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So it's soccer tryouts season and it's been hell. She's gotten a garbage offer from one club (play up a year with HS girls, heck no), cut from another (basically came down to size), and now we are on tryout #3 with her original club that fired the psycho coach. We decided to have her play at the lowest club level so she could have more fun, and take spring off. But when I signed her up, the club actually reached out to say hey we remember Q, are you sure you didn't want to sign her up for premier? I told them she would be willing to consider a middle team offer, so they asked her to come to tryouts for premier and select (lowest level). We went to premier tryouts yesterday and I said hey get to know the coach for the middle team, see if you like him. See if you like the girls. They had a huge turnout the night before for the top team, but it was dead yesterday. Some of her old teammates were there still going (the coach has lots of choices so he is going to make them all wait until the final day of tryouts), but many of them had middle school track meets. Not a lot of girls, quite frankly doesn't look great for a middle team. But the middle team coach was absolutely rude to her and I don't get this behavior. Coach: go sub in at wide Q: what's the girl's name? Coach: (stares at her) Q (to another girl): hey the girl playing wide, what's her name? Girl: it's ______. Coach: Now you know the name. Q was upset because she said the guy stared at her like she was an idiot. And while she might be a little sensitive, we've seen this behavior in coaches before. They tell her the position to sub in for but not the name, sometimes having her call for the wrong sub (like left vs right)... or they tell her the name but not the position and she plays in the wrong spot because maybe that girl plays multiple positions. And it's always Q's fault. I told Q that she needs to keep in mind that she is a good communicator and thinks about these things (like how am I going to call this girl off if I don't know her name?), and other people just don't think about it. Why are adults like this? I get it, it's tryouts and he is a new coach. He doesn't know the girl's name, either. But he shouldn't expect her to know. And he shouldn't give her attitude for asking questions that will help her accomplish what he's asking her to do. Anyway, I don't think she will accept an offer from this guy if they can even cobble together a team. I think the extra 10-11 girls that showed up the first night are back at their old clubs making sure they get an offer there, and they will only come back if it's a top team offer. They won't accept a middle team offer. Q also hurt something in her leg. My husband looked at it last night and he said it's definitely inflamed, she definitely hurt something. So she can't go back tonight anyway. I hope it is better for Saturday so she can go to the lower team tryouts.

This is the one that’s bugged me from the beginning. The ships act like cars on a road that has barriers alongside it and so there’s only one direction to go. They’re in outer space! They can literally turn in any direction if there’s a hostile ship coming their way. The Bespin escape is the worst offender of this. Leia points at it and says, “a Star Destroyer.” You figure that means, holy crap go the other way. Instead they proceed to fly right at it to the point where they’re right next to it. It was almost like they were daring the Empire to use the tractor beam. Honorable mention to the Hoth battle. You’re going up against a huge war machine with cannons mounted on its head and those cannons can only fire from that direction, and your ship can fly in any direction at high speeds. Why are you flying directly in front of it???

Not to mention all the X and Y wings *chromosomes* flying at the big round egg like death star

Darth Spoon "There'll be no escape for the princess this time", then later "A person of some importance, I believe", why is Threepio such a damn dirty liar? What is he hiding?" He also said something about surviving an asteroid field was like a million to one. He obviously had taken some damage to his logic board.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/joe-biden-interview-cnntv/index.html Well, it's about goddamn time.

Leia: "Someone who loves you." Han: "Qi'ra?" Leia: Pushes button to re-freeze Han.

bummer

Steve Albini (recording engineer.. nirvana in utero, pixies, Melvins, band member of Shellac and Big Black) died of a heart attack age 61. I'm gutted

I think she has a tribe, she just doesn't go to school with them. Her Girl Scout troop is great. She needs to find friends at school, though. And preferably one at soccer, too. I think if she had gotten into the gifted program, she would've had an easier time in public school, because those kids are also weird like her. The more I think about it, I think her teacher no-recommended her. (That awful teacher went "on leave" midyear this year. I don't think she's coming back.)

Yesterday, I graduated from Thunderbird School of Global Management (at ASU) with a Masters in Applied Leadership and Management. Took me 4 years, but I got there!

I used to have this same worry about Noah. He's such a delightful weirdo mega-nerd. I always worried that if we ever got him away from our little homeschool/scouting social bubble he would have trouble finding people who didn't think he was a massive oddity. But lo and behold, after moving away he's found his own little tribe of weirdos at high school and several other kids at scouts that he gets along with well. Q's a good kid. She'll find her tribe eventually.

It was pretty awesome and the boys had a great time. It was interested to see how they liked it as they were much closer to Lucas's target audience. On the drive home I was trying to have a very serious conversation on their opinions of different parts and characters but everything kept going back to Jar Jar getting kicked in the nuts by that droid. What your favorite part "when jar jar got picked in the nuts". Who was your favorite character, "The droid that kicked Jar Jar in the nuts". Once we got home and had a much more serious discussion I learned... Favorite characters were Anakin (6 yo) and Obiwan (7 yo). Both loved Anakin was a kid. My youngest loved that Anakin blew up the droid control ship. I asked about Jar Jar, both didn't really have much of an opinion but they both laughed at his tongue getting shocked (and getting kicked in the nuts). I was a bit worried that at 2 and a half hours it was the longest movie they had seen in a theater. They were really into it except the 45 minutes they were on Coruscant in between the pod race and the final battle scenes on Naboo. Also, Disney was never mentioned. No Disney movies in the previews and I thought they would have had the Disney opener...but no...it was all OG 20th Century Fox.

So happy the first day went well.

