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Happy birthday, Weeble!

Thank you so much! This one makes nineteen times two. I still admit to my age, but I'm getting to the point where I look askance at the calendar...particularly when I realize that there are adults, having children now, who cannot remember when there was only one Enterprise and its call letters were ...

Kotik wrote:Carnival is great. Wolfi got laid. First sex in the last 8 years. Totally worth it

I'm not going to explain why, but this update made me smile because it reminded me that I'm not abnormal.

*skulks quietly out of room now*

My cousin took home a bronze medal (500m speed skating) and a GOLD medal (777m) at the Special Olympics World Games!

Is this something new? I certainly don't see any sign that the many part-timers at my college are being counted in that way now -- if we want insurance, we have to pay for the entire cost of it. Small group is < 50 employees in most states (<100 in a few). And I'm talking about whether or not an em...

Anyone who takes what the ratings agencies says on faith after how they did before the crash is insane. It's funny I ran across this post today, Alelou , because we had a fairly interesting conversation at work today about the ratings agencies. It seems that (at least where I work) at least one of ...

I'm still personally getting over the idea that the next book needs two movies to tell its tale.

...really? Where I come from, editing is considered a good thing, and goodness knows Collins edited the holy crap out of the books before submitting them for publication.

Agreed. It took me long enough, growing up, to learn how to write a dollar sign. That weird sort-of-kind-of-but-not-really-an-E thing that goes in front of Euros? Really just looks like a spiderweb to me...

Okay, I have got to quit with the chemical roulette. A few weeks back I ended up mixing a large quantity of alcohol with painkillers, muscle relaxants and low blood sugar (I didn't eat for 12 hours). Fortunately, I was in the doctor's office and already on the table when I passed out. It was, I prom...

I'll bite, though I felt like it was probably a good idea to invent an OC here instead of picking on someone else as the main character. Subsequent writers: feel free to switch names around from the below. ************************ She told herself it was just because she was bored , but the truth wa...

I'm intrigued by your reference to a budget. I've never been to any of these conferences, but I suppose that I've always assumed that you pay your ten quid or whatever at the door and then wander around in the trekkie equivalent of an all-you-can-eat buffet, queuing up to see whatever part of the e...

Needless to say I have watched college tuition rise at twice the rate of inflation for better than 30 years, and i do not understand why. That's the main reason I haven't gone back to finish my bachelor's degree. I don't see the point of going $30k+ into debt to raise my salary a few thousand dolla...

11.000 a year :shock: I've heard some horror stories about 'working poor' in the States, but I always thought they were exaggerated :o The sad thing, Kotik, is that she was a teacher. Though, to be fair, part of the reason I disqualified was because she'd used the life insurance money to pay off th...

It came up in one of the colleges where I teach because someone had actually applied for a position using one of these fake degrees. They also offer fake transcripts -- that's one thing you always have to get sent to a college when they hire you. The person screening the applicant did a little rese...