I also heard on the radio today that there will be no penalty on athletes who are recruited elsewhere and decide to play for another school. usually they have to sit out for a year, but not with those at PSU's football program.

a week of derby on skate classes, seminars and world class roller derby bouts

I can't believe that even exists! It sounds *so* fucking cool. I gotta remember--that for anything any group of people do, there's probably a convention of some ilk for it, where they nerd out and just do it when no one's paying to look. And talk about it forever too.

The amount to which Penn State and many other Universities depend upon football for revenue is grotesque, and I LOVE football.

I doubt the community will diversify enough to recover quickly, but anything it can do to lessen the dependence on one sport will be good.

ONE BED OR TWO? | Modern Mechanix

Apparently one bed is better than two for married couples.

Ours is an age of masculine self-doubt, masculine inadequacy in the area of sex. You would be amazed how many men are sexually afraid of their wives.

There was Harry X., for instance, a pleasant, handsome fellow of about thirty, still overattached to his widowed mother but yet in love with his good-looking wife.

In talking to the marriage counselor, both he and the wife were embarrassed. Neither wanted to complain of the other. But alone with the marriage counselor, the wife said: “We have sex about once or twice a month. It’s never very satisfactory. I practically never reach a climax. But I wouldn’t mind, if he would at least come into my bed and hug and kiss me before we go to sleep.”

The counselor spared the husband the embarrassment of explaining why he didn’t go into his wife’s bed. The counselor knew the reason. He tactfully suggested that they buy a double bed.

They did. The marriage improved. The husband found himself desiring sex more often. The wife dropped the pout from her pretty face. The man was proud of having pleased his wife.

Yay!

But it isn’t only the males in our society who are sexually inadequate. The number of sexually unresponsive women is appalling, some authorities putting the number as high as 40 per cent. The misery that frigidity of women causes in marriage is immeasurable. It is a common enough cause for divorce.

I hardly ever hear the term "frigid" or "frigidity" these days, but it seemed to be a big deal in the '60s, as I've seen other references back then.

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What is the government hiding from us?

is there a convention for being a lazyass, can you telecommute to it? will they send food to my house and clean the bedroom like a hotel would?

so, just attended a new employee handbook meeting where we were asked to sign 1)confidentiality agreement 2)agreement to never sue and settle any and all disputes through arbitration 3)agreement of receiving handbook, understanding it, and being given opportunity to have all questions answered.

I signed #1&2, but will take my 7 days allowed for #3 since there was neither time allowed to read it or ask questions.

#2 required signature by next Tuesday or you could be terminated.

not so much feeling motivation to do good work today, feeling strong-armed and intimidated. bleh.

I need 72 hour advance approval to miss work or leave early for a dr. appt and I need that in writing. I am being overly cautious and emailing my boss to take my lunch late a few days to make mac appts. good lord.

they cannot remove your right to sue under ALL conditions. Isn't negligence (for example) exempt?

Good lord indeed. That all sounds like crap, msbelle.

I was thinking about the person who cleaned our old place. One day I came home unexpectedly while she was there and her three kids were with her. She was abjectly apologetic and I kept telling her it wasn't a problem.

Kids make things complicated. There have been days in the school year when I've had to take Grace or Noah to work with me. It is nigh impossible to keep work separate. I don't know how the new CEO of yahoo will be able to do it. Even with all the nannies money can buy.

Yeah, my gut is the document would not hold up in court AT ALL. Therefore the only reason to have employees sign it is to intimidate them and/or diminish their understanding or their rights. Not great management in my mind, but seems to be a pattern here, at least recently.

2)agreement to never sue and settle any and all disputes through arbitration

Yeah, I don't see that holding up. You can't negotiate your way out of complying with state and federal labor laws. I'm pretty sure that if they don't pay you overtime, they can't insist you settle it through arbitration.