I have been trying to get over my aversion to anise for years now. When I was in high school I worked at a candy store and would have to leave the room if someone was bagging black licorice because it actually triggered my gag reflex. I've managed to inure myself to the point where I can eat fennel cooked and…

@DramaClub: Mine's a liberal Louisianan, and it is totally a breath of fresh air after being with a string of asshole Northeasterners!

@AraRichards: Pulling the trigger, we always called it in college. The best way to rally as far as I'm concerned.

@TellAllYourFriends: Every bad decision I've ever made has been as a result of tequila.

@CapitolaTheMadcap: New Orleans is magical.

@cestmaladroit: I couldn't watch the video, but recently read a similar account of the engagement in Elle in which he noted that "elephants have no real capacity to distinguish between fireworks and apocalypse," which caused me to dissolve into a fit of giggles for some time.

The guy working behind the counter at a liquor store I frequent once asked me if they had let me out of the convent for the day. I'm still not sure what exactly he was getting at.

@stacyinbean: Agreed that her accent was pretty awful...but I'm guessing she's referring to the HoJo's around the corner from Fenway, since that's the only one I can think of anywhere remotely near the Kenmore Square area.

I'm 26 and I feel pretty confident that I've bought 469 pairs of shoes already. (Though for considerably less than $25,000...I should hope...)

@shengokai: I've always liked paramour myself, but it tends to result in people replying "your what?"

@Lida Rose: Agreed on your last paragraph...my brother and my other brother's fiancee are currently at police academy in NH, and having heard tales of their training ad nauseum over the holiday weekend, I don't think that sensitivity in these sorts of cases is high of the list of things that are being emphasized.

@FroderickFronkensteen: We must be twins then, because I do too. I was just thinking that sleeping with her would be basically the same thing as sleeping with a much more hipstery version of myself.

@daisen-in: Except then the issue there is that you'd wind telling them up front that you're married, which, while many people would think nothing of it, is not information that a potential employer legally has a right to in most cases.

@Tippi Hedren: It's the hyperbaric chambers that really break the bank.

@bluebears: Agreed. And it's MODERATE exercise...so a 30-minute walk on your lunch break, combined with all the other random moderately active activities people do in a day, should be plenty to reach and even exceed the recommendation.

@Ofmyself: But with cream cheese frosting!

I can't help thinking that either this doesn't actually mean anything in the grand scheme of things or it was revealed on purpose. NY is a reputable publication - I'm sure if she had just fucked up they would have taken it off the record.

@portia_sue: Well, assuming that they are proceeding through the books fairly chronologically, Lorena should be next, yes? Unless I'm forgetting someone.

@slightlyhardup: I think they said it was specifically a female character, didn't they?

@madeofawesome seeks adventure: I read that it was Arlene too, but I'm sticking with my initial guess of Lorena.