OK, am taking deep breaths now. And remembering that I can be in a Turkish bath in just over a week....

Also, Jen, I voted for your roommate, and not only because we have the same Le Crueset!

I was hoping that this would be a quiet week at the office. But then today happened, and now I would like to resign from adulthood, please.

Apparently a lycanthrope is someone who (because they're mentally ill) thinks they're a werewolf, and a doppleganger is a ghostly double.

This is so wrong. Lycanthrope = werewolf. The question there would be whether the person was correct or delusional. A doppleganger doesn't have to be ghostly. In literary criticism, at least, it is merely a double, frequently one exhibiting opposite personality traits. William Wilson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Picture of Dorian Gray are all considered uses of the doppleganger.

I am with Ginger.

f curse, i am pretty sure my introduction to the word doppelganger was Flowers in the Attic.

Never let it be said that bad fiction doesn't teach you anything.

I would like to play Balderdash with Buffistas. With others, I either am (a) right or (b) people think I'm right all the time, so i always win.

dcp, I know, but my purse? It is the black hole of stuff. My touch, I always have and NEVER leave anywhere, so it would be more reliable than a wee flash drive, stuck in my home laptop, when I am at school. Or in the OTHER purse, or in the work PC, when I am at home.

I used to have a nurse's necklace watch, when I was teaching in a room with no clock, and that was great. I need a retractable flash-drive necklace, that is cute.

Can I bedazzle a flash drive?

When is a flash drive a "dongle"? Also, if I never have to hear my boss at the theatre talking about his "dongle" again, it will be to soon.

Because I remember there was something where the same person could keep showing you the same card even if they had other ones.

But that only happens if you include something they have in multiple suggestions. Which... means you're made a mistake, really.

Even going around the board you still have to keep track of who has which cards. And what other people make as suggestions, and who disproves what. But it seems like, if you only got to ask one person per turn, the game would take hours.

When I Googled it, I found a copy on eBay for $179.00.

Considering the number of pieces and how easy it would be for bits to be bent/rendered unusable, I'm actually not surprised.

We played tons of euchre in university. Also mammoth Yatzee games where everyone had like twelve games running simultaneously, like the old ladies at bingo.

Megan, was it you that mentioned Pit? I loved that, but we had to stop playing because my grandmother and great aunt were so cutthroat. Risk was also banned in our house because my mother couldn't take how vicious we all got.

Cribbage, hearts, and backgammon are my family's staples. We played Monopoly when I was a kid, but my dad and I are too alike for that game to ever go well.

And because we were a family who took long car trips, I spent an obscene amount of money as an adult buying my own copy of the World's Greatest Travel Game on eBay.