Well, to be honest, if I had a team of hot SWAT men at my disposable, I probably wouldn't share.

But, I can do the rest! Are you on Yahoo IM? I'll head that way...

Hi, all. Skipped and skimmed a whole bunch.

Aimee, that haircut looks great!

And the dictionary say "goy" is offensive. Is it "cracker" offensive, or N-word offensive?

Much closer to "cracker" offensive, I'd say. I'm trying to think about this -- there's a difference between when I'd use "goy" and when I'd use "gentile," and part of it is who's listening, but it's not just that. "Goy" has more connotations of "Well, what more can you expect from a goy?" while "gentile" is much more neutral -- just, a person who's not Jewish. (This is all just in English. In places where the language is more Yiddish-inflected to begin with, I'd use "goy" more often, and in Hebrew, "goy" isn't offensive at all.)

To me, he just resembled the villian (memfault on name) from the Dudley Do-Right cartoon. Yuck.

Snidely Whiplash.

Yeah, I'm on trillian, Nicole.

That's it! Thanks, Sean.

How are you? How's things? How's S?

By the way, Hil, the day after you helped me with my homework, he introduced the notation you were using. So just so you don't think he was totally neglecting it or anything.

I have a mini-crush on my teacher. He's so enthusiastic! And he's better than maybe any other math teacher I've ever had about answering questions without making the questioner feel stupid. He always treats it as though they've brought up a very interesting thing it's important to make clear, rather than like they must not have been listening when he said it five minutes before.

I have an anti-crush on most of my class. Like, yes, sweetheart, you're very smart. But we're not impressed, because you're boring us, and the teacher's not impressed, because he knows more than you do. So shut up.

Things are..... rough. Things are going well between S and I, but we're very far beyond poor, no job offers are coming in despite constant searching, bills are mounting VERY quickly, and my computer just crapped out again. My stress levels are through the roof right now (computer problems just happened).

I can't afford a new computer, and the only ways I know to make money right now sort of require a computer.

Sorry about the rough and the resulting stress, Sean. But I'm glad you have S to lean on and that she has you to lean on, also. Money issues have to be one of the worse things a new-ish couple has to deal with and I can't help thinking that if you two survive this, you'll survive anything.

Job~ma and computer~ma to you!

What Nicole said, Sean. May you both find something soon!

{{{Sean}}} Money problems just plain suck.