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so the girl who sits in front of me and to the left, and who never knows the answers because she spends all her time drawing cartoons in her notebook or sleeping through class, fell (jumped?) off an overpass last night.

she's okay. that's the first thing. she broke her wrist and needs some surgery on her jaw, i guess, is what one of the other kids told me, but -- all things considered -- she wasn't badly hurt. (it's not a very high bridge; maybe about the height of a third-storey window.) the police are treating it as an accident, at least for now. i guess she was by herself, so there's no chance she was pushed, but they wanted to talk to the other folks who live in the hall with her (around half the class lives in this language house) about whether she may have been attempting suicide. and the thing is, with this kid, it's hard to say. it's possible; or it's possible she was sitting on the guardrail, or (who knows) trying to walk the guardrail, and really did lose her balance; or it's possible that she jumped on purpose but without any specific self-destructive intent -- like, she looked over the edge and thought, i wonder what it would be like if i fell.

skorogovorka

which is russian for "tongue twister" (literally something more like "fast-saying"), but actually sounds like a dance step. warning: i continue not to have cyrillic capabilities, so this is going to be in roman letters and look accordingly ridiculous:

Karl u Klari ukral koralli, a Klara u Karla ukrala klarnyet.

(Karl stole Clara's coral necklace, and Clara stole Karl's clarinet.)

buffy on FX

dudes --

why does spike have a tan line?