@Blodwynn: can we extend this to all classes? Sometimes I feel like I've seen more cleavage in one day than in the whole first season of True Blood. And these are adolescents, ew.

@kemperboyd: *off to download new music...*

@duetoprivacy: Fa-la-la-la-Lifetime! Best christmas television viewing, followed by Family Channel's 25 Days of Christmas :)

@ablative: This might sound kind of elementary but I've found lately that simply writing down my frustrations has been completely helpful. I'm in the middle of student teaching and if I let everything that was bothering me fester, I would implode. It really brings to light the major issues, and I've started to be…

@taliewalie: This gave me tingles! Cannot cannot cannot wait another year!

@JoStockton: This is what I've learned in my second year in an M.Ed. program: we preach having high standards for students, wanting them to create their own understanding, assessing through self-reflection, blah blah blah. But when it comes to the teachers, it's the same old bullshit: standardized testing (yes, in a…

@bonita applebum: One tradition that my family did was to make presents and give them to another family ala secret santa. We'd make cookies or homemade ornaments, you name it. We actually did this for 12 days (Xmas countdown), but it could be pared back to one time. It really gave us a sense of selflessness, because…

@fridaphile: I think I've subconciously started to put my papers off until Saturday nights, so that I can go back and forth from Word to Jezebel. Of course, I spend more time on the latter, but I'd rather put my two cents in here than write a 20-page paper on educational inquiry. Cheers!

@rixatrix: I get thick, dark singular hairs growing on my chin/neck. One in particular (whom I've named Trixie) is extremely stubborn. I usually pluck them, but of course they grow back. I've had my 'stache waxed before, but I've never shaved. If you are a beast, then let us be beastly friends together.

@NellMood: I watch this every Christmas, too. That song is depressing, now that I think about it. But nobody sings it like Judy.

[First name] [Middle name] [Last name]!!!!

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: Agreed. I've never heard of her, like you said, going out of her way to flash her wholesome card. What if - WHAT IF - she is just herself? So, because she hasn't stumbled out of a bar at 4AM or hasn't had a wardrobe snafu, she is claiming to be holier than Britney/Lindsay/Miley? No. It's…

@LoSpaz: Wow, you really nailed it!

@madeofawesome: Ooh de lally!

@kate!: it's also awkward because PLU is right there in the middle. A priveleged, private college surrounded by poverty.

@SUNNY1: Have any good recommendations for HP fan-fic? I think I'd really like it... :)

@Pandorasvoicebox: When I was younger, my friend's mom would always drive to the bar and get drunk. If we could sneak out of the house, we'd ride our bikes down there and let the air out of her tires. Today, I'd call the cops. But then again, if losing his license hasn't stopped him, then maybe having a disabled…

@missing_piece: Something about the old, 'a picture is worth a thousand words'...I want to read these stories!

@missing_piece: okay, I've done that. I tried to keep it classy (at first) but using a straw, which was useless. I licked some of it up. Yes. If I hadn't already drank half a bottle, I would have been more concerned about the millions of germs I consumed with my spilt wine. Desperate times call for desperate measures?

@bovary: I have no helpful advice. It's just nice to know that I am not the only one with this issue. Agreed, it's frustrating. Good luck!