I also met my cat in person. She was in one of those habitats with some other cats. I think initially I asked to see her because I'd never seen a buff tabby before, but as soon as I picked her up, I knew she was going to be my cat.

I knew that the cut affects how a gemstone looks, but until this moment it had never occurred to me that angles were involved. Yes, I apparently thought that all of the standardized gemstone cuts were done by some old European guy with a loupe and...uhh, a laser?

The word problems are terrible at every age/level. I saw one on a practice test for 3rd graders that involved rolls of film. Rolls of film! It was something like each roll of film can take 27 pictures and Sally has four rolls of film to develop, but most of the kids got stuck on, "What is a roll of film?" You…

My sister suggested this one: "What advice would you give to someone starting this position?"

Isn't it better to assume you *are* the most highly qualified candidate? Why even suggest that there might be somebody better?

This is just more proof that Pro-Life is really Pro-Punishing Women. Right now there is someone thinking the lesson here is "That's what you get for having sex" instead of "Certain interpretations of morality lead to immoral decisions."

I don't know who's worse, the person who thinks, "I'll hot glue ribbons to animal skulls and sell them as hats" or the person who thinks, "I'd like to tie an animal skull to my head."

What about animal skulls turned into small hats or disturbing art?

This English major is qualified to teach at the secondary and post-secondary level, something very smart high school grads can't do (unless your school is unaccredited).

This is basically how my family is too. My extended family is probably even worse with the "Isn't it amusing how we gorge ourselves on crap" thing.

Oh, if only there'd been a big, strong man to make me major in something useful! Now I just have this silly old English degree!

Once I week update my Facebook album of foster kittens. Some people are probably sick of it, but I like being able to look at the old pictures and see how much the kittens have grown. Plus, free publicity for orphan kittens.

What everybody else said. By a month old they're usually eating on their own and going to the bathroom by themselves. They're born knowing how to emit toxic kitten farts.

Orphaned kittens should be fed with all four paws down (you can either hold them in your lap or in your palm). Although it's tempting, you should resist the urge to flip them on their backs like a human baby.

I will defer to your experience since I learned English the easy way, but you never got frustrated with the "show the past tense by added -ed, except for all these words where you totally don't"?

Gendered nouns were the bane of my existence while (trying) to learn French. Especially since sometimes the gender makes no sense! Beard (la barbe) is feminine, but breast (le sein) is masculine? And this from the police who police the hell out of their language!

I'm from Richmond. I went to college in upstate NY, and people would always ask me where I was from. Then they'd either ask "Is that the one where they marry their cousins?" or say, "But you don't have an accent!" I think they all assumed I came from some bizarre hybrid of Gone with the Wind and Deliverance.

The lack of complexity? In a language that has 370 irregular verbs, has no consistent rules for some of its punctuation, and tries to follow Latin grammatical rules while not actually being a Romance language?

Have you tried community colleges or career colleges? You can get some money coming in by working as an adjunct in whatever subject you've got 18 graduate hours in.

I have a Facebook account for friends and a Facebook account for my terrible family. It cuts down on a lot of the bullshit (especially since I've hidden everyone who went to my high school, had kids, and found Jesus).