Fellow picky eater here. I salute you.

To arm teachers, we must presume that all teachers are people who are prepared to kill someone if need be. I think if you polled the population and asked “if a stranger walked into this room right now and you thought he was dangerous, could you kill him?” we would find a low percentage. I don’t think making this a…

Oh god, we just started working in the “open plan” and it is a NIGHTMARE. I feel exposed and unsafe — totally weird. And if I go to the lunchroom to get away at lunch and read... people come and TALK to me. AUGHHHH.

I do not even need the sound on for that clip any more. The music just starts right up IN MY BRAIN.

Boxers attain sentience and try to get elected to Congress?

I recently had this sad conversation with a young co-worker in Madison:

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Where can I contribute to this kid’s college fund?

Jane Austen Fight Club

I really needed KAZOOOOS today. Thanks. :)

I find that the key qualifiers for my packing method are:

Yes. It’s good.

Whining? Really?

3rd for Puerto Rico! We have sadly only spent 2 days in San Juan but plan to go back for a week.

Well, I should have expected that after the Tower of London I might be too tired to do anything else. It would have been a good idea to do the red bus tour after that, when I just couldn’t walk any more; the bus tour (which we took on a totally different day) was really wonderful.

We skipped Stonehenge in favor of Avebury and loved the weird idea of a stone age site with a village plunked in the middle. Lovely.

Oh dear. That sounds exhausting. I did manage to fall on my knee at the very beginning of the trip myself. and my limping did not really enhance the experience. There sure are a lot of stairs in London!

Oh, yeah, I feel you there. There are a LOT of tourists in Prague. I also had that “surrounded” feeling in Egypt — at some of the historical sites you could hear seven languages other than Arabic. You were really in a herd of gawkers and without a local friend, that’s pretty much what you would end up with.

Hmm, that’s interesting. I loved Prague, even just the walking around and pointing at things on menus that we couldn’t decipher. I’m trying to think what a non-touristy thing to do is... hang out in locals spots? Every place I drank beer had locals in it. There’s lots of theater there besides what they push at…

I very much regret my approach to the city of London.