@Her Grace: That was my first thought. I, personally, use them for drag.

Yes, yes, yes. Yes. This is good.

*ahem*

I know that overeating, obesity, etc. are all problems.

@shorty63136: Yes! I guess I get their reasoning, but still.

:(

@esnickers: It does in Florida, it does in Georgia. I can't speak for the rest of the country.

I've been Sam in that situation. It's not fun.

Recently, my main form of communication with my mother has been, strangely enough, twitter.

Treating women as human beings? That's madness I say, madness.

"It will be OK."

I hate, more than anything, racists who say "I'm not racist."

I think this is great. I know that as a kid, having a Josefina doll (er, having Josefina books and a deep longing for the doll, who looked like me at least to some extent, was really important. Especially considering the name of these are "American Girls." It's good that more little kids will have reassurance that…

what an interesting fellow!

I think I might have some positive feelings drifting in the general direction of Meghan McCain now. What a crazy world we live in.

Every time I think about eating horse, I think about how that lowers the chances the king of Rohan would have sex with me. And then I remember he's fictional and I'm an adult. And then I feel sort of sad.

So, growing up (and now) both my parents worked. Almost all my friends who had two parents at home had two working parents at home. And this wasn't something I ever thought about, as a kid, because they were adults, and adults had jobs. It's just the way it was.

I work in the library where the exhibit with her picture is showing...I love walking past it on the way to the water fountain!