That's a whole lot of Spanish moss, smonster. I haven't seen that much since my last visit to my grandmother's farm in Florida (more than 20 years ago). I'm glad you are doing ok. It's amazing how the little ones make things better, just by running around the way kids do. Many hugs for you.

At my dad's funeral, his mother's maiden name, Wang, was pronounced not like the Norwegian "vung" but like the way it looks. Despite the preacher being coached.

It, too is remembered.

Today's special edition of Wake Up With Hugh Laurie is actually Write Papers and/or Melt Your Brain With Stephen Fry

Genius! Loved it. Good accompaniment to paper-writing.

Calli, that sucks - I hope your ankle improves.

Still, I get what ND is saying, and I know that finding the registry is always important for me when I'm going to a wedding. What do you all think?

We're going to tell people exactly where they can find our gift list (which is a website-based thing we're doing ourselves, rather than a registry as such) - we think not mentioning where you can find them is just annoying! I think it's worth telling people where they can find these things, to save them stress.

smonster, sorry to hear about the name mix-up at the funeral, but it's good to hear it went OK otherwise.

Oh, CVS pharmacy. If you're gonna lie about when the order was scheduled to be ready, please don't look at your watch to blatantly chose a time in the near future. There's a screen right in front of you. Take some craftmanship-like pride in your lies.

Question about dealing with my advisor: He hasn't written his letter of recommendation for me. Neither has the other professor in my department who said he would. (The professor at another school did submit his, though.) Both of the professors who haven't submitted the recommendations yet had promised that they'd get them in by Thanksgiving. At this point, is there anything I can do? At least one job that I applied for rejected me because my application wasn't complete. I'm not going to be back in DC to talk to them about this in person until at least the end of the week, since I'm having this wisdom tooth removed on Tuesday.

Hil, e-mail them both and let them know about the rejection for the incomplete application, and then follow up with them in person when you get home. They are both being awfully unprofessional.

Tea: I remember now why I used to hate Sunday mornings. Mom and Stepdad are completely incapable of just quietly reading the paper on Sunday, even for an hour.

980 prisoners for one soldier. Jesus.

And I support sj's suggestion, Hil.

Well, Jesus probably didn't want to be a soldier all that much, really.

IRL, sounds a lot like Israel needed an excuse to get rid of a bunch of prisoners.

I'll email them later today. Right now, I'm not exactly in the right frame of mind to phrase anything professionally.

ION, my dad is watching some sort of history of comedy thing on The History Channel, and someone just spent nearly a full minute explaining why "Take my wife. Please." is funny.