A Day for Students Everywhere

As you can readily tell, this is International Students Day, when we celebrate those young monsters who eventually turned into us. A scene from Daria's Highland High years shows the diversity of the modern student, but I couldn't tell you how. They all look like delinquents to me. Actually today is far more serious than that, honoring student activism in the face of genuine oppression, but you know how I get.

The very first session of the U.S. Congress was held 208 years ago, and if you want to celebrate that, be my guest.

And... two years ago a new element was discovered: roentgenum. Sound familiar?

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FF.net

• Apocalyptic Daria: Scarlett's Tale, by doggieboy80 (up to Part 3): Roger better get his little furry butt over here pronto.
• Size Does Matter, by HawkingRadiation, a.k.a. BlackHole (up to Part 6): Big problems come in big packages.
• Two Babies and a Wedding, by age4age4 (Part 1): In this sequel to "Christmas Eve at the Lanes," Helen thinks: I wonder if I still have that riding crop around here somewhere... I'll have to ask Jakey. [You know what THAT means!]
  

PPMB

• Apocalyptic Daria: Scarlett's Tale, by Doggieboy (Part 5): Scarlett froze in place as John set the candle on a small dinner table. “Time to relax, Scarlett.”
• Daylight: The Road to Nowhere, by Disco316 (Part 2): The foursome set camp where Interstates 70 and 270 converged. While it was still light, Chuck opened his map of the area. He was studying it when Stacy joined him. “So what’s the plan, Charles?”

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One hundred ninety years ago today, Congress finally decided what the American flag should look like (red and white stripes, stars added with new states, etc.). This is sort of typical when you think of it, that it took only FORTY-TWO YEARS for Congress to figure out the flag thing after 1776. Tiffany recreates the Betsy Ross legend in the alter ego at left, and that seems appropriate, doesn't it? ("You... made... me... lose... my... place. Now... I... have... to... start... over.")

Today is also National Walk-to-Work Day, but it's a little late in the day to celebrate that.

I am thinking about restarting the interview-a-fanfic-author thing on my own, though filling the shoes of E. A. Smith will be a tall order. I don't think I'm very interesting, but other people are, and we'll see how this goes. More later after I think this over. I would like to include artists, essayists, website operators, and so forth as well as authors, taking questions sent in by fans on PPMB and SFMB. Comments and criticism of this idea are all too welcome; I could use all the advice I can get. More soon, with updates on fanfics and fan art this weekend, and more on Mystik Spiral for UU.