yuck to shoveling slush - that sounds awful.

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The State Department detailed human rights abuses by the newly sovereign government, including torture, rape and illegal detentions.

Well, at least Freedom is on the march.

And the Eagle is soaring like she's never soared before.

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The State Department detailed human rights abuses by the newly sovereign government, including torture, rape and illegal detentions.

Awwww, it's like they want to be like us.

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No snow day for me. Just snow and grumpy students.

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Mmmm. Pancakes.

They were good, if deformed. Also, I took your advice on the ice cream and pie first, then tea, without knowing it. You? Totally right, also brilliant.

Is it really bad form to go kill my coworker while she's out on leave? I just heard from my student who isn't here this morning that coworker told her she doesn't have to work the morning shift anymore if she doesn't feel like waking up. Coworker neither breathed a word of this to me (the supervisor of the student workers) nor did anything at all to find a replacement for this shift.

I'd say it is bad form, only in that it sounds a bit like the student might be slightly skewing what might have really been said. I have never heard of anyone ever being told they didn't have to work in the morning, because they didn't feel like waking up, you know? Maybe you could torture co-worker, to get the details.

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Nora, I've heard the opposite of what Ginger has. Yellow is infection, green is usually just gross. Given Nutty's heard a third opinion, I'd say go by this: Do you feel like you're improving, albeit slowly? Do you have a fever? Even if you're improving slowly, is it usually too slight of an improvement to tell? Those are the things I'd factor in, if I was trying to decide, personally.

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Cashmere, my cast iron skillet isn't big enough. That's what I've used in the past. It just takes too long, cooking pancakes for five people. Also, I don't like electric stoves, and my particular one sucks and blows, but we ain't got no money to replace it, right now. I'm thinking an electric griddle will be easier to control--heatwise. My folks had a stove top griddle, but used it a gas stove, which is way easier (for me, anyhow) to control, if I mistakenly set it too high or low.

Oh, and sometimes, my dad used the griddle outside, on the grill--which, while neither here nor there, was a hoot.

vw, does your mother's griddle allow you to set the heat to a certain degree setting (like 350, etc.)?

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I have never heard of anyone ever being told they didn't have to work in the morning, because they didn't feel like waking up, you know?

Sadly, I can easily see my coworker saying exactly that. "Oh, you don't want to come to this shift? Okay...." Sense of responsibility (for self or as a gauge of appropriateness of others), not entirely developed. (If it were any other student, you'd be right, but this one has always been rock-solid, if uninclined to take the morning shift.)

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vw, does your mother's griddle allow you to set the heat to a certain degree setting (like 350, etc.)?

Yes. And it beeps when it's ready.

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Oooh! Want. I wonder if my mother got my birthday present, yet.

Sadly, I can easily see my coworker saying exactly that. "Oh, you don't want to come to this shift? Okay...." Sense of responsibility (for self or as a gauge of appropriateness of others), not entirely developed. (If it were any other student, you'd be right, but this one has always been rock-solid, if uninclined to take the morning shift.)

Oh, then you are free to kill the cow-orker.

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World Jump Day July 20, 2006.

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The plan is to get a whole bunch of people to jump at one time and drive the Earth into a new orbit.

Um, I don't have to tell you guys that this is a joke, do I?

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A hight school student was arrested for making terrorist threats. His crime? Writing a story about the school being attacked by zombies.

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