It was called "The Selection" or something, and it's based on a YA book (or maybe series?) that's basically Hunger Games+ The Bachelor. And I was all, "Wow, that sounds terrible. But Ethan Peck is in it, so....WATCH ALL THE EPISODES," but it never aired.

Right? I'm totally going to end up binging on this for an entire saturday of hulu-ed episodes.

CW, in exchange for never airing the surely-awful-but-I-still-would-have-watched-it previous Hunger games ripoff you made, I demand Ethan Peck be cast as the serf boyfriend, mmkay? Kthnxbai.

He got me with SeaQuest DSV. Which when I tried to explain to my friends was "a show about a submarine in the future and there's a talking dolphin" they all accused me of making it up.

I officially abstain from crushes these days, as my first two ever crushes were Jonathan Brandis and Heath Ledger. :(

No, in general I can't tell. Adderall papers have some tells (mostly just a million different ideas with no follow through) but that's probably the only "type" I've noticed. Usually I don't think too much about it, and just grade them because I have 100+ papers to grade. And I never remember the student's name…

Just a friendly heads up from a TA: yes, we know you wrote that paper while on adderall. It's SUPER OBVIOUS, little miss/mr. "12 completely different thoughts per paragraph."

Thanks. Six years of Spanish+ two semesters of French= an absolute inability to pronounce things correctly in French.

One more day 'til we're in Mordor.

Someone help a lady out who hasn't seen Les Mis live since her high school performed it (and that was over a decade ago): how exactly does one pronounce Enjolras? En-yol-ras? En-juhl-ras?

YES. And sadly, I was like, "Hobbits singing Les Mis? I AM ALL IN."

My husband has a HUGE crush on her.

I don't have a kid, but I've seen it first hand with some of my friends who do have kids. From eye-rolls all the way up to a stranger who stopped one friend and told her, "I hope you know what you're doing to your baby, giving him a bottle at that age. He should be breastfed." I think it depends on the area though,…

A good rule of thumb when it comes to judging a new mother: is she straight up bottling rat poison and feeding it to her baby? No? THEN FUCKING STEP OFF. (And no, formula feeding or going back to work "too soon" does not count as bottling rat poison).

No worries. I do a lot of work with Victorian Britain, so I get all lecture-y about it sometimes.

I'm guessing it does, since it refers to workplace mortality. Not a lot of gentlemanly lawyers being crushed to death at work, I'd imagine.

I can't remember the full title, but there's a journal article about "Imaginary Widows" in Britain post WWI— the idea being that women who never married post-war would have had the opportunity if all those men hadn't died. Actual widows did get small pensions post WWI though (this was new, at least on a broad scale)…

HAS ANYONE IN THIS FAMILY EVER SEEN A CHICKEN?

Eh...according to my dad's doctor, a lot of older men have prostate cancer. Like, a LOT. It can be very, very slow growing, so my dad's doc stops looking for it (with the patient's permission) after age 75 or so. His explanation is that if it hasn't shown up by then, it probably won't be what kills you anyway. …

This is part of why I always cringe when cop shows portray the "good guys" shooting after fleeing suspects. COPS CAN'T SHOOT YOU FOR RUNNING AWAY. And they shouldn't. A black kid in my (very white) hometown was killed around the same time as Treyvon Martin, because he was hiding from cops busting an underage…