Q had her first day the new school today. I was nervous as heck and about lost it when they called me mid-day, but it was just because they needed me to call her old school for a records request. (Then, of course, the school said no, we need a signature on something.) When I picked her up, her homeroom teacher (also Religion and History teacher) came out to tell me she did great and he's super impressed with her work already. He said she was very attentive and he appreciated that she's very outgoing and not shy. She also said it was a good day, there was the occasional weird comment (something about her wearing skinny jeans), but nothing too bad. She sat at a random lunch table and the kids asked her why she was sitting with them, because they were the rejects. That made me kind of sad for those kids. But Q stayed there and said they were nice and said she might just keep sitting there. It was mixed grades 6-8 and 3 of the kids were in her class. Honestly, folks, she's never going to be one of the popular kids. I just want her to find her weird little tribe. I was definitely not cool in high school, middle school, or even elementary. But college was the best because I went to this nerdy little tech school where everyone had similar interests. I found my husband there, life long friends, etc. It makes it so much better when you have friends to share in the journey.

If they released this in Dolby Cinema i would have gone to see it again. Hope you guys have fun

Title. I am excited to see how my boys (6 and 7) like the movie. They have seen parts here and there and know the kid becomes Darth Vader, but have never seen the full movie. As I was typing this, I just remembered that when I heard the prequels were being made (circa 1996) I assumed I would have a child that would be old enough to take to see at least the third movie in the theaters--which was almost a full decade away. So here my prophecy is being fulfilled, at age 44 not 25.

I thought this one wasn’t quite as good as the last one. Not as much variety. It’s basically just two (2) stories. Oh well. Excited for the next one! Is there going to be more short animated stuff like this every year and a half from now on? Hope so!

Another thing I was reminded of while rewatching the trilogy for May 4th, was how filthy and disgusting George Lucas was as a writer. Sure, some of these lines warranted a chuckle back when we were teenagers, but we're grown adults now, and have to set a positive example for the next generation. Therefore, I move that lines like these are removed from future Disney remasters, and instant cancellation of anyone that laughs at reading them. A New Hope: Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care what you smell. "Get on top of it!", "I'm trying!" Luke, at that speed will we be able to pull out in time. Negative, it didn't go in. It just impacted on the surface. Put that thing away, you're going to get us all killed. You came in that thing, you're braver than I thought. Myself, the boy, two droids, and no questions asked. Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough. Sorry about the mess. When you came in here, didn't you have a plan for getting out? Look at the size of that thing. She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. Great kid, don't get cocky! You're all clear kid, now let's blow this thing and go home! Pull out! You're not doing any good back there! Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough! You've got something jammed in here real good. Stay on target! Stay on Target! Empire strikes back But now, we must eat, come. How you get so big eating food of this kind. There's an awful lot of moisture in here. No, no! No! This one goes there, that one goes there. Right? And I thought they smelled bad on the outside! Judge me by my size, do you? I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me. Hurry up goldenrod! Control, control! You must learn control! I must've hit it pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh, kid? Turn her around! Return of the Jedi I need more men. Back door huh? Good idea. I want you to take her. I mean it, take her!" Hey! Point that thing someplace else. "I have felt him, my master", "Strange that I have not" Short help is better than no help at all. SHAME

It's amazing the things that bob up after a May the 4th marathon on the big screen (some I'm sure have been addressed by Family Guy, Robot Chicken etc). All of these are OT, given the prequels and sequels are nothing but stupid unanswered questions. Shouldn't Tarkin have at least consulted someone before blowing up a planet? The Emperor is a psycho, but pretty sure he'd want to give something that big the ok. Things like that also tend to create blowback. They never thought to station some troopers outside the trash compactor? "There'll be no escape for the princess this time", then later "A person of some importance, I believe", why is Threepio such a damn dirty liar? What is he hiding? A completed Death Star only had a dozen or more tie fighters for protection?? Why did the rebels wait around on Yavin handing out medals, knowing full well the empire knew where they were and were pissed? How could Ozzel become an Admiral with rookie mistakes like that? And then later Vader lets Piett off the hook. Other than playing Jesus in a movie once, what makes him so special?? Did they actually have dinner at Cloud City? On that topic, how is that considered a 'small operation'?? Why did Han insist on flying the Falcon directly into the SD fleet from Hoth, when there were clearly ways out that were unguarded? Also, why fly TOWARDS the SSD when leaving Bespin?? "I've always known", So Leia knew Luke was her brother when she assaulted his face without his consent? THAT is what the Emperor calls a fucking LEGION of his BEST TROOPS??? The 20 metres Han ran from the shield bunker put him out of what was clearly a substantial blast area? What if Han said someone else's name after hearing "someone who loves you"? "Nee Jabba no badda" is the greatest line in all of SW. Not a question, just fact.

Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?

Bernard Hill, the only actor to appear in the only two movies to win 11 Oscars, has died

Yeah I was fully expecting it to be Jacob Fatu, but he must be coming in later

Oh shit! Tanga Loa. That's under the radar.

May the 4th be with you all! Good start to the day watching these stories. I think the 1st story with Morgan could have done with being shown before the Ahsoka series to give a bit more interest in her character during that series - missed opportunity there. The Barriss story was my favourite of the 2. Nice to get to see what happened after her arrest in The Clone Wars series. Left me wanting more at the end!

I think it's a good conversation to have, but I think I'd also leave out the details about his dad because you don't want to set up anger towards his dad, or have him thinking well its acceptable if a girl ends up in a relationship with me eventually. I think its really important to teach kids about consent and to also teach boys that inappropriate touching or rubbing up on girls "by accident" is not acceptable. Part of growing up is making dumb mistakes, but growing up also means realizing you made dumb mistakes and apologizing or stopping/changing that behavior. I hate teenage/early 20s me. But I've also resolved to do better now. I don't think anyone makes it through those years without acting like a fool. I wish we didn't, but hopefully we grow past it once that prefrontal cortex or whatever is fully developed.