I also appreciate her adopting a child from within the US. Of course, adopting a child from anywhere is a wonderful act of love, but I feel like with the rich and famous it often comes off as a “look at my foreign exotic designer baby” kind of thing. There are way too many foster children getting bounced around the…

Mary-Kate Olsen looks like a tiny French child next to her new husband and his daughter.

I already posted this guy on Jez this week, but he was my first present this year, I unreservedly love him, and receiving him was basically the only decent thing that happened all week.

“the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else"

Aw yeah I just got some new color materials myself.

Ditto here, but in the Sacto area. Hello, Cali neighbor! I hope you recuperate quickly. If you have to do chemo, etc., I suggest taking Floressence every day for a while. My mom did it when she had breast cancer and it helped her keep her hair and feel better faster.

Alone, not for the first time. The key is to have lots of booze and some sort of project. One year I took step-by-step meal prep pictures, this year I have NaNoWriMo.

I think a lot of us are going it alone! But we’re not all recovering from such a major surgery. So I’d guess you’re not cooking, that’d be too much strain on that area so soon... Thanksgiving pizza, then? :-)

Aww, I wish we could talk. I probably have a lot of insight for you. I’ve been in your shoes, and now am close to getting my Ph.D. It took me nearly 15 years of stopping and starting over and over at community colleges before I finally transferred. Part of my problems was that I didn’t know how to study. Another part…