I don't know where you live, but the most available teaching positions are in Math, Science, and Bilingual Ed (I teach the latter), so you have a greater likelihood of finding a job. As someone who's leaving the classroom after this year, I think you either a) have to really love it or b) come from a financial…

I'm late, but my Bay Area wedding in March will be ~$6000 for 60 people.

Chloe sounds like Beyonce and Halle like Corinne Bailey Rae, who I am in love with. Such talented and gorgeous girls.

That's what they said about Octavia Spencer after "The Help", and she's played a prostitute and a washed-up lounge singer since then. Her best role after TH was Oscar Grant's mother, and who knows if that movie will get any Oscar recognition.

That history instills a lot of pride in me. My great-grandmother's parents were secretly educated, and on the 1920 census, my great-grandmother and all of her siblings were listed as knowing how to read. (Note that this was in Mississippi.) She went on to be a nurse and raise a bunch of educated children, grands, and…

My great-great grandparents were slaves, and I'm only 25. Their child, my great-grandmother died in '02.

I'm late (kinja wouldn't let me log in), but I wanted to pipe up and say there's nothing wrong with wanting to get married (or seeing living together as a step toward that)! I was just like you with my now-fiancé—originally opposed to pre-marital cohabitation. I eventually compromised; we could move in together only…

Also a second grade teacher—if you sign up on Scholastic and have parents buy books through the catalogs you give them, you can get bonus points and use those towards free books. The paper catalogs are free, and you enter the orders online and mail/debit the money in, so it's easy.

Do you remember back when he was on 106th & Park talking about his first kiss was with a black girl? He was positioning himself, then Janet happened and I guess he went the other way. I can just see him with Ciara or some other young dancer.

I read a comment somewhere online about a black woman who feared marrying a white man who'd keep a stash of Playboys under the bed. That's how I've always felt about Jessica and Justin, but in his case it's probably XXL and King under the mattress.

Unfortunately, that wouldn't change much because most custody arrangements are agreed to outside of court. Our current "system" is really a bunch of informal agreements which can easily go south as time passes and relationships change.

It's spelled Dwyane. #corrections

Comment deleted! Tl;dr: I agree she can do it again, (hello sitcoms), but feigning ignorance given the similarity down to major plot points (I mean, this is the arc of the season) is silly. YMMV.

She pretty much denies and deflects, which is weird. You say you watched the show, someone brings it up, and you have basically the same plotline, yet you still say you "weren't inspired by it"? The only alternative is that you blatantly copied, which certainly doesn't make you look better.

I know; by the end it had actually gotten sort of good!

My fiancé proposed to me at the airport where we met face-to-face for the first time (We met on a blog). I was wearing a ratty brown sweater and jeans, because he'd asked me to ride with him to the airport to pick up something he'd lost. (He travels a lot for work.) Perhaps the best part was the lady manning the…

For sure. I'm from Chicago too (it sounds like we're from around the same area), and his mansion was within walking distance of my house...and a local high school.

Random question: Why did you change the spelling of your "last" name? Sorry if you already answered elsewhere!

Thanks, same to you! We don't talk to that side of the family anymore, and even before my dad passed away we spent holidays at my grandma's (mom's mom's) house. But tomorrow is my birthday, and I'm currently celebrating in a Mexican villa so I am definitely not thinking about those fools. :-)

This sound like some of my step-relatives. Since their oldest sister has retired and refuses to slave in a kitchen for no thanks anymore, every holiday they send out a "potluck" email and commit to bringing the cheapest foods. Seriously, one aunt's contribution this year is "green beans and water". Someone like my…