so not to worry about calling me to check on things.

This is likely key for them to know.

Ugh, I am so sorry you have to deal with all of this.

Everyone talking about not worrying about space on Gmail is freaking me out. You run out of space at 7.5 GB, people. I get yelled at by them all of the darn time. They swore that if I switched to them, I'd never have to worry abut this. They fibbed.

A nice show of sportsmanship by some teenage soccerplayers: [link]

I am named entirely for my mother, yet I don't get to be a junior.

I knew a Laura who was called Laura Jr. by her family and friends, but I don't think she wrote it on documents.

My aunt Mary Jo (of pope killing fame) is named for her mother who always went by just Mary (though her middle name was also Josephine).

I think the use of "Jr." goes away with the assumption that the successive female will end up changing her last name.

I remember seeing some women with Jr. after their name in accounts of the Salem witch trials, but I don't know if they actually used that or if it was just done to make it clearer to the reader.

I have been to Target! Even better than Liberty of London (which all told I was really very restrained about - one men's dress shirt for me, one dress for Casper, one dress for a baby, and one picture frame for my mother) they have Converse flame sneakers for toddlers! If you know anyone with feet up to a toddler 12 or so, hie thee to Target and buy him/her some stylin' Chucks.

So, we're 90 minutes into conferences. The one parent who requested to see me stood me up. I'm ready to go home now. Alas, not for another 90 minutes.

I just tried (unsuccessfully) to get my cat to eat anchovy paste. Something is wrong with my life.

Science reporting: Ur doin it rong. [link]

According to a study, when people feel they have been morally virtuous by saving the planet through their purchases of organic baby food, for example, it leads to the "licensing [of] selfish and morally questionable behaviour", otherwise known as "moral balancing" or "compensatory ethics".

The pair found that those in their study who bought green products appeared less willing to share with others a set amount of money than those who bought conventional products. When the green consumers were given the chance to boost their money by cheating on a computer game and then given the opportunity to lie about it – in other words, steal – they did, while the conventional consumers did not. Later, in an honour system in which participants were asked to take money from an envelope to pay themselves their spoils, the greens were six times more likely to steal than the conventionals.

Actual study methodology: people were randomly assigned to either browse a website selling "green" products or one selling "conventional" products. In the games after that, the people who browsed the green products were less likely to cheat. Then they went back and gave each person $25 to buy something from their assigned website. After that, the people who bought green stuff were more likely to cheat.

I have all my windows open. This makes me happy.

Dear Very Nice But Clueless Lady At The Pool With The Adorable But Wound Up Little Boys-

The reason you were getting those looks, which clearly made you uncomfortable, from the other ladies is that you had two little boys between 5 and maybe 7 in the Women's locker room. Which has a specific age limit. When there specifically is a Family Locker Room with lots of dressing cubicles, of which there are just a few in the Women's. So I'm thinking you guys probably made some of the other members uncomfortable.

But your boys really are adorable and you were doing a good job with them, if perhaps in the wrong locker room.

Me.