Fair enough. I was just thinking that there are some sort of up-and-coming neighborhoods that are pretty much still very affordable. But it has to fit into your lifestyle first, of course. Good luck on finding a place!

Dammit, I've forgotten what SABLE means. Mostly I can't figure out what the A is.

Is there any possibility of moving out of the city a little and taking the metro in? Or is that what you're already planning?

Yay! Ursus knows damn well that someday I want a mom cave for all my yarn and fabric and stuff. And my spinning wheel. Maybe a floor loom.

Well, I had a fairly awesome stylist that day - pure dumb luck. I knew she understood what I wanted - no fuss, super low maintenance - when she let it down (it was almost as long as it is now) and started screaming. "VIRGIN HAIR! VIRGIN HAIR!"

I got my hair cut short - like, chin-length - just after I got married, just before I moved to a new state. That was three years ago. It's down to my waist now and I've decided I won't cut it until I make a Cersei Lannister costume for Halloween.

My dad's neighbor has chickens, and one of them was an escape artist. "Was", because one night they wake up to this horrible noise, and Neighbor Lady gets to the window in time to see the fox. Apparently when telling the story to my dad, she was all "I TOLD her what would happen if she kept getting out! Did she…

Sure. And in case it wasn't crystal clear; because private rescues and ASPCA/Humane shelters can control, to at least some extent, the number of animals they take in, they can be no-kill shelters. They can say "No, we're full" to someone looking to abandon an animal. This does probably condemn that animal to a bad…

I know, and by all accounts it was ridiculously hot that summer. This lady - I really should go look up her name again - may have dug the most graves with the least amount of help at Gettysburg, but civilians all over the country struggled to deal with the aftermath of battles.

It kind of depends on the shelter. A government-run animal control shelter has to take in anything that's dropped off at it's doorstep. Due to limited funds and overcrowding, it is pretty much impossible for them to exist as an isolated 'no-kill' shelter. If they have 50 very sick animals and room for only 25 and…

Honestly, she sounds like my grandmother, except grandma's harassment was clearly gender-based (the boys were perfect, the girls needed her lecture on EVERYTHING). The woman is now 88, in a medical care facility, and pretty universally unliked. I don't know exactly how her kids feel about it, but as her grandkid, I…

One of my friends is currently planning a Wheel of Time themed game once things settle down a bit. That is to say, she's currently busy fostering 5-week kittens and they are crazy.

I'm going to second the idea of 'check the job market'. For librarians, it usually sucks. I have a friend who was a history major in undergrad with a reenacting hobby and got her Masters in Library Science. It took her almost two years to find a job in her field, which is a library position connected to a living…

Best wishes for the continuing health and recovery for your family. Thank you for your service to our country.

Gburg Bullets represent! You ever stay on campus over the summer? That's the best time for reenactor spotting.

Agreed. I also think it glosses over both the history of women, in which we were restricted in our rights (and we should never forget that, lest we get complacent), and the roles women did play in the war, including the ways in which they commonly did show great strength of body, mind, and character. The women have…

Damn. I am suddenly glad that I didn't get a football coach math teacher until high school. By that point I was old enough to recognize bullshit. He wasn't bad, really, but he yelled at me for reading in class while covering the same topic for the third time 'cause of one person who just. didn't. get. it. I was…

Frankly, when I got married, I was happy that so many of my college friends could afford to show up. The cards were nice, too. One of them bought us a muffin pan.

This. I love cows, by which I mean that most things that come from cows are tasty. I also like being nice to animals, so I try to buy from local producers at farmer's markets as much as possible. Pasture-raised beef is yummier, anyways. Unfortunately, similarly sourced cheese and milk is really expensive given how…

Yeah, it's not even like I have anything against mainstream cereal. I was at a friend's this weekend who happened to have some special K, and it was tasty enough. But seriously, their advertising is all "we can help you lose weight" when in fact, ounce for ounce, it might be more calorie dense then the flavored…