I just nearly spit my drink out, ha.

She sounds like a class act. /Sarcasm

No no, carry on.

I'm not even much of a cat person, and I totally squeed.

Ouch. I feel you - I got involved with a guy who lived in my dorm, only for it to end badly as well. It was pretty freaking awful, since I had to see the dude every day in the dining hall for two years (he graduated a year before me), and sometimes in the hallways of our dorm and at other dorm events (undergraduate…

Sounds like a plan. And you know what? It might just be more effective to ignore him for a while and put him out of your mind, no matter how much you might want to rip him a new one. Just don't be surprised if he pops back up like a bad case of herpes (guys like him always do) - at which point you need to decide if…

Jungle punch - you can make it with cheap handles of booze and thus get your drink on without busting the bank.

My grandmother's. When she was alive she used to make Greek yogurt (we are Greek, btw), and I used to eat it with honey from Greece (best honey in the world). Nom nom nom.

Ugh, sorry to hear it. That is the way I would take it, but that doesn't mean that you won't end up back together, either (that phrase is slightly more open-ended than "it's over"). Still, I would take it as a break-up and not sit around waiting for a reconciliation.

I think you should just be civil, but distant. What is the context? Do you have to see him in class? In your dorm? Out with your circle of friends?

Yeah, no. Even if the Patriots win, and that is entirely possible, there's no way they're going to win by that much - their secondary is no match for Manning, Cruz, Nicks and Manningham.

Probably not, so long as you go easy on it. Otherwise, perhaps a dash of lime?

That would totally make sense. I was born in '81.

The appointment of donors to ambassadorships is one of the worst aspects of the foreign service, imho. These are people who likely have zero diplomatic experience, not to mention zero language skills, and they are being appointed as ambassadors to plum positions with more powerful countries, while people who work for…

That's an interesting thought - wasn't it only in the last few decades that it became possible to tell the sex of the baby, or am I wrong about that? I have no idea.

I was the first child in my family (of Greek immigrants), and my mother interestingly enough never subscribed to the notion of "pink is for girls, blue is for boys". I've seen pictures of myself as a baby/toddler in red, pink, blue (not baby blue, but a deep blue), purple and all sorts of other colors. The funniest…

Agreed. Aside from the Stark women and Dany, even Cersei is a complex character, and as you said, so many other women as well (i.e., Asha Greyjoy and the ladies of Dorne). The portrayal of female characters as complex beings with a variety of different motives is one of the things I like most about this series.

No, Catelyn was described as a handsome woman in the books. Arya was taken to be plain, but as kiwii noted, it is implied that Arya is actually quite lovely, as she resembles her father's sister, who was extremely beautiful, but since Arya is constantly dirty from running wild, nobody has any idea.

I don't really remember, but even if she was, while we would consider that gross in a modern sense, isn't their world somewhat medieval? Westeros in particular, but elsewhere too. In that kind of environment, marrying at 13 would have been common and not viewed as rape at all. In any event, I didn't approach the work…

She was? I didn't remember that. But even if she was, if you consider this to be some sort of medieval world (and obviously it's fantasy, but it seems to be based in a world that would be characterized as medieval), then marrying at 13 would have been common, as life spans would not have been as long. I guess what I'm…