Annabel just said "done"! I think.

Awww. Yay, Annabel!

Everyday life stuff is overwhelming me today.

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Aw, bless.

Go Team Annabel!

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Scary child pictures- A friend of mine is a photographer in Shreveport and does a lot of pagent pictures- no retouching, but they can still come out looking a little doll like. A lot of his look like the Brooklyn picture. Minimal makeup, but still pretty. Those look like over retouched Glamour Shots.

Male circumcision- I have a decent size sample to draw a conclusion from. I don't prefer one to the other, and un smelled just fine and was as clean as cut. You have to be a little more careful with it at times, but from where I was sitting (or laying or whatever) un vs. cut- much ado about nothing. (It does look a little strange at first, but luckily he had no body issues and was very willing to explain and let me check it out).

Nasty sports column writer- First, I agree she has no idea wtf she's saying, or I don't, and either way it doesn't make for good journalism. Second, you know, it's one thing to write about professional atheletes, or even college programs and coaches. I really don't like getting all into a college athelete's personal life. It's a line, I don't think you cross. There was an article about this very thing in SI. Because of their salaries and celebrity status, professional atheletes are fair game. College atheletes are amatuers who are students and may never go into professional sports. That's changing a bit, specifically with college basketball, still I don't think you get into a college athelete's issues off the field.

Boots- Chinese Laundry used to make vinyl boots that were stretchy in the calf. They were pretty tight, but after wearing them once, they sort of moulded to your shape. Unfortunately, this means you can never loan them (learned this the hard way when after I loaned mine, they looked like slouchy shiney legwarmers rather than painted on latex).

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Heather, there have been a couple letters to the editor about the coverage of Sexton's situation. Some are on the side of giving him privacy because he is a kid and not a professional athlete. A few others felt he and any other college athlete are fair game because they are college athletes and that's part of the price.

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Heather, there have been a couple letters to the editor about the coverage of Sexton's situation. Some are on the side of giving him privacy because he is a kid and not a professional athlete. A few others felt he and any other college athlete are fair game because they are college athletes and that's part of the price.

askye, is this the kid who had a really public breakdown--maybe even a stand-off with the police?

Either way, I'm of two minds on it, I guess. Some college sports really are professional sports, dressed up in amateur clothing. It depends on the sport, how hot the particular sport is in a given area, how hot the team is in its conference, and how hot the conference is, but yeah, they're still essentially kids in my book.

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Some college sports really are professional sports, dressed up in amateur clothing.

I think that makes me lean even more towards their privacy, since they're not even getting paid.

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Yay Annabel! Go Team Communicate!

Have fun with The Law Stephanie!

((sj)) - wanna talk about it?

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He did have a public meltdown. I wouldn't say he had a stand off with the police.

He was found one night running around in the street, doing push ups, and calling himself God and the Son of God. They arrested him and took him to the hospital. I believe the police told the papers they thought he was under the influence because he was sweaty and flushed, and had a few other physical symtoms that could also be attributed to do physical activity in the middle of the night in June.

It came out that he'd been suspsended from the team right before that for undisclosed reasons and that he'd been acting uncharacteristically for awhile and his grades had slipped.

Sexton's been under the spot light because we was going to be our starting quarterback, he got minimal play time last season and he'd been criticized for some of his play. Of course fans weren't happy with Rix and I think they put a lot of pressure on Sexton to come in and save Florida sTate from the bad quarterbacking. Which of course didn't happen.

Personally, I think a lot of the problems with the offense come from offesnive coordinator and coach's son, Jeff Bowden is a lot of the problem.

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I think that makes me lean even more towards their privacy, since they're not even getting paid.

I see what you mean. Sports can bring in huge amounts of money, and tons of that goes to the officials, coaches, league expenses, etc., but there's the athletic scholarships, as well. Do they sweeten the pot for the players in any other way, do you know?

Still they're kids. And in a case like this, it is an ill kid, one way or another.

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He did have a public meltdown. I wouldn't say he had a stand off with the police.

He was found one night running around in the street, doing push ups, and calling himself God and the Son of God. They arrested him and took him to the hospital.

Okay. I'd misremembered. Thanks for clarifying.

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