Oh no! Connie -- lots of good housing-ma and surgury-ma to you and your dh.

Connie, much ~ma to you. I'm so sorry.

Oh connie, all the best to you.

Much multi~ma to you, connie. How very stressful.

And from back in the thread, I loved the letters to Erin's semi-literate prig of an e-mailer.

((((connie and Hubby))))

likewise sending punctuation to connie + DH

That's very cool, Stephanie (about the good parties, less about the getting-taken-hostage part). The Marine House parties in Romania were pretty good also (albeit no Romanians), but otherwise I haven't been at a post where they've been that good. They've only had one here in the last 2 years (as a result, the Marine Ball is not affordable, which is okay because I can't fit my dress anyway).

Oh, connie. Oh dear. I want to do something to help, but I don't know what that could be. Sending ~ma, anyway.

And {{Nora}}

Oh, Connie, that is awful. ((()))))

I just finished reading everyone's letters, and they were fabulous! I just want to email her and say "The perverts support me in email!" and run away.

So, update: She did email me back with some sputtery, YOU ARE A MEAN GIRL, I was only saying, email, which tapered off into invective and I didn't reply and have blocked her. Bored now. But my friends getting married will keep me informed if she is coming, and I have a posse of angry pervy teachers dressed in slighty slutty formalwear who will help me with the Ignorant Iowa CowFucker (thanks, MM, for that one!) Smackdown, should it become necessary.

If she comes, I won't start anything...but I plan on wearing something slutty, being intro'd to her, saying something along the lines of "Oh. Hello. I'm Erin -- we had a...curious....exchange of emails."

Beat. And I'll just see what she does, and act appropriataly. And F's wedding will be loaded with booze, so I'm sure I'll get tipsy, and I have offers from several people of both genders to make out violently RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER, while talking about going back to school this fall and being an educator.

This is kinda FUN.

ION, Stephanie, I can't help but thinking about a convo between one of the Marines -- from this situation Then about two years ago, they all got taken hostage in their home by some local communist group and I think that was the end of the parties. and one of their buddies.

"Yeah, we can't throw big parties any more. Sucks. We used to throw massive ones"

"Yeah, us either. Gets boring now."

"Why can't you have any more parties?"

"Our landlord's a dick. Said we were too loud. You?"

"We were taken hostage by Communist terrorists."

"Dude. Bummer."

"Yeah. That's Rio."

Also, I am weak. I went and bought the same boots as JZ.

Do you have a link, -t?