I will do that, but my problem is that my local Michaels has one yarn aisle, and the hobby lobby has *three* aisles of yarn, making it more likely I can find the colors/weight I need.

...that is a fabulous idea. I just might steal it. Shall I credit you in my "suck it, hobby lobby" letter?

*sigh* Goddammit. The Hobby Lobby in my town has a far superior yarn selection than the Michaels, and I'm too poor to buy much from the local yarn store because they only carry expensive shit that's like $8/100 yd skein. (yes, the local store has higher quality stuff, but I knit *a lot* of blankets, and I can't be…

I know! Sometimes I wonder about those people— do they think Obama personally had that cop write them a speeding ticket to "shut them up" because they were "too close to the truth?" Probably!

...that explains a lot. Thanks!

Okay, in that case, they should be able to stop it (especially considering it appears that the administrators are well aware of this and not even trying). My point was that my high school was so big (about twice the size of this school) that there were stupid "traditions" that flew under the radar because the school…

One question I have is how big this school is, because it's a lot easier for school officials to stop something in a class of 100 than in a class of 600 (I say this as someone who finished middle school with less than 50 classmates, and then graduated from high school with more than 600). Obviously, they need to…

Seriously. We might hate you with a fiery passion, but we'll be damned if we don't hold the door for you.

Kumail Nanjiani, I will go to that bar, wherever it is. I have a hard time discerning words when there's loud background noise— I'm terrible to have a conversation with in the car as a result, because I'm always going "WHAT? You want to go to college in Miami? Oh, you want a sandwich with salami." I spend most of…

I'm 27, and I fit some of these categories (liking YA lit and TV shows, mostly) too, and it's because when I was *age appropriate* for those activities, I was VERY SERIOUS. I was reading "classics" in middle school, and then switched to philosophy in high school, so I missed a lot of the silly aspects of girlhood…

Adaptations leaving out Catherine and Hareton makes no sense to me, because I think their relationship is the *actual* emotional climax of the books, and shows the real point: that Cathy and Heathcliff *could* have worked if they weren't such horrible people.

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God, what I wouldn't have given to have Hillary Clinton teach me how to navigate middle school. She seems like that teacher with really high standards who is kind of strict, but then finds you crying one day and gives you a really amazing hug.

1) Holland Roden= Topanga. I can't believe I didn't put that together before (I'm working through first season of Teen Wolf, because at heart I'm a 13 year old girl) but it's true.

I was one of those "oh, I *only* have guy friends" girls all through middle school and high school, and I was so. goddamn. obnoxious. about it. It started innocently enough, as I had a pack of mean girls after me in middle school, and the boys in my grade let me hang with them even though I was pretty terrible at…

...zing!

See, it's not even that hard to figure out that they're wrong. (And thanks for the info, because I'm a nerd like that).

I like that Star seems to think the English throne has only existed since Queen Victoria. (Granted, I wouldn't be surprised if Kate *is* the oldest to give birth to an heir, since until recently that was sort of the only purpose for the king's wife to exist and being a virgin or seeming like a *likely* virgin was…

Personally, I love the part where she pours peas all over her infected tattoo.