Exactly. This wasn't a careless move on his part; his legal actions were very calculated. And I for one am just tickled that he failed so spectacularly.

Look into how much you should be putting aside for taxes. When I picked up some extra freelance work, I was really surprised at the wallop the income taxes packed. Being used to having employers deduct tax for you makes a freelancer's first tax season... shocking for a lot of people. It varies depending on where you…

I'm coming at this from a Canadian perspective. We don't have either of those chains, but we do have UO up here. So maybe international sales are playing a role too?

I don't know about the vinyl itself, but we've been on the lookout for a piece of furniture to properly store Doc Stockton's record player, and after we scoured every old furniture place in town, the best thing we could find ended up being from UO. Just ordered it this week!

I wonder if that has more to do with the fact that Urban Outfitters is a huge company with so many locations? If they counted all single location record stores under a single umbrella of "independent" maybe that would start to measure up to UO?

See, now this is smart. I don't know ANY of those random little words that Scrabble counts that are magically worth 47 points for laying down one tile. I realized that you need strategy to be good at this game, and I do not have any Scrabble game.

I received 3 cities in the midwest. I'm from British Columbia. I did spend my undergrad studying a lot of American writers, and I'm a bit of a regionalism sponge, so that may have skewed my results.

See, I need to do this, because that's the other thing that happens. I'll have my play all ready to go, the person before me will tile-block me, and then I get my deer-in-the-headlights face on... *sigh*.

I'm atrocious at Scrabble and it's a huge embarrassment to me, because everyone expects me (English major, English teacher, English grad student) to fucking ROCK at it. I have a tendency to see the possibility to play a great word using all my tiles if I just get a "C"... and then get stuck because I never get that…

These are clearly the important questions.

It's a tricky one - I agree with you and Jan74, but everybody parents differently, and raising this might be taken as trying to critique her parenting style. Only you know her well enough to know if she would take it this way and how she would react.

As a teacher, and as someone who spent part of my career working with kids in special ed programs, I totally get how draining the work can be, so know that this question is coming from that place: do you want to keep using your training and background, or go into a new direction? If you liked the work and want to keep…

If I'm remembering correctly, you're at a private school? There are some really bizarre dynamics amongst teachers in the private system (hell, public too, but I've got more experience with private). Because hiring is so based on ability, people do seem to be very easily threatened, because the seniority thing gets…

I whole-heartedly agree, and love you for mentioning this.

Honestly, if I really think about it, one of my easiest sources would probably be to ask my dad. *shrug* Boomer parents, yo.

A reply seems to have fixed the problem for this thread... but I will get working on polishing my CV for a more permanent fix. ;)

I wish I knew enough about the new system to figure out how to bring this comment out of the greys... I starred it; maybe a reply will help? I whole-heartedly agree!

If she's sent you that article, she might be trying to open up a conversation with you about it - or she's just trying to get things a little clearer for you about how she's feeling. Either way, you might want to float an open-ended conversation starter the next time you're hanging out one-on-one, see if she's…

Have you tried having a conversation with her about her anxiety when she's not in the middle of an episode? When I first started having anxiety issues, my husband only talked to me about it when I was in the midst of an attack, which meant he was only dealing with me panicking. And because he'd never experienced…

Apparently I've been modelling my teaching style after the teacher in 10 Things I Hate about You without even realizing it...