{{{Maria}}}

If it makes anyone feel any better, I think they're overreaching and will ultimately have to pay.

I so hope you're right, erika. I am so angry and feel so helpless about all this that I can't even think about it without wanting to break down in sobs.

Halfway through my day now. Only 3 classes left to teach, then Bacon!!!

Yeah, don't misunderstand, I'm not trying to say there is nothing to worry about...they can still do a lot of damage. But it's a fight we can win.

Nothing like editing your husband's obituary

Sucks indeed. {{Maria}} I let my SIL do Stephen's and she got his age wrong. Made him a year older. It cracked me up when I read it in the paper because he would have been really pissed. He was very vane and always lied about his age in the other direction.

If it makes anyone feel any better, I think they're overreaching and will ultimately have to pay. turning the existing gender gap into a gender chasm will not do well for them in the fall and beyond.

I do believe this, Erika. Not that it is any fun to watch.

No, definitely not. guys like Santorum bring down humanity's collective IQ score(Which could be a problem if Kang And Kodos show up again.)

I had a mad crush on Hawkeye...

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What are shotgun mikes?

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Thank you all so much. I did fall asleep, with the laptop actually in my lap. I am sorry that I didn't participate more.

No need to apologize. Our plan worked! Mindless dribble lulled ya to sleep. (plus, I did the same thing)

I'm glad y'all were here. I wasn't. I actually slept last night, yay me. Maybe I'm back on track? I miss caffeine, though, and I still have all that caffeinated tea. Hmm, what was that self-decaffeinate thing, where you steep briefly, pour out the water and steep again? Does that demonstrably work? I don't wanna set myself back, but I have a lot of tea.

I had a mad crush on Hawkeye...

Hawkeye from MASH. But the Avenger's Hawkeye is crush-worthy as well.

OK, I have Done Work, but now I need to make iced tea, and CLEAN THE DESK, so I can get more work done without style guides and file folders threatening to bury me.

READY SET...GO!

Yay sleeping at least, Maria?

there's a very good possibility that *he* doesn't know dick about safewords or other safety concerns when it comes to kinky stuff. It's definitely not uncommon for someone to just think "Hell yeah, I'm getting FREAKY LAID!!!" and not know a damn thing about what they're doing, and not give a shit about whether it's safe.

Well, I would tend to think that actually learning what you're doing (Like not cutting off circulation to someone's hands, for instance) is really more important for safewords--because really, unless you're doing a scene where you want to be all "NO! Don't! Ahhhh!" and not mean it, you don't need a safeword. I've almost never done it, honestly--most scenes I've ever done, me frowning and saying 'No, I'm not ok with that" is quite clear. But even something like that, you could hurt yourself or your partner.