Most universities have programs that allow staff to take a certain number of credits per semester for free - and I think that in those cases, as long as you are consistently working toward it, they don't use the same time constraints as with traditional degree programs.

I want to make that alot!

In high school, I worked at United Skates of America (USA Skate), as a floor guard. Once a session, I got to be the Skatasaurus and go out and do the hokey pokey and chicken dance with the little kids.

Now... Skato had been the mascot since *I* was a little kid in the 70s, and the suit sure smelled like it was the same one they'd used when I was on the other side of that row of high-fives.

Aw, man! I wish something like that would open where I live!

There's a drive-in just outside of my town, and it's just delightful. It's only one screen, but they show a double-feature each weekend - usually first-run movies that are just opening that same weekend. You can bring your own food, though the concession stand is quite good.

My friends and I usually form a posse and get there just after the gates open, park down front, and have a game night and smorgasbord before the first movie starts.

When I was a kid, my parents told me in summer that they didn't want to see me until dinner time unless I was bleeding.

There was a playground about four blocks over. I was allowed to ride my bike there and play all day. I just had to be home by dinner time, or my butt was grounded.

It had huge metal slides... and pebbles and asphalt... and an enormous structure with monkey bars and a curvy slide and a tube slide. (The inside of the tube slide always smelled of pee, so we'd just climb up the outside of it - the top of which was about 25 feet off the ground.)

Well, technically, they weren't really face-to-face - but more offset. Each partner would be looking over the other's right shoulder. That way, the legs were not aligned. The difference with the dances in the early 20th century is that the partners were in line with one another - toe-to-toe. (Which, of course, meant that *other* body parts were now in alignment - thus the scandal.)

@ Tempscire - By the time the animal dances became popular, the waltz had become the "nostalgic" dance of the era. Although, the new way to do it was to guide the lady *gasp!* backwards, thanks to the upwardly-creeping hemlines of the early 20th century. (This could not be done, previously, as the ladies' skirts were too long and volumnous - and they would have been stepping all over hems and falling over in giant pouffs of petticoats and crinolines.)

Oh, those scandalous animal dances! Another one that is absolutely hilarious to watch (or dance) is the Grizzly Bear, which is meant to emulate the movements of the "dancing bears" that were popular attractions in the 19th century.

Fortunately for everyone, Vernon and Irene Castle brought some dignity to many of the dances of the era! ;)

I've been watching some of these events streaming online, and the Canada v Japan hockey game this afternoon was pretty badass. (Japan pulled off TWO goals in the last couple of minutes and will play the winner of this evening's USA v Norway game for the gold medal.)

I don't know what I like more about this these photos - the "giant tree" illusion or the fact that he towed it with that tiny car.

Neato! I used to be in speech pathology, and so I spent many an hour watching videos such as this. It's so weird and so awesome at the same time.

"Things happen"

Fantastic! :D

I agree with the HP Lovecraft camp.

That's pretty much how I've always visualized it, but never thought that it would need to be described as a "condition". I thought (and it seems a good number of people on this thread also think) that everyone saw it that way.

For me, January is sort of in the 1 o'clock position, and if you were running on it like a track, it would go downhill until May (around 6 o'clock), and starts going uphill at June. The summer months are sort of a long, slow straightaway, with Start of the Academic Year being where things kick into gear and get steeper, until you get to December, which is around the 11/12 o'clock spot, and also at the top of the hill... with the holidays being just over the crest into the downhill.

In my mind, I can look back at previous months, since it's a big open "track".

I can't even begin to express how cool this is. :D

As someone who is also very sensitive to the sun (but not anywhere near as much as these kids) AND a former camp program director, I've always had kind of a fantasy to have a night-time only camp. I'm really glad to see that someone actually started one!