Also, she was probably born in 1996. Just putting that out there so the commentariat can feel the grossness I currently feel answering this question.

Silver Lining Alert!

She was also probably not responsible for the Atlanta Olympic bombing.

That's not nothing in a relationship, you know.

Yes, but it's also called planning ahead. It's not like she was flying commercial. Leave in the morning. Boston may not be as exciting as NYC, but we have plenty of amenities to occupy you on a Saturday afternoon that you don't need to leave NYC last minute

At least they did the moral thing and got married.

Jeeze and I thought I was a terrible parent for letting my daughter eat Ritz crackers for breakfast while watching My Little Pony everyday for a week.

Viva la Burt

Voldemort? It's Voldemort, right?

Dude, my rehab writings were 3 spiral notebooks of pain. I wish Lindsay well in her recovery, but I would sooner invite people to watch my pap smear than have anyone read my so-called treatment plans.

I can't help it but I'm feeling very sorry for Bruce. If he really is going through a gender reassignment, to have to do it under the scrutiny of all teh internets must be hell. It's a hard enough process as it is, and it takes real courage and perseverance to do it, especially when you're older and have lived a whole…

I hate Sundays..... cause well.... you know who

Thank you!!

Dude, did we talk about this in another thread earlier this week?! I was just talking to someone else about the tactic of keeping notes all year and surprising people for xmas with something they'd mentioned in the spring. It's the best thing!

Wow. That does sound like quite the week. Regarding your uncertainty about how your interview went, that is such an uncomfortable feeling and I can totally sympathize. I'm waiting to hear back from a phone interview that left me feeling really good but then the niggling doubts start creeping in and you wonder if maybe…

That's AWESOME. Your gifting abilities sound great!!

This might be a weird suggestion, but: follow him?

My family is exchanging white elephant gifts for Christmas this tear. On a shopping trip with my husband, we stopped at Goodwill to look for funny gifts. I picked up an opera singer figurine and knocked it's twin off the shelf. Trying to be a good citizen, I brought it to the register with our other items. The cashier…

Hopefully this gets outta the greys because I need to share that I received the highest compliment ever:
My English professor told me that she used papers I wrote last semester as examples of Grade A papers that she submitted to her department AND that she used my final thesis outline in class the other day as an…

Well, since it's Saturday night and my son is at his terrible father's house and I'd rather not grade the 18876554 final essays I should be grading, I am instead going to sit in my living room and watch snow fall and fall and fall on the lawn and worry. So, I'm a college professor. I've done this since i was 22—14…

I adopted a couple of six-month-old rescue kittens a couple of weeks ago. They're seal-point ragdolls which means they kind of look like fluffy siamese, like so:

My BF has a fair amount more money than I do, which is totally fine, but it means our gift giving is like totally uneven.

I love pet pictures! I posted this in a thread the other day, but here's my goofy cat, all floofed up for the winter.