Yet seedless Thompson grapes are delicious, even w/o skins.

The best part of the hottest days of summer is freezing seedless grapes and sucking on them like hard candy. Yum!

Susan, I rock two (two!) white-noise machines and earplugs. Those help me sleep like a baby.

Actually, the main noise machine is my alarm clock, which also plays CDs & MP3 players, as well as having two different alarms that can be programmed for specific days. As soon as I can figure out how to make that motherfucker brew coffee and surf the internet, I'm marrying it.

Earplugs! I should probably try those first, given that they're the lowest tech intervention. Last time I used them was when I had a writing conference roomie who froze if I used my usual hotel drown-out-noise technique of blasting the AC all night, but they worked and kept me sane and her thawed. I'll just have to have the alarm set loud enough to get through them.

Heh. In Israel, it's illegal to sell bread "in public" during Passover. The Supreme Court recently ruled that supermarkets and restaurants don't count as "public." A yeshiva student protesting the ruling went into a supermarket and stripped down to only a sock covering his genitals and the words "this is not public" painted on his chest. When he was arrested, he claimed the law was against public nudity, and the court had ruled that a supermarket wasn't public. [link]

Heh. But the question is, if it is private property, was it his private property to naked on or did he have the property owner's permission to get naked? I suspect the supermarket would remember giving permission to customers to get naked...

Those help me sleep like a baby.

You wake up every two hours screaming your head off until someone comes in and gives you a pacifier? t /reflex

(Seriously though, where in the HELL did that expression come from?? Had the person who coined it ever MET a baby???)

Seriously though, where in the HELL did that expression come from?? Had the person who coined it ever MET a baby???

Muzzle was taken, and baby plug is too open for mis-interpretation?

Seriously though, where in the HELL did that expression come from?? Had the person who coined it ever MET a baby???

Fair point.

The earplugs and noise machines help me sleep like a drugged-up rockstar.

He might be legally required to say that. There are a hell of a lot of rules about disclosure wrt fin aid that seem kind of dumb.

you would be surprised by how many students say things like "I didn't know that I had to pay it back" really. I promise. These are the same kids that get the preapproved credit cards, max them out, and then don't know what happened.

only a sock covering his genitals and the words "this is not public" painted on his chest

hm, I think there's an extra letter there.

Bwah!!