America needs more insane tennis parents.

Rent-a-Princess Available for children's parties, etc.

Testimonial:

"Party planning can be stressful and that's exactly why I hired you. You did such a good job and I was able to just sit back, take pictures and watch everyone's excitement. Emma and all of the girls adored you and we were very impressed that you stayed in character the entire time. Thank you, and I will be bringing your cards with me to work and hand out to other parents."

eta:

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Women Now Dominate Higher Education at Every Degree Level; The Female-Male Degree Gap Grows

It's college graduation season, and according to data available from the U.S. Department of Education, an estimated 3,092,800 degrees will be granted this academic year (2008-2009) for Associate's degrees (714,000), Bachelor's degrees (1,585,000), Master's degrees (647,000), Professional degrees for MD, DDS and JD (91,000) and Doctor's degrees for Ph.D and Ed.D (55,800).

Of the more than 3 million college degrees for the Class of 2009, women will earn close to 60% of those degrees (1,849,200), or almost 149 degrees for every 100 degrees earned by men.

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For all levels of higher education, women have earned more college degrees than men in every year since the Class of 1982, and the degree gap has widened in every year since then, and is expected to widen in the future through the 2016-2017 year (see chart above).

I blame... I dunno... video games.

I blame... I dunno... video games.

I don't know for sure. If I were to have a guess I would say that there are more opportunities in traditional male occupations for people without higher education. Also, I think there is less anti-academic achievement pressure for girls than for boys. I think there is a view that being good at academics is wussy.

This just in: I hate appraisals!

More specifically, I hate evaluating my performance on last year's Personal Development Goals. Ick ick ick.

More specifically, I hate evaluating my performance on last year's Personal Development Goals. Ick ick ick.

Oh that sucks. I just did the self evaluation phase a couple of weeks ago and thank god there was no personal goals stuff. The self evaluation form changes every year.

Dear Jessica's Boss: She kicks so much ass that those "goals" are as tiny specks in the dust she leaves in her trail. Also, snacks are better than goals.

there are more opportunities in traditional male occupations for people without higher education.

I would think that's becoming less and less true.