As far as #1 goes, I was absolutely there with a former friend! Seemed like there was constant drama and angst that led to her wanting to complain, but not wanting to actually DO anything to change her life. Our friendship ended when I told her one day that she needed to call another friend, as I simply didn’t have…

My most recent ex was ten years younger than me. Most of the time, it wasn’t a big deal, but yeah, there were certain times that it came up. The biggest help for us was making sure we were constantly talking about things, particularly life plans and any changes to them. With the extra years, you’ve probably had a…

But, of course, should there be blood rain or frogs falling from the sky in the forecast, you KNOW that’s when it’ll be bright and sunny!

That’s exactly it. I tried having that discussion just once with someone, pointing out that, throughout much of (can’t really say most, as I’m not a historian and don’t have exact details) human history, slavery was basically what you did, whereas in the US, it was what you were. There’s a huge difference between a…

“I was sure that she [would] say no, I made a mistake,” he continued. “She said ‘I’d love to go’ because she didn’t want to be left alone in the house again. So I took my mother to see ‘Deep Throat.’”

Very true! Hell, five minutes on the Archive will turn up at least 30 fics that not only make FSOG look like Sunday-school reading, but are actually *gasp* WELL-WRITTEN!! (Seriously, did the publishers not realize that porn doesn’t HAVE to be poorly written?)

God, so true! The whole Talisa thing just annoys the crap out of me. It changed so much from the books that really worked, from the honorable struggle you mentioned to Robb’s public forgiveness of his mother as part of Jeyne’s reveal (along with the look at Robb’s political skills that gave us). Not to mention Robb’s…

They used a Valyrian steel sword, which was earlier set up as being the sharpest metal available in their world. (Add in the fact that it was Ned’s own sword, and that’s an extra reason to hate Joffrey, right there.)

Kidlet came up with a damn good theory about why we don’t see any of the locations north of the Wall, as well as why sometimes we see locations that don’t show up in the episode. Basically, the opening credits show us the last major save point for the characters in the episode. So when Jon & Co are out ranging, we see…

Kidlet’s been having fun dealing with unemployment this week - 3 calls to try and get things straightened out! Hopefully everything’s settled now. On the plus side, he’s got a testing space for a city job that’s coming up, and he’s been sowing resumes like his own version of Johnny Resumeseed.

Also need to look at a different kind of strike. Seriously, if every woman who wants to keep her right to choose would commit to going full-on Lysistrata on every man in America until we have our reproductive rights respected, we could get somewhere. Keep a phone nearby, turn the camera on if he so much as THREATENS…

Hear, hear! I saw a dress or two I liked the look of, but there is no fucking way I’m ponying up that kind of money without getting a better idea of what it looks like on an ACTUAL plus size person!

Am I the only one hoping this leads to a sudden rash of medical professionals being ‘unable to detect’ heartbeats on women, whether because the machines are off/tinkered with or because they put the wand to listen just far enough off-target to keep it from picking anything up? Then ‘oops, sorry, I checked and there…

Okay, there’s so much about this story that makes me want to smash things, but one of the biggest is this: “That a parent’s zeal for her children’s future may have overcome her better judgment for a moment is not only unfortunate, it is, I know we parents would agree, a universal phenomenon.”

It’s the movie version of ‘pitchy’!

Did we see the same movie? Because there are so many points here that make me wonder, from Carol being not interesting to the queerbaity take on her friendship with Maria. (I got her helping raise the kid, but more in a best friend/aunt way than in a ‘Monica has two moms’ way.)

Exactly! Doing something like that would really make an impression. Or, if you absolutely must do some ‘special activity’ to get the point across about racism being bad, just run the goddamn blue eyes/brown eyes exercise!

Kidlet got laid off this week. He’s pretty down, as this was his first office job, but he’s already opened his claim with unemployment and he’s hitting the resumes hard, so everyone keep your fingers crossed for him, please.

I just finished rereading The Firebrand, by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and now I’m starting on the Toby Daye series by Seanan McGuire, since they were recommended by a friend who knows me pretty well.

Hey now, we also get thoughts and prayers - can’t forget those!