I haven't used mine to get a discount, but I'm routinely mistaken for a student at the food joints on-campus. The lady will be all confused why it didn't go through, and I have to tell her not to run it as a student charge. They don't even look first.

Agreed. I got a proper student ID for the semester before grad school where I was a "non-degree student" taking catch-up classes.

On behalf of adjuncts and Visiting Assistant Professors(me!) everywhere, I thank you for thinking about the temps.

College bookstores don't give us that option very often. Let me tell you that I wanted the third edition of Griffiths' Electrodynamics book (I already had a well-marked copy from my own undergraduate days), but the bookstore pushed the brand-new 4th edition on me. That doesn't make me dishonest.

6 figures? Only in my dreams.

I have friends that do that. I'm too freaked out to show up to work in anything more than one of my wigs.

The only thing that stays consistent is the IN.

I'll have to try that. I was using the hot setting, but keeping it far-ish away from the wig and moving very fast so there was never any concentrated heat in one place. I've been lucky enough not to have to curl wigs yet...mostly just taking the curls out.

Actually a hairdryer is okay for wig styling as long as you're very very careful. I took the curls out of a wig that way (water and a warm hairdryer) for a friend. It went fabulously, but I'm glad I didn't know how much that wig cost before I started.

I have been known to tie a pink ribbon in a bow around my bun and wear it at a major scientific conference.

Also, you make me want hair bows now. D:

I'd consider it, if it wasn't a point of pride that all my costumes are made by me (many of them hand-sewn), except for the pieces of one that were a birthday present from my seamstress-goddess of a best friend.

Sometimes even idiots get lucky.

I'm in tears. It's so beautiful. That's seriously my costuming holy grail, to be able to pull that off.

Fact: I'm going to make this dress someday.

Quaker Oats factory in Cedar Rapids smells kinda like that.

Thanks for making my job as an educator that much harder, Alan. :P

They wouldn't be nearly so dangerous if they didn't have some good ideas.

Well, between this and the old sleep deprivation article, I'm well and totally screwed.

Short girls in flats unite!