I concur. School is cliquish in the extreme.

I went to a an early college entry program here in Texas where you basically did your first two years of college and got credit for them as if they were also your last two years of high school. Every year they admitted between 100 and 150 students. High school juniors - so…

I prefer to think that declining enrollment simply meant more families were choosing to send their children to local, public wizard day schools rather than paying all the extra to send them off to a fancy private boarding school.

Oh, honey. Oh, baby.

Yes, and when I reached such realizations at a later age, I beat myself up over it a little bit because of all the time, opportunities, and emotional energy I wasted. I wish I had somebody like the older me around to give me some advice back then, but I'm not even sure it would've helped. Kids seem incapable of…

Nope, I just had a really bad case of the flu.

Does going to Sasquatch with your mom count as killing two birds with one stone?

The Guardian is one of my go to websites at lunch. I was so happy to see her there!

Same here. Getting anti anxiety medical assistance helped a lot too.

I never developed a substance abuse problem (through sheer luck; I hate the taste of alcohol) but I too was a trembling, self conscious fawn through too much of my youth.

I miss your writing here, but you are soaring at The Guardian, congrats Lindy.

I WAS ALSO IN THAT CHOIR! Those uniforms were so, SO hideous.

Queen! Thank you for returning if only for a brief moment. Miss you. Love you. Are you ever going to eat weird things again or do a part 2 of drinking celebrity booze? Because those were magical.

I can't believe how shy and insecure I once was. From my mid-teens to my mid-20s, I would literally tremble if I found myself in new or uncomfortable social situations. I developed a bad drinking/drug habit in an effort to cope, and I'm still dealing with the consequences of all that, 20 years on. What changed? Age,…

Step Fourteen: Have pious parents who always sit up front in church. Get up to walk towards the back, and vomit in the center aisle during the Offertory when everyone has eyes to the front.

Okay, you guys know how one time I met Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Well, there was this other time that Lindy posted on Jez about a cure for c. diff being poop transplants, which was hilarious (of course). I commented on that post (it was before Kinja was doing the greys thing, and I can’t remember what the system was like,…

LINDYYYY!!!!!

She’s back!

LINDYYYYYY!

I just finished the book last night. It was great! I enjoyed it so much and I keep on learning from Lindy! She is a great writer. I highly recommend it.

Miss you, Lindy. This place isn’t the same without you.