If I ever have kids, I'll probably make the mistake of telling them that I don't care if they get suspended for it, but they have my permission to cockpunch bullies - verbally or physically.

It wasn't until jr high that a fellow student told me I had to stand up for myself. After that it got a little bit better.

Yay Barb!

If it makes you feel better Aimee, I may not bathe with the kids anymore, but I also don't care much if they see me naked in the shower or whatever.

Nate punched a bully in school after he'd been heckled and heckled and heckled by this kid. Since he had other kids who stood up for him and said he'd been taunted into hitting the kid, his suspension was only one day as opposed to three.

In the office, I told the vice-principal that we did not advocate hitting in our home and I was disappointed that Nate had felt the need to resort to such measures and that I would continue to reinforce that lesson, but that I would not punish him for defending himself.

I'm watching A League of Their Own and eating chickpeas with nutritional yeast while waiting for the pain meds to kick in. For some reason I really wanted to watch Dirty Dancing, but I don't have the DVD, and League of Their Own was on TV, and it seemed like the best option.

Omnis, we thought you were hanging out with us on Sunday...?

ETA: ND just clarified that you two had emailed back and forth but not actually made plans. Never mind. I would love to see you, but no worries if you're too busy this trip.

This movie reminds me -- I've got a baseball cap that's a replica of the New York Bloomer Girls one. I've had it for a while, and the brim won't really hold a curve anymore, so I want to get a new one. I bought this one from Title Nine Sports, but they don't seem to sell them anymore, and Google isn't giving me any luck. Anybody know if there's any company that still makes these? Title Nine used to sell about three different teams, and I saw a website once that had a whole bunch more, but I can't remember where.

Would love to see y'all too. Is ND up for a trip down to LBC? I don't want to stay out too late on Sunday, as Monday is VERY early.

ASPCA commercial. Poor doggies.

I'm ridiculously modest. At the same time, I am not weirded out by OB/GYN visits.

Was it here we were talking about ancient history and the boards? Sean found his first post here, which made me go looking for mine. And I was way frustrated until ita pointed out the threadsucking thing (so easy to search with Google toolbar and a threadsuck) and I finally remembered that my first posts here were in 2006 in GWW. I had already known many of you for almost two years over in another forum. The thing that strikes me about my first few posts here was how nice I was. Ha! Little did you know.

Also, I was on Salon back when all you all were, but not in the Buffy threads. It's like finding out we were neighbors and sometimes crossed paths 15 years ago, ya know? I was mostly in the books, travel and movies threads back then (under my full real name).