check this out. a comparison of the grade levels of the nominees' wives at the RNC and the DNC.

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spoiler: FLOTUS' was at the highest grade level in history at 12th grade level. Ann Romney's was the lowest for a potential First Lady at 5th grade.

What in the world, ita !? The stupid, it burns.

Oh, Kate, that's just awful. I'm sorry. That's a lot to deal with.

Well, I think I had kinda a productive day. It's the kind of productive where I didn't actually finish, but I made a bunch of progress on stuff. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to finish multiple projects, and then I'll feel all good? I dunno.

Mostly I think I waited too long to start the spaghetti squash and I'm going to be very hungry by the time it finishes baking.

Poorly-installed drywall sounds more dealable than Major House Issues, at least?

I’m crossing my fingers for just drywall, too. Did the home inspector go up into the ceiling/rafters?

Oh Sean -I'm so sorry about your grandmother and your friend. Both so upsetting.

I heard - almost tangentially, i.e., as part of another email that had nothing to do with family that my Uncle Ian passed away. We are such the non-communicative family.

Meanwhile, I spent yesterday at the Irish Red and White Setter national specialty in Wisconsin. Lots of pretty dogs and lots of people that I had known only via the internet before yesterday.

Exhausting day. Therefore I have done nothing today.

Yeah, please let it be drywall.

I'm looking at provocateuse site stats. I have a saved report from over 2 years ago for handson, and I cannot in any way predict what people want from me. In Feb of 2010, the most popular guys were:

• Johnny Depp
• Leo DiCaprio
• Pierce Brosnan
• Brad Pitt

August 2012?

• JGL (okay--I get that one..)
• Gerard Butler
• Shemar Moore
• Leo DiCaprio
• Johnny Depp

I don't have old reports for all the rest of the sites, but will have to run new ones to see what I can see.

Coincidentally, I'm reading Tales From Development Hell, and Howard Hughes movies were a recent chapter. I didn't know that before the Aviator, if you signed Leo onto your movie, you might also have to let him choose the director. The story of signing Redford onto your Outbreak-like movie and he gets his role rewritten so that he's the hero where the lead woman had been the hero before--sadly plausible, and might help explain why there aren't rocking roles for women in movies--because women don't have as much clout to force their way in.

Old Boys' Clubs are a real self-perpetuating force.

oh Kate, that sounds like the worst. I have no advice, but a ton of sympathy.

This weekend is soccer start (ugh). Last night, I had to tailor Grace's jersey. Today, at 7:40 we had Grace's team photos, then Noah's game at 12, then Grace's game at 3:30. Tomorrow we have Noah's team photos at 1:00 and then an opening ceremony at 5:00. So I am washing their uniforms right now. I am tired. Beyond.

Old Boys' Clubs are a real self-perpetuating force

But Leo's not old. And my surprise was that he was Old ten years ago.

The old boys bring up the new boys. Someone has to agree that he has that kind of juice, and odds are it's a dude.