anything else you'd like to see included in this column? Email Sean at nhlgrabbag@gmail.com .

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