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Kathy A - Feb 11, 2005 2:03:06 pm PST #6582 of 10002

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Darn you all--now I'm craving Girl Scout cookies. The closest I'll be getting to them this year is via Edy's Thin Mint ice cream (yummmm), but I'll be missing out on the equally yummy lemon creams.

Damn. Now I want lemon cookies.

I'd better get something to eat before I go the grocery store on the way home, or I'll be spending way too much.

lori - Feb 11, 2005 2:06:44 pm PST #6583 of 10002

From that photo contest link - group sit-ups.

And northern lights.

beth b - Feb 11, 2005 2:07:10 pm PST #6584 of 10002

oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

the money I earn takes us into a very flexible finacial life. Even with one child it would be worth me working.

Laura - Feb 11, 2005 2:09:37 pm PST #6585 of 10002

Our wings are not tired.

OMG that sit-up picture is so cute!

Hil R. - Feb 11, 2005 2:15:33 pm PST #6586 of 10002

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Interesting discussion. Since my salary is publically available, and everyone's probably got some idea of what grad students are making anyway: $1,943 a month, nine months a year. My rent is a bit more than half that. No debt, unless you count the $100 or so that I'm usually carrying over on my credit card. I'm also making about $100 a month from tutoring when I can (there hasn't been much lately, but midterms will be coming up in a few weeks and I'll be able to get a bunch then), and my parents give me $200 a month, and sometimes another $40 or so from babysitting. Plus grading high school math competitions, which usually works out to about $400, two or three times a year.

Betsy HP - Feb 11, 2005 2:18:12 pm PST #6587 of 10002

If I only had a brain...

Yeah, I understand. What I meant is that my experience has been, you don't get any routine raises or COLAs at all; you maybe get a promotion after a few years, or you maybe quit and find another job -- so the lifelong trend is up, but it's nothing nice and predictable like annual increases.

You're right. I think my brain is stuck back in the 1980s. It used to be like that. Really. At least for me.

Scrappy - Feb 11, 2005 2:34:05 pm PST #6588 of 10002

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Kinda hard to type with my NEW DOG sprawled out halfway on my lap. She's awfully awfully sweet. So far I have observed: Dogs are like cats except they like you all the time.

lori - Feb 11, 2005 2:36:25 pm PST #6589 of 10002

Yay DOG!

So far I have observed: Dogs are like cats except they like you all the time.

Yes!

amych - Feb 11, 2005 2:36:27 pm PST #6590 of 10002

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Dogs are like cats except they like you all the time.

You must have barky cats.

Also, AWWWWWW!!

DavidS - Feb 11, 2005 2:37:18 pm PST #6591 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

So far I have observed: Dogs are like cats except they like you all the time.

Yeah. Go, dog, go.

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