Hopefully, she's on my team, which is Team Olivia and Mellie Work Together To Bring Fitz Down Because He's Worthless, Then Go Drink Wine. (We're working on a snappier title.)

I think the head is just a little too big. And the questioning tilt to it looks like he's contemplating how to eat my soul.

It depends how concerned he is about a peasant uprising.

I don't know if it still exists, but for a while in a nearby college town there was a post-party cleaning service that for $100 would show up the morning after a party with breakfast burritos and do all the cleaning. Seeing as most college houses have at least 4-5 roommates, that seemed reasonable AND genius.

You KNOW Tina would be up for playing the Captain.

Oh, the things that former Catholic school kids get excited about. For me it was being able to TALK IN THE HALLS between classes. That was like, unlimited amounts of freedom. That, and as you said, colored pens. YOU MEAN I CAN HAVE A PINK PEN AND IT WON'T GET CONFISCATED? OR PURPLE? OR GREEN? THE CHOICES, OH,…

Huh—my school was the opposite, and from 5th-8th grade *everything* (and for some teachers that included notes taken in your personal notebook) had to be in cursive. (I went to a Catholic school which was really old-fashioned in a lot of pedagogical methods.) Interestingly enough, most of my classmates rebelled…

Best. present. ever.

Any list of movie musicals that doesn't include Newsies is a list that is dead to me.

Rural Wisconsin. I have a friend from Arkansas, and our childhoods are remarkably similar.

I definitely learned that condoms were made to stop sperm not HIV and other STDS (although specifically HIV), and since sperm is a lot larger than HIV condoms essentially are full of "micro-holes" through which HIV can be transmitted. Plus apparently condoms break all the time and barely even work to prevent…

Embarrassing incidents from my youth I'm glad to have outgrown: deciding I'm in love with a dickbag who barely has time to return my calls, thinking it's a good idea to perform an impromptu acapella rendition of Miami by Will Smith, drunk dialing aforementioned dickbag, and thinking that a poncho from Forever 21 was…

Right? I feel like the British media has already extensively covered this subject. In fact, I was in the UK shortly before she announced she was pregnant, and there was definitely a similar article about how you could see her grey hairs and thus she must be pregnant and skipping dye touch-ups. Plus, since her hair…

...I am SO JEALOUS of you right now.

It varies— some are really upset (mostly at getting caught) but some get very angry and defensive. They will claim it's a coincidence (a coincidence that 4 paragraphs word-for-word are straight from wikipedia? That's QUITE the coincidence) or that they didn't realize it was wrong (which is odd, because we do a whole…

No, it's definitely widely available— I personally don't use it because the papers I assign generally require in-text citations from their assigned readings, but those programs don't take citations into account (or at least didn't the time I used it). As a result, every paper has a little bit marked "plagiarized"—…

I always tell my students: if you can find it on the internet, SO CAN I.

Okay, my bad. I assumed that line was referring to later-term abortions, where it becomes obvious that the fetus has severe abnormalities. I didn't realize it encompassed first-trimester miscarriages as well. Thanks!

Honest question (and I don't see the answer in the link): do these stats count cases where the woman is miscarrying? I ask because a friend had a miscarriage and had to get a D&C (or whatever procedure is what you do during the first trimester) and I'm wondering if that would count in these statistics or if they're…

There's only one Jungle Book adaptation for me, and it stars this dude: