And their hands! Nguyen Vu Thao Quy Vie already has her hands ready for entry but Nguyen Vu Thao Quy is off the mark.

Nguyen Vu Thao Quy Vie: Point your toes more!

Well we know the videos do exist somewhere. We just have to find that lab and steal them, ensuring that IRB will never again approve any of their projects.

You are now my favorite person on this website. This is really adding to the quality of my already great evening!

Yeah, I guess I'm just thinking about it's become standard in a lot of professor's contracts, though this may be due to them negotiating for it. I know that all of the profs in my department have taken parental leave for each kid (and we seem to be in a baby boom, so it's obvious when 1/3 of the female profs are gone…

One nice thing about academia is that it is very common to get a semester of parental leave. Combine that with the summer break and you're looking at 6+ months of paid leave. Maybe I shouldn't move toward industry after all ...

Usch då! There's no way you deserve that type of punishment.

Yeah, my parents stopped spanking us when we were able to speak a full sentence. They figured when we were so little a swift pat on a diapered bottom did little other than get our attention for a moment. Once that was over the real punishment started: no bedtime story, taking a favorite toy away for some period of…

I'm doing the long distance thing and I hate it. It's been nearly 3 months and I'm miserable, absolutely miserable, without him around. Doesn't help that I'm in an isolating job situation so making friends is particularly tough. My contract is for 2 years. The original plan was he would be able to come out here for…

I say start working on your norsk! But seriously, is there any chance he could come out to CA? If he comes to study he should get a crap ton of money from the norwegian government. (or at least friends of mine who studied in the US from Norway did) If not, is there any prospect of a move back to WA where you at least…

"Not intellectual theories" Dudes, you use half of Keynesianism (the part about lowering taxes during recessions, ignoring the part about increased government spending) and combine it with traditional liberal economics to provide policy "solutions." These are intellectual THEORIES!!!!! GAAAH!

You're forgetting nearly 90 years.

This is so well written. I have regularly been pursued by older men (unfortunately, many of them being men in my very small field, making my life incredibly awkward for the foreseeable future). Some have been divorced, some have never married, and some are still married (ick) but I was always shocked that they would…

But that Catholics mingle with the rest of society is actually a relatively new phenomenon in the US. Prior to Vatican II it was often a point of controversy to date or marry someone from another parish, let alone another religion. Catholics lived much more insulated lives than most Americans (with only a few groups,…

Maybe I'm a little slow, but why is it objectionable that Marc Anthony doesn't want strange men around his kids? If I had kids and was unmarried, I wouldn't want to introduce my kids to anyone I was seeing until it was quite serious. I wouldn't want them to become attached and then end up hurt when things end if I…

Agreed! I haven't been able to get myself to watch the finale because I don't want it to end. So, so good!

I lived in a town populated by the world's worst pedestrians. I would slowly nudge forward until I could pass, never fast enough that it was possible to hurt anyone. Did I want to run them down sometimes? Absolutely. Did I ever do it? No. Moral of the story: when there are a lot of pedestrians around you drive REALLY…

I'm currently living abroad but still read mostly American news papers and I haven't come across anything like this sort of statement of purposes. I'm a social scientist working with other American social scientists and we were just talking the other day about how we aren't really sure what the objectives or endgame…

FYI, you should read Rob Salmond's UCLA dissertation on QT in a cross-section of parliamentary countries and how they relate to political knowledge if you haven't already.

He will, forever and for always, be my first real crush. He is so damned handsome! *Sigh* I need to get back into swimming ...