on Bones: How do the powers that be know that Angela is married (yet not divorced) without knowing the name of the guy?

Trudy: I'm not sure, but there has been talk about the officiant in Fiji having had records--which have been destroyed. I got the impression that the State Department has records but never showed them to her. That's a good point, though, hadn't thought about it.

Why, is it pot related?

Ha. It should have been -- that would have been less stupid than the actual reason.

Timelies all!

Am sitting here eating the M&Ms I got as a favor at the rehearsal dinner.(They have the bride & groom's names on them- ok, shortened versions of the names)

When I got my transcript a few years ago, there were classes I would have sworn I'd never taken.

Oh, that totally happened to me. History of Philosphy? Seriously?

Then there's the summer course I took on the French Revolution. I spent three hours every day for three weeks frantically writing pages notes while our prof. lectured at quite a clip. Then I vomitted everything back in one midterm and one exam. What do I remember? Soemthign about meeting on a tennis court... I think I retained more from watching a production of Marat/Sade.

My niece is going to be Cinderella [link] for Halloween and I'm thinking of sending a costume for my nephew. What could be be that would coordinate?

A pumpkin?

Eeee! With wheels on the side, so that he's her carriage!

What a great idea! Alas, he will be Cinderella's monkey friend instead.

Astronomy, that class was an offshoot of Basketball Physics (the physics class so easy even the basketball players could pass),

See, many THINK this when they sign up for Astro 110 at my dad's U. It is so much not the case. Basic algebra is required and all of the department members are kinda hardasses (and my dad is the cantankerous hardass.) Many of the students react as if it was an extreme injustice. Which just gets them heaped with scorn. I'm continually surprised that it still has the "easy" rep. (Though, um, I thought it was easy when I took it in high school. However, I was raised on the stuff, so I pretty much already knew the material.)

My mom was a horrible student her first 2 years. She took the "get plenty of sleep before a test" to heart. So much so that she replaced studying with sleep. Needless to say, she flunked a lot. Then she moved out with her sisters to help care for the twin nephews and learned some study skills.

Basketball Physics (the physics class so easy even the basketball players could pass)

I think all universities have one class like that. I can't remember what the actual course was at NU because I never took it (being in the School of Speech and having no math requirement), but it was widely known among the CAS students as Math For Trees.

I have to confess that it didn't occur to me that history would be an easy major, until I saw half of the football team there at graduation. (The dumber half. The smarter half were in business, sciences, whatever.)

My head is swimming with the research I did today for my Electronic Publishing class. However, I will share with you an undergrad experience I had just before I quit school for a year. I had a Shakespeare final, which I was completely unprepared for having done none of the reading and missing most of the classes. Bad bad bad. Here's where it gets worse. I was sitting on campus looking at some notes to try to cram for the final when a really cute guy I had my eye on for a while came up and started a conversation. He proceeded to ask me to dinner (my class was a night class). I was like sure (fuck it, right?) and as we walked off campus, I passed my Shakespeare professor. If only he knew I am now a grad student at UCLA! Hahahahahaha!