Steph, for you:

Jeff Foxworthy on OHIO:

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Ohio.

If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Columbus is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Ohio.

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Ohio.

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Ohio.

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Ohio.

If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Ohio.

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Ohio.

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Ohio.

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Ohio.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE Ohioan WHEN:
1. "Vacation" means going up north past I-70 for the weekend.
2. You measure distance in hours.
3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings).
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave all the doors unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
11. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, wint er, still winter and road construction.
12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a concrete statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
14. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
15. Down South to you means Cincinnati.
16. A critter is something you eat.
17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
18. You go out to fish fry every Friday.
19. YOUR 4TH OF JULY PICNIC WAS MOVED INDOORS DUE TO FROST.
20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
21. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."
22. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Ohio friends.

My brother's close friend sent this.

Are you doing a BA or in grad school? We don't have a thesis for a BA. You sometimes have to prepare a project or have a big paper to write, but thesis is only MA/PhD territory (and there are some MAs you can get for courses only, too).

I'm getting my BA. But, I'm in the honors' program, which requires a senior thesis. And actually, with as much work as it is, I'd almost like it to be the thesis.

edit: it probably won't have too many big words. I'm not the big words type.

Timelies all!

We are going to go drop off several bags of books at the JCC for their used book sale soon. I have managed to cull 83 books from my shelves and TBR sprawl.(Only the books I was given at cons that aren't my style were culled from the TBR sprawl, but that's still a good number of books)

I'm in the honors' program, which requires a senior thesis.

Thanks for the clarification.

And I actually like the fact that I've learned words and enriched my vocabulary from b.org, so bug words are very fine with me.

My Little Pony was arrested today in a pre-dawn drug raid.

Actually? This would explain quite a lot about MLP.

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Ohio.

If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Columbus is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Ohio.

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Ohio.

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Ohio.

I think it is in the style of JF, but it might not be from him, unless he tailored it for an appearance.

Actually, this is similar to the list I read a few years ago IRT Minnesota. Replace Columbus with "International Falls" and you actually have a factual statement....hee.

Alien Facehugger Plush Replica

One of the creepiest concepts in science-fiction horror is transformed into a huggable soft and cuddly killer

I can't remember seeing leather ones in Israel. Maybe it's a USA thing?

I've seen suede ones a lot, but not so many leather.

I've got a bunch of homework to do. I've also got a bit of a stomach bug and really don't feel like doing anything other than lying in bed and sipping apple juice. And I left all my books at my office, so I have to go there to do anything other than just fixing up some LaTaX code, which I do need to do, but that'll take no more than 15 minutes.

My Little Pony was arrested today in a pre-dawn drug raid.

Actually? This would explain quite a lot about MLP.

Did Rainbow Brite and the Care Bears manage to get away?

Yes, the Smurfs drove the getaway car.