On endearments; people of a certain age may randomly call others of either gender "babe". To me, the gender neutrality makes this inoffensive, especially since it seems to be done simply for emphasis.

Quick, someone, give me a Stern Glare or a Dire Threat, please!

If you don't do your work, I won't send you pictures of ita wearing a leather skirt! If you don't do your work, I'll mail you all of my dustbunnies instead!

I encourage Jilli to add "poppet" to her repetoire of endearments, particularly as an affectionate diminuative.

Oooh! I use it sometimes, but certainly need to use it more often.

I watched Bones. Which may have been inadvisable, given the topic.

This is me. I totally watched and, as soon as I realized where they were going, told myself to stop watching. Yet, I did not. Now I feel the need to go for a cancer screening.

Kristen, if it is late and you are tired DO NOT watch some piece on PBS (my it's late and nothing's on default) called the New Medicine or something like that. Due to one segment, I had the most traumatizing nightmares and woke up paranoid and imagining pain in all sorts of places.

Where on my resume do I put, "Author"? And how do Iformat it? Does it even go there? What? How? Huh?

So many annoying questions, have I.

If someone who studies physics is a physicist, does that mean a gothicist is one who studies goths?

Oh no. It means people who study Ken Russell's movie Gothic.

The Charitable Committee here at work just announced a Vidalia Onion sale (10 lbs for $10) to benefit the Lions Club. Anybody have any good onion-y recipes?

French onion soup!

OK, that only seemed like 10 lbs of onion because it was when I discovered I didn't have any tolerance to fumes anymore.

Vidalias are fantastic in risotto. I'd use a couple of Vidalias, fresh peas, and real Parmesan in your basic chicken broth risotto. (Maybe with some fresh parsley, salt, and pepper.)