Poking head (what do you mean, there's probably a discussion going on, probably even more than one?) to report that I've been kidnapped by the heaps of exercises I have to check and grade before the semester ends. They're evil, they're not even willing to ask for any sort of ransom, let alone negotiate on it. I've been allowed computer access only now, at the middle of the night, and only because I had to post a message for my students regarding (wait for it) said exercises.

So I'm supposed to report that I'm well and that they treat me nicely. But don't believe a word I type. Those exercises are looking behind my shoulders even now. They've been waiting for me to grade them for so long, I wouldn't wonder if they already developed intelligence enough to read, even in English (hmm, do you think that their inability to write is what prevents them from writing ransom notes?).

Broken bush one? Purple chair?

Yep. Stupid bush. Also porch now featuring lots of surprisingly undead flowers (unless they all spontaneously succumbed due to today's nastiness) and a really pretty mosaic-ed cinderblock planter my mom made for me for my birthday last year.

"Relive adolescence (the sex part)."

I was nga then. I'm nga now. I guess I am reliving the sex part. Could I relive the thinner and less creaky part instead?

Which isn't exactly a selling point. Except to a select population.

Where select population=guys? I thought that if men's sexual prime is 19, why wouldn't it have a general attraction?

Stupid bush.

Where select population=guys? I thought that if men's sexual prime is 19, why wouldn't it have a general attraction?

Where select population=men with erectile disfunction of some kind. I don't generally consider 19 adolescence, though I suppose one could.

Where select population=men with erectile disfunction of some kind.

Well, the idea of reliving the sexual part of my adolescence is less horrifying than the idea of taking viagra or having my own erection that lasts hours. I don't feel any extra excluded.

I don't generally consider 19 adolescence, though I suppose one could.

I think it's borderline, but more importantly adolescence is closer to the male sexual peak than, say, being 30 or 50. Plus you can bag younger chicks, and older women still look sexy.

That's fine if "adolescence" evokes 19 for you. For me, it's more like 12 or 13, so kind of a stumper as a marketing tool.

Wasn't there someone (brenda maybe?) asking where to find the best burger in Chicago? If you go to the Chicago Tribune website today, they have an article on just that (it's set up like their photos, so I don't have a direct link--sorry!).

For me adolescence runs through the end of puberty. So definitely erection-filled if you're a boy. As I said -- adolescence doesn't evoke the age 19 for me. But it does evoke youth and near-boundless energy available for the arousal.'

eta: Googled:

In the United States, adolescence is generally considered to begin around age 13, and end around 24. By contrast, the World Health Organization (WHO) defines adolescence as the period of life between 10 and 20 years of age.

That's later than I was even thinking.