Dear Santa -

I would like Jeffery Dean Morgan for Christmas.

Kthxbye.

Love, Aimee

PS - I'd be willing to share.

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If people are going to lie, at least lie about something that isn't so easy to check up on.

Yes, he needs to learn an important life lesson about how to lie. He either needs to say he mailed the application by U.S. mail and it was returned; his crazy neighbor keeps stealing packages; or someone died.

I'd probably be a much better person if I weren't thinking, "That is *so* like her."

I am a bad person too, because when my cousin's wife's grandson killed himself, that's what I thought about him. It's a terrible thing for her friends and family.

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or someone died.

It is always a grandmother who dies in my experience (when students are lying). My sister (a professor) and I used to keep a running count of how deadly final exam week was for grandmothers v. grandfathers, and it was easily 10:1.

Put me in the bad person group.

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If people are going to lie, at least lie about something that isn't so easy to check up on.

can he be flagged as a potential violator of the ethics policy of the school. If he's going to lie about that, would he be likely to cheat, steal, plagiarism? Or lie about other projects? I dunno. Anything to prevent him from invading your world.

What? Me? vindictive? NSM.

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I would like Jeffery Dean Morgan for Christmas.

Get. In. Line.

I think Perkins and Juliana called dibs.

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Maybe he didn't realize you can look up the status of a delivery? In which case, yeah, far too dumb.

Going to get cajun before I have to deal with the unpleasant phone call. I'm thinking he'll be out of it until after 2.

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As a counterpoint to nutbar priest, my great-aunt who is an Ursuline nun and many of the nuns in her convent are huge Obama supporters.

The nuns who ran my high school (who I also do freelance work for now) are Ursulines, and they kick ass. WAY back when I was just out of college and trying to get a job, I wrote freelance for a lot of local publications, and I got to interview an Ursuline nun who was active in Turkey, building shelters and clinics for women and children. She talked in vague terms about "AIDS prevention," and I asked her if she meant condoms.

She said "I know this isn't fair to you, but I have to speak off the record if you'll allow it."

I said sure, and she said that officially they couldn't promote any form of birth control, but that if big boxes of condoms *just happened* to be placed in prominent locations in their shelters/clinics, well, the women were able to take them, weren't they.

I think I said something like, "I LOVE that, and you are amazing! ....Shall we go back on the record now?"

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{{Vortex}}

{{DJ & friend}}

Yeah, add me to the wondering if the whole world has taken their stupid pills.

Less than an hour ago, I very nearly rear-ended a car with the bumpersticker "Liberalism is a mental condition."

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hands Vortex a shot of Fernet

{{{{DJ}}}} Aw, hon.

I think Perkins and Juliana called dibs.

MINE MINE MINE MINE. (Bonus tattoo AND guitar in that last one.)

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Speaking of students, I just had to leave the Reference Desk and put up a sign for people to find me in my office because one of our students was chewing a big wad of gum so loudly with his mouth open I was grossed out.

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