Oh, man. Nothing like living in Jax to make me miss Atlanta, culture-wise. To be fair, I know plenty of liberal/moderate people down here, there's just mostly in my cohort (or younger).

This is a little difficult to do in my corner of the South. Every older woman I know just wants me to know that "when I grow up" (I'm 35), I'll be conservative and understand how Black people and "the gays" and "the godless" are ruining our country, and how it's a shame that I have to work instead of being a…

I have a domestic cat that's as big as a mid-size bobcat. He's a sweetheart, but a pain in the ass to wrangle for vet visits and the like. There are a few vet techs that won't hold him during check-ups, even though he's never been aggressive - he's just huge. He's incredibly strong, and can break the skin without…

First, I wonder how the look will change now that Kim Manners has passed. Regardless of plot, I liked watching the episodes he directed (same on Supernatural - his episodes were some of the most visually appealing, in my opinion). HOWEVER. The X-Files has been practically dead* to me since they killed Krycek. And then…

Didn't Subway just get taken to court because their "footlong" subs weren't actually 12 inches long? And their argument was something along the lines of, "Well, Footlong is just a name, really". You can blame places like that for people asking how long "Footlong" food items are, I think.

I have a cat that will spin a TP roll for endless fun (or, at least until the end of the roll). Putting the roll on the "wrong" way keeps me from wasting TP as a cat toy (and from having to spend more money on toilet paper than necessary).

And giving Jenny McCarthy a national platform for her anti-vax crap.

I knew a lot of nerdy kids in school (including my sister) who might've legitimately misunderstood the question, because their brains worked differently. Even in the South, where people also love meat.

I took ballet for years, including pointe, and was pretty decent. Not "go to NYC and be a pro" good, but "win a few national competition trophies" good. I was much better at (and much preferred) tap. Still, thanks to ballet/pointe, I can laugh in the face of every rolling partner who tries to ankle lock me in…

I don't think we had one at Target when I worked there in the late 90s, but every Old Navy I worked at had a changing table in the men's room.

The Body Shop's Hemp Lip Conditioner. It works for hours (even in the Florida sun and overly-dry television studios). It also doesn't taste or smell like candy, so I don't end up licking it all off. It's $8, but on sale pretty often for $4.

The Body Shop's Hemp Lip Conditioner. It works for hours (even in the Florida sun and overly-dry television…

Honestly, I find their questions confusing, and I work in network TV. I can't imagine the people they polled would've had an easier time understanding them. Here's what I mean: they include FOX News in a list of NBC, CBS, and ABC news, but never specify if they mean the cable network or the news that comes on FOX…

In the college course I took on serial killers, we discussed how the perception of women by law enforcement over the past century or so has probably influenced investigations - like, how many weren't caught because women were never considered as suspects? One of the books was a 1898 (or so) edition of Cesare…

Me and raisins as a kid:

Another time (same window, different day), we watched the dude drive his truck around behind another building, and she walked all the way back there to meet him. And then they just drove by our window anyway. Part of what was so funny is that they clearly thought they were being clever.

Another pro tip: Don't forget that not being able to see into a window doesn't mean the person on the other side can't see out of it. I was in my supervisor's office one morning (small business, small office, everyone-knows-everybody kind of deal). We see these two employees drive into work together and park all the…

I was a kid, so I have no idea how much it cost, but it was back-lit and full color and SO MUCH BETTER than my sister's brick of a GameBoy (the original ones that were, like, 3-inches thick).

Brenau is working on an agreement, too: http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=2…

One of the first classes I ever withdrew from was an Organic Chemistry course where the professor made the back row of the auditorium "Time Out". No lie. And time-out offenses were arbitrary. He would also go on rambling "lectures" about his vacations, then include questions about them on quizzes to make us pay…

The TI-89. It was top-of-the-line in 1998, when I was in my last year of high school, heading into college. No teacher, in HS or after, would let me use the thing on exams (because it could do derivatives, or some shit like that). Had to get a TI-83 anyway. And I'd gotten the 89 because I knew I couldn't use the TI-91…