So, question for other people: were you always good, academically, at whatever it is you ended up doing or being good at as an adult?

Pretty much. Though they did think I had a disability around age two, and my PhD brother was given professional assessment because he was still barely talking at age four.

I laughed out loud at this from Overheard Everywhere.

Captain, over intercom, after lights go out: You are getting veeeery sleeeeeepy... You do not want peaaanuts... You do not want soooodaaa... You just want to sleeeep until we laaaaand.

Southwest Airlines Flight over California

The tests I was given were because I had a lot of trouble with arithmetic. I was fine with the concepts, but just couldn't remember all the arithmetic facts. (Like, given 26+18, I could explain to you why you add six plus eight and why you carry the one, but I'd also be pretty likely to tell you that six plus eight was 13, or 17, or pretty much any other number in the teens was about as likely as me saying 14.)

My academic skills of the past have no relation to what I do for a living.

Sad, but true. My job skills came out of hobby stuff

So, anyone else think The Divine Ms Maddow's partner looks a LOT like Fay in this shot? [link]

Lucky Maddow.

Holy crap! Doppelgangers!

She does! At first, I thought she resembled my mother, if my mother were arty and gay...the fun Freud would have with that, and she does, a little, but not as much as she looks like Fay.

Clearly, Maddow is a woman of EXCELLENT taste.

I think that sewage in Yiddish, at least according to the online dictionary, is opgang kanal. And from my search to confirm it (mostly in wikipedia), I think that "go" is "gay".

anyone else think The Divine Ms Maddow's partner looks a LOT like Fay in this shot?

Good heavens! Yes!

Yup, what a lucky woman that Maddow is.

The problem I have with washing the dishes, is that afterwards people insist on using them all over again.