I also can't drink right now and would like to! I toast you with my cup of tea.

I got to see a bunch of friends I hadn't seen in a long time and had sex with one of them!

I haven't read that yet, but the description in this xkcd really appealed to me: http://xkcd.com/1536/

I'm stalled out in the middle of a bunch of things thanks to a chronic illness flareup, but am limping my way through A Dance with Dragons. I've found that series fairly readable because some of it is familiar from the show, and I can not absorb a lot of the details and still follow the story. Hopefully I'll be more…

I didn't see where it was going at all. Obviously Daniel was bad news, but I didn't pick up on the murder vibe.

I obviously can't speak to this phenomenon among gay men, but it's interesting to think of it as related to both the "nice guy" entitlement of straight men and the intense pressure on women to have and perform beauty. It seems like you'd get a complicated stew of justified and unjustified reasons to be pissed off.

I've been thinking since I watched this about how dread is going to color the previous five episodes on a rewatch. Imagine watching the season spoiled and having that sense of creeping horror every time we see Lance and Daniel.

Now I'm regretting not voting more strategically. Sure, I threw some votes at Woo and Kimmi, because Woo amuses me and I'd be excited to see almost anyone from the early seasons back. Every filler vote should have gone to a lock I didn't care about. I've let T-Bird down.

Yes, exactly! He seemed so sure of the wisdom he had to impart there and so clueless about other people's feelings. I don't mind that he picked the reward based on his guesses about which loved ones would miss each other most, but to sit there and say, "I know beyond a doubt that the most important relationships in…

Sophie forever!

Kelly got a minimal edit because she was the merge boot, but she seemed really well-positioned at that point. She was Mike's #1 ally and also part of Rodney's four, and from the little we saw appeared athletically, socially, and strategically competent.

Plus if you're laughing at someone and thinking they look ridiculous and it's the last time you see them before final tribal, it's bound to make you take them a little less seriously even if you don't mean to take it into account.

Oh, the Cook Islands flashbacks at that fire challenge. I wonder if sitting in silence rolling their eyes at Carolyn trying to make fire for however long that was tipped any votes.

Another in the string of terrible apologies this season! He also prefaced it by saying that he only wanted to apologize if she would accept it. Not how remorse works, dude!

Was Kelly less important at the point when she went home?

Don't say such things!

Do you also find him grating? I always have the sense that he thinks he's just the wisest and best person on earth because he's an aging athlete, but then I wonder if I'm being fair. I guess in the end I don't think he's terrible, but I don't particularly like having him on my TV.

T-Bird!!!! Nooooooooo!!!! She was both the person I most wanted in my pick-4 and one of the people I was most excited to watch. I was also pretty psyched to see Shane back. First the Greg Buis rumors turned out to be, well, rumors, now this… This format is making me really ungrateful about a really fantastic cast.

But we have seen Daario Naharis's ass!

I'm so glad you said this. I'm already the person who has gotten into two lengthy defenses of the phrase "assless chaps" on the A.V. Club.