I an honestly say that I went through my entire schooling career in one of the "best" school districts in the country. Socially, I had three friends, and honestly it was beause the calibur of people available in the school to socialize with was...lacking. I have high standards of behavior I guess. You know, I didn't drink, smoke, or have sex. Oh and drugs were right out. So that eliminated 98.8% of the population, thus leaving me with five friends. Plus TWO from middle school! (One of which moved to PA and one of which became home schooled!) Wow. So there goes the argument for public schools being a socaial haven. At least in this (super awesome) School district I'm in.

My Brother is currently going through the same hgh school I went through, and has all A's and B's in his subjects EXCEPT for algebra which he is failing. He is highly functioning Apergers, and has an IEP plan which his algebra teacher is staunchly ignoring. His teacher, councilor, and principals areCONSTANTLY ignoring and passing the buck on to the next person whenever my mother emails them about trying tosolve the problem. Oh, and did I mention that this teacher is the SAME one that taught ME?

Every day I (he) we roamed the halls thanks to redrawn district lines, we have (had) to deal with the constant presence of lowlifes who made it a daily hobby to start fights in the hall. I can tell you from personal experience that you haven't LIVED until you've gotten stuck in the middle of a Latina catfight with an 8 high stack of books in your arms. Terrifying. @_@

So, when you stack the factors of burnt out uncaring teachers, unsavory student populations (of EVERY RACE), poor standards of education, and just a general feeling of failure; go ahead, ask me if I'll home school my son.

YES. I will. He can join swim teams, Boy Scouts, church groups, service groups, tennis teams, choruses, kids' theater groups, WHATEVER his heart desires, but he will not step FOOT in a public school. We will meet with local home shool groups for socialization, and he can have whatever activities he wants otherwise, but public school is out of the question. As far as I'm concerned, its my responsibility as a parent to make the big decisions for him as far as his welfare goes. If we move to a more desireable district where the kids act like human beings instead of monsters, I may reconsider. But until then, I think I'm pretty dead set on home schooling him.

Wave one of course. The only wave available in the united states

Scar is not evil necisarily for JUST the deed he committed, though killing your brother and trying to kill your nephew is pretty dang evil. It is HOW he committed it that makes him evil. He was CALCULATING about it. He thought out every detail and manipulated *others* to do *HIS*  dirty work. You knew he was bad, but those doing the dirty work thought that they were doing it for their own personal benefit the whole time--but were only playing right into Scar's paws, and never even knew it.

Hence why I say that Scar, the calculating evil genius is the most evil Disney villain of them all.


(And Also, Vanilla Bean, if you think the Disney Movie is dark, you should read the original Hunchback story. Everyone dies in the end. SO not a happy ending like Disney said There WAS NO SEQUEL to the book.)

Nit picky issues I have with this batch:
Nightmare Moon's eyes are....off. Her pupils should have been put in a more forward position I think so she doesn't look so slanty eyed when she looks straight at you. She's also not TRUE BLACK. She actually color matches with a custom I'm making of Princess Luna which I color matched the paint color using screen captures from Luna Eclipsed. So technically She's Princess Luna...On Nightmare Night?

DJ Pon E's Glasses *are* painted on, making them look awkward. If you were gonna do this girl, either do the glasses removable or mold them as a part of the head and paint the lenses and ear pieces to make the molding show better. Halfwaying it by painting it is kinda lame =\

Prince Shining Armor has troll hair. Give him short real nylon hair, make his head look less pointy from the side at the base of his horn and we're super.

Yeah yeah. I'm picky. But that doesn't mean I'm not buying ALL THEM.

Am I the only one that thought "Well Damn. There goes the market for customizers." What's next? AMAZING looking plushies that creep me the heck out? I think it must be the end of the world. Hasbro is listening to its cash cow--I mean, Fans! I look forward to Nightmare Moon, DJ Vinyl Scratch and Celestia (I can call her by her proper name now because she isn't pink!)

Bahaha! That's too funny Butterscotch. I have to be careful. My range is gas, and that puppy burns like well...a kiln. So yeah. I've burned pieces in *minutes*. It was traumatic.

Ok, so I have this Little Baby Philly Luna that I'm working on, and last night I sculpted my first pair of wings out of sculpey and bakedit and went to bed. Late. I woke up this morning and somehow one wing is goregeous and tiny and diminutive like I wanted it to be, and one wing is...HUGE.


So. Can I tear off the chunky mcmonkey wing and redo it, then plop it on her side, and rebake her without burning the bjebus out of the properly done wing?


Or should I take this opportunity to bust out the "Green stuff" I bought from Games workshop? Its essentially supposed to be air dry epoxy..I kinda wanted to hold off on using it because I have a *very* tiny amount...And it cost 10 bucks. >< I'd prefer to rebake if it wont' destroy my good work....


Heeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllp! *waits for the elite beat agents?*