As a swimmer, I always called the water aerobics the “bouncing ladies”

Haha I remember voting for Ross Perot in my elementary school elections because he looked like the best grandpa.

And that he is going to *know* it. I didn’t realize that he was still alive (had a rough week last week personally, so avoided detailed accounts of the bad news).

That’s the part that really grossed me out- CEOs are being considered experts in *everything* these days. Like, the governor can’t take this clearly political (nothing at all to do with business) issue and think about it without a CEO’s help. Education has been dealing with this crap for years- politicians on both…

I dunno, people sort of wandered over the day after my wedding and ended up watching me and the husband unwrap gifts.

Yup. I wanted no pre-wedding events and didn’t register for gifts.

ARE you supposed to do gifts at both? I thought it was one/the other.

I thought it was pretty tacky to invite people to showers that you weren’t inviting to the wedding?

I tried to convince my friends to do that! For the wedding I’m in this summer, it ended up taking up two entire weekends instead of the one three-day weekend, which was fine with me since it was all local, but the maid of honor had to fly across the country twice (WAIT- three times- engagement party) before the…

Yup. Bachelorette party for the wedding I’m in was 48 hours, we start getting ready for the wedding on the Wednesday before, and then there was supposed to be a week of camping. I’m pretty sure I’m being considered a bad bridesmaid for skipping out on the camping (because I told some people I could give them airport…

I like it for myself for starting books, then I get impatient because reading aloud is *way* slower so I start reading the actual book.

Indeed- I was thinking that this sounds like my remedial students (and yes, it works really well for them), not like someone who reads regularly for pleasure.

At least in middle school, it’s not, though. Awkward kids that have the *ability* to be hot don’t quite get how they’re supposed to dress, do their hair, and wear makeup (when applicable) to make themselves “hot” to the intended targets.

The problem there being that social ineptness means that the attractive person doesn’t realize that they’re liked.

For the center of a venn diagram- it’s all three together.

It looks like an “A” which means it’s “And”

Haha me too! I actually hate the lyrics (sounds good on the surface, kind of creepy and emotionless when you think about it), the repetitive piano earworm...I still like it in some ways, but it just emphasizes to me why Lennon needed McCartney (and vice versa).

Ooh- good point- if this was billed as a multimedia work or something, then I think it would be different than being billed as a photo. The photo part is clearly not his work.

As a middle school teacher: “nerd” as in “I’m such a nerd” is totally a self-deprecating, aren’t-I-cute term.

Meh- she was kind of bored and flat (partly the guest host’s fault), but didn’t offend at all. You can catch the whole thing on podcast, though, if you’re interested.