It's also the anniversary of my sister-in-law's birth. Two really awesome people is what we should definitely focus on!

December 14th is the anniversary of the Newtown shooting. :(

A very happy birthday to you!

This is a great idea!

It's Communist nomenclature. I don't think I put in most of those labels.

And some random pictionary game screen caps -

I've run out of room on laptop and was deleting stuff and ran across this.

"How about I pound you like a boy that didn't come out right."

Ah. Sorry! I know three people who are autistic, but all three are really, really autistic and it's pretty devastating for their families. Highly functional autistic people are a thing of TV for me.

Perhaps. I do need to decide what to do with them soon so I can start receiving some of the newer comments.

Is that really something quantifiable? Or something that can be generalized? Isn't empathy something that's far more situational? Sympathy, on the other hand, is something that can be a characteristic of a person.

I actually haven't seen this episode since the week it aired. I saw it a few times that week and read so much about it and thought about it a lot. I might have made a few uncharacteristically long comments about it as well. So it obviously had an impact on me. But it was one of the three episodes I skipped when I…

I also thought of VSA as more of an Annie episode than an Abed episode. Perhaps it wasn't intended to be and as you said they didn't really follow up on it, but it felt monumental at the time. I really liked what it said about her as a person now and the character's evolution these past few years. It's too bad we…

I'm tempted to actually go through these thousand comments and randomly reply to folks.

:( indeed.

Turkey was great. Wish we had had more time there, but it's hard to coordinate vacations with friends. Also colder than I expected, but otherwise great.

I should go out of the country more often. I've never seen so many of the shows I watch get straight up As in one week. So much goodness to catch up on!

See you all next Sunday! Stay safe and do not wear a condom.

Yay!

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