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Bode Miller - I had always assumed it was a last name, given as a first.

Like we have Murray LastNames in our family - where Murray had been a mother or grandmother's maiden name.

OMGWTFBBQ. I apparently am incapable of writing a scholarly personal statement. I used to be able to write them, but now? Not so much. I'm applying to a NEH summer session on Chaucer to spend a month in England, and I have to write about why these amazing Chaucerian scholars should pick me over other teachers. I cannot stop writing in cliches. It's utterly pathetic.

whan in summere i wisshe to gaen aboute Oxforde-towne...

seriously. we could help. I bet it would be unique...

"I, Kristin, am totally scholarly and stuff. Jeff Chaucer and I were like this...well, you can't see, but I'm totally crossing my fingers in a manner to depict closeness of peoples...and we would often discuss all kinds of scholarly things like how to sell fart jokes as Highbrow Literature.

He was a gas.

Get it?

Anywho...you should totally pick me for your scholarly thingie because I like Jeff and can discuss fart jokes as Highbrow Literature without laughing...too much.

Maybe a giggle. But certainly not a snort or a guffaw.

See how I used the word 'guffaw'? Scholarly.

Pick me for my braininess and scholarosityness.

Smooches,

Kristin."

There was nothing "fashion" about those boots, Lori.

Did I tell you people about the one-act I saw the other week that had Justice (blindfolded lady, holding scales and sword) being killed in a modern office, to be replaced by Dick Cheney? It was horror, obviously.

Good luck to you, Kristin! I know nothing about personal statements, but loads about Chaucer and wish I could go, too. (Yesterday's Jeopardy--don't know if it was the GSN rerun or the first-run ep, though; I DVR both--had a Chaucer category that all three of the contestants avoided to the very end, and they only got through two of the questions before running out of time, which I was bummed about, damnit! They were right to avoid it, since none of them could name the Wife of Bath. Idiots.)

My head now has a resale value more than it did half an hour ago.

And there will be insurance "discussions" with their insurance lady. So I'm maybe not broken up all the way yet.

I apparently am incapable of writing a scholarly personal statement.

ICK! While the context is wildly different, I'd be happy to send you mine if you think it might help.

OMG you guys, I can't believe it took me this long to realize who Katherine Heigl looked like at the Oscars (and more generally, recently): KIMBER! From Nip/Tuck!

I mean, right???

Totally.