Funding for that was cut.

My mother is a long-time public school teacher and I was a union rep at my university when I taught. Is there waste and largesse and excessive benefits for union officials? Yes. Are they essential for protecting those underpaid folks charged with educating against wayward admins? Hell yes. Unions are a mixed evil but…

Your Dad seems like a super wise guy. I'm glad you asked for his input on these.

I so want this to be a real reunion.

I was interning in DC after my sophomore year of college, and my "ex-boyfriend" who had just graduated came up "just for a visit" yeah right it was for sexytimes. So after the initial night of awkward subtext and are-we-gonna-have-sex-YES-WE-ARE-HAVING-SEX-but-really-quietly-because-of-roommate, we decided the next…

I am a story producer. There are story producers on every. single. reality show. This is not an expose. This means nothing. A story producer works in post production and tries to make sense of all the million hours of footage they are given and craft it into something watchable. Do your research Tracie.

Ooooooh, you fancy.

Sex joke to be named later

I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS SHOW YOU GUYS.

Ditto. Inner monologue is always something along the lines of "Damn, I'm good."

I always thought her last name was pronounced like someone from Boston saying "boners."

...Well knock me over with a feather. I can safely say that I did not see that coming.

This especially blows when you have a miscarriage, but...target/amazon/the internet/the mail don't know it. And keep sending you things. For. Ever.

I'll be That Guy. There's a lot being done to play up how awful this person is—woman driver! SUV! speeding (by 6mph)!—but I've had some terrifying encounters with idiots on bicycles. Like, there but for the grace of whoever go I in my car over the bicycle and body of some dipshit that thinks it's acceptable to ride…

I just vaginally winced.

I so hope you're right. If they reveal it's a secret mission (and maybe he and Hand faked her death) then I will throw all my furniture at the TV.

I had reccommended to my Dad that he read Wizard's First Rule while I was about halfway through my copy. Unfortunately, I hadn't yet known that there's a significant portion in the last third of the book where the main character is basically held prisoner as a tortured BDSM slave.