Awww! The Last Herald Mage trilogy is mine. I read the Winds trilogy first, but that one was my first experience with gay main characters not being bad in literature. SO important for my bi self growing up in a conservative, religious area.

!! I have 2 prints of Jody A. Lee's Oathbound & Oathbreakers covers up on the wall in my office. (Not my favorite Mercedes Lackey books, but still good, and such pretty art!) I was so excited to see her distinctive art style on a new hardcover recently, only to be disappointed that it wasn't a new Valdemar book…

White people with those names vs. All non-white people (with or without those names)

OMG, I don't even read romance, but from one bibliophile to another, this was the best post ever.

I'm sure I'm not the only one reading those as somewhat white, WASP-y names, too. I bet you could do this same thing, but compare white men with those names to non-white people.

Agreed. I'll probably be staying in the area, but I expect to have an amazing bachelorette party. To be honest I'm mainly excited about the wedding because parties are awesome, and I want mine to be epic. I already have the amazing, long term, shared living space and expenses type relationship - I don't need a…

My friends and I mostly live in NJ, PA & NYC. Around here, everyone has one. Even if you're in your 30's or 40's and have been in ltrs or living together before, people have them.

Rent a cabin upstate for the weekend, with enough space for a lot of people. get there at least a few hours before the bride and cover it with the most obnoxious pink and white "bridal" decorations, then cover THAT with dicks. Bring a ton of alcohol, and of course the cheesiest games. Also a karaoke machine or other…

Little boy in 3 piece suit + cowboy hat is SO precious! (And I usually don't even like children!)

I had a friend who put a "you will not get the remaining balance if these songs are played" clause in the contract. I fully expect to negotiate the same thing into mine. Though hearing this maybe I should also add penalties deducted if they play the wrong ones for special moments. :/

That actually sounds like it was probably a good party while it lasted, though!

I love that last bit. As though this would be acceptable behavior from the mother of the groom after midnight.

Or her husband's.

I feel like someone who thinks telling the cops that she threw a baby in a dumpster will get her in LESS trouble than fessing up to never having been pregnant may not actually understand how miscarriages work. Possibly. Just a hunch.

I'd take a political revival of Celebrity Death Match. I'm pretty sure there was a Bill Clinton one of those that I was too young to understand way back in the day...

I have now been inspired to somehow include Samoas into my wedding cake. Thank you, Kate Dries, for the best wedding idea ever.

Agreed. I used to work at a manger/executive job search company. All of our resume writers told our clients to leave off any high school or college jobs unless they were relevant (keep that receptionist job at a lawyer's office, but leave off the part about working in a bagel shop on weekends while you got your…

Agreed. I was 22 when I got my first FT job, and 25 when I got the first one even marginally related to my chosen profession. In both cases, I wrote some pretty silly CLs (yes, my call center experience would TOTALLY help me work for a book publisher, because I wrote FAQs and standard email scripts....communication…

RIGHT? The main thing this post tells me is that the place she applied to is the kind of organization I would never want to work for, if people are so quick to forward things to blogs.

This is pretty low. A cover letter is supposed to help you show the hiring manager what you can bring to a new job, and this woman wants to use skills she's gained in the past to be a victim advocate in the future. This is probably an entry level job for her, or she'd be talkinga bout her criminal justice experience.…