people and their wacked out sense of entitlement.

Well, I laughed long and loud in his face. Then said, "seriously?" Then I laughed some more.

Be careful when wearing a thong - it could put your eye out.

Like many moms, Macrida Patterson's mother may have warned her when she was growing up about all the things that had to be handled carefully because "it could put your eye out."

Maybe she should have added thongs to that list.

Patterson is the 52-year-old Los Angeles traffic cop who's made news by suing Victoria's Secret for an eye injury she said she suffered because of what she alleges to be a defective thong. The offending garment is a blue bit of fabric with a rhinestone heart forming part of the waistband, connected to the fabric by metal links.

"I was putting on my underwear from Victoria's Secret, and the metal popped into my eye," Patterson told TODAY's Meredith Vieira Thursday from Los Angeles. "It happened really quickly. I was in excruciating pain. I screamed. That's what happened."

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people and their wacked out sense of entitlement

In my history class last night, this girl went to the Prof to say that she has to be in Buffalo the first week of every month because her grandfather is ailing and she's trying to balance spending time with him and school. Prof doesn't allow make-up tests and she'd miss two with that time schedule. He told her they'd revisit it another day and she said thanks and left. As she walked past me she said, "Hate to play that dead grandfather card." I looked at her, snapped my fingers and said, "Gee. I'm two years too late to play. Darn it!"

Eff you, stupid bint.

"Hate to play that dead grandfather card." I looked at her, snapped my fingers and said, "Gee. I'm two years too late to play. Darn it!"

Eff you, stupid bint.

I have a student who was in a similar situation. basically, her grandfather died the first semester. She lost her scholarship at the end of the year. One of the reasons that we reconsider is a major loss in the family. Basically, she was saying that it didn't affect her that much, but if she said it did, could she get her scholarship back? @@

I get being far away when a grandparent is seriously ill. It was hell not being near my grandfather while he was sick. And she probably should get some sort of allowances so she can attend her family, but with this chick being all flip about it like that ... and her tone wasn't like a gallows humor-trying-to-get-through-this tone, it was "ha ha - played dead gandfather card". And it bugged.

For future coffee roasters, here's where my friend orders green beans: Coffee Is My Drug of Choice

Last week I gave away a copy of Allyson's book to a local Buffy fan I met at the comic book store. This week, she left a DVD she burned of the unaired pilot to thank me.

How cool is that?

I use Off Family for the kids if they're going to be out in our back yard--I worry about tick issues (which seem to be a problem up here). It has a lower level of DEET. I keep it off their hands and away from their face (just basically spray their backs and legs). I tend to freak about ticks and lyme disease.

So basically Buckaroo Bonzai.

As role models go, you could do a LOT worse.

Fuck. This headache just turned migrainey and now I have nausea on top of the pain. And it's WAY too hot in this office.