I'm pretty sure I only had those two science fairs, in seventh and eighth grades.

I used to have a massage a month. It was marvellous. I think the last one was very useful, but I want to wait and see if I have another procedure on my neck before I schedule my next one.

Never done a science fair project. Not part of the Jamaican/UK educational system.

Zenkitty works for IEEE! That's cool!

I know! I feel like I get extra geek points just for knowing her!

IEEE, as in Spectrum magazine? Cool!!!

Also, yesterday's Groupon was 6 yoga classes for $30, and you can pick any class from 4 locations. I jumped on it in lieu of a 7-week Feldenkreis class for $105 (not a Groupon; just a bodywork class option I was considering, but since the yoga is so much cheaper, I went with that for now).

Today's Groupon is for amazing Belgian waffles. I should get it, too, but I'm trying to not be so spendy.

Oh nice. I do have a massage Groupon I haven't used.

I have a much better sense of how to help her

Brenda, that's rough. Good luck. I think it's awfully nice that you're concerned with helping her, and not just tossing her back in the pool to learn to swim on her own. (A personal issue may have crept into my metaphor there.)

My school didn't have science fair projects. I do recall once participating in some regional or statewide science fair. I designed a self-sustaining geosynchronous space station. I got an award from the Air Force for it. I wasn't allowed to collecxt my award because no one else had won anything and the teacher wanted to go home. I'm still pissed about that.

Zenkitty works for IEEE! That's cool!

I know! I feel like I get extra geek points just for knowing her!

IEEE, as in Spectrum magazine? Cool!!!

Hee! Yes. It is kinda cool; I like working there. I don't work on the magazines, though; I work with the technical journals.

Lots of Buffistas can provide contact geek points; we are a geeky people.

Jesse, go for a massage as often as you can! I'd get one every day if I could.

The anti-flammable ones just melted, which seemed less than optimal to me!

How the hell is that an improvement?! Never mind, rhetorical.

Kat--that's where I go to Pilates. It's a very nice, welcoming place.

I don't work on the magazines, though; I work with the technical journals.

Spectrum is my only point of reference; The Boy and his father are both electrical engineer-type people, and at some family holiday at his parents' house I needed something to read in the bathroom, and Spectrum was handy. It's a nifty-ass publication!

I always did the science fairs. Big surprise, right? Even went to regionals, once. Measuring viscosity and laminar flow. Um. That's all I remember. Did a lot of chemistry-related stuff. Built biospheres one year.

Trying to find some charity receipts. Uhg. I really need to go through my paper more often.

It's a nifty-ass publication!

I love having basically a free subscription!